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Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 309, 3 April 1878, Page 4

SUPPER AND SUGAR. Sue had invited him to stop to supper, and he was trying to appear easy and unconcerned, while she was in her prettiest behavior. “ Have you used the sugar, John ? ” inquired the mother, in a winning manner. “ John don’t want no sugar,” ejaculated the young heir abruptly. “ Why not ? ” inquired the father curiously 5 ■while John 7 in his stir—prise, swallowed a bit of toasted crust and hurt his throat. “ Cos he don’t,” explained the heir, in an artful manner; “I heard him tell Mary last night ——” “You beep still,” interrupted Mary, in an hysterical manner, while the young man caught his breath in dismay. “ I heard him say,” persisted the heir, with dreadful eagerness, “ that she. was so-sweet he shouldn’t use no sugar any more—an’then he kissed her, an’ then I said I’d tell an’ ” Here the young heir was lifted out of the room by his ear, and the supper was finished in moody silence.

GAPES IN CHICKENS. My wife Las raised chickens for the last,l7 years, from 100 to 200 a year, and has never yet lost one with gapes, while her neighbours on every side have lost more or less, and sometimes all. I know not the secret of her success, unless it is the mode of treatment, which is very simple. She always feeds the hens regularly on corn and the chickens on scalded cornmeal made into dough ; takes pains to know that the sitters have good nests, and the chickens, when hatched, are removed with their mother into a coop, and fed for a day or two, or three. Th'e hen is then turned out with her brood ; food for the chicks is placed in the coop at intrevals—some three or four and perhaps five ,times a day—with the door closed, so the little ones can go in and eat and never allow their crops to get empty.