may mention Lemon Pod Wax Bean. Am¬ 
ber Cream Corn, American Wonder Pea, 
Eclipse Beet, Lackawanna Cauliflower, 
Early Favorite, Berkshire Beauty and 
Early Bleichfield Cabbage, La Plume 
Chestnut Celery, Nest Egg Gourd, Black 
Seeded Simpson Lettuce, Bay View, Netted 
Gem and Montreal Green Nutmeg Musk 
Melon, Boss and Japan Sculptured-Seeded 
Water Melon, Southport Yellow Globe 
Onion, Golden Dawn Mango, Essex Hybrid 
Squash, Livingston’s Perfection and Fa¬ 
vorite Tomatoes, New Egg Turnip and 
Brill’s American Yellow Rutabaga. 
This season we shall add a new sweet 
corn, Rose’s Improved Evergreen, two new 
Bush Beans, the Golden Prize and Canadian 
Wonder, a new Pole Bean, the Golden But¬ 
ter, three new Peas, Telephone, Stratagem, 
and Pride of the Market, and a new Musk 
Melon, the Banana. Others may be added 
before Spring but the above are the most 
decided acquisitions which have come to 
to our notice within the year so far as we 
can judge. We hope our patrons will give 
all of these a trial on a small scale, and re¬ 
port the result for publication in Seed- 
Time and Harvest. 
- - - 
How Farmers Keep Poultry. 
This is a small matter to most farmers, 
but it would repay them if they would 
take more care of their fowls. They let 
them sleep out in the cold winds on trees, 
etc., and they have to steal their feed. 
Then they say poultry does not pay; they 
do not lay! It is no wonder they do not 
lay the way they are kept. The feeding- 
lias much to do with making poultry pav. 
The time of feeding should be regular. 
Certain hours should be fixed upon for 
that purpose. But there are very few 
breeders who thus system tticaiiy feed their 
fowls. In cold weather they shod 1 be fed 
on warhi feed in the morning and evenintr 
Whole com and a change of grains oc¬ 
casionally, and fresh and clean water 
should be kept in presence of poultry at all 
times. The roosting place should be warm, 
and the small leaks here and there are not 
regarded a dangerous matter by the av¬ 
erage breeder. The prevention of damp¬ 
ness in the house avoids roup which is 
terrible scourge in a flock. Even the con¬ 
struction of the roosts has more or less- 
tendency to affect profits. The roosts 
should be level. These things are seeming T 
ly small matters which are usually overe 
looked, but they are important to success 
When fowls are fed sparingly, being kept 
short, they become an expense; for there is 
no stock that pays so poorly if neglected,, 
or as well if extra care is taken of them.. 
Why poultry should be expected to prove 
profitable without more care than other 
stock is what I do not understand; and 
the fact that a profit is often deiived from 
a flock that has been neglected is a strong 
proof that poultry raising can be made to 
pa}'- well when conducted by thoughtful, 
attentive persons. J. B. G. 
Leacock, ra. 
§mk (ikntepp. 
Edited by Frank S. Finn. 
-o- 
All Communications intended for this . 
Department shoud be addressed to Frank 
S. Finn, Box 50, Bryant's Pond, Maine . 
Answers and original contributions solic¬ 
ited from all. 
Answers to November Garnerings. 
-‘'November take flail 
19.- 
Set ships no more sail.” 
20.—P A G A N 
MAGIC 
S ETON 
DEVIL 
R E P A 
21 . 
-Z 
E 
P 
H 
Y 
R 
ES T 
a s E 
A L M 
EL P 
OR E 
E A R. 
22.— C O N D O R 
ONION 
C E 
E 
N I 
I) O 
O N 
R 
24 . — Thanksgiving. 
23.- Q 
GUN 
GROAT 
QUO N D A M; 
NADIR 
T A R 
M 
25.—Bean, Peach, Apricot, Plum, Apple, Pear,. 
Melon, Tomato, Potato, Beet, Peas, Okra, Com, 
Grape, Radish. Kale. Currant, Date, Fig, Turnip, Or¬ 
ange, Carrot, Parsnip, Lemon, Salsify, Pepper, Cil¬ 
ery, Peanut, Egg Plant. Onion, Endive. 
11 his was the proposer's answer, although many 
“vise heads found everal more that were perfectly 
allowable. The more they found the more they were 
credited with, as they were not aware of the exact 
number required, or what Lamp’s solution was.] 
Answers to November skeins were received from 
Ruthven, Cassbet, Undine, Lulu Butler, B. M. H., 
Jeane, John F. Merriam, Kuri O. Sity, N. L, Van 
Deusen, A Pelton, Mrs. M.,D., McNaughton, Yolney 
