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Show AN EQQ TE8TER. Maallr CwaM tkiwar mm eervee a BmI Pwryeee. The deelraUllty of art I Inf two or three bena on the aama da and riaav falag tha agge at tha eod of a week te aea which of then ara fertile and which aterlle la urged by W. B. Irgat-mnler, Irgat-mnler, an eminent Kngliah poultry authority. au-thority. Of numeroue Inatrumenta ao vertlsnd under tba oamea of ovaarnpee and egg teal era be flnde none etiparlor ' and few equal to one tbat can be made without the allgbteet roet aa followa: I A plena of common card twenty auch ' la an old bonk cover, ahould be taken nd an oval hole rut la tbe renter not quite large enough to allow an egg lo paaa through. The cardboard la more conveniently used If It la dark or color-ad color-ad on one aide. Hiippnalng, aa aliould alwaya be Ihe caae. that two or threw bena ara art on tha aanie day, on tha evening of Ihe aame day of the following fol-lowing week tha egga ahould be ra- TBWTIMO All W-KI. moved quietly from under the hen. Kite nerd not he lifted off the neat, but the band ran lie paaard under her and the egga taken away one by one. Theae thould tie conveyed In a beaket Into a room lighted only by one lamp. Tha rardtward. with tha dark aide toward the olieervrr, ahould then be held up agalnat the lamp, aa ahown In the cut, and Ihe egga one after another ahould be held agalnat the hole and the light looked at through them. If they appear unchanged and look Ilka a freak egg, they are barren and ahould be put on one aide. Tboae egga with chli'kena In theiu, the only onee which will hatch, are perfectly opaque at Ihe end of a week eicepl at tbe larger end, where the air apace rilala. Thla opacity opaci-ty la rauat-d by Ihe blood veeaela, which at thai period of the hatching line the fcelt, eitearttaa ell weee tut interior excepting ex-cepting at Ihe air apace. Now, auppoelng that between thirty and forty egga have lieen ant under the three bene and that owing to any rauae a half or third of them are aterlle. It will obvloualy be of advantage to place the fertile opaque egga under two of the hrna and lo give a frmb anting to the third. In thla way the arrvlcee of a broody hen are utlllaed and good clutchea of chlckena ara much mora likely lo be Inaured. There la no nee In allowing a hen to alt upon a number of barren egg. If ahe break a one near the period of batching, the rontenla rover tha otbera aud foul tha neat and Interfere greatly with the due hatching of the chlckena. BRISTLES BY GEORGE. laeae Tkat Are Oeea rr the fwlae Meleer ait Hla Hera. Oeorge, In Farm Journal, aaya: It la a good Idea, and one tbe boga will like, to throw over to them every week or ao a few freahly cut aoda during dur-ing tha winter, when they ran Hud little lit-tle opKrtunlty for routing about. Tha frrah earth la good for I hem, and they will not fall to enow tbelr appreciation apprecia-tion of Ihe treat There la no great eecret of aurreae In awlne rnlalug a good, warm, dry, well ventilated bnghouee and pure water wa-ter for all aenaona, a good paature for aprlng, aummer and fall and a variety of feed for winter, with thrifty, it ron g plga, aud amvcea la youra. We iiiuat keep the fattening plga warm. If they ara kept lu a cold pen or allowed to run out lu cold wenlher, at leaat 25 per rent more food will lie required to produce a given giilu. The equcallng pig. with aturlng font and bumped buck, wl rowda and puihee In Ihe etcumy not for a warm place, la etirrly foatiig money for hla carelrae owner. It doca not Injure a well nurtured, mature bow to give birth lu two llttera of plga each year. Two hundred pouuda la a good market mar-ket weight, and do not bavo the plga too fat. Tlaie el fewlea Tebeees. There aeema to be a gem-nil rule for aowlng tobacco aeed In each atale with reference to the froala which are likely to occur In Ihe aprlng. U. I'. Hotter-wick, Hotter-wick, an authority In tobacco culture, furnlahea Ihe general rule Unit eecd bcilt ahould be planted from iix wceka to two uioutha -according to tbe variety varie-ty of the eeed before the latest date at which killing froat baa occurred lu the locality. Thla la for the domentlc need. For Cuban and (Sumatra eeed a later dute ahould be aeleclcd. Imported Cuban Cu-ban aeed ahould he planted a month later and Imported Sumatra alx wccki Inter than acclliuuted eeed. Very vlg-oroua vlg-oroua varlntlea of tobacco will grow large enough In trauaplant In all I weeka. Other vartctlca will lake from I eight to ten weeka fruui the lime of 1 aowlug the auod. I. .J- . |