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Following are some varieties of fowls:

CHICKENS.

Bantam. Variously colored; very small; eggs small. Brahma. (1) Light. (2) Dark. Very large; legs feathered; good layers; eggs large; good flesh.

Cochin. (1) Black. (2) White. (3) Buff. (4) Partridge. All large; legs feathered; good layers; eggs large; very hardy; good flesh.

Plymouth Rock.—(1) Barred. (2) White. Large; good layers; eggs large.

TURKEYS.

Mammoth Bronze. Very large; bright bronze color; good flesh.

Gray Toulouse. - Very large; lay about forty eggs in a season; flesh coarse and flabby.

White Embden.

- Snow white; very large; blue eyes; fleshcolored bill; feet yellow or orange; lay about twenty eggs in a season.

Gray African. — Very large; very rapid growers; lay about forty eggs in a season; excellent flesh; very desirable variety. Medium to large; hardy; good layers; excellent flesh; desirable variety.

Gray Wild.

DUCKS.

White Pekin. - Very large; rapid growers; lay from one hundred to one hundred and thirty eggs in a season; yellow bill; blue eyes; hardy; flesh excellent; very desirable variety.

White Aylesbury.- Very large; mature early; blue eyes; fleshcolored bill; very hardy; desirable variety.

Colored Rouen. - Medium to large; head of good form, with rich, green plumage; resemble Mallard duck; slow growth; hardy.

Black Cayuga.-Medium to large; dark, hazel eyes; grow rapidly ; lay from eighty to ninety eggs in a season; hardy.

CHAPTER II.

IN THE HOUSE, IN THE GARDEN, AND IN
THE STORE.

INTRODUCTORY.

WHILE men are in a savage state they do not build homes. The wide world is their home, and they roam from place to place warring with each other, and are almost as wild as the animals they hunt for food. As they become civilized they build a place in which to live, and which our Anglo-Saxon forefathers have named home.

Twelve hundred years ago these very AngloSaxons, from whom we are descended, lived in rude huts built of sticks bound together at the top. The floors were of earth, sometimes covered with grass and leaves. Their fine homes had the bark pulled from the poles. When we think of such homes, and compare them with the good homes that we live in at the present time, we find that our race has learned much in these hundreds of years.

To learn to care for our homes properly will mark one of the sweetest pages in the history of our lives. Ail that is brightest and best belongs to

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home. The care of the rooms in which we read and think; of the table around which we gather; of the parlor where song and story add to the charm of life—this care is a labor of love that small hands can do, and it belongs to the lessons of life.

Then there is the yard where the roses and the honeysuckles grow; the garden with its good things for every season; and the orchard where the apple trees bloom and the brown thrush and oriole sing their sweetest songs. The farmer's boys and girls may be happy and useful here. There is a joy in all of these things.

To learn to do work well is no little thing. People in the past have helped us by writing about better ways of doing things. Let us help the whole world by learning to do these things better.

LESSON VI.

HELPING MOTHER.

I.

Mother, dear, you have so much to do! Will you let me help you in some way?"

“Thank you, my child, I should be very glad if you would wipe the dishes for me.

you can?"

Do you think

"I am sure I can if you will show me a little. about it."

"First, then, you may wipe these glasses. See, I dip them sidewise into these hot suds. Take this clean dry cloth and wipe them before they get cold. Give them a good polish and put them on the shelf upside down so that they may not get dusty inside.

"Now I will wash the spoons and lay them in the draining-pan. I will pour hot water over them and you must pick them out as best you can. The hot water gives them a fine polish. But you must be careful not to put the dishes into such hot water. It would 'check' them and perhaps break them." "Why do you handle the cups and saucers so carefully, mother?

"So that I shall not break them. It is very easy to chip the edges of dishes. Each piece should be