"Say, bo, what's one of them chicks worth?" "Ain't fer sale.

When this happens, the feathers stick fast to the shell, and the chicks remain confined, and must perish, if not released.

It is a common practice to cram young chicks with food as soon as they are born.

FEEDING AND COOPING THE CHICKS.When all the chicks are hatched, they should be placed along with the mother under a coop in a warm dry spot.

After being kept snug beneath the coop for a week (the coop should be placed under cover at nightfall), the chicks may be turned loose for an hour or so in the warmest part of the day.

They should be gradually weaned from the soaked bread and chopped egg, instead of which grits or boiled barley should be given; in 8 or 10 days their stomachs will be strong enough to receive bruised barley, and at the end of 3 weeks, if your chicks be healthy, they will be able to take care of themselves.

Great care should be taken that the very young chicks do not run about the wet ground or on damp grass, as this is the most prominent and fatal cause of disease.

While under the coop with their mother, a shallow pan or plate of water should be supplied to the chicks, as in a deeper vessel they are liable to drench themselves and take cold, or possibly to get drowned.

The hen had chicks; and, when about three weeks old, one of them strayed into the dog-kennel.

There is likely to be handsomer and stronger chicks in a house where a bold, activeeven savagebird reigns, than where the lord of the hen-house is a weak, meek creature, who bears the abuse and peckings of his wives without a remonstrance.

THE BEST FOWLS TO FATTEN, &c.The chicks most likely to fatten well are those first hatched in the brood, and those with the shortest legs.

Young chicks are especially liable to this complaint.

Just think, Mäzli, they have little chicks, and you will have to see them.

In addition, the fertility of the chicks born of these eggs was augmented, especially if both parents had been fed on pituitary.

"Ajax," said I, "we have eaten the Swiggarts' salt, not to mention their fatted chicks, their pickled peaches, their jams and jellies.

He used to come into the yard behind his mother's cottage, and, after a careful inspection of the ground for hens and chicks, he would sit down slowly with his back against the barn.

In a minute the chicks, who liked him, would be pecking all over him at the mossy chalk-mud in the seams of his clothing, and if it was blowing up for wet, Mrs. Caddles' kitten, who never lost her confidence in him, would assume a sinuous form and start scampering into the cottage, up to the kitchen fender, round, out, up his leg, up his body, right up to his shoulder, meditative moment, and then scat!

This is made of mercurial ointment, two parts; pure lard, two parts; flour of sulphur, one part; crude petroleum, one partand when mixed together is applied to the heads of the chicks as soon as they are dry after hatching.

WALKER, ORA. Mother hen and her five baby chicks.

"What, all our pretty chicks?" cry the agonised Ministerialists.

They were accused of eating young moor-chicks.

However, no description can convey an adequate idea of pardas and chicks to the mere European.

Let the neebors buy, and she could realize sixty dollar on the brood o' twal' chicks; for they fetched ten dollar the pair, and could be had for nae less onywheres.

I know a nature-faker," said Mr. Bache, the author, "who claims that a hen of his last month hatched, from a setting of seventeen eggs, seventeen chicks that had, in lieu of feathers, fur.

"He claimed that these fur-coated chicks were a proof of nature's adaptation of all animals to their environment, the seventeen eggs having been of the cold-storage variety.