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Show ery riod Btuff." ain 1 iriil1'8 y0Ur obiein sharpeninji the tato!" he asked, as she woked away with much vigor. y mvCS3'f ?0t ? on the bc,ttm of , 0rter Pared 'n down Got fifty-five minits to wait here, and I'll Kge""n theonm- How'8 tlxat for "Sharp as a razor," he replied, as bo received the knife, felt of its edge and passed it back. "Yes, I guess it will do. You'd better move now. fiate to bother you, but them corns is dreadful." He moved away, followed bv two or three others, and the old lady slipped oft her shoe and stocking, turned her back to the crowd, and began operations. She was through in about twenty minutes and, after replacing her shoe, she bundled her packages together and loudly remarked: re-marked: "There! I feel a hundred dollars better, bet-ter, and 1 11 have half an hourinoro after I git home to help change them hens into the new coop." New York Sun. 4 ( .i0D and Brooding House Ore- IgsofDeepIugratitudem I0 ofHerDiuABhip. TBAT CANNOT SWIM. OP of Hatching Six Thousand Eggs tOne Timeand How it is Tone, IS fun ! jSducksoftheColum. 1 farm wiU not. This farm ii L u J., and is the largest of & n this part of the country. -"ksonthisfarm are divided into 5 p. the breeding flocks and the nl ducklings preparing for market, fa teding flocks have to do is to having done that all responsi-Urir responsi-Urir part ceasyi. The incubator . irooder ls the rest. Year after JacViof these breeding flotks 5 r .itefully selected and bred to-K to-K iththe single idea of making - -d layers. ' .join that a duck in the breed- mints to set, and when recent- irr the proprietor of the farm, i ,k of water in one of the breed-he breed-he ducks had to be driven into 1 lien thev got there were so scared vgot out again, heaping wild asinduck language on the head !r ot for trying to drown them. n it comes to the business of lay-these lay-these ducks are in their element, Jurat five months in the year : respecting, hard working mem- s fjockvfillluyoneeggaday. I TUE BIRDS ARE CLASSIFIED, c jdnckswhichcompose the breed-sat breed-sat the Columbia farm are kept is breeding season in a long, t divided into twelve compart- s: Twelve yards, of which they nra, adjoin the compartments. , divided into twelve tribe3 in facilitate selection and observa-a observa-a duck that falls below Uisstan-iiminated. Uisstan-iiminated. Mr. Burr has been rears experimenting with artifi-bation, artifi-bation, and has finally got it to rhich is nearly perfection. e got the breeding ducks to lay lly and confiue their attention to that one branch of the busi-nert busi-nert thing was to get eggs from !t 6Uitefl 10 tne penfuiiiu pcuu-and pcuu-and habits of life of the incuba-tras incuba-tras found that in order to make shells, the ducks needed to be d with some sort of sea shells aa izer, as it were, for their other Irster shells were tried, but the as an egg with a shell so hard duckling which the incubators batch gave up the straggle to " Df his shell and quietly settled die before he had fairly begun !, Finally, fine, brittle shells, col-1 col-1 n the seashore, were tried, with It of forming an eggshell just 1 hurS enough to give the duck- little healthy exercise when he lis way out under tho genial I of the incubator. , i? I Ihe proper breeding flocks and i'i jptr eggs, the next problem was '" lagement of the incubttors. It Intl absolutely necessary to have control of the regulation of the iture. An incubator house was ii irtly under ground so that the ' snn and the varieties of the cli-rald cli-rald have little effect. Twelve , i)rs. in which are 6,000 eggs, are in this house, quietly and unos-usly unos-usly doing the work of which ie relieved the ducks which laid The incubators are heated by tr. the heat coming from above, rrangeuient has been found to best results. . ' AT THE INCCBAT0KS CAN CO. a ilucli set3 on a nest of eggs jjenn of life begins to grow in valuation takes place through 'os shells and the wafer elimi-"ffl elimi-"ffl inside the shell leaves room embryo ducklings to grow. As ibation proceeds, the brooding nishes from her feathers an oil wers the shell and stops the ton. Mr. Burr has accomplished w results in his incubators by ng the moisture. When the eggs put in there is only one pan of "tin with them, but as the pro-incubation pro-incubation proceeds other pan ' nntil the hot, dry air which ' the incubator has been re-''a re-''a moist atmosphere, in which to is almost impossible. 1 jso found that as ducklings I 1 "ie eggs a large amount of wt was generated. This ren- 1 necessary to diminish the ex-, ex-, 'Plication of heat, and now the ' "f.twoof the hatching is done Mirely by the heat furnished by s"ug3 themselves. The incn- J(tfpt at a temperature of 102 the first twelve or fourteen ! ter that slight variations in I f.will do no harm. When 8in to hatch the temiwrature . to 103 degrees, and kept there ' ont. For thirty-six hours b-' are hatched the ducklings are f "K-'ubators. Then they are brooding house, rooding; house js neariy goo feet Is the mother duck to 8,600 3 at the same time. It is divided ; -j8 -'omiminicating with glass 2 can bo seen ducklings m,m one iky to ten weeks old ( 'W off according to their age. ' 9 of th ducks in the breeding 1 T m"er at fhq incubator house s what tedious job is being Jn hands there,-and then 'Jit of the brooding house, relieving her of all the responsi-; responsi-; motherhood, she is so grateful ?es and lays another egg. New |