te, Pa., February 16, 1912. NOW! If you have kind words to say, Say them now, To-morrow may not come your way, Do a kindness while you may. Loved ones will not always stay: Say them now. If you have a smile to show, Show it now, Make hearts happy, roses grow, Let the friends around you know How you love them, ere they go: Show it now. 1f 1 knew that a word of mine, A word not kind and true, Might leave its trace On a loved one’s face— I'd never speak harshly, would you? If I knew the light of a smile Might linger the whole day through, And 1 lighten some heart with a heavier part, 1 wouldn't withhold it, would you? A trifling kindness here and there, Isbut a simple small affair, Yet if your life has sown this free, Wide shall your happy harvest be. MEMOIRS OF A WHITE INDIAN. One evening, soon after our visit to the Mandans, Ap-si’'s mother sliced some meat, and then quickly brushed the palm of her left hand with the palm of her ight one, which in the sign-language was ling us that the meat was all gone. ell, there is plenty more out on the plains,” said Ap-si. The big camp had been so long there in the bottom that the game had been pretty well killed off or frightened away from the vicinity. So to make sure of a ul hunt, we rose several hours before daylight, saddled our horses, and rode away south on the trail running up through the pine-clad breaks of the river to the plain. Once on top, the horses were given free rein, and they broke into a lope, which rapidly increased the dis- tance between us and the river. A thin slice of a moon and the stars were all the light we had, but that was sufficient for us to keep our southerly course. It was a fine, warm June night, and the air was heavy with the odor of Sweet grass flowers fresh-growing sage. Ap-si asked if I noticed it. “It is all so pleasant,” he said, “that I am full up with happiness. It is all Ican do to keep from singing a joy song.” We were near Big Crooked Creek when day began to break, and we rode to the summit of one of the steep, flat-topped buttes just south of it for a view of the country. We tied the horses in a clump of gnarled and stunted pines, and sat down. The eastern horizon grew bright- er, flushed to a fiery red, and the first rays of the sun wiped out the shadows in the valley at our feet, Down in the bottom, opposite us, at the mouth of a coulee, stood a lone buf- falo bull, the only animal in sight near us; but farther south and to the east and west we could see many bands of buffalo and antelope feeding on the short, rich grass. While we were planning to ap- proach the nearest of the buffalo herds, a rumbling noise attracted our attention. “It is a band of buffalo,” said I. “Itis not,” said Ap-si. "Horses feet are making that sound. Perhaps the en- emy,’ We drew still farther back in the shel- ter of the pines, quite sure that we could not have been seen climbing the butte in the dusk of early morning, and that if an enemy were approaching, he could not see us now unless he should chance to climb as we had done, to get a view of the country. In a few moments a band of forty or fifty wild horses swept into sight in the valley of the creek to the northwest, and came tearing down the bottom at great Spend A big, proud bay stallion led , and he was a beast to stir one’s heart ss he passed, his heavy long mane ail streaming straight back, shapely feet hitting the turf with the oe Fines, 20d te center, had been badly scared. y . thick winter coat, faded to a lusterless, dingy. yellow, still clung to the new growth of dark hair, which, coming so late in the spring, was a sure sign of old age and waning vigor. His once beautifully curved, black were now mere stubs, His beard, even, seemed to be ragged and unkempt. Evidently a genera- tion had driven him from herds of which he had long been master. The horses had barely disappeared aound the bend when a big gray wolf— attracted no doubt by the sound of their passing—came to the rim of the valley just back of the bull, and looked inquisi- up and down. More surely than even, he had recognized the thud- ding of horses’ hoofs on the hard ground, his mouth watered; better than a buffalo calf, better than antelope or deer or elk was the meat of a colt, and he wanted some. But the herd had passed and he wrs disappointed. He stared at the bull, turned and walked away a short distance, turned again, and came back to the rim, sat down on his haunches, and pointing * his nose to the sky, gave three long, loud and melancholy - From far to the southwest came the answer of one of his ~~ kind; a moment later another long-drawn, southeast. Ap-si. The wolf tummed and looked back * | whence the cries had come. In a few minutes one of those that had answered him appeared, leisurely trotting, and the two met. They touched noses and wag- ged their tails, and then looked expect- antly off to the southeast. The other one that had heard the call soon came, and with him another, apparently his mate; and then there was more nose- sniffing and tail-wagging, and once two of them playfully leaped into the ir and snapped at each other. : By this time they were all mixed up. and we could notdistinguish the one that had given the call; but he that was probably the one suddenly led off over the rim of the plain and down the slope of the valley, and the rest followed. Walking leisurely, they made a complete | circle round the old bull at a distance of fifty or sixty yards, but he paid not the slightest attention to them. Having com- pleted the round, they stopped and sat back on their haunches and stared at him for some time, occasionally turning their heads to look and down the val- ley; and frequently they raised their long, pointed black noses to sniff the passing breeze, trying to catch the scent of any- thing inimical to their plan. Luckily, the wind was blowing from them to us. Then they made their rush. Two of them made a feint of attacking in front, leaping this way and that way past bull’s head with amazing rapidity, while the others endeavored to get to his heels. Instinctively he realized their plan; per- haps he had been attacked before. He sought to protect his hind legs, and to do that he tried to face all ways at once. Old as he was, and huge,—he no doubt weighed more than a ton,—between anger and fear, he developed a surpris- ing agility. To run from them was im- possible; the battle had to be fought out there on the spot. He unged now at this one, again at that one, wheeling all the time; in fact, spinning round and round like a huge, erratic toy. We could hear his snorts of rage. “It is not fair. Iam going to save him!” I exclaimed, raising my rifle; but Ap-si stayed my aim. “It is his time to die,” said he. 2 “But he wants to live as mueh as we 0." “Yes, he does, but it is not for us to interfere. World-Maker created the buffalo for food for men and wolves. Should you save this old and worn-out bull from them, they would only travel on and pull down the next one—and it, perhaps, a young cow that we may need some day.” There was good sound sense in that argument, and I lowered my rifle. The bull was whirling round quickly, kicking vigorously and deftly, once planting a hind foot in the side of an amimal with such force as to send it whirling away through the air. But in a few minutes the bull showed signs of weakening, and no wonder; the tremendous strain of his defense was too much for his old and stiffened joints. He kicked less frequently; the wolves dashed in closer and closer. In passing, one of them snapped its jaws on a hind leg, and just above the gambrel joint, where the great tendon—the hamstring—is most ex- posed. Lightening-like as it was, that one snap severed the cord, and the bull lurch- ed backward and sidewise, and nearly fell As he struggled to right himself, all four of the enemy made arush for the other hind leg, and the rear part of his body dropped to the ground inertly. For a moment he held his fore parts erect, his great shaggy head elevated at a most unwonted angle, and what a pitiable sight he was! But the strain was too great; little by little his fore 1 gave way, altogether and suddenly at the last, his whole body was prone on the ground. Tha wolves were watching, waiting for this, and made a simultaneous dash for his flank—not for his throat, as is erro- nously said to be their method of finish- ing a victim. It was their intention to take their meal from that part of him, from the living flesh. But that I could not stand. I broke from cover and ran down the hill. The wolves pare 3 we a moment, and them, pausing uently, trotted away up t coulee. I could have shot one or two of and the old bull out of misery with a through his brain. Ap-si followed me down with the horses, and as I mounted mine and we on, woman, Born and reared in the elemental life, it was natural for him to look at suffer- ing and cruelty with indifference. Topping the rim of the valley, we saw the four wolves idling along out on the plain. they turned Peeping over the crest, we saw four or Re Ne De : io wkwardly ope, playing toge al a tumbling over one another. Their mother lay on top of a mould of recently thrown up, which we knew had come from the hole she had dug hillside for them. Slight as was the ex- posure of our heads, she saw us as soon as we did Her and 2imogt instantly the pups turned tail and disappeared into ! their den. No doubt her low 1 of 1 a certain intonation had w. or four hundred yards along the ridge, stopped and turned to watch us. 1 want one of those pups for a pet,” | daid to Ap-si. Will you help me get it?” “Ask me about it after] have some- thing to eat,” he ied. “What I want is one of those buffalo out there.” There were a hundred or more of them, mainly cows and calves, feeding about on the plain not far beyond the foot of the slope; still farther on there were other bands of them. There was no coulee, no see how we were to get near enough; but Ap-si, always full of hunting expe- dients, found a way. Well aware that buffalo, and for that matter, all game, pay no attention to a horse unless there is a rider on it, he danger. As they went out of sight, she | ri sprang to her feet, and running off three | ed rise of ground to screen us, and I did not | had stpped close up to his animal, just back of the shoulder, and guiding it with his bridle of rawhide thong, gently prodded it on in such a manner thatit nays horse, stooping so that not show above his pack; t was slow work because there was diffi- culty in keeping the horses in just the right position. Frequently we and allowed them to put their heads down and crop a mouthful of grass, just as a free horse would naturally do. At first the buffalo kept raising their heads and staring at us, but before we reached the foot of the ridge they ceased | to pay any attention; there was nothing alarming in a couple of stray grazing horses. A slow stalk of a farther two hundred yards enabled us to get so close to the nearest of the herd that we could hear them 5 the grass. Then Ap-si gave the signal, we sprang into the saddle, and at once the horses threw off their listlessness. One glance at us was enough to cause the buffalo to rush together, the funny little calves bob- : bing under their mothers to the center of the herd, and then they were off with a mighty rattling and pounding of hoofs. e soon overtook them, and riding up along-side a fat two-year-old bull, I gave him a shot in the ribs. Next 2 fine big dry cow drew my fire, and lastly [ shot another young bull. That was all the meat I had use for, and ! dropped out of the race. Ap-si kept on, rapidly firirg his rifle and icaying a string of dead and dy. the | ing animals behind him. I followed and finished the cripples. Among them was a cow whose calf had dropped out of the herd with her. When the little fellow saw me, he ran to the nearest bush of sage, and kneeling down, but still erect on his hind legs, thrust his head into it, and thus imagined that he had securely hidden himself. As the trading-post wagon was to come out for the meat I killed, I determined to take the little fellow alive and make a pet of him; he could be takenin by the team- ster. Dismounting, I walked over and laid my hand on his back. He flinched at the touch of it, and thrust his head still farther into the bush. Then I gently stroked him, finally raised him, and put my finger into his mouth, and he suckled it greedily. With that I had him. Turn. | ing back toward my horse, he followed and crowded against me to get at the finger again. In a few minutes Ap-si came riding back, and said that he had killed eleven of the band. I picketed my calf, col- lected some dead sage brush for a fire, while Ap-si cut out a couple of buffalo tongues, and we soon had a good meal of them, broiled. The we began skinning our animals and cutting the meat for handling; but before we had cared for more than two of them, a large party of hunters from camp came riding over the ridge, followed by some of their women and the post wagon, and we had plenty of help. Ap-si gave all but two of his animals to some widows and old men who always followed the hunters; my three I turned over to the teamster and his assistant, also the little calf, and then we were free to go after the wolves. As we approached the den, both the father and mother of the little ones were standing farther along on the ridge, and there they remained, watching us, no doubt, with anxious hearts. e found that there were three holes in the hill- side instead of one, and had we not seen | the pups disappear right at the north foot of the larger mound, we should not have known which to dig into. Wolves and coyotes and foxes always have several holes where they rear their young, no doubt for their better protection from any marauder; often the different ones are connected by small cross-passages. Luckily for us, there were no rocks in the soil, With our skinning-knives for icks, and a shoulder-blade from a near- buffalo skeleton for a shovel, we began enlarging the hole. The ground was hard and dry, and the dust of it nearly choked us; our shovel was a mere , the hot sun made perspiration fairly drip from us as we and slashed the walls of theden threw out the debris. Every few moments we would Stop 30 listen, thinking that if we had d anywhere near the pups, we could hear them breathe. We learned something about that before we were done. The hole went down at an ° g 5 8 7k : 2 : £5 sd : i : 8g 0 i ; 1 | i £ i : ol £ bt is g fais i : i it I o%8 fF : | g < ; : f fait 7 ji : ¥ 1 : I g s2 3 : SE ggi-R Ho Sasi : : 8 g er ———— § ' one of the few they had to start the nadian government.—By J. W. Schultz, in Youth's Companion. A Cherry Stone Holds 144 Silver Spoons. Down on the Island of Nartucket, off | the Massachusetts ccast, there's a trras- ure that is unique. It's a cherry stone—rather a small one { at that—which contains 144—twelve doz- | en—solid silver spoons! { It was brought to this country from : China in 1810 by Captain Paul West, a ever since then has been in the possession | of some member of the family, its present | gwner being Miss Phoebe West Bunker, |a grand-daughter of the o'd captain. ! Visitors to the isiand never go away | without making a pilgrimage to the old , house at 7 Liberty Street to see the won- | derful cherry stoze, which is hardly less famous than it wouid be were it a pro- duct of the tree that one George Wash- ington cut down in its prime. | The cherry stone is mounted on a little | ivory base, which unscréws, permitting the spoons to be shaken out upon the litzle black velvet pad upon which it is exhibited. No two spoons are exactly , alike, as they are all made by hand, but each is perfect in shape and finish. How they were made nobody knows, but ex- amined under a strong magnifying glass the carefulness of their workmanship is apparent. ow much the stone with its contents cost the original purchaser cannot be told now, but whatever the price, it has mere than paid for itself. During the ninety-eight years that the stone has been in the possession of the West family it has been exhibited at times for charitable purposes, and an “admission fee” of five or ten cents has been charged. As a result of this hun- | dreds of dollars have been collected, one | large sum having been used to build a new organ for the Old North Church in Nantucket, and the rest of the money having gone for the support of several indigent persons on the island. On the outside of the stone, on one side, is some delicate carving represent- ing cherry leaves, Otherwise the stone is perfectly plain. A Wedding Gift. If you pay ten dollars for a wedding gift you cannot get anything so valuable or useful as the gift you may obtain free, —Dr. Pierce's Common Sense Medical Adviser. It is a chart which marks for the newly married all the rocks and shoals where so many a matrimonial bark has found shipwreck. It points the way to easy and happy matrimony, and shows how motherhood may be robbed of its pangs and health given to the child without the loss of health or beauty. This book contains 1008 pages and over 700 illustrations. It is bound in neat of 31 one-cent stamps to defray the ex- pense of mailing only. For 31 cents you can present a wedding gift of more real worth than all the jewels in the world. Address Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N.Y. Real Estate Transters. Osterle, 48 acres of land in Half Moon Twp.; $500. Elizabeth Bilger to Ammon Kerstetter | et al 2 acres of land in Spring Twp.; $1. | A. B. Lee, sheriff, to Citizens B. & | acre of land in Rush Twp.; $83. Adam Mayes et ux to Philipsburg Elec- in Philipsburg; $1200. John M. Keichline trustee to William G. Runkle, 2 acres of land in Spring Twp.; $201.55 tract of land in Spring Twp.; $60. Lehigh Valley Coal Co. to John Spiela, 5 acres of land in Snow Shoe Twp.; $100. Jared Harper et ux to Willis E. Wil liams, tract of land in Bellefonte; $1000. “Blood Tells.” That old Saying ay have many appli- | cations. - When the face s blotched with ples. the body vexed wi wg ign hing Bh is its impure condition. Just as a red or yellow flag in the house where i ® Ea 2 2 : : if H i oH iis #3 E § i : Hn 5% LES cents, Massa " said , deep tide of anger, his besetting si ed up in a moment and “Take it away, it cost too much!” Washington. 1 Every mother owes her child a constitution. It is better to be healthy than rich. With health al are possible, fame, riches, success. out health riches are only a opening way to pleasures w! SEL upon the The health of the mother upon herself. Healthy mother is enjoyed by those who keep the delicate feminine in a healthy condition by the use of Dr. Piercc's Favorite Prescription. It nourishes the nerves and so cures nerv- py oe es the m . It does away w ith the pain associated with the baby's advent. It makes weak wom- en strong and sick women well. 4 HE 3 g bp ——"How is your son, the young doc- tor, making out?” “First rate, since he learned to adapt himself to circumstances. He started out as lung specialist, but he's a green own colt a Jf it were hor apple specialist now.” When it was a year old we gave it to EE ., —— Michel Pablo aud Charles Allard. It ~—Subscribe for the WATCHMAN. pr — great herd they recently sold to the Ca-' famous whaling captain of the times, and | cloth binding and is sent free on receipt : FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN DAILY THOUGHT. : Here's to the tree and the cherries it bore; | Here's to the hatchet that smote it full scor:: Here's to the lad that was honest and true; Here's to his colors, the red, white and blue: Here's to his sword with the laurel entwined: Here's to the hero in all hearts enshrined! ~ Arthur Guitevizan For a Washington Birthéay Party.— The invitations were typewritten on Washington post-cards, and mailed, in envelopes, to twelve ladies. They read: I bid you leave your work undunc, March to the aid of Lexirgton. At my home, a quarter of one, You'll get your luncheon and your gun, On the birthday of Washington, The house was decerated usual flags and cocked hats. was served at one o'clock. 1 have the good fortune to possess the old musket that an ancestor carried when he marched from his home in Connecti- cut to the relief of Boston, zt the Lexing- ton zlarm, in April, 1775. This musket ; was suspended over the table by red, white and blue ribbons attached to the chandelier. When the (welve guests entered the dining-room, they found everything on the table. At each plate was an individ- ual chicken pie, vegetables, coffee, and tiny mince and pumpkin pies. Mashed potatoes were in beautiful old tureens, which were passed around the table by with the Luncheon the guests, each one helping hersell. After lunch a large card attached to the dining-room door gave this announce-' , ment: As every guest has had her fill, We will march on to Bunker Hill. In the back parlor a table held six | | “hills,” made by placing a napkin over some kitchen utensil. number, and each guest was given paper ' and pencil, and told to write her name and a list of the articles as numbered., We now marched on through a door on which the card said: We'll now go on to Lexington, | Where several “redcoats” must be hung. A sheet pinned to one wall had 2 huge tree, with a noose suspended from one | i limb, drawn with green and brown school ! crayon. A pasteboard "Britisher,” with red crepe-paper coat, was given each lady | | successively, and she was blindfolded, and | told to pin his neck as near the noose as | possible. “Bunker Hill” had been removed from | the back parlor. The card on the door | | now said: | We'll await the summons of Paul Revere i And play “bridge” for a while, in here. Just inside the door my son, aged ten’ | handed each lady a “gun,” which he had | made himself by tacking a hoard, measur- | ing about four by six inches, on one end | | of a stick an inch square and a foot in ! length. A pencil was run through a hole that , had been bored through the stick directly lin front of the handle. He had tacked a | “bridge” prize was a copy of “Paul Re- | vere's Ride." Each hill had a‘ FARM NOTES. —Be careful about feeding horses in- clined to heaves, too much hay, or hay . that is dusty. —A fowl that will not fatten when heavily fed on corn is not in good physi- cal condition. ~—]t seems to be the duly of some ; blacksmiths to gouge a few "nunks” out of the frog of a horse's foct before the shoe is put on. There is ho better way to ruin a horse's foot, —A Missouri Station bulletin points out the superior dairy cow as one with a large capacity for using food above the maintenance requirement and one that uses this available food for milk produc- tion, --Eleven years’ test of the value of ground phosphatic rock used with manure for land for wheat, at the Ohio Experi- ment Station, have given an average in- crease in the wheat yield of 4.5 bushels per acre per year. —The stomach of the young calf is very delicate, and changes in feeding must be made slowly. The calf will begin to eat grain and hay when it is about four weeks of age. Shelled corn 1s about the best grain feed, as it takes the place of crezm in the milk. —A high-spirited horse is generally an animal capable of enduring much hard usage, if it is only properly managed and controlled; but very often these animals are made mere excitable than they really are by nature by the bad judgment and fussiness of the driver. —Alfaifa is as e asily grown as any hay crop when we once learn to handle it just right. There is no doubt less work connected with it as a hay crop after we get it once well established, because it lives so long in the soil. To prepare the soil for alfalfa, says Prof. K. C. Davis, of the New Jersey State Experiment Sta- tion, we must select well-drained places and then lime thoroughly and spread on a little soil, say 500 pounds to the acre, from a field where alfaifa has grown suc- cessfully. Then we must plow the soil a | few weeks before seeding time and keep i it harrowed during the interval to kill all germinating weeds. Select seed which is well cleaned and free from weed seeds. If these precautions are taken and the seeding is done at the rate of 30 pounds to the acre in August, we can confidently Expect success, providing the soil is fer- tile. —There was a time when it was far ‘more profitable to use crossbreds for practical purposes than it was to use breeds in their purity. The fanciers of : that day, and there were but a handful | compared to the number of the present | time, were so ambitious to flourish in the | show-room that inbreeding was carried on to an alarming extent. This was done | at the expense of hardiness and egg pro- { duction, and it is no wonder that farm- became disgusted with "fancy | chickens” and held on to the common | hen. i These facts led people to cross breeds, and they secured birds strong of consti- | tution, activity and vigor. and birds that Francis W. Goss et ux to Charles F. 400 scorecard to the handle. The | could be relied upon for producing a good Crop’ of eggs, or carcasses of tempting | flavor and size. Had the farmer stuck to the original crosses, and not mated up the cockerels with the pullets of the | same cross. all might have been well; i but when he recrossed those birds the As the guests started upstairs for! wraps, they found a card in the hall say- | ing: L. Association of Philipsburg, one-half tric Light, G. P. & H. Co., tract of land Only the Boston Tea-Party more, It awaits you on the second floor. There my daughter served tea and | wafers, and the party was over. | If you have a number of friends who | enioy cards, give a patriotic euchre on | Washington's birthday. At one of these i William Watkins et al to Geo. R. Meek, | entertainments the guests played thirteen | games, receiving at the end of each suc- | cessful game a tiny gilt star, to be pasted on the blank field of a painted flag which had been given out when they began to play. Of course, if one were so fortunate as to win every time, the flag would be complete as it was in ashing | The first prize was a pair of ed silk stockings, —rather startling, there arebl served on the little tables that were used with makes an attractive center- cherry ice-cream. as is used for icing, various harmless at little cost. when cold cut the cake in oblong one remembers that cher- ries as well as red. Refreshments were for the games. A small iced cake, dec- ‘orated either with a birthday candle or piece for each table, and after being d admired may be sliced, and served a Possess yourself of a forcing tube such colorings and plenty of confectioners’ sugar and you can evolve all sorts of patriotic designs Make a simple cup cake batter, bake in shallow tins about two inches some of these with red icing, others in white, and with a tube make a curled fancy border of white on red, and vice versa. Ice, in one corner, using red and blue icing, and below letter "Wi 's " or the dates ashington 1732-1912. Some of the cakes can have three candied cherries, dotting the top with leaves and stems made of angelica; below can be a tree trunk iced in choco- th a red ice hatchet in it. 3 surround jenves and fit : a child's party make a num of small cakes, cut in blocks as descri above. Ice in red, white and blue, in even divisions. Heap these ona round plattel, log-cabin fashion, to resemble a Through some of the openings stick toy cannon and tin soldiers on top of the fort for sentinels, and in the centre have a small silk flag. For another coloring ice the cakes in the Colonial buff and blue, have the soldiers in Colonial uniform, while several of the flags used in the early days of the Revolutionary War can be stuck in a standard in the centre. ‘An effective border for around big cake iced in white can be small flags crossed on sides and top. If one fears to eat a cake so decorated, the icing can be put on a round box that slips over the real ‘cake. Have shigld-shape cutter made by a tinner. Mix simple sugar biscuit dough, i roll rather thin and cut into different | sized shields. From a dictionary study | the coloring of various Stateand national | shields and copy them closely in colored cings. bed | ens,” and how | stock deteriorated and Le soon had worse than mongrels on his hands. Ciosses for | profit are really only half-breeds, and be- i yond that are worthless. They are geod for one generation only. 1 ! —What is a mongrel? A mongrel is a | mixed breed, a conglomeration of differ- ent kinds. Use a dunghill male on pre- bred females and in one season you will have a large flock of all sizes, all colors and all conditions. What then could be expected if cockerels from such a hatch Jars allows to te up 3th the pul- ets illy the mongrel represen good blood, eventually it could boast of nothing. That is the very kind of mire out of which it is the purpose of the writer to lead the farmer. Get out of ut, and aim for more poultry and better quality. We have known cases where mongrel poultry have been graded up to better stock. For instance, a flock of common hens of the same color were selected and a pure male of a distinct breed of same color was introduced. The Joa a male, not related, of the was mated with the pullets first cross, and so on the breeding continued until the common blood practically eliminated. It can be itis & long way to secure what can be accomplished e first season by in- stalling genuine goods. The advice is, secure a breeding pen of g ; result will be more eggs, bet- ter eggs, larger and more plump carcass- es—and, more money in the hennery. —We are living in an era of improve- ment, and the agricultural world has not been slow to “catch on.” When we look back a score or more of years, and com- pare the condition of the farmer at that time with his standing at the we can readily note that he has been ide awake and is keeping abreast of the mes. But in no branch has he shown more than 2 boy, the manner of attention paid “chick- lent that it was next to im le to have hens lay in winter, or during cold wea y. They reasoned that while a thing was possible, it was not probable. The erection of commodi- ous, comfortable winter houses was con- sidered a waste of lumber and mon- ey, and the of -bred poul- was deemed all right for a hobby, but tion and brooding was looked upon as a visionary affair, a regular "pipe dream.” There no doubt was a good reason for all thege objections, but time has changed it all, Today we find farms on which are erected large and tial poultry houses, on which a regular system of feeding and care are employed, on which the incubator and the brooder are - ing important parts, and on which noth. ing but strictly pure breeds are kept. What is the result? The farmer has made the poultry branch one of the most im- portant adjuncts of the farm, and he has secured a winter income which previouvs- ly was practically unknown. all wrong for business. Artificial incuba- ie
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