The Farm-poultry . g enough to indicatea good, healthy condition, the object lessonwas of great significance. Then taking outtoe oviduct entire, this was opened up andplaced under a strong magnifying glass toshow first its structure ami the process of eggformation,-then thequautity ot small yolksatthe head, and back of these the membranewhich under the irlass was found to be but amass of little yolks not to be distinguised liythe naked eye, all to be developed as rapidlyas possible through the skill of the thought manifest in all the demonstrationsof the evening that we were dealing
The Farm-poultry . g enough to indicatea good, healthy condition, the object lessonwas of great significance. Then taking outtoe oviduct entire, this was opened up andplaced under a strong magnifying glass toshow first its structure ami the process of eggformation,-then thequautity ot small yolksatthe head, and back of these the membranewhich under the irlass was found to be but amass of little yolks not to be distinguised liythe naked eye, all to be developed as rapidlyas possible through the skill of the thought manifest in all the demonstrationsof the evening that we were dealing with life,and that around all was the mystery no mancould solve, provoked that feeling of reverencewhich added interest and additional respectfor the little hen ami the great industry sherepresents. Too much credit can ba~dly begiven Mr. Cushman for his efforts to provokestudy and set breeders to thinking of theproblems involved in the breeding of improvedstork outside the channel of everyday work.—Maine SHAWS LIGHT HRAHMAS. ROUND ABOUT. Early Chicks in New England. In answering a question in this issue , for someone who wants to know aboutthe relative ease, as I have found it, of rear-ing chicks in New England and in Colorado,I have said that I think it on the whole easierto grow chickens here. There is this to besaid further on the same point— that with thenatural method. I found it much easier tohandle verv early chicks there because it was before the season is over; and also that thelate spring and early summer chicks developbest in shape and feather. So that old fan-ciers are not, as a rule, eager for very early-chicks, though most of them hatch a few, andif some good ones result from these advancehatches, regard the value received from themas in the way of a pick-up. Beginners generally get out all the earlychicks they can, and though I think that a* arule they lose by doing so, if it happens to bean early season with settled warm weatherthe mau with
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