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Messages of Good Cheer, No. i and No. 2, by The Trotty Veck Messengers, 

 Saranac Lake, N. Y. The two numbers mailed for 20 cts., twelve for 

 $1.00, not sold separately. 



These tiny booklets came to the editorial desk a month ago and have 

 established there a permanent place of their own, where a momentary glance 

 at one of their messages may gladden an hour and replenish editorial courage. 

 Trotty Veck was a weak, spare old messenger described by Dickens in the 

 "Chimes," but he was strong at heart and of good cheer and had entire faith 

 in his ability to deliver messages. The Trotty Veck Messengers are two young 

 men who are obliged, on account of ill health, to live at Saranac Lake and who, 

 instead of giving themselves over to the boredome of convalescence in exile, 

 have gathered together enough cheerful messages to make two booklets, each 

 worth its weight in gold to anybody who can read. The messages are quoted 

 from poets, philosophers, noted writers, with here and there a few words from 

 the Messengers" themselves, such as: "Your friend is the man who knows all 

 about you and likes you," "How to make a shadow: stand in your own sun- 

 shine," "Even a tombstone will say good things of a fellow when he is down," 

 "Don't Grouch! smash a window or a chair or take a cold plunge, anything 

 to get it over with." The No. i booklet is entitled "Good Cheer," the No. 2, 

 "Be not afraid," These young men surely are living up to their principles: 

 "When you reach the mountain top, wig-wag courage to the fellow in the 

 foothills," and we hope every reader of The Review will send 20 cts. and 

 receive these two little treasure caskets of cheer. 



Poultry Breeding and Management. By James Dryden, Professor of Poultry 

 Husbandry at Oregon College of Agriculture. Orange Judd Co. 402 pp. 

 $1.60. 



"When man himself became tame he set about training the wild things of the 

 forest and plain in order that he might better supply his needs for food and 

 raiment." "To exercise his God-given dominion over the earth, man had to 

 bring to his assistance plants and animals that hitherto existed only in a wild 

 state." Thus in the first chapter does Professor Dryden pleasantly introduce 

 to us the history of poultry raising and breeding. A chapter is given to each of 

 the following topics: Historical Aspect, Evolution of Modern Fowl, Modern 

 Development of Industry, Classification of Breeds, Origin and Description of 

 Breeds, Principles of Poultry Breeding, Problem of Higher Fecundity, Systems 

 of Poultry Farming, Housing of Poultry, Kind of House to Build, Funda- 

 mentals of Feeding, Common Poultry Foods, Methods of Feeding, Methods of 

 Hatching Chickens, Artificial Brooding, Marketing Eggs, and Poultry, 

 Diseases and Parasites of Fowls. 



Professor Dryden writes in a lucid, crisp style and has his subject matter 

 "boiled down" to crystallization. There are no superfluous words in this book 

 which is a clear comprehensive and up-to-date treatise on the poultry industry. 

 There are about 200 illustrations which are both pertinent and interesting. 



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