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room in pails; of course, water wich no pres- 
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MAGAZINE 
JANUARY, 1909 
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a 
White Plymouth Rocks excel in the production f # 
of eggs and meat ’ - 
to feed by giving dry wheat bread soaked 
soft and then squeezed dry. When the 
chicks are three days old I mix enough corn- 
meal with water to make a dough and bake 
it hard in a shallow pan. This I break into 
fine pieces and give freely. 
The chicks that are hatched the last of 
July will commence laying the following — 
March and will.continue to lay during the 
spring and summer. I have had twenty- 
five hens, a year and a haif old, lay sixteen 
dozen eggs during January with the ther- 
mometer at or below zero nearly all the time. 
Minnesota. A. V. GARDNER. 
A “ Flower”’ of January 
T IS Thoreau, if I mistake not, who 
reports that he has seen a skunk 
cabbage blooming in January. While the 
great majority of the hoods (which are the 
showy feature) are not attractive in the 
North before March, individual hoods appear 
Skunk cabbage is the first wild “‘flower’’ of the 
year. The-,hoods are often showy in February, 
and sometimes even in January 
in springs or sunny places as early as 
January. 
It is a question when the skunk cabbage 
flowers, but probably the date that should 
be taken for it is the first day on which 
the anthers are hung out, giving evidence 
of containing ripe pollen for the bees. 
New Jersey. M. W. 
