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The Retching of Turkeys.
The turkey hen begins seeking a los
nation for her nest some time before
she ie respy to lay, and a nests are
Provided for her in suitable places
eibcert the farm buildings and Yards
she will usually accept them.
secure good-sized dry goods boxes
and large barrels, -sail as salt barrels,
and place them along the fente and in
corners of the turkey earde. These
• are covered partially with brush or'
cornstalks to hide them and make
them look attractive A deep nest of
hay or straw is made inside and a nest
egg is provided. I also make nests
inside, hi each corner of the turkey
sheds, leaning up boards to hide them.
It is not unusual to have each of the
four corners occupied by a setting
turkey at the same time.
Eggs sluyalid be gathered every day
and placed ha a cool, well aired room,
(never in a cellar), and turned Ovate
sionally if kept very loag. Egge eau
be kept three weeks and hateh well.
As I sell for breeding stock and
want early hatchieg birds, I use only
the first laying of eggs from each
turkey hen. There are always mere
eggs than• the turkeys ean cover and
some of them are placed under good
reliable chicken hens but when they
hatch they are givento the turkey hen
to brood es she is the natural and
best raother.
manage to have them all hatch
lot at about the same time (within two
weeks if possible) as they develop
better and age more easily cared for
if they are all about the same age.
1111 " However, if one hes a large range
and time to give especial attention to
Is those of different ages, a larger flock
eaa be raised from the same number
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of birds. If the first hens laying are ,
not allowed to set they will useallY
ley again in a very shert time.. The
first eggs eau be placed under chicken
hens and before they are ready, to
batch there •are likely to be other
turkey hens wanting tp set, After
"trying these out" on some nest egga
'ter a few days, to prove their worthi-
ness, give them the eggs incubated by
the chieken'e pen. Ellen though she
has been setting for aewday, she
is ready to welcome the ittbe
when they hatch.
By hatching all remaining eggs in
the same way, giving the poults to
the last he= 'witting, one an usually
reanage to have turkey mothers for
all,. If each mother is given a large
roomy houge 'bo shelter her brood she
can nicely cover and care for sixteen
to eighteen little ones.
I usually place about fifteen eggs
ander a turkey hen ,and mine wider a
chicken hen, depending, of course, on
size of eggs and hens, but it is best
not to have the nest too croevded at
hatching time.
Incubators are -scanetimes eitecese-
fully used in hatching turkey eggs but
they 'require diffeeent methods of
handling from chieken's eggs.
As a rale, the turkey hen Will take
proper eare of herself while setting
but occasionally there is one, especiel-
ly among the pullets, that will take
the matter too seriously, not being
willing to leave the nest for toad and
exercise. These should be taken off
and shat out from the nest twice a
week and for at least twenty minutes
each time. They will eat quantities
of grass, &widener*, etc., but do not
seem to remeire nrach food. Give soft
food or small g -rain (never earn) and
see that they have access to fresh
waters.
should be followed in ,crate feeding.
Medium-sized birds belonging to the
general rurpose breed's give best re-
. sults in the crate. Le,g%orrue make
Colony houses are so useful that good broilers, but poor roasters, and
they are worthy of a. trial en more are too narvous for crate feeding. Ex -
fume. I find an eight -by -ten house perimenbs leave shown that Barred
to be ideal for a stove broodier which Plymouth Rocks do infinitely better.
• protects from two to thre hundred Birds of the general purpose breeds
chicks. The houses I have used have de best if they are put into the crate
• been ten feet wide and eight feet deep weighing less than five pounds or be -
but the new ones will be eight feet
wide and ten feet deep. This addition-
al depth makes it possible .to put the
broodier quite a distance back from
the window. When colony houses of
that depth are used for roosting quar-
ters during the summer, it is best to
have an veering in the back, lox vend
When colony houses are used for
brooding there is much less fire risk
° than when the brooders are placed in
larger buildings. Colony houses can
• be moved if new soil is needed for the
glowing s.te ck. They eau be placed
near the feria horne early in the wring
when the brooders need attentiorn.
• Later they can be hauled into the
fields or orchards where the growing
poultry will have fine range conditions.
Portable roosting sections of two -by -
two pieces can be made to fit into each
other as soon as the chicks are wean-
ed and ready to roost.
Colony houses are easy to move
when built on sIdds.- These skids can
be made of eight -by -two planks. Nail
two planks together and bevel the
edges. That makes a good skid for
one side of the house Then make the
other and use the two skids connected'
• by two-by-fours as the foundation
for the floor beards.
fore they are five menthe old. Strong
smoke is drawing- tip freely, to .elose
constitution is essential. A lively bird
the flue at the top. Smoke th.at escapes
generally answers this requirement
clean/bless is netessitsf, so too is cate cipenings that need attentioln
Fertilizing Strawherries.
To get Teal results on a sinall-fnut
crop, fertilizing must not be delayed
too long. Nitrate of soda, in tnEd S14.11 -
tion may be applied with profit to
strawberries' as late as when they are
blooming; bul I wisheeto suggest a
much simpler treatment, Which I have
found to give wonderfully fine results.
Since top -.growth en -strawberries is
not desirable, fertilizers rich in, arn-
monia should not be used, What the
strawberry wants ehleffy, is potash.
The best aid oheapest form of potash
that we have is wood -ashes: This na-
tural fertilizer, If applied properly and
at the right time, is trulyaa, wonder -
worker. Those who care to have the
foliage of their plants a rich dark
green ratay add to the ashes a little
plain soot. In applying the aehes 1
use the follo-wing plan:
In late March or early April, when
the last of the winter rains and snows
are beginning to leech into the slowly
warming earth, I scatter. over the
mulched rows of berries woodeashes
that have been sifted to remove im-
purities and bulky matter. I am care-
ful pot to let the ashes fall in hand-
fuls oder the civems of plants. But
in avo'idin'g smothering of the crowns,
I am not miserly in the applicatien.
On a garden patch 15x40 feet I have
used with astonishing results four
bushels of woo -ashes at a time.
About a month later, when it is
time to get the mulch off, I lift it
carefully aside; then, as ;loon as the
soil is workable, I rake in a Second
but lighte-r epplication of ashes, try-
ing, without disturbing the roots of
the plants, to get it ,in close to
them as possible. Then the, mulch is
rattle -lied to the rows and about the
plants, but, of course, not ever them.
This fertilizing in the early -spring
is the very best ineuranoe I have been
able to discover for a phenomenal
yield of strawberries in the home
gaoden. •
Examine Your Chmariey.
No other flee hazard. touches• the
home and the family more closely than
the defective chimney. ete great many
old chimneys and too in,any new ones
have a thickness of only one brick
and are easily :creaked by shrinking
or settling; and chimneys that are
supported on wood construction,
• Agricultural Statistics.
The Dominion Statistician Ottawa,
has sent out special sfePed Xa.rnl"
ers to make edema to him ot the
extent of the areas sown to the prin
cipal field crops end the number: of
farm. live stock, by means of card -
beard schedules which are beien
dis-
1aibutsd, or will be supplied on apple.
cation, It is explained that then star
tistios axe required only for official
compilation to makanational returns,
will be regarded as confidential, and
wql it no way be used for purpoees of
taxation,The reasons for the returns
are: That reliable and accurate total
statiszics may be et the disposal of
farmers, who will thee be enabled
fo eogalate their crops and live etock
and also to quote their crop prospects
when applying for credits. Not only
do gee enenents require accurate
know/edge of the country's general
resources in order to hold th bslance
fairly between all classese but Canada
being the third largest Wheat growing
and second largest wheat exporting
country in the world, needs to, e. in
a position to make accurate reports of
production in return for similar re-
ports from other cotantries. Other
reasons are that those who market the
country's produetions may be inform-
ed of exact conditions so as to be able
to sell to the best advantage for the
producers; that those seeking profit-
ables openings for enterprise may
know local oanditions; and to sum up,
se that agricultural statistics may he
furnished en the higheit trustworthy
authority and the mischief caused by
inaccurate statements issued from
interested motives entay be checked.
"Not Worth His Salt."
With salt numbered among the
chea,pest =tides of food, to say that
a man is "not worth his salt" sounds
like a very radical expression ot
worthlessness.
It should be remembered, however,
thia.t there was a time when salt was
a highly -prized commodity. An ex-
amination of the word "salary" will
prove in what esteem salt was held,
for the Latin solarium was the allow-
ance mode to i'the Roman Soldier in
order that he might provide himself
with salt.
Moreover, the ceremonial. import,
ance ot salt is shown in. the salt -stand
a Cr
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• Recipes for Faster Cakes
• Easter would net be Easter without
its dainty and delicious Easter take
and any of the following recipes will
Make one fit to chairmsthe palate ef
the most eccacting.
Easter Cake.
Pat one-half cup of cocoa and one
cup a -f sugar into a bowl and add one-
half cup of water. Beat the yolks of
two, eggs, add these to the eake, with
brackets or an insufficient masonry which appeared en the Saxon table. one teaspoon of bakingepowder sifted
foundation are very likely to 'settle. A Its, position marked the weer and with one-half cup of flour. S'easee
space inay be too mall to be noticed lower board, separating the lord of the with vanilla, fold in the stiffly beaten
and, yet be big enough to let a spark house and those ...who shared his salt whites 'of the eggs. Line two j911Y
the-
ough. It is a goad plan to test a as honored guests from those who ties with paper, pour in the mixture
chimney by .building a smudge flee in earned their salt i and bake twenty minutes.. Dampen a
.1 cloth in- cold water and lay over
the bottom. of the flue and, when the
sea/ay leading is advisable at first thrortegh the chimney -walls will indi-
milk, and all feed should be ground,
no whole grain being given. The ap- The Joyous Seasor„
petite of the birds should be consider- Nahila Raster belts ie rasa,
ed. Fine ground eats, earn and busk- And Easter ,anthems singin; 6'
wheat are all good. Shorts and mid,-
dlings are al right as a small part
of the ration. Bran is the laxa.tive.
Beef tallow is sometim fed during
the- last four or five clays, but its
virtue is doubtful. Cooked foods as a
rule ,should not be fed,
Variations of Live Stock
• Market.
The- Live Stock Branch at Ottawa
advises of an unusual rush of -calves
Safety Lunches.
When annuale like cOevee, siseep, or
deer go through the pee -for -mance- of
"cliewing the cud" they are carrying
out function .wiiich their ancestors
".See)ersered,...eW03 a means of aiding
to ,eoape froth their enemies.
These animals of long ago were al -
kitchen Eet cake tins on this
three minutes before removing cake.
Dust top of cake very liberally with
confectioners' sugar aidd lay second
cake on it. Feast top, sprinkle liber-
ally with cocoanut and decorate with
small colored candies put on in the
shape of narcissus blossoths or an
Baster bell. •
• "• Snow Cake.
Beat the whites of five ergo tuitil,
dry, then -heat in three-foarths cup of
granulated sugar. Sift together one-
fourth te-aspoon eocla, one-half tea-
epoon baking -powder, and one-half
cup flour. Add any fruit seasoning or
vanilla, but do not beat after sugar
is beaten into egg. Pour half the
mixtnre tin gem pans and aver the
trip lay very, thin shreda of eitron and
And Easter lilies blooining sweet and ways in danger of attack, so they got
fair; into the habit of eatiny, as. much grass
A11 Nature now awaking, , '' and herbage as they could _in. a short
The chill and cloth forsaking, time, and then retiring to a. plate of
For Spring and, Life and Beauty safe0.
everywhere, • The grass was stored tai a special
I./et me tell you what I'm thinking, • chamber, and, once got ,out et harm's
While the wine ef spring. I'm. drinking: way, the animals' prcoeeded to rectew
What matter though the Easter Tinse the food. and swallow it egain,
departs; :
What though Year and Life grow Greatest Waves.
elder, •The greatest waves known are said
And the later winds blow colder, to be those of the Cape of Good Hope,
wihere under the influence of a north -
to the markets in Cana,da as detailed, le he d the Easter Season. in our
in the weelsly reports. The unavoid-' "
hearts i
able result has been a decline in prices.
The Toronto market report for Mara,
If for for no ether reason, a dairyman
9 notes a dollar drop on the first day
of the week, and the 151entreal report should feed his cows alfalfa and other
legume hay to provide the 'animals
in recording heavy offerings says "It
plenty of lime for born making.
is yet early in thee -elf season, arid if with
drovers and farmers persist in market- Calves' from eows so fed are strong.
emaciated because
ing quantities of eommen, unfinished °therwi-se sews are
they have bean obliged to use bone
veal, prices are likely to sink to a
The best colony houses have a glass very low level." ,Montreal is a materials limn their own bodies to veal-
•window in front id a smaller opening eating city but a betthe quality is de-
rear their calves.
above the window fox ventilation. mended. Froin januaxy 1 to ldarph,
When the curtain is down en rainy
days the window furnishes enough
• light for the chicks.
Fitting Poultry for Sale.
• No poultry intended for the table date they were $14 and 89 respective -
should be marketed without being r.,
syIt is -worthy to mote that bogs are
fleshed. The easiest way to do this is eatvaria.
se higher in Montreal than
in Toronto, the differences usually
ranging from 50c to 61.25. Cattle,
calves and sheep all range higher in
Toronto. On March 9° tattle at Tee
rant° were quoted at 89 and at Mont-
real at 88. Sheep were at 814,50 anti
811 respectively. Cattle were down
compared with the same date last
year, but sheep were slightly higher
in Toronto but down in Montreal.
• It is often better to get acquainted
with the man svirom. you do not 'WAY
understand than it is to hit him.
He is a wise dairyinan who sets e
trap to oattli the first well-htfortned
<dew -teeter that conies his way,
2 there was received et Toronto 8,623
eaves against 5,448 in the 'same period
last yeas.- and at Montreal '6,627
againet 5,475. Last year the price s on
March 9 were in Toronto 816 and in
Montreal 813. This year on. the same
• by trate feeding. Cockerels, especially
should be orate fed before nearlretiug.
Pullets and hens are also improved
for eating by the same process. Two
weeks crating will do for them but
another week or two of such dieting
wilil beffefit coekerele. Before putting
the birds in the crate'dry sulphur ar
scene kind of lice powder should be
thoroughly sifted into the leathers,
• and repeated once or twice during the
feeding, to prevent or control lite. The
Dominion, Poultry husbandman in his
Bulletin N. 88 "Preparing Poultry
Pxeduce for Market," obtainable at
the Publications Branch of the De-
partreent of Agriculture Ottawa, de -
e eoribes minutely the -methods, that
gair•Lamr.........•••••••areromarexties
west gale they will sometimes reach
a height of 40 feet.
•
Life is too serious to take it too
seriously.
Bind the ends of your quiltwith a
strip of cloth. Mese are eager to
wash than the quilts. A little lace
OM the ends a)f the strips will make
them more attractive.,
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tone island Aoriorltufia.,
•
thin slices of candied cherry. Over,
these pour the remainder ol the mix-
ture, dust top with pulverized sugar
and bake.
Lily Layer Cake.
cream together three-fourths cup of
shortening and one enp sugar Beat
the yolks and whites, of two eggs sep-
arately and add to the sugar, stir in
one-fourth cup milk and one and ane -
half cups flour sifted with one TO1111d-
ed teaspoon of baking -powder. Line
two jelly tins with paper, put in the
sake dough and bake. Frost with
white icing.
Fruit Squares.
Cream together one-half cup short-
ening and one cap of sugar. Acid two
beaten eggs and four teaspoons of
Pat two tablespoons cf pee -
served cherities, two of chopped can-
died peel and two of chapped figs
through meat grinder. Stir these into
the 'cake with. ,sufficient flour to make
a stiff batter, lifted with two tea-
spoons bakingepowder. Spread on
floured board and pat down until
about three-fourths inch in. thickness.
Out in squarea, bake in moderate oven
and frost with the following: One cup
of brown 'sieve put in saucepan and
cooked until melted, adding a little
'sweet milk to prevent burning when
first put over fire. Cook until it spins
a thread. Beat the -white of an egg
into the mixture ,ancl spread on the
baked squaree.
Dicky's Comfort.
When Easter Day carne for the sec-
ond time in Fluff's life"the seemed as
mole- excited about it as a fuzzy yel-
lowtoy chicken can be. He remem-
bered lest Easter Day, when he had
steed zaDicky's place on the brealdast
table. Would there be another ehicken
this thne, he wondered. He dreaded
the •coming of a new pet -'a Pluff with
none of his fuzz worn off, looking all
neat and spick and span.
If Fluff had known 'what was coin-
ing, he would have flopped right off,
irreavommwarlhowerobr,
Just til -ten Uncle Richard glanced at
the clack. "Wleds going to walk to
church with Me?"ho Iziistited.
Dinky jumped up ,and put his Ilse,/ -
pet carefully on one end of the mantel-
piece.. "ria look at you again when
1 come back froni Aunt Mary'e tbis
afternoon," he said.
All that lung day the toy peecopk'
stared proudly at Wulff, and Fluff .
blinked timidly at the peacock.
At last when evening came a tired
little bay dragged himself into the
nursery.
"I did want to, look at you some
he nursery mantelpiece to the floor. more," Dicky sasa,, "but nm so
But he did not know, and so he stoodhge-edd" The words ended in a long
t
in his plate and waited for Dicky to yawn.
take him down for their morning
game together.
Preeently, while Fluff evoked on the
mantelpiece and Dicky sat on the floor.
and gazed at his Easter eards, Uncle cock."
Richard ,came strielin,g in With a box
under his ann.'
Five minutes later Dicky was ett
hect. "Never mind," his mother whis-
pered; "yen% wake bright ancl early
and play with you beautiful" pea-
• Uncle Richard had not been, tong
home from overseas, and: he still wore
his uniform. Yet in srpibe of hie but-
tons and his straps he sat down,
"etickety-alick," on the floor beside
Dicky. •
He held out a. box. "There, old man,"
he said, "That'e your Raster gift, all
the way from Switzerlasid!"
Dicky grasped the box and tore off
the wrappinge while Fluff stared Awn
his pea -ch on the mantelpiece. The boy
pulled off the lid, "Why, it'a a pea -
could" he cried.
They set the toy peacoth ori his feet.
Ile vas a gorgeous bird, with. a long
neck and a beautiful Uncle
Riehard turned ;something in the side
of the tay, and thera-setetanstep---
ste.p-eaway the neaeock marched,
straight tenses the floor! Presently
he etood still and spread his splendid
tail wider ant wider, until it looked
like a beautiful fan.
"Oh!' OW Dicky gasnect "Make
• him walk again, Uncle Richard! Make
kb walk again!"
And Again the pnaeoek walked.
Flinn little black eyes alirrost pop-
ped oat of Ms head. Ile saw that his
day Was over, but he was not in the
least jealous. Was not this glorious
peacock more worthy -al Dieley's love
than a shabby yawn chicken? Still,
'he owl& not help feelleg sad and a
little lonely
On the high mantelpiece the pea -
cook ',smiled proudly at Itiluff, and
Fluff looked meekly and admiringly
et the peacock.
Then they heard the dream* voice
again- right;" it said, "Ill play
with the peacock to -morrow, ,but
please 'hand me my Fluff chicken
r• ix)wIlltlen Fluff smiled proudly at the
peacock; he coutict not help it. Ansi the
next minute he was in the bed beside
• his master.—Youth's Companion.
The Easter Lily.
The rests for may at Month
Within the bulb entombed
In 'dust and daektiess, when) it onei
So radiantly bloomed,
Until upon its sepulchre
GorBe sinning finger lies—
His sunshine, reaching throtigh the
gl°iLlin
Aedbidding ib arise
It 'twists the bulb and breaks the clod,
Awl lifts above the mold
A lied unfolding in e flower
• Of fragrant white nerd gold.
Aiid from the eltar Easder Day
In ell its nein perfection,
It peeves anew the rrriracle
Of death and resurrenticci.
A little letvgh now and then
Will take some kinks from the woe*
Of Men,