Hurrying

TliP'-o is no. time whena poultryman can afford (o hurry hiswork. Ileeannüt hurry inio the bnsincss üt a moment's notice and catch np all the threads of mating and clean breeding at the point whero some veteran has them. Mach lias been done to aid beginners in this business, hut no etraneous help will ever put them on a !evel of attainment with those who have devoted years to the work. Wc mny start with a breed which, by patiënt and intelligent toil, bas been brought to a very satisfactoiy state of exact reprodnetion, but Vv'e cannot in olher particulars start froni tlie highcst attainments of our predecossors. Books and papers that ti-eat particularly of our favo rites can do much to aid tis in the rapid acqniremcnt of information, but even the best of these cannot pive ns what iví must havo. We can't bny experience atonestroke, but must be content to tako it as it comes and proüt by it, llemember, the man "who makes no mistake is more tlian mortal, but the man who makes the same blunder twice deserves ill success. We cannot hurry nature in anything without in the end suffering in some way for our tampering. If we hurry into a partir undorstood line of work without first ascertaining its ciiiliiial principies, we hurry to s'.ire read and thorougnTy OigeSl Uic advice of those oldcr in the business tlian ourselvos, we are in fair way to success.- [Foultry Yard. Lincolii's power of illustration, lus humor, was iuexhaustible. lie had a story or au illustration for everyUiing. I remeniber, as an inatance, wlieti Stenhens, of Georgia, cn.me on the Jefl" Davis peaco coinmission to City Foint, Stephen! did ïiot weigh mo!-e than üighty pounds, and he wore au overcoat that made him look like a man of two hnndred ponnds. As Lincoln and I came in, Siepliens took off his coat. Lincoln said, at'ter he was gone : ''I say, Graut, did you noüce that coat. Alock Stephens wore?'' I said yes. '-Did you ever soe," said Lincoln, "sucli a gniall car oí' corn in eo bir a shuckí -