junior IRatutalist /Iftontbl^ 



Published by the College of Agriculture of Cornell 

 University, from October to May, and entered at 

 Ithaca as second-class matter. L. H. Bailey, Director 



ALICE G. McCLOSKEY, Editor 



New Series. Vol. 2 



ITHACA, N. Y., OCTOBER, 1905. 



No. I 



No clouds are in the morning sky, 



The vapors hug the stream, — 

 Who says that life and love can die 



In all this northern gleam? 

 At every turn the maples burn, 



The quail is whistling free. 

 The partridge whirs, and the frosted burrs 



Are dropping for you and me. 

 Ho! Hilly ho! Heigh O! 



Hilly ho! 

 In the clear October morning. 



Edmund Clarence Stedman. 



HOW CHICKENS CHANGE THEIR CLOTHES 



James E. Rice 



Of course, chickens have clothes ! Two or three suits of them. Have 

 you never heard of the hen's cape, her laced feathers, or about booted 

 bantams ? 



Yes, chickens have clothes and they change them too. When their 

 clothes get old and 

 faded, they fall off 

 and a brand-new suit 

 is put on. If you 

 have never seen chick- 

 ens change their 

 clothes, it will in- 

 terest you to watch 

 them. Instead of say- 

 ing " change their 

 clothes," I suppose I 

 shoidd be more exact 

 and say " shed their 

 feathers, or moult." 

 These are more cor- 

 rect terms. Do you 

 diink chickens or 

 birds change all their 

 feathers at the same time? If they did, would they not get sun-burned, 



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Fig. I. — Are these chickens moulting ? Can you see the 

 feathers falling ? 



