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in the flock, for she takes up room and 
consumes feed that might go toward a 
more active hen that would be a good 
layer. 
If one cannot catch the hens readily 
at feeding time, it is best to go to the 
roosts and lift them, one by one, replac¬ 
ing them carefully. This method will 
at once reveal which are the heaviest. 
It will be very little trouble if done in a 
gentle way. It won’t do, however, to 
scare the hens by awkward or rough 
treatment and get the whole house in a 
turmoil. Trap nests are fine things to 
have in helping decide about the heavy 
hens as layers, but if one is a close ob¬ 
server and knows his fowls well, they are 
not necessary. 
Sometimes in testing the hens in this 
manner some may prove extra light in 
weight. It may be best in that case to 
shut these up by themselves, if good hens, 
and feed them a little more heavily than 
the rest of the flock until they have re¬ 
gained their weight. If, however, a hen 
proves to be very light, seemingly weigh¬ 
ing only about as much as the feathers 
would, there is nothing that can be done 
for her. She has the disease called 
“going light,” and the quicker she is 
killed and buried the better. It is fortu¬ 
nate, however, that this trouble is rather 
rare. 
A hen now and then will show at once 
to the eye that she is too fat. Such a 
bird should be disposed of at once, for 
she will not lay, or if she does lay an egg 
now and then, it will be abnormal in 
size, either very small or very large, such 
as one with a double yelk. In taking the 
trouble to learn the relative weight of the 
hens one will know just how to treat 
them.— H. E. Haydock, in The Country 
Gentleman. 
ROSE GROWING IN CALIFORNIA 
I ^HE growing of roses of all varieties 
in commercial quantities has not 
been a great success on the Pacific coast 
during the years that have passed in the 
history of the nursery business. Mul¬ 
tiplied thousands of young plants have 
been bought oi propagators in the 
East, lined out in nursery rows, grown 
a year, then sold to planters; while 
other thousands have been sent to ama¬ 
teur growers directly by mail. The 
transportation charges are usually about 
as much as the original cost of the plants 
and packing; in one case the writer 
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