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THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
Jaxvany 18, 1906 
Mahogany; black and white—secondaries 
Flights ditto, but more white ; ; 
True tail feathers white, or black and white 
Coverts black, edged with mahogany and 
white tips 
Color of Jubilee Orpington Hen 
Head and neck to match male bird, allowing 
for difference in size ey 
Body, breast and back—Mahogany, with black _ 
spangles and white tips, the shaft mahogany of 
same shade as feather. The three colours well 
broken and showing in equal proportions, avoid- 
ing a ticked effect on one hand and a blotchy 
effect on the other; the effect to be uniform 
throughout the bird 
Wings, as body, with flights as in cock 
Tail to follow the cock 
Thighs and fluff to follow the breast 
Value of points. 
Head - - 10 
Colour - - 35 
Condition - - 15 
Legs and feet - 10 
Size and shape - 39 
100 
|Color of Spangled Orpingtons. 
In both sexes beak black or black and white 
> Eyes brown 
Comb, face, ear lobes and wattles red 
Feet and shanks black and white, mottled as 
evenly as possible 
Toenails white 
Flesh and skin white 
_., The male bird: neck hackles, black with white 
Ips ; 
Saddle hackles ditto 
Breast, black’ with white tips, the two colors 
showing in equal proportion avoiding a ticked 
effect on the one hand anda blotchy effect on the 
other 
Wingbow same as back 
Wingbar black’ : 
Secondaries black and white 
Flights ditto, but more white 
Sickles black with white tips 
Coverts ditto 
True tail feathers black, with white tips 
Thigns and fluff black ditto x 
Hen, head and neck ditto 
Body, breast and back, same as the breast of 
the male bird, the effect to be uniform through- 
out 
Wings as body, with flights as in male bird 
Tai] as in male bird 
Thighs and fluff as in ditto 
Value of points. 
Head - - 10 
Color - - - 35 
Condition - - 15 
Legs and feet - - 10 
Type and size - 30 
100 
Defects. 
Feathers on legs, long legs, poor shape, much 
white in lobes 
H. WARD, | 
BOOTMAKER . 
Rundle Street, Kent Town 
Pager Repairs a Speciality 
_ things there, too. 
.. he manages to live, and ° 
sunshine again; Sometimes he does. not, and « 
= Poultry and Orchard. 
Tux advantages. to Le obtained. in growing 
poultry near orchards are better seen than 
imagined. In going about over the west, it is 
observed that such orchards could be made much 
more prolific and profitable if their owners 
would doas this subscriber has done. Being 
—able to have frnit'to “sell when others do not 
have it, is a good thing. 
When we began setting out fruit trees in an 
early day in one of the prairie states, we set out 
some wild goose plum trees. ‘These trees never 
bore fruit. They have plenty cf bloom, but 
soon the plums would drop off. At that time 
we observed that the young plum trees. wera 
stung with an insect. We did not then know 
what it was, and they would drop off. We 
conceived the idea of mrking a poultry yard near 
those trees on the hypothesis that they were no 
good, and it did not matter much if they were 
killed. To our surprize, the firat year after we 
made the change we had a large crop of plums, 
To this day the same trees are bearing pro- 
fitable crops of plums. The fowls are always 
busy scratching under them, and they find 
Afew yearslater it was our privilege to lay 
out another poultry yard in an apple orchard. 
We had never sprayed out trees up to that 
time, but about the time spraying came into 
use, we putin a large flock of chickens, Our 
Tuit was much better in quality by reason of it. 
and the orchard seemed to be all tho better in 
quality by the introducing of a flock of hens and 
their ever-searching little ones: Should a 
wormy apple fall off, the hens were busy turn- 
ing that apple over until they could get a 
glimpse of the worm, and failing that, they 
would pick it to pieces and obtain what they 
wanted, if it was there. 
Many people engage in the business of 
poultry alone, who may as well run to small 
fruit as to let the land go without bringing in 
a return of this kind. Others are trying to 
raise fruit who would not have a chicken on the 
place. The facts are that no two businesses 
can be so easily blended as these. One is a help 
to the other, and the profit can be augmented 
quite materially on account of it.—The Home- 
stead. 
ee ——— 
The Sun in Sickness. 
000 
Dip you ever notice that when animals are 
sick and tired they seek a sunny place to lic 
down! The uncivilised races of men do the 
same. Savages and animals alike lie down in 
the sun when they are sick or fatigued. It is 
instinct that prompts them to do this. They 
know nothing of the colour of the sun’s rays, 
nothing as to the size of the sun, or its distance 
from the earth, or the revolution of the earth 
around the sun. They ara simply led by an 
unerring instinct of nature to seek the sun for 
healing. ‘hey lie in the sun, bask in it, and 
its potent rays penetrate every tissue and fibre 
of their bodies, bringing to them a soothing 
eat, a calming nervine, and the real elixir of 
e. 
Did you ever notice what civilised man does 
when he is sick or tired? He goes into a house, 
into an unwholesome room, no sunlight, no 
fresh air. ~ If he must have heat, he gets arti- 
ficial heat. He saturates every. tissue and fibre 
of his body, not with the rays of the sun, but 
with poisonous drugs. The whole’ atmosphere 
about him is depressing and. ruinous both to 
mind and body, Sometimes, in spite of it all 
get cut in the air and 
the undertaker comes, 
Instinct in some casas is better than civili- 
satioi. Iustinct teaches the. savage and the 
animal that the main sources of: life are sun- 
shine and fresh air, that both are necessary to 
maintain life or to restore health So the 
animal and the savage have sense enough, in- 
stinct enough, to stay outdoors in the sunlight 
and fresh air, while civilised man shuts himself 
up in aclose, darkened room, away from the 
very elements that wiuld heal him. 
Setting Hens. 
To be really suscessful one must begin further 
back than the mere act of putting the eggs 
under the hen, which means the purchasing of 
eggs from a reliable breeder of stock of known 
vigour and worth, for the chic, like members of 
the human faunily, has the right to be well born 
and should be given that right by proceeding as 
above. ; 
After we have made things ready for the re- 
ception of the hen, who should haye been left 
for three days on the nest to prove her good in- 
tentions, we remove her after dark to the nest 
prepared as follows: Ina box about 12 x 14 x20 
inches we have turned.on its side we place a 
shovelful of moist. earth, loam prefer red, in 
which has been mixed a small shovelful of coal 
ashes, and on this the nest material of straw 
without grain in it, shaping so not to leave too 
flat, neither so deep as to hinder the hen in 
turning the eggs—the form of asaucer 1s about 
right—and over all we sprinkle a good supply of 
lice powder. Thisdone, we dust biddy freely 
with the same and consign her to her three 
weeks of lonesomeness. Have your nest room 
in a quiet spot sheltered and not too light, pro- 
vide a dust bath, good sound grain and fresh 
water. daily and twice during incubation dust the 
hen freely, and you may be assured of a good 
hatch, : 
It is usual with us to set two or more hens at 
one time, as in so doing if the weather be such 
as to permit two broods may be given the one 
hen to mother, and the other hen returned. to 
the yards and other duties. Eggs should be 
tested at theend of ten days and all infertile 
ones renoved, thus giving more room to the fer- 
tile ones and jessening the chances of nest soil- 
ing by broken eggs, Should this nappen at any 
time, and it does frequently where ions are used, 
take a basin of warm water and wash the eggs, 
dry carefully and return to the nest prepared 
with clean straw and no harm has been done. 
Tt will do no harm to confine the hen to the 
nest the first day bya screen in front of the nest 
and removing this the second morning, giving 
the hen a chance at feed and water, by which 
time in usual cases'she will be true to her trust. 
GRIFFITHS BROS. 
—TRAS | 
SATISFY 
49 Rundle St., Adelaide, 
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MELBOURNE and SYDNEY. 
