AUG 49 
5S8 
tH t BUBAL HEW-YOBKfiR.' 
for i\)t 
GO AWAY. 
With a bumpy swish and a curded roar, 
Sweet Mary’s Churn goes drumming; 
Young Reuben leans on the low half-door, 
Aud hopes that the butter is coming; 
Then sighs and sighs and drops his eyes— 
What words can his feelings utter? 
“Oh, drop me down in the churn,” hecrles, 
"And make mo Into butter!" 
She rests her hands, and gaging stands 
At sound of his words' vagary; 
Then plies the staff with a lightsome laugh— 
“Oh, go away!” Bays Mary. 
If a maiden’s word means aught, they say, 
The opposite sense Is in it! 
So Reuben finds in her “Go away!” 
A “just come in a minute.” 
“I hope," says he, "I may make so free,” 
With a grin and a nervous Stutter. 
"My answer should be to your ears,’ says she, 
“If I could but leave the butter." 
His arm on the shelf that holds the delf, 
He looks across the dairy; 
“Shall I go to her side? Shall I dare her pride?” 
“Oh, go away! says Mary. 
He takes the hint, and ho takes a kiss, 
With fears and inward quaking; 
She does not take what be takes amiss, 
Nor think it au awful “taking,” 
The heart of the boy is wild with joy; 
He has won her—his bird, his fairy; 
"I’ll go outright for the ring to-nighi!" 
“Oh, go away!” says Mary. 
FARMING FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.— 
NO. 49. 
HENRY STEWART. 
Rearing Poultry. 
Birds are curious animals and fowls are 
birds, so that what is said of fowls will apply 
to birds in general. Fowls are made to fly 
and that they may do this easily their bones 
are very thin and hollow, and they are clothed 
with feathers which are not only very light, 
but have a hollow shaft which we call a quill. 
Some persons think that fowls are able to 
draw all the air out of their hollow bones aud 
quills when they want to fly, aud so make 
themselves lighter. Air has weight, that 
we know, for it has been weighed and 
we koow its weight which is nearly an 
ounce aud-a-quarter for a cubic foot, or a foot 
Sebright Bantams.— Fig. 260. 
In size each way; and a school room, 40 feet 
square and 18 feet high holds about 2,000 
pounds of it. 
But although this is curious it is not so im¬ 
portant to us as to know that a bird has a 
stomach much like that of a cow, that it has 
in fact three if not four stomachs. Every 
girl who has helped to dress a fowl knows that 
it has a crop into which the food passes first. 
This crop corresponds to the paunch of a 
cow. Iudeed some birds, parrots for in¬ 
stance, are thought to chow the cud, as a cow 
or a sheep does, but this is not quite certain. 
After the crop comes a small, narrow, second 
stomach, in which the food is softened and 
partly digested, and then comes the gizzard, 
which is very hard and rough on the inside, 
and this corresponds to the third stomach of 
the cow which is called the maniplies, because 
it has folds or plies or corrugations in shape 
not unlike the folds on a wash board. The 
inner surface of a fowl’s gizzard, in fact, is 
formed almost exactly like the faces of two 
wasb-b >ards which rub one upon another and 
so grind the food between them. To help 
this grinding action the fowl swallows pieces 
of stone and gravel, aud as the gizzard is very 
muscular and strong it very soon reduces 
grain, insects, pieces of bone and hard seeds, 
to a flue pulp. It has been known for a fowl 
to swallow pieces of glass aud earthenware, 
and grind them quite smooth in the gizzard; 
and a silver thimble was once found squeezed 
quite flat in the gizzard of a turkey that- had 
swallowed it. After the food has thus been 
ground in the gizzard it passes into the large 
intestine, and this answer® as the fourth 
stomach, because here the food is digested. 
Now we know why a fowl requires gravel 
and why little chickens, only a day old, will 
begin to pick up Band if they tan get it; and 
we may also know how a young chicken as 
well as an old fowl, will suffer and become 
sick if they have not a supply of sand or gravel. 
Before anything is said about feeding or 
taking care of chickens let us think a little 
about the kinds of fowls which may be best 
to keep. And the first thing that persons, 
young or old, consider when choosing fowls is 
their beauty. A handsome fowl gains many 
friends, indeed it is much the same with fowls 
as with persons; when we see a fine handsome 
person beautifully dressed in silk of gorgeous 
colors, with gold and diamonds, we think 
much more of such a person than of one all 
sun burned and freckled, with very plain 
clothes, and hands bent and hardened by toil; 
and yet this poor person might be far more 
useful In the world than the other. But there 
are some finely dressed fowls sis well as per¬ 
is . • sons, which are as good as they 
are handsome; and it is right to 
choose the beautiful in this world 
when it is known to be useful as 
well, because we take much 
pleasure and enjoyment in having 
beautiful things around us. 
Perhaps the most beautiful fowls 
in existence are the Sebright Ban¬ 
tams Fig. 260, of which there are 
the Golden laced aud the Silver- 
laced. The first is of bright golden 
yellow with a black laced edging 
upon each feather; the other dif¬ 
fers only in having a silvery white 
ground on the plumage with the 
black edging. These beautifu 
little birds which are scarcely 
larger than a pigeon, lay the richest kind of 
eggs and a family of little wee chicks are the 
most beautiful of pets. 
Another beautiful little bird is the White 
Bantam, Fig. 261, which has feathered legs; but 
the quaintest of all this quaint kind of fowls is 
the Japanese Bantam, Fig 262 which has a white 
plumage with a jet black tail. Some of these 
little creatures weigh less than a pound and 
the young chicks are certainly the rarest and 
most curious of all our domestic fowls. The 
bantams are all high spirited and very brave 
birds, and one of the most amusing sights of 
the poultry yard 1 b to witness a little bantam 
chasing out of his neighborhood a rooster 
many times as large as himself and crowing 
his little shrill crow in exultation for his 
victory. 
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LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Uncle Mark:—P lease describe the land 
surrounding Milford, Pa., (opposite Port Jer¬ 
vis, N. Y.,) six miles. Why not let Uncle 
Mark have some badges made for the mem¬ 
bers, and let those who want them send the 
money to U. M., so we could have them all 
alike. I wish to propose a subject for discus 
sion, “The preparation of flower-beds.” 
Yours, truly, Don Folinno. 
[Thanks for the subject suggested. Won’t 
some of the cousins living in the vicinity of 
Milford, Pa., give us a description of the 
country thereabouts ?—U. M.] 
Dear Uncle Mark:— I am going to tell 
you how my watermelon vines are getting 
along. I planted the seed that you so kindly 
sent me in May. I made a little mound and 
planted the seeds around the edge, and then I 
hoed them about twice a week and watered 
them till they were so large I couldn’t hoe 
them any longer. They are nice large viDes, 
and they have two blooms on them now 
But four plants catno up and two of them 
died from the wet weather. I have two 
chickens, and they will come and eat out of 
my hands. I have a large flower garden this 
year. We will have lots of late peaches; our 
earliest peaches were all gone before the 4th 
of July. I am going to set out blackberry 
and raspberry vines this Fall. 
Minnie Palmer. 
Miami Co., Kansas. 
Dear Uncle:—I am not much of a writer 
and will not send a very long letter. My 
egecablea are growing very well this year 
except the watermelon seed you sent. They 
rotted; but I planted two seeds that mother 
gave me and they grew. I have made three 
dollars off of my cabbage plants and am going 
to sell my onions. I will have about half of a 
bushel. Your nephew, 
Madison Co., Ill. Wm. Jackson, Jr. 
White Bantams.— Fig. 261. 
Japanese Bantams.—Fig. 262. 
and pactonny. 
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