Exeter Times, 1915-4-22, Page 7The Lady of Lancaster;
Or, Leonora West's Love.
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CHAPTER XII.--(Contineted).
her mother was an American, you
know. They—the American. -all cavern to
be nobly born, 7 believe. They recognize
no aucat caete dietinetions ae we do. Kin!
West beare a patent ell nobility iu her
feree," cajdLanmeter,
"Does she tot the little darling? What
et sweet good nature beams ia her little
eace. And, aftv all, it le oar OWs post
aaureate who sa.yo:
'Howe'er it be, it seems to me,
'Tie only arable to be good:
ICind hearts are more than coronets,
Andasimple faith than. Norman blood.'
jet .
"Yet.q think you will find it hard to
bring the rest of the De Veree to eabscribe
to Tentinson:e. verse," Lanca,ster said,
anxiously,
"They will e'en have to. I ehall plow
anyeelf if I can—mark that, Md. So you
needn't seold. any more, old fellow, Inc I
am in dead earnest to make Leonora Mrs,
H. De Vero," laughed. the young soldier.
"You are the arbiter of your own des-
tiny. Euviable tallow!" grumbled Lan -
°ester,
"I never knew what a, lucky fellow I
Was uutil now," agreed De Vere. "It woe
foetunate Inc me that I had a bachelor
umole in trade, and he left me his fortune
when he died. I cart snap my fingerts at
my family if they cut up about 1117
cholas,"
"Yee," Lancaster eald, dryly.
"Ah, you wee just thinking to yourself
what a dude I anal" exclaimea De Vera
suddenly, "Here I am talking so con-
fldently about my choice, when I do not
oven know if she will look at me. 1,Vhat
do you think about it, eh? Do I stend
any'ethance with her?"
"If she were a society girl, I should
ssay you stood no thence of being refused.
No girl who had been properly educated
by Madame Fashion would sa,y no to ten
thoueand a year and a. title in proseee-
tiee," Lancaster replied, with oonviction.
"You are putting my personal attrao-
Cons quite out of the question," said De
Vera chagrined.
"Because they are quite secondary to
your more solid recommendetions," ser-
, ae—teestically.
"And, after all, you have not said what
you think about my chances with Mise
Weet."
"I do not know what to <ay, because I
do not at all understand her. Yet if he
is poor, As of course she mutt be, and be-
ing Jowly born, as we kuow, he could not
„ do better than take you, if she is worldly.
wise."
"You talk a.bant my worldly advantages
very cynically; Lancaster. Do you not
think that I might be loved for myself?"
inquired De Vere. pulling at his dark
moustaohe vexedly, and 'wondering if he
(La,ucaster) believed. himself to be the
only handsome man in the -world.
"I,Vhsr, yes, of coarse. 'You're not bad
looking. You, have the emallest foot in
the regiment, they say, and the whiteet
hand, and your moustache 18 salient),"
Laneaster replied, laughing, for from his
superb size and manly beauty he renter
despised small dandies; and De Vera
feeling snulbbed, he scarcely knew why,
retired within himself after the dignified
reply:
"I humbly thank you, Captain Lancas-
ter; but I was not tithing for smell weak
eomplirciente."
CHAPTER XIII.
Miss West accepted the steamer-chadr,
the rug -s, the wraps. and the books with
Unfeigned pleasure, and buried herself 'n
the volumes with a pertinacity that was
eery diecouraging to her ardent wooer.
She -wearied of the blue sky and the blue
ocean, the everlaeting roll of the ship,
the faees of her fellow -voyagers, of every-
thing, as she averred, but the books. They
bad a falee and prosperous journey, and
every sunny day Leonora might be seen
on deek, but whether walking or sitting,
she always had a book in her hand in
whoee pages she persistently buried her-
ell
a,t the approath of any one with
i10111 she was &declined to talk. In this
' diseoueaging state of things De Vere'
wooing sped but slowly, and Lancaster's
aoquaintanceship progressed no furblier
than it ceremonious "Good -morning,
"Good -evening," "Can I be of any servr)
e
to you?" and similar stilted salutations,
to all of which Leonel:a replied 'with it
quietnees ani constraint that put a Check
on further conversation. No one could
oomplain thalt she gave Daly trouble; he
was quiet, courteous, and gentle, and
there were two pairs eif eye a that aoliowed
the demure, black-rebed figure everywhere
upon the deck, and the owners of the
eyes wished, perhaps, that she would oriel
on them for more attention, more services,
so oblivious did she seem of the fact that
• they 'waited aesidu.ourily upon her light-
est command.
"She is not a little flirt, as I thought at
Eret, seeing her with De Vere," the cap -
:fain slid to himself, "She is aclever
little girl who
ie bettor pithead with the
thoughts of clever welters than the tee
eiety of two great, trifling fellows such
as De Vere and myself. I applaud her
taste."
All the same, he would have been pleae-
ed if the pretty face had lighted some-
times at his coming, le she had. aeemed
to care for talking him, if she had
' even asked him any questions about
awhere she was going. But she did not
ananitest any eurlosity on the subject. She
'was a coeistradned, chilly little compan-
ion always to him. It chagrined bile to
see theft she was more at her ease with
De Vere thau with him. Once or twice
she unbent from her lofty height with the
lieutenant, smiled, chatted, even eung to
him by moonlight, one night, In a voice
,as sweet as her face, But she was very
elle, very quiet with the man whose busi-
nees 11 was to convey b.er to England. She
tried faithfully to be as little of "a, bore
and nuisance" .ae peesible.
It did not matter; indeed, 11. wae Atuch
better so, he told himself, and yet he
eluded sometime: under her peoaliar man-
ner. Ile did not like to be treated wholly
With indifference, did not liko to be en -
tinier ignored, tte if she had forgotten
Salm completely.
So one day when De Vero lolled in his
state -room, he went and stood behind her
where oho sat reading. 71 was one
01 the poote of his awn land wilose book
,sbe held in her hand, and the fact em-
, boldenea him to say;
"You like English authors, Mies West.
Do you think you shall like Eagle/el?"
She lifted the blue -gray eyes calmly to
�tio face.
"No," she replied, concisely. •
He flushed it little. It was his own nn-
tive lend. He did not lite to hear her
eay the should not like it.
"That is a pity, since you are going to
make your home there," he said.
"I am not at all sure of that," the an-
awered, putting her white) forefinger be -
!tenon the pages of her book, end turning
squaxely round to look at hint as he talk-
ed, "Perhaps if I can not bring myself
to like E.,agland, I may persuade my aunt
. colne to America with me."
"Lady letneaeter would die of chagrin
if you did," he replied, hastily.
alo saw blush color the smooth cheek,
• AO wiehed that ho had thought before he
evoke.
"Ste is poor and proud. She does • not
like to be reminded Wet hoe aunt, is
servant at Lentheter Park," he stied, pity-
ing.ly, to himself.
And he recalled. leo Vere'm intention
Vitt 11 separate/I of generous pleasure.
Leonora,. with her fair Nee and her cul -
tared mral, 'would bo Lifted by her mar-
riago into the sphere. Where the rightly
belonged. Then elle would, like England
beeter.
"X have been reading your poet late
ireate," iilio aid. "I was tuterk etruek hy
.theee
'14.0Yrer it be,„ it serene to me,
'Tie only noble to be good;
ICind heartare more than voroaets,
And eimple faith than Norman blood.'
tho'uld not have thought an English
pace would write that," see went on. "I
Monett England was too entirely govern-
ed by the lavre of mete for one of her pea,
phi to give free utterance to such a dam -
prom sentiment,"
"You muet nab judge us too hardly," he
eald, hastily,
Ignoring his feeble protest, she eontinu-
ed: "My papa was Engliela but be was
not of what you call gentle birth, Cap -
Ulla barn:aster. Ile Wag the son of a molt
unlucky tradesman who died and left hira
nothing but his bleesing. So papa ran
away to America rte barely twenty-one.
He went to Californea to seek ilia fortune,
end, he had some good luck and gime bad.
When he had been there it year he found
a nugget that was quite a fortune to him.
So he married then, and when I was
born my pretty young mamma, died. After
that he lived only for me. We had many
upe and downs—all rainere have—some-
times we were quite rich, sometimes very
poor. But I have been what you call well
educated.. I know Latin and French and
German, and ',have studied music. In
America, I can move inquite good eociety
but in your country—" the palmed and
fixed her clear, grave eyes on his .foce.
"Weal?" he seed.
"In England," ehe :said, "I shall, doubt -
Jesse, be relegated to the same position in
eocaety as my aunt, the housekeeper at
Lancaster Park. Is it not :eel"
He was obliged to coniesthat it was
true,
"Then ie it likely I shall love England?"
she said, 'No; I am quite too American
for that. Oh, I dare say you are disgust-
ed at me, Captain Laneaster. You are
proud of your der:co: ,from e long line of
proud anceetry." She looked down at her
book and read on, aloud:
•
" 'I know you're proud to bear your name,
Your pride is yet no mate for mine,
Too proud to care from whenee I
earns' "
Re knew the verse by heart. Some im-
pulse stronger than his will or rEtOS011
prompted liim Ito repeat the last two lines,
meaningly, gazing straight into the
sparkling-, dark -gray eyes with hie proud,
blue ones:
" simple maiden in her flower
Is 'worth a hundred coats of arms.' "
The gray eyes, brave lie they were, could.
not, bear the meaning gaze of the blue
ones, They wavered and fell. The long
lathedrooped egainet the cheeks that
}bathed rosy red. She shut up thebook
with an impatient sign, and said, with an
effort at self-poeseeeion;
"You shall am that I will bring my
aunt home to America with me, Captain
Lancaeter."
"Perhaps so; and yet I think 6he [loves
England—as math, I dare say, as you do
America."
"I hope not, for -what should eve do in
that caee? I have only her, she has only
me. and why should we live apart?"
"Do you mean to teal me that you have
lett behind you no relativee?" he said.
"I told you I had no one but Aunt
Week" she said, •alamet curtly.
"And he ean scarcely be called your
relative. I believe she was only your fa-
ther's easter-in-lame" he said.
"That is Inc." she replied.
"Then -why go to her at all; eirece the
kinship is but in name, and you would
be happier n Americo?" he asked, with
eomethin of curiosity.
"Papa wisiied it," she replied, simply.
Then there was it brief eilence. 'Leo-
noita's lashes drooped, with the dew of
unshed tears on them. The young 'face
looked very sad in the eat evening eight.
"She is almost alone in the world—poor
child!" he thought.
"I want to ask you something," he said,
eyes," she said. listleesly.
"Wee et because of those things we talk-
ed of just now—those aristocratic preju-
dices—that you have co severely ignored
De Vere and me?"
"Not exaotly," she repflied, hesitatingly.
"Then, why?" he asked, gravely. '
She looked up into the handsome blue
eyes. They were regarding her very kind-
ly, Something like a sob swelled her
throat, but she said, as ealmly as she
could:
"Ill tell you the reason, Captain Lau-
ca,ster. Do you remember the day eve
sailed, and whet you and Lieutenant De
Yee° talked of that night over your eig-
are?"
"I re -member," he replied, with am em-
barrassment it was impoeeible to hide.
The clear eyes looked up etraight into
his face.
'Well, then," she said, "I 'heard every
word yous,eid to each other there in the
moo ight.'
CHAPTER
For the second time since he had met
Leonora West, Captain Lammeter devoutly
wished that the earth would open up and
hide him from the eight of those gray -
blue eyes.
"I heard every word," e repeated, and
hissh
memory flew. back anxiously to that
flight.
"Oh, impoesible!" Ilo (tried. "You had
retired. We 'were alone."
The fair cheek flushed waemly.
"I shall have to confeee," she said. But
you must not judge me too hardly, Cap
tain Lancaeter.'
He loo.ked at her expeetantly.
"I yell tell you the truth," She eatd. "I
went early to my state -room, 'because I
was tired of Lieutenant De Vere. I want-
ed to be alone. But it was eo 'warm and
close txt any room. 7 could not breathe
freely. So I threw a •da,rk sb.arivl over me
and went out on deck again. There 'wee
no one there, I slipped, around in the
ishadow of the wheelhouses and sat down."
"And then we earae—De Vere and I,"
said Lancaster.
"Yes," she repaied. "I was frightened
at first, and shrunk cloeer into the dark-
recs. I did net want to be ifound out. T
thought you would rnnoire your eigars and
go away in a little while.'
There Wall Et minute's silenea
"I ,wish I had. been a, thousand miles
away!" the captain thought, ruefully, to
hirneelf,
'So then you eonitnaced to teak • about
Ina" eontinued Leonora. "I oupht net to
have listened, 7 know, bub 7 could not
make up my inlnd to interrupt yea; it
would 'have been eo entharraseing, you
know. So I kept still, hoping you would
stop every minute, and thee I heard all."
"You,liestrel nothing but kindnees—you
muat grant that, at least," he said.
The eed lips curled at the corners, who -
tater 'teeth verger or feeling he ooutd not
tell,
"You were very tiondescencling," sko
said, in a quiet, very •deinure little voice.
"Nat, you -wrong ne—you do, indeed,
Miles Weat," he cried, hotly. "We eaid the
kindest things of you You must, diva
that Lieutenant Est Vero paid yon the
highort complitaent man Cail pay to v0.
1/10.11.
beitutifal blush TOMS WO ill0 fair face
and her eyes dee:aped it moment,
"While WO axe upon the ealelect," ii
continued, hardily, Incy, "let spea r word
dor any Wend, Miro Weet Ho is quite
in earneet in his love Inc you, and you
would do well to lieten to his suit, Ileie
In every' wee an unexceptional eultor.
There is everything in favor of blm, par-
eon:illy, and ho is of good tbirth, ISI the
leer to a, title, and liest, but not Ieiest,
late ten thoilSaild a ,yStir ct 4113 OW11."
"Ra01101 to buy him a more fitting bride
than Irfro, West's niece," shesata, 'with
come ibitteruco, but, more mirth, in her
volea-
"Who could be more iltting then . the
one he :late elween?" aciltOd ben:meter.
"It would be A meealliance," she :said,
with her eyes fell on her facie as elle
quoted his worde.
"In the worldbe areavered,
quietly.. "But if you love him and he
levee you, you need not me for the
world," he said; meld he felt ithe *whole
force of the worths as lie 6psite there, lee
eaid to himself that any man who cieuld
afford to :snap his fingare at fortune and
extarry Leonora West would be biased -
She lietened to hie word e ealmly, and
with an air of thoueliefuleeee, as if :she
were weighing them an her ininxl.
"And ,so. she eaid, wben he had oeased
speaking, "Yee advirre me, Oreptain Lan-
caster, to follow up the good impreseion
I have made on Your friend, and toeeto
fall into hie arms as erten as he 'mks Me?"
Re gave agaep. tie if elle had thrown
cold water over hum
"Pray do not understand me as merle-
ine aeything!" he erred, hastily. "I mere
17 ellowed you the advantageo of each a
marriage; but, of couree, I have no per-
sonal interest in the matter. I am no
um:tell-maker."
"No, of cornea not," curtly; then, with
a sudden total change of the subject, the
said: "Aren't we very near the end of our
trip, Crept:tin Lancaeter?"
"You are tired?" he asked.
"Yes. It rowe ntonotonoue after the
first day or t.wo out," she replied
"You might have had a better time if
You. had. let De Vero and me amuse you,"
he eaid,
, "Oh, I hays been anmeed," she replied,
frankly; and he wondered within himself
what had amused her, bat Aid not ask.
She had triek of saying things that
chagrined him, becauee he did not under-
stand them, and had a lingering euepi-
cion that she wee laughing at hixn.
"We shall see the end of our journey to-
morrow, if we have good luck," he seed,
a,nd she uttered an exclamation of
lire.
"SO soon? Alt, how glad I am! 1 son.
der,' reflectively, "what my aunt will
think about me."
"She will be astoniehed for one thing,"
he replied,
"Why?"
"Because I think she is expecting a
thilel. She -will be surprised to see a,
young lade',"
"Poor papa!" a sigh; "he always callea
me this little girl. That ie how the mis-
take has been made. Ah, Captain Lan-
caster, I can not tell you how much I
mies my father!"
There was a tremor in the young voice.
His heart thrilled with pity for her lone.
Ilness.
"I hope your aunt will be so kind to
'You that she will make up to YOU for hie
loese' he said.
"Tell me •something about her," said
Leonora.
"I run afraid I can not tell you much,"
he answered, with some embarrassment.
"She is a good womau. I have heard Lady
Laneaeter say that much."
"Of course, you can not be expected to
know 'much about a Mere housekeeper;
with a distinct inflection of bitterness in
her voice. Well, then, tell me abotet Lad?
Lancaster. Who ie she?"
She is the mistress of Lancaster Park."
"Is she nice?"
"She ie old aud ugly and cross and 'very
rich. Is all that nice, as you define it?"
No; only the last. It is niee to be
rioh, of course. That goes without saying.
Well, then, is there a master?"
"A master 1" vaguely.
"Of Lancaster Park, I mean."
"Oh, yes."
"And Is he old and ugly and croes and
rich?" pursued Miss West, curiously.
"He is all but the laet," declared Lan-
caster,. unblushingly, "He is as poor as
Job's turkey. That, is not nice, Is •it?"
(To be oontinuede •
ktk
A. Doubtful Compliment.
"I cant just make out what he
meant," said the conceited man.
"What do vou. mean ?"
"Whether he was praising me or
not."
"What did he say?"
"He was agreeing with something
I had just said, and he added, 'No-
body in this city knows as much as
you think you know.'"
A woman mounted the .step of a
ear carrying an umbrella, like a re•
versed sabre. The conductor touch-
ed her lightly, saying: r!Excuse me,
ma.dam, but you are likely to put
out the eye of the man behind you:"
"He's my husband," she snapped,
with the tone of full proprietorship.
A negro preacher addressed his
Rock with great earnestness on the
subject of "Miracles" as follows
"My beloved friends, de greatest
ob all miracles was 'beut de leaves
and fishes. Des,- was 5,000 loaves
and 2,000 fishes, and de twelve
apostles had to eat 'em all. De
miracle is, dey 'didn't 'bust."
ED CATION CO MIN G TO TILE
VAR
New Life Das Conte Into the Old
Counties Of Ontario—Agrieulture.
al Education is More Mau a
.Nunic Now,.
Away back in pioneer days the
leader e in affairs, edueational, laid
the foundation of our public vehool
s,ystern. The first schools weren't
very ornate, and the teachers had
little training, judged by the pre-
tsent standard of qualifications. The
three It's were considered to be
quite sufficient—rneutal decoration
wasn't tit a premium' --but the pu-
pils were taught obedience and
thoroughness, .and many of eur
greatest men arose from those little
o b KU re b aek woods schools.
As villages grew into towns and
towns into citiets, the ambition of
educational leaders grew with
them, however, Teachers became
better qualified, new eubjeets were
adaed, and higher institutions
were establish.ed until the present
complicated and complex system
was evolved. And the citizens,
generally, were very pleased there-
at, and prided themselves that they
were wearing the latest in educa-
tional fashions.
Now, as the system developed a
paradox developed with it. The
average farmer, while respecting
education and agreeing that it was
a very attractive decoration to
have when it wasn't too expensive,
did not care to invest very heavily
in it himself . A feeling that farm-
ing couldn't be learned from books
grew so strongly that it beca.xne
trait of rural eharatter. The sys-
tem might have been at fault, but
the educated preferred to blame
the farmer himself for these oondi-
tions.
"Was there ever such a man!"
they cried. "He is eo bound to
tradition and practice that he
doesn't care for education. He will
not develop the scientific view-
point, nor will he allow his children
to do so. The majority of those
wIho stay on the farm never attend
high school even. He is satisfied
with the methods and knowledge
that were possessed by his fathers
before him!'
An Idea That Fell Down.
But the farmer had his own
views of these matters, and, like
most of his view, they were the re -
atilt of hard experience. He didn't
always advoeate them where every-
one could hear them, but he rea-
lized none the less clearly certain
things that his critics did not. Wes
can imagine a shrewd, intelligent
Man addressing a lad fresh from
school,
"My fine fellow, you have gone
through a process of absorption
and have acquired considerable
mental trimming. You ca,n talk
more .correctly than I, you are
vaguely familiar with a quantity
of historical dates and foreign
phrases, you oan write a graceful
essay, you have some aptitude for
figures; there are other things that
you have that I know little about.
So 1 are you practical? Can you
tell me anything about the soil or
earth Or ClOttdS that will be of prac-
tical value to me? What do you
know about trees, plants and ,crops
—what will make them thrive or
why they fall? Can you perform
the operations of farming even as
well as when you left for .school?
Can you do practical ealculations;
have you a working knowledge of
banking and of the world's busi-
ness transaotions? No! You have
not? You were never shown these,
only were told about some of them
vaguely and SOULS not at all, you
say.
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"Now, there is any son Henry.
He has not had the schooling you
have had. He did not even pass
the high school entrance; but he
was educated in the practical
school of life. He is skilled in farm
operations, is .enthusiastic, aggress
sive, quick in emergency, and
strong in action. After all your
education he has a better training
in those things that make for suc-
eessful farming than you have."
Of course, the farmer saw the
question from only one angle. Ile
didn't appreciate the joy of know-
ledge for the sake of knowledge,
and .his ideal may have been too
much t.he money ideal. But he was
.n.ot, far astray about the practical
value of the system. It fitted a
few for professions, but fitted very
poorly, or misfitted, a multitude
for commercial or agricultural oc-
cupations. So, after all, the sys-
tem was to blame rather than the
farmer. His children wouldn't get
much knowledge that would make
them better farmers from the
schools that had been .the product
of so much thought and expense.
And this was the situation before
the people of the Province became
impressed with the fact that agri-
cultural trainin,g was necessary.
For a long time after the Agricul-
tural College was established at
Guelph, very many were doubtful
of the value of the course. Some
are doubtful of its value still, but
the -majority of the farmers realize
that it is a good thing. They know,
of course, that the practice of farm-
ing must always be learned upon
the farm; but they believe a, good
deal of theory can be blended to
very great advantage with the prac-
tice. It all rests with the student
himself as to whether he can return
to the home farm and apply his
knowledge in a sane and praetical
manner. '
But, despite the value of the agri-
cultural course, or rather because
of it, the college has its limitations.
It could not accommodate the
young farmers of Ontario, It did
good work, but in a. very limited
way. Bach year leeis than 2,000
students, all told, .atbencled the in-
stitution. So the problem became
not how the farmer could go to the
college, but how the college could
go to the farmer.
The district representative
scheme grew from this need. In
1907 six college graduates Nqere
sent into as many counties to acts
as agricultural advisers. For
awhile the wisdom of the plan was
questioned, as it is of every new
thing. But it proved itself. To-
day the number has increased to
forty-one, and these men have gone
to their qtations at the request. of
the farmers themselves. So the
problem of the college going to the
farmer was partly solved.
It wasn't entirely solved, because
one man in a county worked under
a great handicap. He hadn't the
time to reach a very large propor-
tion of his oonstituents very inti-
mately or pensonally. And in that
the greatest value of the work lay.
Unless he did it the college hadn't
got to the farm after all, but only
to the county.
This need led to the development
of the Winter Short Couree idea
for young farmers. In 1908 the
first course was given at Lindsay.
It had an .ateendance of six pupils.
In 1915 forty-three courses of from
four to mix weeks' duration were
held with a total regular atten-
dance of 1,075. The special atten-
dance wan far greater, one ceurse.
in Glengarry eounty having an at.
tend,anets of 100 at a special meet-
ing. Nothing ,could illustrate the
popularity of the .scheme more than
that, nor, by the same token, the
value of it either, for what is popu-
lar with our farmers has usually a
praetical value,
The idea, of the winter school was
simply ti give the farm lads a
training in elementary agricultural
science—to bring the work of the
college to their,very doors. Of the
subjects taken up, live stock is
usually featured. A brief review
of the methods employed in treat-
ing this line will illustrate those of
all others.
The history .a.nd characteristics of
the various breeds of farm animals
are considered, and a practical
esourse in. live stock judging is
given. The fazniers owning the
best stock in the neighborhood in
which the course is held are usually
visited and the merits of their ani-
mals discussed. The boys aro
taught to look for the points con-
sidered by judges in the show ring,
The value of different feeds and
the principles of feeding balanced
rations are explained. Methods of
her improvement and stock man-
agement, the housing of animals
and the construction of farm build-
ings are all considered as fully as
the limited time permits.
That is how all other subjects are
treated. These vary according to
the district and the local require-
ments. At all elasses an elemen-
tary .study is given of farm crops,
soils, fertilizers, underdrainage,
fruit growing, poultry, bacteriol-
ogy, farm organization and co-
operation and farm bookkeeping.
The eourses were held in the
various districts at those centres
deemed most satisfactory, the ten-
dency being to favor the smaller
villages. No fates nor books were
required, and in the majority of
cases no examination% were held.
But, of •course, at best, only a
foundation can be given to be built
upon. It is only a start. The
value lies not iso much in what is
actually taught as in the ability it
gives the student to study for him-
self and the impetus to strive for
higher things. The .association of
a number of enthusiastic young fel-
lows meeting for a common pur-
pose is in itself a stimulation—an'
incentive to organization and inter-
change of ideas such as agriculture
has long been in need of.
But the united work of the elass
does not cease with the termina-
tion of the course. The great ob-
ject of it is for the boys to put the
idea's formed at the course to the t
acid test of practice upon the home
form—to blend theory and practice
in the way the beet farmers in
every neighborhood have been do-
ing.—Justus Miller, in Canadian
Count ryman.
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An elderly carpenter who Uveo
a city suburb, 'has worked ou4 0014.4
conveniences for keeping hita nook
of 160 fowls that any poultry raiser
minea'silsy
Ile has :alli9n.Oubator tin his base-
ment. As soon as the young chiOks
come they are put immediately into
a homemade brooder, which is kept
a few feet from the incubator, This
brooder may be made out of an or-
dinary soap box, the dimensions be-
ing about 20x30 anehes and its depth
8 or 19 inches. 11 1148 4 1110V4Die
bottom and a hinge top, and the
front end .of the box is knocked ,ouk
and replaced by a Piece of canvas
hung front the top. The brooder is
kept warmby a. 'small tank of Wa-
fter that may be heated either by a
pipe from the .basement furnace or
by a, lamp on the outside of the
brooder. Tanks and lamps espe-
cially fur this purpose may be had
from poultry supply houses, but
an3r one with a 1ittlo ingenuity ea,n
devise his own.
His .brooder is placed upon a
wide shelf at the south side of the
'basement on a level 'with the ground
outside and jut in front of a small
window that slides up ,and down. On
warm, sunny days this window is
opened to allow the youngsters a
chance tto get out in the fresh air
and exeroise. When they become
cold or tired of the outeloore they
can hop back through the window
and under the canvas flap to the
warmth of the heated 'brooder. In
addition to being healthful for the
young chieke and eonvenient fox
the earetaker, the brooder is per-
feetly safe -from fire, since the heal
'mimes from oueside. The bottom
of the broader does not have to be
loose, but it ie more easily kept
elean that way,
'Clea.nlinese, he insiets, is men -
tial for successful poultry raising.
He cleans his pens every morning
and sprays with an oxide once it
week. Cleaning the pens takes him
only a few minutes because every-
thing is detachable. The nests
stand on strips Of board, just high
enough from the earth floor to
give ventilation and keep them dry.
The roosts and dropping boards ars
above the nests. "Two-by-fours,"
running lengthwise in the pens,
rest in slots nailed to 'the ends of
the pens.. The dropping -boards
are laid loose across these "two-by-
fours" and at- right angles with
them. On three of these dropping -
boards, one at either end and one
about the middle, the supports for
the roosts are placed. These sups
pores are made of one -inch boards,
a few inches wider at the back end
than at the front to give a, "stair -
effect to the rooses. Two short
strips of inch luinher are nailed on
the bottom at opposite ends cif these
supports to make them stand up
and afford a solid foundation for
the roosts when the fowls are
perched on :them.
While the fowls are at breakfast
every mdrning, he goes into the
pens with an empty pail, another
eontaining slaked lime. and a
trowel. 'With the trowel each piece
is suraped at kia liked from its
place. the droppings falling into the
empty pail. When the last piece
has thus been removed and cleaned
the trowel and Hine pail are put
into service, and each piece dusted
with the lime as it is put back into
position. Itt takes but a short time
and he has found it a .eure prevent-
ive both of lice and re.d mites.
A simple but effective pla,st of
ventilation els.) is incorporated in
these poultry-housee. They have
shed roofs with the high sides of
the 'houses towards the south. The
'etwo-by-four'' studdings are about.
four feet apart, and the rafters,
which run crosewise, are equally
distant. In each of the pens the
space between ew.3 of the etuddiege
ansi the eorreeponding two refers is
sheeted up, with the exception of
about eighteen inches at the bot-
tom.
Under this se -stern of caretaking.
Itis 110 White Leghorn hens last
year produced an average of a lit-
tle better than lir eggs each, With
01net profit of more than two dol-
lars apieee. His ,total lecome :from
his Thick -was $443.63. Of this
amount 1,23.2. eloven eggs brought
8357.57; spring chickens sold net,
tel $21.725; twenty-nine hens and
reeisters sold t sIthe leacher breught,
$1-1; four selling hens .sold ler $1
and 101 pullets and cockerels re.
maining at the end of tile year
were valued at i3.10.0.' For feed,
modieines and other incident-
als he spent dur in g the year
82,11..10, leaving a net profit of
A-2115..19.
He hag 11 natural fiinsinces for
birds. and 'has been 'seeping a email
floek, partly as pots, for. the last
twen es' years. In eiew nI his ad-
s aiee ie in e rea i ng his
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