PROPAGATION 
that took the greatest war the world has 
ever known to teach mankind: that babies 
need nature’s food in nature’s quantities. 
How well Nature has provided for all 
of her young babies, both plant and ani- 
mal, none but those who study her meth- 
ods as they are presented to us in a natu- 
ral way can ever know. Of all the sources 
of knowledge, there are none so complete, 
good and reliable as nature’s open book; 
I believe it is the duty of everybody who 
is engaged in the propagation of animals 
or plants to study her lessons well, and, 
after they have learned her ways, to prac- 
tice them to the letter. Her ways some- 
times seem complicated, but, after we 
have found them out, they are simple and 
easy to follow. Of course we can never 
learn all of her secrets, for many of them 
are beyond our comprehension, but we can 
learn all we need to know about the prop- 
agation of animals and plants to make a 
success in any branch that we desire to 
follow. I have seen many people who 
have never been able to read any other 
book but that of nature succeed well in 
raising baby chicks. In fact, it seems to 
me that they succeed better than people 
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