138 A COUNTRY READER. 



marketed on the smallest amount of inexpensive 

 food, and to rear hens that will lay the greatest 

 number of eggs when eggs are scarce and dear, 

 namely, in the winter and early spring. Now if 

 a poultry rearer only set the eggs of those of the 

 hens that showed a disposition towards carrying 

 out these two points, and went on doing this 

 year after year, there is no knowing to what 

 perfection a cottager might not bring his few 

 head of poultry. 



Eemember that if you are to select wisely, 

 you must learn to observe ; therefore, see the 

 importance of training your powers of observa- 

 tion, especially when you are young, and the im- 

 portance of keeping your eyes open. And the 

 more you train yourself to observe the more you 

 will see. 



The man or woman who has trained his or her 

 observation, who is always on the lookout, sees 

 numberless things of beauty, interest, and use, 

 that the untrained observer never sees. 



The unobserving man is the blind man ; the 

 observing man is the seeing man, and, as a rule, 

 the thinking and interesting man into the 

 bargain. 



