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who love the home and are willing to stay on the farm! And justly so. Our 

 boys and girls should feel that they are a part of the home early in life, with 

 some specific duty to perform each day. 



To me one of the greatest responsibilities of child-training is their intense 

 desire to do as wc do and not as we say do. An instructor on one occasion 

 was making a bed for a little one, charging her to imitate her the next morn- 

 ing and be very careful and not leave one thing undone. By accident, one of 

 the pillows was knocked out of the window, where it had been placed while 

 the bed was being made. On the following morning the little one showed 

 she had grasped many of the instructor's suggestions, and with a few aids 

 here and there the bed was ready for the pillows. She went to the window 

 and deliberately knocked one out saying, "You thought you'd catch me, but 

 you see I remembered you knocked yours out and I've done it too." This is 

 often the case: we are imitated in the wrong place; so it behooves us to 

 always be on the alert. 



Some one has said housekeepers are born, not made. While we know this 

 is not always true, we realize every day that to make our daughters proficient 

 requires time and patience. Often a careless boy or girl will awake by watch- 

 ing nature; interest the children in growing flowers. They will relieve you 

 and it will be such a pleasure to them to know they are doing something to- 

 ward beautifying the home. 



The country home where love and contentment reign is one to be envied, 

 the home that belongs to the whole family, each one trying to make it a per- 

 fect one, each one looking after the comfort and pleasure of the other. 



The country school teacher can plant many seed in the young mind that 

 will be carried home. Interest the children in beautifying the schoolhouse 

 and grounds, and soon you will see the fruit of your labors developing in 

 the homes. 



Pin Money Possibilities on the Farm. 



MISS LINDA CLEMENT. 



The chiefest source of a woman's farm revenue has always been her eggs, 

 chickens and butter. One is almost justifiable in believing that a man who 

 will carry to market, dispose of and pocket the price, provided his wife's 

 labor was expended in the production of these articles, is nothing short of a 



. At any rate, the average farmer isn't guilty — there are few grafters 



in the profession, and almost to a man they consider it a privilege to make 

 possible an earning capacity for wife and daughter. If they are progressive 

 farmers, nothing short of the best material finds a lodging place on their 

 farms, and if the women are going in for fowl culture nothing save a 

 thoroughbred flock shall mark the beginning. 



A venture in poultry designates chickens as the original flock. The dis- 

 position one intends to make of them would influence the selecting of a 

 breed. If you wish to grow broilers or friers, you want a heavy, fat chicken 

 which grows off rapidly; if you wish to gain your proflt from eggs, you 

 would choose one of the slender-bodied laying strains. A reputable poultry 

 journal is a very necessary part of the outfit, and an eye alert to market de- 

 mands must supplement all other information gained. Keep an accurate 

 account of expenditures for first year and do not invest in expensive equip- 

 ment nor add too large a flock of turkeys, guineas or ducks until your experi- 

 ence with your small fiock of chickens shows your selling price tallying or in- 

 dicating a margin above cost of production. Too many poultry plungers fail 

 because their original investments in tremendous flocks and costly furnishings 

 haven't the stability and insurance of past experience to make them profit- 

 ably go. After your small return has produced a result, yOu are in need of a 

 consumer. Never sell through a commission firm; you are entitled to the 

 entire profits. Develop your business capacity by hunting your own markets, 

 and once found, make them regular customers by furnishing only extra select 

 stock. Let them learn they can depend on you for promptness and straight 



