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-^\^ I Q)rv7nr\i] ijir-t-liJUiv.. WHEN THE THRESHING MACHINE COMES To Assist The Housewife in Her Task of Preparing Meals For the Harvesters. Not so much what to serve as what poached eugs, greens, sliced tomatoes, not to serve needs to be considered in ' corn-bread, fruit, cake, tea or milk. TA4IDV r^rwvc CTT»fTMi?i> RATTftN preparing meals for threshing crews. The boiled dinner should be started UAIKY LUVVS &Li>lini!iK n.AiiUi'*. - Variety must be worked into all meals early in the morning. The tapioca By Earl W. Gage. rather than into one meal. One error pudding should be made soon after One of the most common mistakes i Mixture No. 1. Ground oats, 100 that we women too often make is the breakfast and thoroughly chilled. in the feeding of dairy cows on the lbs.; wheat bran, 100 lbs.; corn meal, custom of serving more than one kind For the boiled dinner wipe carefully farm is that the good cows ai-e not 50 lbs.; per cent, of digestible protein, of dessert. Another, is the duplica- a piece of well corned beef, plunge in- given a sufficient quantity of feed, 10.3. above that required for their physical Mixture No. 2. Wheat bran, 100 maintenance, to obtain the maximum ibs.; corn meaU 100 lbs.; cottonseed quantity of milk they are capable of meal, 25 lbs.; per cent, of digestible producing. Successful feeding of protein, 12.7. dairy cows involves the provision of . Mixture No. 3. Corn-and-cob meal, an abundance of palatable, nutritious 250 lbs.; cotton.-=eed meaJ, 100 lbs.; per feed at a minimum cost, and feeding ^^^^ ^^ dige.-stible protein, 15.5. this in such a way as to receive the J^^â- ^^^^.^ yr_^ ^ ^-j^g^^ ^ran, 100 largest milk production from the feed. .^^^^ ^^^^_ .^ j^^ . ^^rnmeal, 50 or feeding to the full capacity of the! To carry the dairy herd over a pe- the morning that can be so prepared j.^^ riod of short pasture without falling thus saving strength, time and fuel. )Proh7em Mother» and daughtert of alt ages are cordially Invited to write to 'f]'" department Initials only will b« published with each question ami '*• • nswer as a meant of Identification, but full name and address must o« Jiven In each letter, Write on one side of paper only Answers w'H "• mailed direct if stamped and addressed envelope is enclosed. Address all correspondoncs for this department ta Mrs. Helen Laxi. 24» Weodbin* Ave., Torcnto. Knitter: â€" Bright colored cretonne is honey, jams, thick preserves, dried tion of the same type of food as, pota- to boiling water and let simmer four toes, rice and spaghetti, all of them or five hours until the meat is tender, p^^^^ ^^^ mort""popu!ar material for fruits, sweet cake and desserts, starch foods which should be sub- A piece of salt pork from which the . {^ , , , ,, 5 Foods (ipnpniJpH unon for fat such stituted one for the other, not all ser^- rind has been removed may be added „rts' S khakilrl Tn be^'u.: ^'^' Sat a ad ofUd Xr ed at one meal. and the two cooked together. About ^'"â- " ^^^ ^^^^] ^°, « H' can be used ' '„,„„,. „ther cookinir The menus given here can be modi- one and one-half hours before time for J^^^^ bottom"!"^â„¢ 1 b^tfsTd^ fatl ant;iX 'ja rpork and ba"n "^ fied to suit local conditions. 'â-  serving prepare carrots, turnips and lor the bottom and cover on both sides • ., i^ , •, The use of the fireless cooker isibeets. Add the turnips and carrots *''h plain sateen. Cut cretonne a ^i/^h/reJefnutritTve e'emen's one yard and a quarter by 1<5 inches, seam ^'' ^"* r.eeaea nutritive elements, one strongly recommended for cereals and to the stock and after the meat is such foods as need long, slow cooking. The evening meal should be anti- tender remove until nearly time to "P and join to the circle. Cover four must make' sure that all groups are serve. move until nearly time to * fi„_ :' . ^_, ;. , "^; ;-" " '".r well represented; not necessarily 1 Cook the beets separately, To ',:;'";'!?'!? '!I',''.^?.."' ^ every meal, but when the family di using some of the meat .stock to cover bon and to this attach a band one and at family diet one-half inches wide by ei-ht long, '^ C'^nsidered day by day and week in â€" ' ' * Quantities should them. Prepare onions and cabbage, "- . â€" â€"- .- .-â€" ^3 ^^.^..v ..^..s. â-  u ,,,,. and parboil each separately to take sewing the lower end of the band ^""^ ^««'^ ""^- ,L vary, particularly of the energy-yield- ing foods, for persons engaged in dif- ^v ferent pursuits necessitating different boiled put it in the kettle with the tur- ^op and slipping through the ring, and '"»°^"^=^ "^ '^-^""^«- T^""^ *>^"^''«-- "-^^ In From the standpoint of economical I off in milk, soiling crops are growing Cookies, cake, salad dressing, beet away some of the strong flavor. Cook ^»^^ ^he ^am of jje bag n . ___^^^^ ,^ ^^ T«nv T.rmlnptinn a rfairv cow should in fa^'o""- For this purpose, second- pjckles and other items may be pre- 1 the onions separately in the meat stock °o"^"'n.- inis bag ib room> and can "* "ot be fed mor^ than 3h7will consume growth red clover, alfalfa, oats or pared the day before the first meals, and after the cabbage has been par- ^^ easily closed by gathering up without gaining in weight. But there peas are excellent. Corn is also av-ail- are served. | boiled put it in the kettle with the tur are times when it is desirable to make able usually in August and t.ptember. Breakfast: Fruit, cereal, creamed nips and carrots. About one-half exceptions to this. Practically all , What may be a disadvantage iti the dried beef poached eggs, potato hour before serving add pared pota- r>\^,r,"';~r, \,C: Thl r.;;;:" method here suggested, choose only a heavy milk producers lose weight in use of soiling crops is the extra labor ^akes, hot biscuit, jelly, coffee or inilk. toes The meat may be returned to Khaki "red Hnen make a ei^ k^' ^^w dishes and make sure that the dif- the early part of their lactation pe- required to cut and haul these crop, p Pork, apple sauce, rice, bod- the kettle to be reheated. Serv-e the ^^le bag ^'"^ '*â- 'â- , ferent groups are represented in the riod- that is, they produce milk at the from day to day, when field work is ed beans, boiled cabbage, fresh onions, onion and beets in separate dishes. â- Â»"'« oag. 1 » 1 â- - exnense of their body flesh. When ! pressing hard. ' corn bread, bread, caramel-custard ice Place the meat in the center of a large B.H.: â€" It is very conveniently carried by slipping the ^o'"'' ^^« '""'"« ^"""^ is needed band over the arm. It may be lined Planning meals in accordance with the expense or tneir body flesh. When ' pressK.g i.i»iu. corn oreaa, oreau, caramei-custara ice riace me meat in tne center ot a large "â€" -^^ - <-. j difficult to remove ; p^^j.. ;„ groups 1 and 3 are less ex- such cows approach tlje end of their The summer silo is gaining in favor cream, coffee or milk. Supper: Cold platter and arrange the vegetables Paint, but you might try turpentine p^^^j^.^ ^^ ^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ;„ g^^^p -' -- An acre of corn in sliced pork, fried potatoes, baked attractively about it. Horse-radish or oenzine. ^ ^nd for thi« and other reasons B.B.:â€" The only safe and perman- â-  should be used freely as the basis of man can well attora to uoerauy leeu leiu iuus'i^ibc lui aoci-. ^^^^ ^^^ „ ^^^^^, „„„^^» -^r--- i-i-â€" -•â-  > ^-t"--» -^ .â- Â«'' „.^_v. ^. -...„.., .« « -it cure for superfluous hair is treat- the diet, with sufficient amounts o£ them with the assurance that he will: seasort. During periods of drought, tǤ or milk. ; Drain and mix with one-half cupful of ment by electrolysis. This can be foods from groups 2. 4 and 5 to round be repaid in the form of milk when' when both pastures and soiling crops : Immediately after breakfast pat the well-drained horse-radish. Whip one- given only by an expert. out the m<.-als. Remember that the the cows again freshen. | fail, a silo filled with well-matured sil- beans on to cook and when parboiled half cupful cream and fold in carefully Housewife:â€" As you will notice in materials used in cuoking or served Pasture is the natural feed for cows, age grown the year previous is most once, divide and prepare half for bak- the mixture of bread crumbs and the splendid course in Domestic with foods ( flour, eggs. milk, fat, milking period they normally regain in many sections. the flesh they have lost, and the dairy- the form of silage will provide succu- beans, cottage cheese, corn bread, sauce is made by soaking one-half to cook in the evening. Boil pota- or groups of foods 1. Foods depended upon for mineral matter, vegetable acids and body- regrulating substances, such as fruits ed beans and allow the remainder to horse-radish. The greens should be Science now appearing in the Hous»- sugar, etc.i. add iheir food value to silo, the cook with^the pork until tender. Make soaked and tj.oroughly washed rea^dy hold Department, there are five types the diet. Remember, also, that it is " - .- _ . _ -. â- a^iX necessary to supply all the types of food at every meal, providing en- ough of each is supplied in the course of the day. For example, if the foods which are depended upon for nitrogen (meat, eggs, milk, etc.) are found in abundance at breakfast and dinner, it is not necessary to include them at supper or lunch, or if a per- son prefers a liuht breakfast he may leave out the nitrogen-rich food and perhaps some of the other foods in the morning and make up for it at the noon and evening meals. 2. Foods depended upon for protein, such as milk, eggs, meat and dried and for average conditions, with , valuable, ample pasture of good grasses, or | In planning a summer legumes in good succulent condition, ' farmer should keep in mind that its cottage cheese. good production can be secured. 1 dimensions should be in relation to the Caramel-custard ice cream is made toes for breakfast the following morn- Experts advise us that grain should number of cows fed daily. As a by combining three cups of milk, two ing. Put breakfast cereal in fireless be fed to heavy-producing cows under! usual thing, under summer conditions, eggs or four yolks, one and one-half cooker before bedtime. all pasture conditions. Variations ' a cow will consume about twenty cupful sugar (one-half caramelized) , Breakfast: Fruit, cereal, bacon, ^^^' ^^^^.^j^jj^ ^^^^j^^ should be made to meet different con-' pounds of silage. Therefore, silage and making a steamed custard. When eggs, fried rice, muffins, syrup, coffee ditions and individual cows. Grain-fed enough must be provided daily to pre- this is cooled, add three cupfuls cream or milk. Dinner: Baked ham. gravy, cows on pasture need not contain the vent excessive surface fermentation, and freeze. This may be made early, boiled potatoes, creamed peas, fried same percentage of protein as for win- : On this basis, a summer silo for in the morning and packed. apples, radishes, bread, lemon pie, iced •^^"'nes ter feeding. Pasture being an ap- ' twenty cows should be eight feet in The baked apples should be pre- tea or milk. Supper: Cold sliced 3. Foods depended upon for starch, proximately balanced ration, the grain diameter; for thirty cows, ten feet; pared during the morning. Extra ham, mustard, potato salad, buttered such as cereal breakfast foods, flours, ration should have about the same ^nd for forty cows, twelve feet. As rice should be cooked and all that is beets, pickles, bread, preserves, baked meals and foods made from them. proportion of protein to other nutri- i eight feet is about the minimum dia- left from dinner should be put into a custard, tea or milk. 1 4. Foods depended upon for sugar, ents. The following mixtures are ' meter of a silo for best results, a sum- pan and molded ready to slice for| At dinner time cook extra potatoes such as sugar, molasses, syrups, suggested for supplementing pasture! mer silo is most applicable for twenty breakfust. for the evening and breakfast the fol- ^ - without other roughage: | or more cows. | Put breakfast cereal in fireless lowing morning. Cook the beet? ^ __ .cooker after supper. which may be reheated and buttered Prepare the '^f'MirY^ tapioca pudding, coffee or tor over night. Bake as usual in the Les.»on Detecting Stale Eggs. sinks out of pl^e. sometimes stick- Since stale eggs contain substances '"« ^° ^''« ^'"^^ "^ ^^^ *"*" °" ^•^''•â- '" deleterious to the health, it is ad- '"^ ^^"^ ''** *'««" '>"'"^- vantageous to test their condition be- -^'^ a still later stage in its deterio- ration, the egg shows one or more dis- Eggs purchased at the average city tinctly dark spots, due to the growth grocery store are in varying degrees of a fungus, in addition to an increas- of freshness, from those guaranteed ^^ air space, and the outline of the to have been laid within twenty-four yolk is :'.o loiiger definite. .-^ decay- strength of the city, partly to the in- hours to those which have been in «'' <"?(? shows a greatly increased size terference of Egypt <Jer. .37. 5t. the hands of farmers and merchants of the air spa^c. due to the shrinking 3-7. Capture of the king. Fourth â€" for weeks and perhaps in cold stor- of the shell contents, and a general Supplied from Jer. 52. 1?, July. _B. C. ;,ge for months. runni:ig together of the wh;te and 58»5. Famineâ€" Compare Jer. 37. 21; j^ j^ ^ simple matter to test the -Voll*. no central da.rk nucleus outlining ?o-havc suffered ^''[rTn'mission.t^r '^ «>[. - ^^ '^-V/olding it in front the yolk being visible. pare Jer. 39. 4; 52. 7. Perhaps we of a lighted candle in a dark roam. Another method of testing an egg should read: ".Xrid when the king and The eye should he shielded from the to find out whether or not it is a all the men of war saw it, they fled flame by a cardboard or other mate- storage egg. and if so how long it has and left the city by night . . . ." rial. In this a hole should be cut probablv been held, is to place it in a Gateâ€" Near the pool of Siloam. The slightly smaller than the egg. against 10 per cent, solution of salt at 70 de- n IX. The Captivity of Judah- \^^^^lfZ:^^.^%V^ \rabah-The "'^'^'''^ ''°'* ^''^ ''^^ ^*''^"''' ^^« P'^"** K'"'-'" Fahrenheit. If the egg is 2 Kings 25. 1-21. Golden Jordan valley. Jerichoâ€" Evidentlv ^^^""^ ^"^^ ''*-''^' ""ay penetrate and re- absolutely fresh, it will sink. But if the king and his companions broke ^''•'a' the position of the yolk and of it is old, it will not do so, even if it through the Chaldean army and tried the little air chamber which exists at is only a few days old. If an electric light The age of the egg can be deter- a bright gas flame is placed on the left side. We have Breakfast: Fruit, cereal, minced for the evening meal. two cows that hold up their milk, but ham. scrambled eggs, creamed pota- baked custard . they do the same with a hand milker, toes, hot biscuit, jelly, coffee or milk.| At night, put breakfast cereal in Tn tha man^^Pmpnt of the dairv Since We have been using the machine Dinner: Boiled dinner, horse- fireless cooker. MLx and mold biscuit 'or^ ser ing tnem a» tood. cows it is very hliportaL it the have not had a single sore teat or radish sauce, lettuce, corn bread, for breakfast. Keep in the refrigera ^iivi^., ho A.^ne. nt rpirular nerioda. udder. One man can milk from 30 jelly. That U at 4e Ue hour niff atd to 35 cows in one and a half hours, do milk. Supper : Corned-beef hash, morning morning as nearly as possible. The the stripping, feed his calves, and more equally the twenty-four hours take the skim milk from the separa-, are divided in which the milking is tor. The washing and care of the, done twice, the more uniform will be ""tfit would not average more than the quantity and the quality of the , thirty minutes per day. milk produced. | Individual records of each day'a Do not expose calves to heat and milk and the amount of butter pro- flies, but during extreme heat keep , duced will show up the questionable them in a dark, coo' place until four 1 animals, months old. Wheat bran and ground oats have Free access to water and salt is es- , usually been considered to have ap- sential for the best results in dairying, proximately equal values in the dairy A belt of trees adjoining the pas- , cow's ration, but the cost of oats as ture field in which cattle pasture is a ; <:ompared to the market value of bran hot '• has usually been prohibitive, so that INTERNATION VL LESSON ALGLST 26. lextâ€" Ezek. 33. U. real comfort to the animals in weather. ! oats have been much less widely used ^y.^j^ ^â- ^^ ^^^^^^ ^e.xt should be com- to'esTape across the Jordarx but they the larger end Spraying with some preparation to 'than bran. _ , , . , pared Jer. 39. 1-10; 52. 4-16. Kings were overtaken near Jericho. Riblah is available, or keep flies off cows is the price that ; Silage helps the dairyman supply ttlls nothing of Zedekiah, the last _a citv in the far north, in the Oro- these are of course much more ef must be paid for a normal milk flow , his herd with succulence in winter as king of Judah, except the events con- ntes valley. Put out eyesâ€" .\ form f^^.^j^.g in"showing up the condition of from now on. Unchecked attacks ! well as in summer. It helps to keep nccted with the siege and fall of the of punishment frequently applied by ^^^ by flies may easily reduce production ! the cows healthy and P-^l-tive i- the ^^^^l^^ in^trea" nablf n'e! ''l--^:f.^^'T^ruc;ifn^" of"^ Je^^u^s lem. VVh?„ an egg is fresh the air cham- twenty-rtve per cent. ^J'mter when green feed ,s lacking and J^^^f^ns as earlv as hf" fourth year. Burnt all the houses . . . brake her is small and the yoke is vi..ible in We find that cows like our milking dairy prices are highe.^t . ^^ ^ ^ but no serious harm resulted (com- down the wallsâ€" Th^ machine better than hand milking. Inferior cows lower herd profits, but p^^ j^^ 5^ 5y) Finally he yielded made to blot out the city entirely, especially young cows, says a writer , they can be detected by individual ^^ the pressure of the pro-Egyptian Captive â€" It would seem that the en- in Nor'-West Farmer. So far we ; milk and butter records . Low yields partv and revolted . tire population of the capital, and of have found only two cows that object â-  mean small profits or more often ac- I Verses 1, 2. Siege of the city. Ninth the rural population all but the to it seriously, and that only when it ' tual losses. year . . . _ tenth month-Jhe poorest were carried away.Fell away " siege began mined, to some extent, by the posi- tion at which it floats upon the water. 4^ Spraying potatoes once with the Bordeaux mixture is not sufficient, was the middle of the shell. When an Spraying should be kept up at inter- egg is advanced in age. the air space vals of two weeks until the end of is increased in size, and the yolk , .-Vugust. in Januarv. B. C. 587. â€" Deserters in the course of the siege. • twelve square feet of floor space in the Ncbuchadnezzar-The greatest king oi Multitude-Perhaps better artisans , , ^ ^ the Chaldean empire. B. C. 604-oh2. Compare "craftsmen and smiths, in * 01 â-  11 J • I. * 1 Forts â€" Better, a siege-wall. Eleventh 2 Kings 24. 16. Poorestâ€" Men with- Skim milk and gram can be fed to _-^^ siege continued for a year and out influence, and. therefore, not much better advantage to hogs than ^ half, due partly to the natural dangerous. Dusty feeding floors or sleeping to mongrel dairy calves . i „ - quarters cause the pigs to cough much Rape sccnled at the last cultivation] 'Tis Quality Always Counts. practical knowledge, has the better of the time. The floors should be of corn will furnish abundant nitro- 1 r^^ farmer has need to be the most of 't. usually, and it is every man's swept or flushed off with water every genous feed for hogs in fall. 'pragmatical of all men He must privilege to avail himself of the cur day. j The only way to improve the hog ^^j'^g^.gj.^.jj^i j^ jtj^ tp,t There are rent technical attainments d//m. S/o/res 'Take no chances with a sick hog. , on the farm at the lowest cost is by Act quickly. Get a veterinarian or a ' using pure-bred males on well select- trained man immediately. Use the ed sows. telephone or send to town at once. â-  A pig that has been stunted in the Only prompt action will stop hog early stages of its life should never cholera losses. Every hog saved will have a place in the breeding herd, help win the war. I The hofr makes a mature product Feeding unpasteurized whey from quicker than any four-legged animal. jheVe is the factory to calves or pigs is a and in these strenuous times should of his few fixed values on the farm. Some trade. Jersevs give thin milk, and some Hoi- 7 iT TTT*! steins" give smull quantities. One ton tresh or Rotted Manure. of silage ntny not be half as goo<l as Perhaps one of the most remark- another ton. One pure bred hen will able results obtiiined in our experi- lay twice as many eggs as another , ments with fertilizers has been the pure bred hen of the same name, discovery that, as far as ordinary often as much as fifty per farm crops are concerned, fresh and cent, difference in the producing rotted manure, applied at the same qualities of two lots of seed corn of rate, have given practically equal Bed Time. "Story time and bed time, kiddies I" called Aunt Barbara. "Oh. .\unt Barbara," pleaded Bobby, 'â- mayn't we stay out a little longer ? It isn't very dark, you see, and we're having such fun playing tag with the are fatter Bobby. 'It will have to stay on the ground all night, and a cat or a weasel may catch It." "Lets call Aunt Barbani." proposed Bluebell. "Shell put it into a basket and take it into the house where It will be safe." "That might frighten It." said Bob- by. "Let's watch it a minute." "It's brown and long-looking," whis- pered Bluebell. "I wonder if it's a quail." Bobby shook his head "No. quails he replied. , fireflies." "And the birds haven't gone to bed yet," added Bluebell. "The baby birds are all tucked in." answered .Vunt Barbara, with a laugh. "But they're in bed all the time." argued Bobby. "We mean those that go upstairs to bed. same as we do." "Well," said .\unt Barbara, smiling, "it is certaiuly a beautiful evening: so you may have flfteei: minutes more beneficial to fill the hollow of the foot nat"e thing that nearly all farmers are manure. It probably lies in the bet- " .."â- '?.*â- "' *. Barbara'" cried or the cavity of the shoe with one part , „,„onscious scientists. They have the ter inoculation of the soil vvith desir- ^J^^ 'nd e^ -" the c^'iidre, o tar oil and two parts whale oil, which' jft of -sizine things up" They able micro-organisms for the assimd- "i'ueLe... ana on ran tni cnuare 1 10 ...:ii i-.j .v. \.f . >„;,,, , , »•''• o"- f"'">s , "^ , ' . „,,, , (!„,.„,„ K,. ^^.o fro-V. mon-ira onH make the most of their extra freedoHi. A brittle hoof know by instinct and judgment many able forms by tne tre.-.n manate and â€" . . . the greater warmth set up by its * „fi,^^ .r<.«ti.rfl, P'^^'P*'" "^'â- ''-"'"'â- *' i books. Sometimes this makes them fermentation in the soil aff.K-ting The Ki^l' is oTha dense mTac ' ^he horse's hoof is made up of hid- frpatient of book knowledge . beneficially the crop The outside is of hard, dense, compact^ ^^^ jpHngs, self-acting pulleys andj But the book farmer, who also ha s stages. excellent way to spread tuberculosis. , be the mainstay in our efforts to in Breeding ewes require at least ! crease meat supplies. 1 the"'»'at"e variety- yields. The expL:nation for this is ., â-  You can not take anything for not easy to find, since rotted manure, hard water are all destructive to the 'â-  granted, but must watch and weigh, weight for weight, is very consider- hoof. If you must help nature it is a;,j measure and test. It is a fortu- ably richer in plant food than fresh ir^ beneficial to fill the hollow of the fc Care of Horse's Hoofs ' The hoof is more exposed to wear ^-^^^ f^^j ^^^ ^^^^^ ?;;^l!:^'l Writ^orref -l]'-^- l- -^ --• f-' -^^ ^\^^ that may not be acquired m in its early .\long the road. In the twilight, brb- bed the clumsy little creature until It reached the grass that bordered the roadside It wriggled up on the grass and kept on to the foot of a tree "If we had a ladder. Aunt Barbara might put It up in the tree." said Bobby. But, to the children's surprise, the little traveller did not wait for a ladder or for any help. Without any pause for thouglit it began to go straiglit up the tree trunk toward the leafy shel- ter above. "Look! I.-ook!" cried Bluebell: but Bobby was already looking with all his eyes. With its tail for a prop and with a little lift to its \vin,i(s the bird hitched along Its strange stairway. "Us wings are yellowish under- neath," remarked Bobby. "I'm going to get .\unt Barbara." "Aniit Barbara! Aunt Barbara!" he shouted at the side door. "There's a bird here going upstairs all by it- self !" Aunt Barbara hastened after Bobby. "It's a young flicker," she told the children. "He knows how to tiike care of himself, doesn't he ?" "and "And he goes upstairs to bed with- nnich bettor than bathing in hard wa- around on a drv, hard floor or in the: are. A leg band on the right leg I from lice. it's pretty big. but I don't believe it out having anyone call Mm" said ter. Many horse owners laugh at manure or bo washed in hard water or! one vear and on the left leg the next A growing chick will not thrive on can fly. Maybe it's hurt in some way." Bobby, laughing, with a shy glance at the idea of lature taking care of the â-  driven barefooted on gravel roads ! will assist in culling the flock. short rations. If the right kind of, "No." objected Bluebell. "It doesu't Bluebell. hoofs. Th.>v are \\Tong. Overfeeding or anything that injure'^l If vour chicks are not doing well food is fed, there is little danger of act hurt. 1 guess it's young and its | "And now well go too. said Blu^ Trnvclliiur on hard, dry roads, the horse's general health also aflfects ! something is wrong. Look out for overfeeding, especially if given plenty wings aren't very strong" bell, and slipped her hand Into that ot standing on dry floors, bathing with 'the hoofs. juce, and for worms in the intestines, of range. | "Oh, that's too bad !" sympathi/.ed , her aunU ' '' . â- " / .. - insensible horn in thin layers. cushions ever soft. These all have to inner hoof is supplied with blood ves- t h I sels and nerves. Indicating sensitive- ^^ ''» '^ *â- " j^egg , ; It Is an exception to find an 8-yoar- If nails are directed wrongly in oW horse with a healthy set of hoofs, shoeing and penetrate this sensitive ^'early all are brittle, shelly-dished or i ggg eating is a habit frequently part of the horse's foot, they cause : the frogs are cut away or the heels Ltarted by a broken egg in the nest pain, inflammation and possibly lock-: are high and inelastic. - â-  jaw and death. I I've hoard owners complain or Birds don't go upstairs." mused Bluebell, as she skipped across the large grassy triangle in front of the old house iu which she and Bobby were spending the suuiir.er with Aunt Barbara. "They just fly into the trees and cuddie up 011 a branch, don't Two-year-old hens had better le sent to the market. They seldom pay for their feed if kept over a third they ?" season. "Oh. I suppose so." answered Bob Supplement the regular feeds of the by. "But what's that out in the road hens with a wet mashâ€" -fed crumbly. Bluebell ?" To prevent: Have dark nests: keep Feed all the chicks will clean up be- "Where? Oh. that funny thing bob nests clean, and avoid feeding egg fore going to roost, but none should bing along by the edge of the grass V "Why. why. it's a big Uttle bird. I If the hoofs dry up or become brit- ' blame the smith. But in the majority ' shells. Change of pens will some- be left in the trough, for it will sour, returned Bluebell. tie there are many remedies, but none : of case.^j it's the treatment the horses times stop the habit. • Chickens will do better if not 00m- â€"aâ€" a sort of a better than nature. The dew is cool- ' get in the stable that is to blame. 1 Mark the ptd'-i't^ this fall so that pelled to pick their living vvith the old think!" ing and softening and will heal hoofs The horses are left to stand all vear you will know just how old your hens fowl. There will also be less trouble "It is a bird." declared Bobby