. The Southern planter. uld be kept dry and clean. Be sure tosee that they have good shade in hot weather, elsethey will die of sun-stroke just as little chicks them up securely at night, so that their ene-mies cannot reach them. After they are grown they 640 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [August, can stav out over night, except in freezing anything bothers them they will make such a clat-ter as to save themselves and your property fromharm. My wife will pocket several hundred dol-lars this season from a flock of 21 to 25 old furnish the food; she and a little grandson do t
. The Southern planter. uld be kept dry and clean. Be sure tosee that they have good shade in hot weather, elsethey will die of sun-stroke just as little chicks them up securely at night, so that their ene-mies cannot reach them. After they are grown they 640 THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. [August, can stav out over night, except in freezing anything bothers them they will make such a clat-ter as to save themselves and your property fromharm. My wife will pocket several hundred dol-lars this season from a flock of 21 to 25 old furnish the food; she and a little grandson do therest. The rural mail man is watched for with eager-ness by my wife. She reads all the letters first, then innis them over to me less checks for are funny creatures. Still a little shy of1110, you see, after nearly forty years test, but per-hajjs this gives her all the better reason for fact is, she always was just a little coy, but donttell her I said so. THOS. S. county, IAKMHHW (l.\ Tllh; CAMPUS AT BLAOKSBUKU. AFTERMATH OF THE STATE FARMERSINSTITUTE. Farmers and more of them. That is whatthe good people of Roanoke said after the meetinghad been in progress some twenty-four hours. Where do they all come from ? I never knewthere were so many farmers in the State , indeed, the Magic City, which prides herselfon her courtesy and the rapid extension of herboundaries, was taxed to the utmost to take careof the invading host of farmers that visited her onthe 10th, 11th and 12th of July. They were tobe seen everywhere, but they were most in evidenceat the sessions of the Institute, for they all seemedto be imbued with a hungering and thirsting forknowledge that was a delight to witness, for itaugurs well for the future of agriculture in Vir-ginia. The weather for the meeting was almost ideal, andthough the Casino, at Mountain Park, is some distance from the city, the ride out on the cars pro vided a cool and refreshing chang
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