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��however, cannot equal the setting hen for results. Early in May hatching begins. Then for three weeks the chicks require great care. They are placed in a box filled with cotton wadding, and covered with a light quilt to dry, after which they are placed in the brood- er. After about a week, they are placed in runs, in a grassy clearing, carefully protected against foxes, hawks and other marauders'.

The daily bill of fare is carefully pre- pared. The first meal, on the day after the hatching, consists of ant-eggs. From the second me^l this diet is varied by green food and a mash, of which the base is hard boiled eggs and stale bread. The moulting sea- son, which often decimates pheasan- tries, is reached at the end of the sec- ond month. The breeder has now to redouble his vigilance in order to keep the chicks from damp and chill. Finally during the first two weeks of July the young pheasants are taken to the thickets or woods. They are carried at night, coop, mother hen and chicks, from the pheas- antry to the spot selected, and there they live, the young birds- gradually drifting away from the mother hen, un- til entirely free, they disappear into the coppice.

���The young chicks must against foxes, hawks

��If You Can Stop An Automobile, You Are Fit to Run One

RUNNING an automobile through traffic is like swimming in deep water. Don't do it until you are so sure of yourself that all danger of panic has gone by. And al- ways expect the un- expected. Leave your family or friends at home on those first few rides. As your initial les- son, after you have learned the names, and above all the potentialities of the various levers, learn how to stop. Of course, as a pre- liminary, you must start, but that can be at your leisure. Make a dozen — or even a hundred at- tempts to bring the car to a standstill until you have gained confidence. Then adventure along some quiet.

��be carefully protected and other marauders

���Hens are used to hatch out the pheasant eggs. Incubators have never been so successful

��unobstructed road. After you have received some instruc- tion about the general mechanism of the car,. practise stopping suddenly before reaching imaginary dangers along the road. Don't wait for this lesson until a child, a chicken, an absent-minded saun- terer or some other irresponsible live thing sends your brand-new knowledge helter-skelter.

Measuring distance accurately is the

most important feature of driving.

Draw two lines across the road fifty

feet apart. Then, going at the rate of

twenty miles an hour, apply the brake

and see how long it takes you to stop

the car. When you discover how much

over the fifty-foot line your automobile

goes, you realize the necessity for the

driver's first rule — caution.

This trial also teaches you what speed is

safe in approaching railroad crossings and

intersecting streets, and how near you can

go to traffic before applying your brake.

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