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fashion of laying in this one nest, especial- 

 ly if you have chosen a breed of sitters, 

 pretty soon you will find there will be a hen 

 that tries to sit on the eggs all night, and 

 will fight if you try to put her off. Do not 

 get her off. Do not annoy nor trouble her. 

 Shut up that little door and open the one 

 further along. As the pens are exactly 

 alike, your flock of layers will never know 

 the difference; and as soon as another hen 

 wants to sit, shut her in and open the other 

 doors, and so on till you have as many sit- 

 ting hens as j'ou want. If you have some 

 choice eggs, put them in, saj', after dark, 

 disturbing her as little as possible. The 

 nests, you will notice, are near the door 

 where the fowls go in to lay. At the op- 

 posite end of these narrow yards you have 

 some corn, dripping water, shells and grit, 

 and the dust baths — ^that is, if the ground 

 is not already suitable for a dust bath. If 

 you want a diagi'am of the whole arrange- 

 ment, send for that June number of the 

 American Poultry Journal, 542 South Dear- 

 born St., Chicago. 



Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. 

 — Gal. 6:7. 



FORTY CAELOADS OF POULTRY IK NEW YORK 



CITY WAITING ON THE STRIKE. 



The particulars of the above I find in the 

 Cincinnati Packer for May 24. The only 

 reason why I give it place in our Poultry 

 Department is that the New York buyers 

 claim that these carloads of poultry were 

 made very hungry, and then all at once giv- 

 en all the corn and sand they would eat. 

 The buyer registers three specific com- 

 plaints: First, that poultry is starved on 

 its way from the West, then is overfed with 



sand and corn just before arriving in Jersey 

 City, the extra weight of sand in the crops 

 increasing the weight fully 15 per .cent, 

 which is a total loss to the buyer, and they 

 (the buyers) have finally made a kick 

 against that way of " doing business." Now, 

 I do not know how true this is ; but it seems 

 to me almost incredible that it is possible to 

 feed chickens sand until it represents fif- 

 teen per cent of their weight. Of course, 

 this would mean live weight. But it is true 

 that every man who is even a party to that 

 kind of business should " reap " what is 

 justly due him. If such is really the case, 

 the}' had better get our good friend Billy 

 Sunday to hold some meetings among the 

 chicken men, and preach on the text that 

 " honesty is the best policy." In fact, it is 

 the only policy that will succeed in business 

 year after year, and win heaven in the end. 



" Wherefore do ye spend money for that 

 which is not bread? and your labor for that 

 which satisfieth not? " 



Some time ago I read of a lot of poultry 

 in California that seemed to be so unusu- 

 ally heavy that the buyer opened several, 

 and found a lot of bullets had been pushed 

 down their throats — probably after the 

 fowls had been killed. Some of us have 

 been congratulating ourselves that the peo- 

 ple who work out in the open air, or, say, 

 the " honest old farmer " and those who 

 raise chickens and keep bees, are moi'e hon- 

 est than the city dwellers — middlemen, for 

 instance. By the way, I wonder if it is true 

 that beekeepers, any of them, are trying to 

 work in " sand and leaden bullets " until 

 their crops of honey are " podded out." 

 God forbid. 



High-pressure Gardening 



SWEET CORN— A CHOICE STRAIN; HOW TO 



TREAT THE SEED TO KEEP OFF GRUBS, 



CROWS, ETC. 



Some years ago a reader of Gleanings 

 sent us some sweet corn that we folks at 

 Rootville decided was ahead of any thing 

 else we had ever gotten hold of. Well, we 

 finally lost the seed, but the friend who sent 

 it was kind enough to send us some more 

 that got here just at planting time. Here 

 is what he says about it : 



The corn I sent you is the Gilmore. Some years 

 ago I sent you some of it, and you said it was the 

 best corn you ever saw. It is a cross between a 

 sweet oorn and the Tuscarora as host. Not a thing 

 will touch grain or plant. Since 1847 I have prepar- 

 ed corn thus : For one peck of seed, immerse for a 

 minute or less in hot or boiling water ; drain, and 

 immediately add two tablespoonfuls of pine tar. 

 Stir briskly until every grain is coated with tar. 

 Then add lime to dry and prevent sticking together. 

 Please publish this ; for if farmers practice it, and 



have good seed they will always have a good crop. 

 It will add millions to the country. 



Frank, Pa. MoSES Gilmoee. 



THE WAY THEY TEACH '' HIGH-PRESSURE " 



GARDENING ON THE GROUNDS OF MENGO 



HIGH SCHOOL, UGANDA, AFRICA. 



SEE PAGE 416. 



Shortly after my talk about simplicity in 

 dress, in our issue for May 1, I noticed a 

 picture in the Planet Jr. catalog, and the 

 proprietors of these celebrated hand cultiva- 

 tors have kindly loaned me the cut. I think 

 I mentioned once that, while in Florida dur- 

 ing July and August, I used to go out in 

 the garden and sometimes work quite a 

 spell in my night dress. As the poultry are 

 all shut up tight during the night in order 

 to let them out at the " peep of dawn " I 

 was not only obliged to be up quite a spell 



