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Those who are out for . and such a road as would , Feds of niles. runing east and west for the is local, 'and the railroads ad. would - require 'millions to leading copnty roads, it would} every farmer would have a ld also's serve as an jncentive to er 'and it is to be hoped that tly of spagiding millions on a efit to them as a whole, and here the greatest number can bintics in Outatio have refused Shoot to build county oads which Made. Farier: "to His Don. Whitby, Ontario, March 20, 1912 To Jomes Tompkins, Pott Perry, Ont. Dear Jim-- Your Ma and me arrived at your Aunt Kate's all right, but the old lady near had a fit at seeing us so far away from home TOGETHER. Not 'that she wasn't mighty tickled to see us and all that (she made 'as much fuss over us as a 'robin does over one of the little fellows that's tumbled 'out of the nest), but she had: got:it as a settled idea that 'we never travelled, I guess that idea'll get pretty badly shook up before the summer's over. 'Well your Ma and' Aunt: Kate 'a great confab, hadn't seen' 'each other for nigh onto fifteen year, and they went at it as if they had to make up for lost time, So I'left them talking there while 1 looked around town, Whitby's prospects is looking up these days what with. having the | jail apd the asylum and the poorhouse and the County Council. Naturally 1 wasn't interested. in any of these things but the County Council and that wasn't sitting just then. | So I hunted up my. young friend Hare in the Department of Agriculture offices... We had a 'great talk about old times. Of course I did all the talking and he did all the listening 'and "we had a 'grand time: Finally when. I kind of run down, he said a few things quiet like that set me doing the listening. "I dign't rightly .take notice' of 'what he was saying at first (my left ear ain't as good as it used to be and he was son that side, so 1 shifted my chair), but as soon as 1 got track 1 heard him saying that he believed the hens on most farms don't : pay for their keep. Now you know we've got a pretty good flock of Plymouth Rocks of the the best kind, and they lay a lot of eggs in the summer time, and I'm free to confess that about Christmas they takes holidays, ' Now I've always figgered out that them Hens paid me all right, though I ain't' got '10 books kept to prove it. That's where this man Hare had me beat. He had figgers for everything and could tell to a cent what the profits was on a flock of hens. Said be bad a demonstration hen house at Mrs, Sandford Brown's a piece out of town, and he invited me to go and see for myself, so we gog into the cutter and drove out to see this great henhouse. My, but it ain't a patch to the big one we have at home. It's only 10 ft x 12,7 ft high in front and 4 1-2 ft high at the back. The whole cost of the thing was only | $30 and it holds thirty hens. If you'd asked me on the quiet what 1 thought of the contraption, 1 shotid/have told you that it was a mighty poor affair 10 house thirty decent hens, and that ten chances to one the hens would Why the house. has the funniest 'front--2 ft. from the ground. is Et Lcd as of the