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THE COUNTY RECROD, Published Every Thursday ? AT? EINGSTREE, SOUTH CAROLINA. LOUIS J. BKISTOW, Editor and Proprietor. A Spanish prisoner defined the difference between our troops and the Cubans as follows: "Shoot at Cubano he run. Shoot at Americano he como on more." It is a discouraging diiler#ncB in The German naval experts have to admit that we have demonstrated that the torpedo boat is not what it was cracked up to be. They must feel sad about it, for Germany has placed considerable reliance on that * type of fighting craft. Reports of deep discontent in India on account of the plague regulations say that the situation is complicated by an unusual number of instances of brutal conduct toward the natives. The Government is considering whether it will not be wise to cc-ase interference with native burials if the plague should become general, or at least make a change in the present staff of officials. Thus far the active oo-operation of high-caste natives has not been sought for, and a change iu this respect also is contemplated. The most dadgerous feature of the situation is said to be the closer relations between Mohammedans and Hindus as a result of their common sense of affront to their religious feelings, comments the New York Mail and Express. It was the careless treatment of native superstition in what seemed to be trivial matters that brought on one great rebellion, and it may yet cause another. Interesting statistics show that the value of all the breadstuff's exported from the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898, aggregates the unprecedented sum of $324,706,060. This represents an increase of $127,84S,089 over the figures for the fiscal year preceding, or sixtyfour per cent. While the major portion of this increase is divided among the Northern and Western ports, the figures show that the Southern ports come in for decidedly the largest percentages of gain, says the Atlanta / Constitution. The statement may be verified from the following table: Gain Increase, percent Boston $5,947,130 33 New York 43,587,962 81 Philadelphia 11,766,252 106 Baltimore! 23,544,677 77 Newport News 8,207,925 72 Norfolk 500,313 9 New Orleans .....14,774,110 120 Gaiveeton 8,538,699 197 San Francisco 1,201,321 5 Paget Sound 5,216,391 133 From the foregoing table it will be ? observed that at the five Southern ' ports named, the combined increase aggregates $oo,565,754, or forty-three per cent, of the increase in the whole oountry. As compared with their own receipts for the preceding year, these five Southern ports show an in * /*? - i _ _ e ; x crease in oreausiun exports 01 mueiyfive per cent., while the Northern and Western ports show an increase of only seventy-three per cent. Professor Edwin G. Dexter, of the Colorado State Normal School, has endeavored to find a basis for the common belief among school teachers that definite conditions of the weather have effects peculiar to themselves upon the emotional states of children as shown by their deportment in the schoolroom. To this? end he compared weather records in Denver for four* AA?mA?Al reen venrs wiwi mcu-uuiuoui wpiai punishments in the public schools. It appeared from this study that the time of year had little effect upon the frequency of misbehavior, and the same was true of barometrical or temperature changes or of the character of the day, whether cloudy or clear. But high winds were shown to be accompanied by marked states of emotional excesses, as on days when the movement -was very great five times the ordinary number of children received their whippings. Even a greater difference was observed in connection with the relative state of dryness or moisture of the atmosphere. On days that were abnormally dry (humidities below thirty, the number of misde meaaors requiring punishment was 700 per cent, above the average. The comforting effect of this statistical treatment of the question upon the members of the National Educational Association, before whom the paper was read, was modified by the Professor's naive conclusion that the weather affected not the children alone, and that the emotional state of the teacher, as affected by the same causes, had quite as much to do with the use of the rod. A CALL FROM THE SEA. CJr- on waves under her fore-foot, ^ Grav mt'it(low> dim on the lea; a AVe have done with joy and sorrow, a Swing round her head to the sea. ^ Nine men of the schooner Annie, s Bound out of the bay again, a And the obi songs die behind us In the clank of her mooring-chain. 1 a For the East nnd West are calling, 11 A wind blows out of the South, And the wiutcr stars lift brighter. . And the brine stings salt on her mouth. 11 n Sine men of the schooner Annie ^ (Love is as a tale long told), . We go to the mother that bore us 11 Aud the things we knew of old. s The song of wind in the rigging. The drumming rain on the sail, a The swing of the roaring chorus As they lay her head to the gale. r Ah! Love, will ye deem us cruel ! 0 That we leave ye here alone? I e But the wide sea calls her children, Each goes at last to his own. 0 Green waves under her fore-foot, ti Gray meadows dim on the lea; tl We have done with joy and sorrow, Swing round her head to the sea! ?J. Winder Good, in the Spectator. 1 h 1< | ^5 vlv" V V . v; \ \ ' I vivi V 1V 5" V.'vi V!V.vk> /.J I ^ COMINfr 1 JACK ? EY VICTORIA T. BENTCX. ^ p T's /\ N Ai/V?MA'AlA,A'/\|'S'/VAl/\,/yA"N,'\,A,A,/yAlA|AIAV^">: ' W ?I\?IWviviVl\/iVi\/i \ZIUA/IVI\' v/. \/i v/Ivxlv/ix OOFED up in a city ? 5^ garret, ou a hot summer's clay, a ? A weary woman leaned . \ hack iu her chair, ^ f Jt*1 am^ Presse(i her I'm- g Mj9gElfsQge r s against her w iBTBlMmf e^e9 reinscci g :^Slonger to see the stitches in the shop-work, over which j, she had toiled from daybreak till now, j, four o'clock iu the afternoou. h From the street far below her, a ^1 voice had only that moment soared up- s ward, calling "Strawber-ees! slrawberees! Ripe, red, strawber-ees!" 8l And. as if by macric, her thoughts ? turning backward bad carried her to Deepdeue, the home of her youth,and S1 to a certain lovely June day in her six- ? teenth year, when she had stood in the strawberry pasture on the Blessing Farm, with the red berries per- y fuming all the air, and said the words q which seveied her fate from that "of Maurice Blessing, and made her life a what it was on this day, almost hopeless, and a ceaseless struggle for y bread, won on the needle's point. b How it all rose up before her! The green pasture sloping upward to the ? darker green woods, whose tops seemed to touch the deep blue sky, sloping downward to the gray stone rj wall, with the cold spring leaping out c through a wooden trough, among its lower stones. n And below the wall, "the thirty- t] acre mowing," spread out like an immense emerald velver carpet, with iae t< two-story cream-colored house lifting -p its plazzaed front at the extreme end, jf just where the shaded lane began, that led from the Blessing Farm out into the village road. 0 She, the poor orphan girl, had been j-, offered this comfortable home; and she tl had refused it?for what? For a dream t] of fame, which had left her toiling in ei this hot garret, while in the black trunk yonder the book which was to S( have made her fortune, refused by one w publisher after another, was lying, till she could find courage to thrust it in- ^ to the fire. ,T "Scarcely two years!" she sighed, (| i n cr liora?lf f? ami f rn "tnd ' Maurice has sold the old farm and ^ gone to Colorado; and I am here,lonely, disappointed, old before mv time. rj Ob, if 1 could only live that day over h again, and bo as wise as I am now! e For now I know that Hove him?now, w when it is forever too late." e. Sickening, with a sort of calenture among those hot city streets, for one r, glimpse of her early home, Hester jt May rose, and went to the desk where her worldly wealth was stored. w By the closest economy she had r, managed to lay aside a few dollars, fj for the gloomy purpose of paying the p expenses of her sickness and death, when the time should come for her to t( die among strangers. g From this sacred hoard she counted tj out a sufficient sum to take her to ft] Deepdene. it "I will stay only one day," she f? thought. "And I will work all tho Sj harder, after I return, to make up this j sum again. But see Deepdene, now y that it is fairly in my mind, I must! ^ Aud I will take one more look at the w dear old farm before it is in the hands p of strangers, and so altered that I ^ shall not know it." ' jj The next day saw her on her way. The five years of her absence had a been years of change to the little t] country village. ir A railway whisked her across the t< hill-road from Torrington. Once she would have made the journey in a yellow "stage," drawn by four horses, j ^ witli Jolin (Jolney, crossest aiiu most c; disagreeable of stage-drivers, 011 tlie box. The village, too, was smartened and freshened up?new houses, new faces, it a new iron fence around the small, tl oval park that graced the centre of the a: town; new names above the gilded y fronts of the shops; a new set of ' ? giggling misses, on their way to the fj new browu-stone academy, which k stood where she had once thought it : w an honor to attend the district school, j ri in a plain, one-story structure of faded g brick. ' c< No doubt all these alterations were b . Knt flioTT *?o?ln hnr : n, | lUl IUU UCl/ICi , UU.%. VUVJ I heart ache with a sense of loss un-: a speakable. I ci And she turned into the shaded lane h that led only to the Blessing Farm, : n: dreadiug to see the old home dese- 1 tl crated by the stranger's hand. 11< No! there it stood, as she had al- b ways known it. The very picture of b home-comfort, the centre of all those ! modest luxuries that a well-to-do farmer, of all other men, may most j g easily command. | B But, although the dear old house ;as unchanged, its inmates were new nd strange to her. A stout, middleged man, in a white, summer suit, rith a broad-brimmed hat and a cigar, at 011 the steps of the piazza, reading newspaper. A fashionably-dressed idy, some years his junior, swung in hammock upon the lawn, lost in a ovel. Several children, in broad-trimmed ats and brown holland blouses, were inking the lives of two nurses a urden to them, further down the iwn, among the elm trees, where a wing had hung from time immemorial. "City" was stamped on every face nd figure that she saw. Had Maurice sold the place to some etired merchant, who would overrnament and disfigure it in the niodrn villa style? "If one could but live their lives ver after they grow older and are iiught by experience what is best for liem!" thought Hester, in her sadess. . She would have gone up to the ouse, and asked leave to rest and jok around, if it had remained in the are of old Farmer Williams and his ife?the tenants of the upper farm. "Unf cKn /?Anlrl nnt fo^o fhoQA l erous, happy "city people," who rould look at her with coldly curious yes, and wonder, almost audibly, 'what she could want," even if they id not absolutely mistake her for a 'tramp." "I wish I could have gone through be strawberry-pasture once more," he thought, as ^he turned back toard the railway station, tired, hunry and unrefreshed. At the foot of the lane a gentleman, a a summer suit of silver-gray, stood ?auing against the bars, with his straw at drawn down over his eyes so far hat he failed to see the stranger's ilent approach. "Will you let me pass, if you please?" aid Hester, at la6t, after waiting some loment. He wheeled round, as if she had truck him, and stared doubtfully in er face. She uttered a great cry. "Maurice! Maurice! I heard that on had sold the farm, and gone to lolorado!" "Hester, can this be you?" he nswered. His eyes seemed to devour her. fords rose to his lips, and were forced ack again. At last he asked: "Is your husband here with you, fester??" "My husband?" "Yes! I heard that you were maried very soon after you went to the ity." "You heard wrong, Maurice! I have ot been married. I have ne^er even lought of such a thing." "But why did you go, then, Hes;r? Why did you leave Deepdene? i'hy did you refuse to marry me, if? there was 110 one else in the way?" Poor Hester! She thought of the hot city garret, f the dream of fame that never had een realized, of the unlucky book lat was lying in the black trunk, of le little burial hoa-d, so hardly arned and saved! Tears came quickly to her eyes, objuring the honest, handsome face on hich she gazed. "Don't cry, Hester," said Maurice ilessing, ?aking her hand. "And tell ie why you wouldn't ma?ry me, ear?" "Because I was fool!" sobbed Hes;r. "Is the folly ended?" asked Mauice, hiding a smile as he bent over er, "Cannot you give me a differ~ i- XT ~ ~ i ^ Tf ,, ill au?>\Yt;r irjtt, iicaici ; n j'uu mu, e will be just the happiest pair ou arth, here on the dear old farm." '"But you sold it, and went to Coloado," said Hester, wonderingly. "At :ast, I heard so." "I was a fool, too, Hester; for I ent to Colorado, and I was quite eady to sell. But my brother-in-law, orn the city, persuaded me to rent it > him for one yiar, till I had time to link the matter over. When I came > my senses although I had not forotteu you, darling I was very glad lat the poor old place was mine still, ad I came back six weeks ago, to see . My sister and her husband and imily go back to the city next week, :opping at the mountains on their way. shall be left alone, with good Mrs. rilliams for my housekeeper, and her usband as head hired man just as I as before. Hester, won't you take ity on me, and come and share my oine? I ha.ve never cared for any one at you." I do not know in what words Hester nswered him; but I see her daily in ae cream-colored farm-house, the very todel of an active, bustling, goodiinpered farmer's wife. As for the book, she has utterly forotten it. She needs its recompense o longer, and she is far too happy to ire or wish for fame. Suppressing Italy's Condition. The absence of commercial moraly is one <5f the great deterrents to ie progress of Italy. It is h curious ad perhaps a significant fact that for ears past tho correspondents of the Inglish press have glossed 'over or tiled to refer to the things which ave beeD perfectly well known in ell-informed circles as to the corupting influence of the successive overnments which have ruled the ountry. Little or no reference has eeu made to the bribery and falsifiition of returns, the place-hunting ad log-rolling, the inflation of the Lvil service for political ends, and the anding over of the schools to men lorally unfitted to be in contact with le children in them. So it has come -> mas that the Encrlish Dublic has een deluded into a belief that all has een goi?g well.?Loudon Spectator. It is said that about 50,000 servantiris go from the German provinces to lerlin every year. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. Caring For the Garbage Pail. "Beware the garbage paii!" might well be written over every kitchen door, at this season, particularly. If possible, see that its contents are einpted every (lay and the pail well rinsed. While twice a week, at least, it should be thoroughly scrubbed out with a strong solution of washing on.lo an (1 thpn drifd in the hot. sunshine. A swarm of flies and an aftermath of disease germs are sure to ' follow the neglected garbage pail. Clear Starching. , Clear starching is accomplished in this manner to the best advantage: Wash the articles in three waters, dry them and dip them in thick starch, previously strained through musliu; ! squeeze them; shake them gently ( and hang them up to dry. When dry dip them two or three times in clean water; squeeze them; spread on a linen cloth; roll them up in it and let them lie an hour before ironing j them. A small piece of white wax added to the starch prevents the iron from sticking and gives a glossy appearance. Gettli7ji Illd of Kats. The latest expedient of ridding a house of rats is furnished by a writer in the Scientific American, who says: "We clear our premises of these detestable vermin by making whitewash o the stones and rafters in the cellar with a thick coat of it. In every crevice where a rat might tread we put the crystals of the copperas and ! scatter the same in the corners of the floor. The result was a perfect stampede of rats and mice. Every spring a coat of the same yellow wash is given to the cellar as a purifier as well as a rat exterminator." Washing the Winter Flannels. With the "putting on" of winter flannels the annual battle royal for their preservation in their natural size begins with the laundress, and "line upon line, precept upon precept" becomes the order of wash day. Emphasize the fact that the dust should always be shaken from flannels before washing. Put in a tub of warm suds, to which a tablespoonful of borax or two tablespoonfuls of household ammonia has been added. Use the best quality of laundry soap, but do not rub directly on the flannels, nor the flannels'on a board. Never use yellow soap, on account of the resin. Squeeze in the han^s, sousing frequently, aricl rubbing specially bad spots in the hand. Wring; lightly, without twisting, into another tub of weaker suds, being careful to maintain the same temperature to avoid shrinkage. Kinse well and puts into third water, clear, but still of the same temperature. If you like a little bluing, it may be added to this water. Wring as dry as possible without twisting, and dry as quickly as possible in the open air, never allowing them to freeze. Before quite dry take in, fold and roll in a clean cloth, and iron soon with a moderately hot iron, depending mostly upon a good deal of pressure. For colored flannels have fresh warm suds, that no - H 41.TI.?o uui may anuei o iu nxciu. x uuo treated, flannels will remain soft, elastic and of normal sizo. Keel pea. Pineapple Marmalade ? Large sugar loaf pineapples, peeled, grated. The eyes are not deep in the sugar loaf, and the fruit is firmer. Allow three-fourths pouDd sugar for each pountl prepared fruit. Mix in a preserving kettle and cook, slowly at first, then stir until a smooth paste. Chicken Patties?Make the shell as for tarts, only larger. Chop meat of cold chicken fine and season to taste. Make a large cupful of drawn butter, and while on the fire stir in two hardboiled eggs, chopped fine, a little parsley, and the meat; cook together a few minutes, then place in the crust and serve at once. o ? *r/Oi-o ucau Lilo jvino V^JL two eggs until stiff, then add gradually a coffeecupful of sugar, then thfe same amount of flour through which a teaspoonful of baking powder has been sifted. When these ingredients have been mixed, add one-third of a coffeecupful of boiling water, and, lastly fold in the beaten whites of two eggs. Cherry Loaf Pudding Pour three cups scalding milk over one-half pound stale bread; cover for half an hour; then stir in six egg yolks one by one, beating all the time; then one heaping tablespoon butter, softened, two cups sugar, a few pounded almonds. Add three cups stoned cherries and six egg whites beaten to a froth. Pour into buttered baking Koko in mmlernte nvpn. Test as cake. Potted Fish?Remove the fins and bead of tbo fish, clean well, cut in slices an inch thick, pack in a little jar having a cover, in layers and between the layers put a teaspoon each whole cloves and whole peppers, two blades of mace, one bay leaf, one teaspoon salt. When all is used, cover with vinegar and water, half and half. Put over a buttered paper or fasten the jar cover on with paste. Put in a hot oven and bake four or five hours. The bones will have entirely disappeared. Serve hot or cold. Orange Custard ? Separate the whites of eight eggs from the yolks, setting the latter away in a cool place. A/1,1 tli a err At a ,1 rind and mice of two large oranges to the whites, and after beating well add one-half pint of water and set away for an hour. Beat yolks of eggs, add them, with one cupful of sugar, to the mixture of whites, orange and water, strain into a pitcher, and set into a basin of boiling water. Let it boil rapidly, stirring until it becomes thick as heavy cream. Allow the custard to cool, pour into glass cups and set away in the ice-box. * Feeding; Young Pigs. ^ "When the little pigs are about four , weeks old see that they have a pen that they can slip away into from the hogs < and have a clean trough. Nothing is < betfcr to give them than separator j ] milk warm from the machine. This | i will soon teach them to eat. Increase 1 other fded as they grow older. Al- i i ways notice that the feed is eaten up j clean before more is given. By so do-! ] iug the strain of taking care of the \ < pigs is gradually taken away from the I dam, and at eight weeks old they cau j take care of themselves and go on their way rejoiciug. Thistles Anion); Oats. Y\*kere oats are sown early in a' ; field that is infested with Canada tliistles, the latter will often blossom and bear seed before the oats are . ready to be harvested. A Canada 1 thistle in blossom will ripen its seed ! if the whole stalk is cut and allowed to dry with it. Fortunately, the 1 Canada thistle will send up its spires ' for blossoms several days before the > oats begin to head out. It is easy then to go through the field, and with a long, sharp knife lop off the heads of all the thistles which will tower six cr eight inches above the cats. The wo"k must be done within two or three days, as the oats head out very quickly after the thistles, and both must grow together until the harvest. Tctlicrlnc Calveg. Calves suffer severely in summer by being hitched out in the hot sun. j Some shelter ought to be provided, | both to guard against heat and rain. The cut shows an arrangement that will De tounci to nt mis ncea. a noie j is made in the turf with an iron bar, ar i the upright that is shown is driven j down into the ground. This upright ... A SHELTER FOR CALVES. bag a cylinder (a square box will do j as well) about its lower end, to which J the hitching-ropc is tied. This pre- j vents the rope gett.ng wound about j the post. To the upright are nailed j two light strips of wood, over which 1 some cheap cloth is stretched, its | position being shown by the dotted [ lines. Make this just high enough for , a calf to go under, and it can be moved about with great ease, using a crow- j bar to make a new hole in the turf in j each new location. I Salt For Layinz liens. Considering egg production for con- j sumption (not hatching) only, hens ; may be stimulated somewhat by the I use of cayenne pepper or other warm-; ing condiments. Some good feeders do not use con- . diments of any sort, unless salt may be classed as one. It is not a bad rule, if condiments are used, to season the food as you j would for your own taste. Now, I tastes differ, but the longer one uses j condiments, the stronger or thicker ; he wishes them--follow the same plan 1 with the fowls. Always season with a ! little salt whether you believe in con-! diments or not. Rock salt, or salt that contains ! large crystals, should not be exposed ; so fowls can help themselves, as they 1 would be apt to help themselves to it j for grit, and it would not take long for an injurious, if not fatal, amount to be swallowed. Experiment has shown that a quar- j ter of a pound of salt may be fed to one hundred hens each day without injurious effects, after they have been fed a smaller amount for some ! days previous. It is probable that an ' tsw inrt mofnrn fnwl.Q is I U IIUL'C II VI nj 1V/X iw .w. ?w ? about right for health and best results.?Farm, Field ai^l Fireside. Value of the Trees. In speaking of the advantages of a certain amount of tree culture ou farms, Assistant Chief Keffer, Division of Forestry in the Department of Agri- : culture, Washington, says that the thin-soiled ridges of the farm, covered, as they may be, with forest growth, fulfil a threefold purpose: . They form a wind break to the adjacent fields, increasing thereby their productiveness; they hold the drifting j snows, and insure their slow melting, lino nml.-mcrinir thfi nnnortunitv for i ?~r>?o i- * ? absorption of the snow water by the adjacent fields of lower elevation, and they prevent late and early frosts by creating air currents and controlling their direction. Few farmers seem to have realized the great value of a close-planted, thick-foliaged grove as a conservator of moisture. The effectiveness of a r x._ wind break depends upon its location, | ^4 Jensity, extent and height. This was said apparently for the special benefit of farmers in ??ie Westjrn region beyond the Mississippi; jut there ane farmers of this State and ricinity to whom the admonition may be of use, as any traveler may observe tvho notes the destruction of the forests in the farming localities on land never turned to any use afterward. Brooklyn Citizen. Cat Oats Early. When the oats are to be used for feed they should always be cut while the grain is in the dough. From repeated trials I am convinced that if cut while yet in the dough the yield would bo a great deal mere andof bet ter quality. Besides the straw will make much better roughage. Last year I had a piece of oats containing seventeen acres and as a part of it was rusty and weedy I cut ten acres while the grain was in the dough and the straw was yet quite greeu. At the time it was cut the straw stood up perfectly straight. But as I thought that it was too green I let seven acres stand four days longer. After cutting the first part a light rain fell and very hot sultry weather set in. When I came to cut the remainder it was overripe and about four-fifths of it was badly lodged. I also found that it had shelled out so the ground was white Willi Uill3. o UUglU^ ilUJU lilC UUiUUUb that sprouted after the field waa plowed, as much as five to eight bushels to the aero must have been wasted. Thi3 loss was all due/to letting the oats become overripe. Of course the very unfavorable weather did a good deal of the damage, but as there had not been any storm along with the rain, the main loss was caused by letting the oats become too ripe. The grain was also heavier and'brighter from the oats first cut and the yield fully one-fourth more, although at first the seven-acre field yielded the best oats. When the oats are to be used for seed it is necessary that they become perfectly ripe and special care should be taken to have them thoroughly dry before stacking and threshing. Many oats are spoiled by being stacked while they contain moisture. They will heat much sooner in the stack than wheat or any other iind of small grain. If the straw should happen to be a little .green when the oats are cut the bundles Should be small and set w up in long shocks containing not more mft than eight bundles each. Q. ' Folio, in American Agriculturist. A Convenient Turkey House. My turkeys have a large range, and as foxes are numerous in this vicinity a great many of the finest birds were killed last year. In June I had a house built like the accompanying illustration to secure the flock at night, to provide a feeding place for the young birds during the day and to prevent the old birds from eating with them. The building is twelve feet square, ten feet high in front and eight feet at the back. The foundation consists of tamarack planks spiked solidly together and four posts are set in at the corners. The sides are fine slats, four inches wide, nailed an inch apart so as to provide light and air within. The roof is made of boards put on to exclude the rain. On one side is a door, a, Gx3 feet, fastened by hooks on the outside and inside. On the front there is an opening, b, and a door, c. On Hio <rrnnnJ thfl nnenincr. b. is four * V"V ?JC O' -9 inches high and five feet long and permits the ingress and egress of the young birds only. This is closed by means of a drop board. The hanging door, c, is twelve feet long, two feet wide and two feet from the ground, is formed of boards like the sides, is fastened by hooks and attached to the front by strong hinges. Inside the house are drinking and feeding troughs for the young birds, clean straw at one side and three tiers of roosts, the first very lcyv, the second midway and the third of'strong poles as near the top as possible. In the morning I dropped the hanging door to let out the old birds, fed them outside, and closed the door. A MODEL ADODE FOE TURKEYS. r Went in at the side door, fastened it, fed and watered the young birds and left them until the dew was off the grass. By raiding the board the young ones could come out to the old ones. Three times a day they came to be fed, the board being utilized to shut them in until all were fed. At night the young ones remained in and by dropping the hanging door the old hens flew in. When the turkeys grew too large for the opening, b, I fed^ ? them just outside the house and they ' entered by means of both doors, /Ia**IT THft >Y U1CU >TCi^3 XaObCUOU WOiViW *mv house was adapted to our purpose from the time the hens were let out of the coops until they were sold in the fall. Mrs. Edwin Colquhoun, Ontario, in New England Homstead. Originally clock wheels were three feet in diameter.