SELECTION OF LAYERS
Professor Kent Gives Rules Fol
lowed at Cornell.
Examination of Ear Lobo la Consld
i red to 8a Almost Infallible Vel
vety Texture of Han'a Comb
la Alao Good. -'-
The expert aye can readily detect
laying heni among a flock of nonlay
ers. Protestor Kent gtvea the follow
ing rules observed at Cornell, aome of
which were worked out eome year
ago by the Connecticut.' experiment
station: : '
Yellow-legged birda quickly lay off
the color in tltelr shanka when they
are laying. A hen which ia laying
heavily almost loses the yellow color
out of her shanka. After molting the
yellow color returns quickly. '..v'v .
Examination of the ear lobe la con
sidered to be almost infallible. A
chalky white ear lobe indicates a bird
is laying heavily, whereas a cream-col'
ored one shows the bird ia laying mod
erately, has just started or baa just
stopped. A mijk-colored ear lobe
shows the hen has laid slightly or has
stopped laying.' A very yellow or dark
ear lobe indicates the hen haa not laid
at all. ' -
It is to be remembered that an ex
tremely white ear lobe also may mean
very tew vitality.
The more velvety the texture of the
comb of a hen is the better is her
health, and it ia almost a certain sign
abe ia laying heavily.
Out of 40 hens under observation at
Cornell, six with chalky white ear
He Desired It
A boy walked into the office ot the
telegraph company at Chicago ana
applied for a job. He saw nis bww
was "Missouri."
The manaaer happened to want a
messenger boy just at that moment
and gave him a message inai nan w
be delivered in a hurry..-
"Here's your chance, my ooy,- saia
the manager, "these people have seen
kicking about undelivered messages.
Now, don't come back until you have
delivered it"
A little while afterward tne tele
phone rang. On the other end or tne
wire there appeared to be a building
watchman, somewhat terrified.
"Have you got a boy they can -Mis
souri?' " inquired the watchman.
"We did have 10 minutes ago, - re
plied the manager.
.The watchman -continued:
"That 'Missouri' feller came over
here and said he had to go to one of
the offices. We don't allow no one
up at that office at this hour and I
told him he couldn't go."
"Vnn voi." said the manaeer.
"Well," said the watchman, "he said
he would go and I had to pull my gun
on him." -
"But you didn't shoot him!" ex1
claimed the manager. " - '
"No," meekly came back the re
sponse over the wire, "but I want my
gun back."
Lost Property. -
A taxi driver was standing off a cab
rank in London when a special con
stable went up to him and said:
"Look here, my man, you must get
into position on the rank." - "
"And who are you?" waa the ques
tion. - ' .
"I'm a special constable," answered
the traffic director, displaying his
badge.
"Oh, you're the very bloke I'm look
ing for. Why, about 'art an hour ago
a passenger went off and left a bloom
ing kid on the seat of my cab; now
what am I to do about it?"
"Wait a minute wait a minute,"
replied the special, turning up his
notebook. "Ah. here it is. Rule 49
Property found in cabs must be taken
to the nearest police station, ana 11
not claimed in six months it becomes
the property of the finder."
, The Heckler Heckled.
Mrs. William! H. Thompson, wife of
Chicago's new mayor, did much; to
help her husband win.
Mrs. Thompson, in the days wnen
it was deemed unwomanly to want to
vote, was once prevailed on to make
a suffrage speech. She spoke superb
ly, but, in the midst of her argument,
a youth with a cigarette yelled :
"Don t you wn you were a man r
"Don't you?" said Mrs. Thompson,
and went right on with her argument
again. -
A few minutes later the heckler,
having recovered, tried another bout
with the lair speaker.
"Don't you think mothers ought to
stay home with their children?", he
demanded.
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A Mixed Flock,
lobes showed that they had laid 22
eggs that week, 16 eggs the previous
week and nine the week before that
Of, six other hens with creamy ear
lobes, lour laid is eggs tnat week ana
three laid 12 the week before and
three more laid nine egga the prior
week. ' . -v
' Seven hens with yellow ear lobes
were examined and only one of them
had laid an egg that week and four
-the week before. 7
Nine hens with very dark ear lobes
showed that they had not-laid an egg
for weeks.
Keep Separator Milk Sweet
A little carbonate ot soda will keep
separator milk quite sweet and pala
table for the pigs, gnd it is a good
Idea to have a little of this on hand
In warm weather. ' " '
Ideal Place for Chicken.
' The ideal ylace to raise chickens is
on an alfalfa or clover patch', or at
the end of a corn, mangel or turnip
patch, where insect life is fairly abua
dant. '
Matter of Grammar.
Housekeeper How's this? You
promised to saw some wood if I gave
you a lunch.
Tramp I recall no such promise,
madam.
"The idea! I told you I'd give you
a lunch If you d saw some wood, and
you agreed.
"Pardon me, madam. Tour exact
words were: 'I'll give you a lunch If
you saw that wood over there by the
gate.' " . ' - '
"Exactly. That's just what I said.'
"Well, madam, I saw that wood
over there by the gate as I came
in." Tit Bits.
His Status.
"Were you a bull or a bear in Wall
street?" ' -
."I wasn't either. I was the man
who has to run for a tree when the
menagerie breaks loose." Washing
ton Star, ;
' Resemblance.
"Why do you call him the human
Din wheel?
"Because he gets up so much spec
tacular speed and always finishes Just
where he started." Washington Star.
Man's Perils,
. When a married man gets too old to
go to war his wife's next dread is that
he will get his feet wet. Toledo
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It euro, hot, iweating, setting, iwollen feet,
Cure, corn., ingrowing nail, and bunions. At
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A Daughter of Eve. .
He had been to a "stag" dinner, and
his wife wanted to hear all about it
when, he got home. "Well," he aald,
"one rather odd thing occured. Jim
Blankton got up and left the table
because some fellow told a story he
did not approve of." ,
'How noble ot Mr. Blankton,", ex
claimed the wife, "and what was
the story, John?" ' -
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Useful.
"I've got to earn some money dur
ing my summer vacation," remarked
the law. student, "but I'd like, it pos
sible, to work at something that will
be ot use to me later on."
"Why don't you get a job as waiter
in a summer hotel?" advised the
professor. "The experience you will
get in making out bills will come in
mighty handy when you begin the
practice of law."
' j' ... " .-. , Correct
A Canadian named Casey was ap
pointed to a government place, says
Law Notes. Technically, it had to
be held by a lawyer, which Casey
was not. The benchers of the law
nnnintv. however, undertook to obviate
the technicality, .
"Well, Casey," said tne -examiner;
"what do you know about law, any
way? -
"To tell the truth," replied the can
didate, "I don't know a single thing,",
The examiner reported in nis aui
riavit "that he had examined Mr.
Casey as to nis Knowledge ot me mw,
and, to the best of nis information
and belief, he had answered the ques
tions that he had put to him cor
rectly." The aspirant was therefore
admitted.
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A Genius.
, Hubby was late, but he had a per
fectly good excuse so good that his
wife could make no use of the lec
ture she had prepared for him,
All she said was: "John, if the
ability you display in thinking up ex
cuses for staying out late could only
be turned into some useful channel,
the world would hail you as one ot
the greatest inventive geniuses that
ever lived."
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