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@RPoufiry? : «Aâ€"« â€" |a bac Artifdcial Hght in the hen house is not a new idea. Early in the nineâ€" teenth century Spauish farmers tried lanternâ€"light to increas»> egg producâ€" tion, an American writer found by digging into an old Spanish book on poultry keeping. Peel, airâ€"dry and paint the lower ends of wood fenceâ€"posts with two coats of hot creosote and get from three to six years more life from them. Dipping in the creosote is better, but will cost more. A good producing hen will have a waxy skin on the face and the eye will show femininity and character. An age of from five to six and a half months is about right for.laying. The active busy hens have the laying temâ€" perament. The hens should hold the pigment, showing that they are reâ€" ceiving plenty of feed and do not have to draw on their reserves to produce the egg',-â€"x. 1 goea broody. The fourâ€"finger spread means that the ovary of the hen is functioning. The twoâ€"finger spread indicates the bird is not laying, but may produce later. Some crowâ€"headed birds will lay at a profit, while others lack conâ€" stitutiomal vigor. The skull of a good layer is flat on top when the bird is viewed from the front. Hens with masculine heads shou‘d be culled out. Good layers are flatâ€"backed, with deep, flat ribs and they are close feathered. The close feathered birds are apt to be late moulters. A hen may moult a primary feather for each broody period. Up to September first you can count the new feathers and determine the times the hen has been‘ broody. | Crowâ€"headed birds may be caused by close breeding, overâ€"crowding, or poor feeding. They throw slow feathâ€" ering chicks, which means low winter production. That means low annual production. _ Overâ€"refined birds lose weight rapidly, they often lay profitâ€" ably, but mature too early. An earlyâ€" maturing Barred Rock pulet at the college plant began laying when a litâ€" tle over three months old. The first sixty eggs sho produced were without market value and weighed about an ounce each. i Cold weather is not a handicap to egg production as it stimulates the apâ€" petite and a hen, to lay heavily, must be a heavy feeder. Endurance is necâ€" essary to stand up under the heavy feeding and make a good record for the year. The average hen of the heavy breeds goes broody four times per year and some may go broody nine times. A hen loses twenty days, or about a dozen eggs, every time she| closely together. The space taken up by the tongne of a mower will very easily accommodate a grain drill and a hay rake. The boits holding the tongues in place can be replaced in their respective places, the nuts turnâ€" ed on loosely and a tag, labelling from a space which might well accommodate three to four if they were properly stored. It isn‘t much of a job to reâ€" move the tongue from a mower or a grain drill and then move them up In these days of highâ€"priced buildâ€" Ing materia! it might not be advisable to rush head‘ong into the construction of an elaborate implement shed, alâ€" though it might very we.. prove a proâ€" fitable investment if there is very much machinery to be housed. But there are a great many places where farm machinery can be sheitered if Just a little thought and consideration Is given to the problem. Very few barns are so designed that there is absolutely no waste space. Much of this waste space might be utilized for machinery storage. A litâ€" tle work in preparing the machinery for storage may be necessary, but much can be done along this line. Aisles and aleyways in barns and granaries are often used for storing a grain drill or a mowing machine. a grain dri.l or a mowing machine. Perhaps only one machine is stored in by N the use the widow of twentyâ€"fourâ€" for $99; a which had s vice brought Efficient Farming That machine had never beon allowâ€" ed to stand around in the field or in the barnyard. It had a‘:ways been kent under cover. SHELTER KEEPS TOOLS FIT. A story recently fi.tered in of an auction sale when a grain drill which had been in use for thirty years so.d Zor $41.â€" A neighbor of the family o.ding the sale bought the drill. He had used it and knew that it was weli worth the money. When adding medicine to the drinkâ€" ingâ€"water for hens, do rot use metal vessels unless they are agate or porâ€" celain lined. _ Earthenware water dishes are cheap and always preferâ€" able. Several hundred morbid specimens of pou‘try, animals, plants and misâ€" cellaneous samples such as milk, cheese, butter, bee combs, preserves, soils, silage, etc., were received by the Department and reported on. Eightyâ€" five samples of farm well water were examined of which seventy were conâ€" demned for pollution. During 1924 the Bacteriology Dept. sent out to farmer applicants legume seed inoculations to the amount of 6,458. Lactic culture starters to the amount of 189 were sent out to creameries. College. The Bacteriology Dept. of the Onâ€" tario Agricultural College offers full service to the farmers of Ontario durâ€" ing 1925. batauidies â€" aniiih s .o dth.... c h diith sA â€" 1 d 1 i 111 C019 | ;n :A};e.elarly months of the past ye:r; memian& T i% a bacterial preparation was put on the: ‘market by a Toronto firm. pExtrava-! mmm.AGMNST Fike: gant claims were made regarding the! Just why a little more care is not benefits to be derived from the use of. given to deeds, mortgages, contracts, this preparations as a crop improver, abstracts, notes and returned cheques, when apptied to the soil. Requests is hard for me to figure out. The very from farmers, agricultural represenâ€" least every farmer ought to do is to tatives and newspaper publishers were *"°25® each and every. valuable dook received asking for an opinion regardâ€"| "*"t separately in &A stout man_lla ing the claims made. In order to comâ€"| envelope and 'wrlte on the out'md.e ply with these requests it was necesâ€" what 1t cqntmns.. Of course, this is sary for the Bacteriology Dept. of the‘ "° precaution against fire or theft, but 0. A. College to make a bacteriological| it d?es enable ot.her members of the 'and chemical analysis of a sample of : fa'ml.ly to reeognize at a glance that the preparation. This was done, with this is no pager to be burned at houseâ€" the following findings: Chemical tests cleaning tin"ne. r & showed no ammonia, no nitrite and: _ 2Ctte" Still is a tin box that rats | no nitrate present. Bacterial cultures and.mlce can not invade. Any kind on various solid media showed various of tin box with lid will do, but it is decomposition bacteria and moulds to W€!! t0 have some airâ€"holes in the “d‘ be numerous; nitrifying bacteria, 60 prevent ratistiness in damp ’weather.; none; nitrogen fixing bacteria, none.| Such boxes are made especially for| Chemical tests of cultures made in the, legal papers. | necessary specific liquid culture media | SAFETY DEPOSIT BoXEsS. I showed ammonification as a result of The best plan of all is to put your| the action of the decomposition bacâ€". papers in your own safety deposit teria but no nitrite nor nitrate formaâ€" box at the bank, along with your] tion nor any nitrogen fixation even bonds and securities. Even if you| after six weeks‘ cultivation. In adâ€" have no bonds, it pays to put your| dition to the laboratory, test which legal documents in a safe box at the was anything but favorable to the preâ€" bank. Your will, and every farmer| paration, plot tests were conducted at should make a will, should also be in | the Vineland Experiment Station on this box. When you want to transact| some crop plots. The report from business you know exactly where to: these tests at Vineland shows that go for your papers. | plots receiving no treatment did as, If fire consumes your dwelling, andi well as those that were treated. few country houses are ever saved if | Farmers are advised to leave all they catch fire, you will not have to "wonder working preparations" for worry about your documents. If some‘ soil treatment alone and to keep gheir emergency makes it necessary to borâ€" money in their pockets until values row money on real estate you can lay are demonstrated by the Agricultural your hands on your abstract at onee.! College. , _Don‘t put it off. Begin toâ€"day to Apply to Ontario Agricultural lLet us use more of this space on which we are paying interest and rent. We pay for the space whether we use it or not, and that space can be made to return good dividends in longer life and more efficiency in our farm equipâ€" ment. Few of us ever get out of a farm implement all of the value that the manufacturer builds into it. We can easily get fifty per cent. thore with just about two per cent. extra effort. That‘s certainly worth while. in hot linseed oid for several hours. He painted the tongues and doubleâ€" trces with hot oil and stored them among the rafters in his shop. His equipment was like new. The wagon boxes were given an annual scrubbing and a coat of varnish, and one old wagon that he had used for nineteen years still bore the name of the wagon and the dealer from whom he had purâ€" chased it. The wagon would have brought considerably more than he gave for it nineteen years before. It was worth more, and just a little care and shelter had made that possible. And the shelter had been nothing more than a utilization of waste space in several of the farm buildings. | He took all of his wagons apart once a year and soaked the felloes and hubs I reca.l a visit I made to a farmer at one time. This man had no real implement shed, but he took nearly all of his machinery apart every winter and gave it a thorough overhauling and a coat of paint. He found it much easier to paint the various parts than to paint the machine intact, and he was using old machinery which his father had used years before. | It is much easier to keep bolts and nuts drawn up tight if the implements are taken apart occasionally, for in this way one will encounter the loose bo‘ts, whereas, if the machines are never given an inspection, boilts will drop out completely and become lost and sooner or later make their lack kncwn by a serious smashâ€"up. Wagons which are not going to be used during the winter months can be just as readily stored by dissembling. The boxes can be swung up overhead in the barn and the removal of a bolt or two will take the running gears all apart. It‘s just a nice rainy day job to take a wagon apart, grease the skeins and put the parts away, and it will be we.l worth the time, for many wagons which would be stored away in a dry place if taken apart are left out in the weather all winter long simply because there isn‘t space for them under a roof. 3 which machine the tongue has been taken, slipped over a bo‘!tâ€"head. The tongues may then be placed against the wall or stored up among the raftâ€" ers, completey out of the way. ertility at $100 a Barrel. Whether one lives in a plain frame house or a more pretentious dwe‘ling, ke can have a very attractive home by planting the grounds with either flowâ€" ers, shrubs or trees, or a combination of these. Nor does one need a large property to get good effects so long as he has a bit of ground a few rods in extent and sunlight four or more hours in the day. No one questions the advantage§ of a well planted home and fow are satisfied with a bare unâ€" attractive property, but the planting season goes by year by year and noâ€" thing is done to make improvement. When the summer arrives and one‘s neighbors have fine shows of flowers, admired alike by themseives and those who stop to take a peep, it is as useâ€" less to regret one‘s oversight as if a selling crop had been omitted in thei planting. ‘The planting has to be done in spring or fall to get resuits desired. If fire consumes your dweliling, and few country houses are ever saved if they catch fire, you will not have to worry about your documents. If some emergency makes it necessary to borâ€" row money on real estate you can lay your hands on your abstract at onee. The best plan of all is to put your papers in your own safety deposit box at the bank, along with your bonds and secuxities. Even if you have no bonds, it pays to put your legal documents in a safe box at the bank. Your will, and every farmer should make a will, should also be in this box. When you want to transact business you know exactly where to go for your papers. l and mice can not invade. Any kind of tin box with lid will do, but it is well to have some airâ€"holes in the 1id to prevent mustiness in damp weather. Such boxes are made especially for legal papers. The abstracter was an elderly man with failing eyesight and it was alâ€" most impossible to erase enough of the tobacco to make it readabie. Even a younger man could hardly have peered through the dirt to get the right meaning. There are people who come in with ratâ€"chewed, rainâ€"beaten, pocketâ€"soiled, tattered legal documents, and unblushâ€" ingly spread them out for people, whose time is valuable, to decipher. One client took from a dirty pocket a tobaccoâ€"stained document and without apology thrust it into the hands of the abstracter. From the delay, he and Mary must have been on a par about knowledge of their possessions, for it was not to be found and a new one had to be made in a hurry. A valuable docuâ€" ment costing perhaps $50 had been mislaid hopelessly. A farmer who is rated as more than ordinarily intelligent and progressive came into my office to talk over getâ€" ting a loan. He was buying an adjoinâ€" ing farm and needed a few thousand dollars. As he was in a hurry for the money, my first question was as to his abstract of title. He scratched his head in despair. "It‘s somewhere about home, but where?" was his ejaculation. "Blamed if I know. I‘ll ask Mary." 1 Some persons, it must be admitted, Miss Christabel Pankhurst, of London, internationally known orator and Bible lecturer, is now in New York, which is her first stop in an American and Canadian tour. WHERE TO KEEP VALUABLE PAPERS ORNAMENTING THE HOME GROUNDS al reach a conclusion quickly and act| In announcing the transfer of this under the impulse, and their homes : plant to private ownership, Mr. J. A. usually show the result by effective, Ruddick, the Dairy and Cold Storage decorative pianting. Most of us, on | Commissioner, stated that the station the other hand, must think the matter| from the beginning to the end has cost over before taking action. It is at the country not a single cent and its this season one has time to reflect and final disposal leaves a balance to the to plan for the planting, whether it be; good. The accounting during all these grain in the fields, vegetable seeds in years has charged the institution with the garden, or ornamentals for home all expenditure, including the price embellishment. In a broad sense ornaâ€" paid for the two old factories, the mental planting is as important as the‘ compensation to another factory in others. Not only does it add value the neighborhood that was closed, and to the property far in excess of the‘ every item of expense on both capital cost, but it tends to the enjoyment of and maintenance account either for a fuller life, for who does not enjoy, ordinary operation or for experimentâ€" beauty for itse‘f nor respond in emoâ€"| al work. ‘ tion to the commendation of admiring] The factory began in 1912 with the friends? This is the season for the| making of cheese principally, with n1 study of theshorticultural reports and| smail amount of butter. The following bulletins for a knowledge of plants,| year a beginning was made in the shrubs and trees, and of the nurseryâ€"| selling of cream and a little later men‘s catalogue to find out when and! milk also was so‘d. The receipts of how the best things may be obtained.‘ mi‘k the first year amounted to i The dirty egg is more or less an outcast, with no hope of improving its status. No matter how fresh and atâ€" tractive it may be in other respects, it is in bad repute with the local buyer, and the stigma holds fast all along the line. ! _ The factor of heredity must be recâ€" | ognized, and only by intelligent breedâ€" |ing along systematic lines can quality ibe maintained. The standard of utilâ€" |ity is demanded, and to this supreme |test must all classes of stock be | brought. Nothing else will do or enâ€" ,dure. No matter how choice the breedâ€" |ing, it will be of little worth unless backed by utility. This alone can deâ€" termine the value of blood. Many a | flock of hens condemned by the breedâ€" er would pay a good profit if given a , chance. Utility covers the breeder as | well as the breed. Constitutional vigor is the natural inheritance of all fow!s, unless they have been enfeebled by injudicious breedimg. Constitutional vigor may be maintained by selecting the strongâ€" est, healthiest and hardiest birds for breeders in spring, and by killing off the weak and sickly in the fall. Fresh blood, frequently introduced, keeps up stamina, health and vigor, and enables the birds to resist sickness and sudâ€" den changes of weather much better than fowls injudiciously bred. 1 put everything in a safe place. Someâ€" body may have to settle up your estate and you want to make it as easy as possible for your widow and children in that case. Get together your inâ€" surance policies, contracts, notes, mortgages, accounts, bonds, abstracts, deeds and all other valuable papers and make them safe. You will never regret it, and you may be thankful all the rest of your life for the few minutes‘ work.â€"H. B. | A Demand for Small Cheese Fowls Must Be Rugged. TORONTO The Finch Dairy Station, owned by the Dominion Dept. of Agriculture and operated under the direction of | the Dairy Commissioner, has been disâ€" posed of and will no longer be operâ€" ated as a government factory. This | station, acquired in 1912, it is believed has fulfiled its mission of demonâ€" ‘strating the advantages of a wellâ€" conducted factory, equipped to take advantage of the best market for | cheose, butter, milk and cream. Durâ€" ing its years of operation many exâ€" periments and investigations relating to the manufacture of butter and 'cheese were garried out. New proâ€" cesses and appliances were démonâ€" strated and the dairying industry of the district in which it was simted{ has been greatly improved. The factory began in 1912 with the the ico was a foot thick. Before they making of cheese principally, with a| had their stories all told, they had smaill amount of butter. The fol‘lowing'ltorcd~ away ice enough to last all year a beginning was made in the summer. They chose a very good selling of cream and a little later time for their picnic; but picnics are milk also was so‘d. The receipts of in order most any time of the year, mi‘k the first year amounted to aif we set out about it 1 Vs. 5, 6. A disciple who holds to Christ produces great results in serâ€" vice, because Jesus is the source of "all power." We must think of our work as his work, and not forget him in the plans we make for self. Otherâ€" wise, failure and everlasting loss. V. 3. This has already happened in the case of the disciple. "You are alâ€" ready cleansed or purified," the Masâ€" ter says, "through the word which I have spoken to you." In other words, Jesus, by his solemn teaching regardâ€" ing the cross and the spiritual nature of the kingdom, has smitten to earth all their worldly hopes and expectaâ€" tions. Pride and selfâ€"seeking have had to go, but only that a new holy life may spring up in their hearts. V. 2. If a branch or tendril of the vine is absolutely fruitless, there is nothing for it but to cut it entirely off. So Judas, for example, had to be dealt with. But even fruitâ€"bearing branches need constant pruning in order to produce better results. And so loyal disciples of Jesus must exâ€" pect discipline, purification, the loss of some things in order to gain other and more excellent things. on earth. God is the keeper of the vine. ‘ He is watching over the success of his great new experiment in rightâ€" eousness. , . spomen these words of warning and In the Old Testament the figure of encouragement in order that his folâ€" the vine is often used to picture the lowers may possess the same delight special relation of Israel to God. Israel in the Father‘s will as he does. To is a vineâ€"shoot which God has brought experience the joy of a task wv'must from Egypt, and planted in the Holy Pulk:â€" s bat) EZEYPL A work at it, and so it will be in Christ‘s Land for his own gracious PUrPOSES;, goyyice, Jesus does not wish his disâ€" Psalm 80:8â€"19. Israel is God‘s experiâ€" °;. 5 j E ciples to face the tasks of life with ment in producing the fruits of s 1 s o something less than love, joy, and righteousness on earth, Isaiah 5:1â€"7; peace in their hearts. He wishes them Jer. 2:21, etc. But now, as we ste bY io be endowed to the fullest extent the present lesson, the old Israel has with the best that God can give. Well, S:"“ place to the new Isracl. The they must keep his own supreme exâ€" urch of Jesus is the true Israel, the ample of love before them. This a‘one true vine of God. God has transferred wilrr keep them tonedâ€"up and efficient fls in Pe . es OEAUInC the for that which life shail ask of them. earth with the fruits of rightcousness. * I. THE vrrat RELATION BErwEen Jesus _ Vs. 13â€"17. For what love can comâ€" s pare with Christ‘s in giving his life AND HIS CHURCH, 1â€"6. for men? He has done evervthing for V. 1. Jesus, not in himself alone, but his disciples, and so shown them to be in union with his followers, is "the his "friends." Therefore, he depends true vine" of God. The word "true" utterly on their understanding and means that the old Isracl possessed their sympathy. He has not treated only the semblance or shadow of the them as "servants." who must be tn‘d real fruitfulness implied in the conâ€" evervthin@ that thevy are to do. He certion "vine of God." Jesus and his expects them as friends, trusted confiâ€" followers, who are the true subjects dants, to know their Master‘s will, and of the lovinmffavor of God, represent to make themselves responsib‘e for its the real faithfuiness which God seeks execution on earth Let them remâ€" on earth. God is the keeper of the ember, finally, that their strenpth is vine. ‘ He is watching over the success not in their choice of him. but in his of his great new experiment in rightâ€" choice of them. He has chosen them eousness., to produce results which. but for their V. 2. If a branch or tendril of the fidelity. conld never come into being. vine is absolutely fruitless, there is This should be a solemn thought in gothi'ng‘z‘ for i‘t but to cut it entirely off. all future days. In Matthew 28:18â€"21 the last comâ€" mission of Jesus to his disciples is given in the words:; "All power is given unto me, in heaven and in earth. Go ye, therefore, and teach all naâ€" tions . . . teaehing them to observe all the things whatsover I have com manded you, and, lo, I am with you alway even until the enc of the world." We may take the present allegory of the Vine and the Branches as unfolding to us what is involved in that commission. 4 INTRODUCTION â€"Jesus, â€" continuing his great discourse in the Upper Room. now explains what is meant by his eturnal presence with his people. He employs the parable, or rather the allegory of a vine and its branches, and says that his true followers will be to him what the branches or tenâ€" dri‘s of the vine are to the main siock. He will live in his faithful discip.ecs, and they will live in him. Aill their power, their capacity for service, their success will flow to them from him. As we might say, using modern language, the Church stands in organic relation to the living Lord. ANALYSI@ Souéle that .::e cgnwwb:'tll: Christ‘ are I. THE VITAL RELATION BETWEEN JESUS8 NO better than the rubbish of a vineâ€" AND HIS CHURCH, 1â€"6. t,hy“d' :‘:hb "h’c.'t' people can do noâ€" C ng but burn it. IL the reruiTs or THis ReLATION, 7â€"11 11, 'rxxu Fauns OP CHRISTIAN LIFE, 7â€"11. INTRODUCTION â€"Jesus, continuing _ V. 7. Abiding in Christ means letâ€" his great discourse in the Upper ting Christ‘s teaching have its proper Room. now explains what is meant by pace in our life. When we do so, it his eternal presence with his people. makes prayer for great things posâ€" He employs the parable, or rather the sibe. Only an obedient, consistent allegory of a vine and its branches, dbcifile can truly Kray for the greatâ€" and says that his true folowers will est things, but such a discipe wi.l alâ€" be to him what the branches or tenâ€" ways be sure of an answer. Thus preâ€" dri‘ls of the vine are to the main siock. vailing prayer is the first fruit of He will live in his faithful discip.cs, result of abiding in Christ. The Sunday School Lesson The Vine and the Branches, John 15: 1â€"27. Golden Text â€"He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringâ€" eth forth much fruit.â€"John 15: 5. FEBRUARY 1 selected was down on the creek, and causes the hogs to sweat badly. There the ice was a foot thlck. _ Before they : 5hould be just enough to keep hogs little over two million pounds. By 1919, almost five and a ha‘lf million pounds had been received, and last year, 1924, no less than 11,318,616 pounds of milk were handled. During the thirteen years of operation the output of the station was 1,519,828 pounds of cheese, 252,382 pounds of butter, 1,343,882 pounds of cream, and 8,525,805 pounds of whole milk. The total amount of money paid to the patrons during this time was $1,â€" 087,240.98. Vs. 13â€"17. For what love can comâ€" pare with Christ‘s in giving his life for men? He has done evervthing for his disciples, and so shown them to be his "friends." Therefore, he depends utter‘ly on their understanding and t}xeir sympathy. He has not treated Vs. 11, 12. Another result will be the joy of the disciples. Christ has spoken these words of warning and encouragement in order that his folâ€" lowers may possess the same delight in the Father‘s will as he does. To experience the joy of a task we must work at it, and so it will be in Christ‘s service. Jesus does not wish his disâ€" ciples to face the tasks of life with something less than love, joy, and peace in their hearts. He wishes them to be endowed to the fullest extent with the best that God can give. Well, they must keep his own supreme exâ€" amrh of love before them. This alone will keep them tonedâ€"un and efficient for that which life shall ask of them. A Serious Poultry Disease. Vs. 8, 9. The next resu‘t will be the consciousness of the Saviour‘s love. The Father in heaven is glorified when the fo.lowers of Jesus give evidence of faithful service, and the love which flows from him to Christ will also descend in blessing on the faithful disciples of Christ. One object of disâ€" ciples will be to maintain an unclouded sense of the love of Christ in the heart. V 10. The disciple will always have this unclouded sense of the Saviour‘s kindness if he observes his commandâ€" ments, that is, if he is earnest, loving, unse‘fish, patient, kind. the the feet are shriveled it shows the the fowl is old. If the body turns greenâ€" the ish and dark, decomposition is under i8 way, finished, gains in we'lght“u; l-io:..n; from piling up. Ahlnfl(unonlnvinghtmdy for the highest market of the year, then sell when ready. After a hog is _ Did you ever see an old bent, rusiy nail lying in the road? Of course vou have. And have you ever stopped to think what trouble it might cause if it is left there? When the road beâ€" comes muddy a vehicle might run over it and turn the point up; the mud will hold it in this position, perhaps a horse may step on it and get it into his foot, lose months of work or posâ€" sibly get lockâ€"jaw and die. Or a child may be walking barefooted and tread upon it, and the injury may provi) fatal, A doctor may be called upon to come quickly to attend to some very sick person, perhaps a member of your own family, and be delayed by the nail getting into his tire, or you may get it into your own tire and have an hour or so of unpleasant work. Turkeys under a year old h black feet. From then on, up to t} years of age, the feet become p and after that they gradually t gray and du‘ll. In squab pigeons the flesh looks whitish, as seen through the skin, but in older birds it becomes more and more purple. Older birds, too, have red feet The flexibility of the windpipe i ducks and geese denotes youth. Wh: the bird is young the windpipe ma easily be squeezed and moved; in 0 birds it is rigid and fixed. The feet and bill of a young goos» are yellow, but if the bird is old its feet and btll will be reddish in color and bristly. If the feet of a dressed goose are not pliable, it indicates th» bird has been dead a long time. The reason why fat birds are better than unfatted is that globules of fat are distributed throughout the musâ€" cles, displacing to a considerable deâ€" gree the moisture found therein. The bu‘k is not only therefore increased, but also when the flesh is cooked the fat does not evaporate to the same extent as water, but, melting, softens the tissues, making it more digestible and finer in flavor. While still young, but fullâ€"grown, the chicken is best suited for food. As it grows old the filesh loses its flavor and increases in toughness. FATTED FLESH ISs DESIRED. There is a marked difference be tween white and dark meat. The forâ€" mer has much less fat, and a corres ponding‘ly large quantity of protein. T»~> dark meat has a much larger proâ€" portion of meat bases, but as these bases are often considered of little value, it is to be seen that the white meat is to be preferred to the dark. Physicians say that of all the meats, pou‘:try meat is the most hea‘thful. But in order that the meat may be more tender, no fowl should be cooked and praced upon the table the same day it is kiled. It will require at least 24 hours for the muscles to re‘ax. The old country way of running out in the barnyard to ki‘l a chicken for dinner, simply because the minister made his appearance a" of a sudden might be well enough for the minister, but not very appetizing for the old folks with poor teeth and an expert know‘edge of what quality is in a carcass. POULTRY A HEALTHFUL ROOD "Just a Nail."