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and often, say every two (2) hours, until three (3) weeks old, when 

 the meals may be reduced gradually to three times daily; and the 

 chicks at this age should be giveu all they can eat. 



A few chicks together will thrive and grow faster than when 

 crowded. One-half the failures are due to crowding. In a majority 

 of cases the chicks trample the excess of number to death until the 

 minimum is reached, and the poultryman should save them trouble 

 and himself the loss by reducing those together to the lowest pos- 

 sible number in the first place. 



The mating, breeding, hatching and rearing of turkeys, ducks, 

 geese and guinea fowls, may very properly be classed with our 

 topic, yet time and space forbid me entering upon them at this time. 



PROOF POSITIVE THAT AN INVESTMENT IN SOCIABILITY 

 WILL YIELD A PROFIT TO EVERY FARMER. 



By n. V^. WHITE, Bloomsburg, Pa. 



To the careful and candid student there is nothing more sure 

 than that all the forms of life are governed by law. From the lowest 

 forms of vegetable life to the highest intelligences that walk the 

 earth, all are under the governing principle of a law superior to 

 themselves. From a sociological standpoint we may look upon all 

 the diversified phases of human existence as the direct or indirect 

 results of a compliance with the physical, moral and spiritual laws 

 by which the Great Creator has decreed that our lives shall be gov- 

 erned, or on the other hand a lack of conformity thereto. 



(Man is a social being, and if he would attain to his highest and 

 best he must live in accord with the great plan under which he is 

 day by day permitted to enjoy this life. Every one has learned by 

 observing the common forms of life, that a single stalk of corn in the 

 field, the calf alone in the isolated pasture, the bird confined in the 

 cage, all become puny and fail to fulfil the missions for which they 

 were created. Give to each the surroundings and associations which 

 nature intended they should have and they not only will put on a 

 better appearance, but each will be of far more value. If this be 

 true of the vegetable and animal world, how much more is it true 

 of man. 



WTio that has given the subject one moment of consideration can 



