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THE BALMY BREEZES OF
THE SUNNY SOUTH
Are laden with Health and Happiness for the Worn-out
Wrestler with the Strenuous Life.
But you cannot repair wasted tissue or restore strength to
jangled nerves with air and sunshine alone.
The stomach calls for a food that supplies body-building
material in its most digestible form. Such a food is
Shredded Whole Wheat.
It is made of the whole wheat, cleaned, cooked and drawn
into fine porous shreds and baked. These delicate shreds con
tain all the nutritive elements of the whole wheat grain and
are taken up and assimilated when the stomach rejects all
other foods.
hroddod Wheat U made in two fornn-.llISCUIT and
imiCIJIT. Tkt DUCVIT I delicious for breakfast with
heter eold milk or cream, or for any meal in combination
with fruit or vegetables. TIIISCUIT in the shredded whole
wheat cracker, crisp, nourishing- and appetizing:. Delicious
as a toast with beverares or with cheese or preserves.
"It's All in the Shreds."
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Niagara Falls, N. Y.
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Such brands as are handled by New England Grocers.
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A. Complete Assortment of Finest Itibbons and Embroidery Silks.
The Latest Styles of Stationery, both Printed and Plain
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BOBWHITE AND FAMILY
In the North, where the ruffed grouse
is known as the partridge, the bob-white
is called the quail ; in the South, where
the ruffed grouse is known as the pheas
ant, he is called the partridge. He is a
m-orro firms hirrl. livinor about threC-
6ivgu..vuU l r
fourths of the year in flocks, which are
broken up in the spring, when each male
selects a mate; and the dainty little
couples, after their honeymoon, find a
suitable nesting-place. The shy wife
goes to her housekeeping, while her com
panion, full of love and joy, spends much
of his time whistling his sweet Ah bob-
white ! bob-white ! from the top rail of the
old worm-fence, qr the low, cool branches
of the spreading shade tree near by. At
no other time, except when pursued by a
dog on stormy days, or when driven by
hunger from the snowclad earth to the
locust for the beans that still remain in
the thin pods, does bob-white spend any
time among the branches of the trees.
His love call, which has given him his
truest name, is variously translated
by country people, More buckwheat!
buckwheat ! being one of the most appro
priate, for it is the name of one of his
favorite foods.
The nests are built principally of dead
grass under a tangle of briers by a fence,
stump or log, beneath a bush in the grain
field, or in a tussock of grass in the
meadow ; though I knew of a nest two
feet above ground in the side of a straw
rick. The model nest is cunningly arched
over, and has in some instances a cov
ered entrance several inches in length
which completely conceals the white
eggs. The majority of nests, however,
are not so elaborately built, and the eggs
in some of them are much exposed when
the female, or the male as the case may
be, is not sitting on them. The number
of eggs in a nest varies ; in cases I have
known from five to twenty-three, though
some writers state that nests have been
found with thirty, and even fifty eggs !
Hence they have pronounced bob-white a
rank polygamist, accusing him of con
sorting with two or three wives. Their
only "proof" seems to be that these nests
contain an abnormally large number of
eggs. These observers rightly conclude
that one female did not lay them all, but
they do bob-white an injustice, 1 think,
by declaring him a Mormon on such
meager circumstantial evidence. Even if
he had two or three mates, is there any
reason why all should lay in the same
nest? And if so, do they select one of
their own number to do the incubating?
It is well known that during the mating
season quail lose much of their native
wildness, thereby making it easier to
study their habits. The pairs visit the
gardens, dust themselves in the sandy
road, paying very little attention to the
approaching wagon and showing them
selves at close range in so many ways
that if there were two or three hens with
a single cock the fact would be very no
ticeable and bob-white would indeed lose
his reputation as a model husband. It is
my opinion, however, that a regularly
mated hen-quail possesses cowbird ten
dencies and is very generally responsible
for any clutch of eggs larger than the
normal number. She has the same habit
of depositing her eggs in a nest built by
another that possesses the cowbird and
the European cuckoo. It is a well-known
fact, moreover, that domestic fowls lay
in one another's nests. It is recorded
that pheasants do the same, and I know
that hens lay in quails' nests.
A freakish quail not only makes use of
a relative's nest but often deposits her
eggs in the nest of the guinea or chicken,
as almost any observant farm boy living
in a district where quail are abundant can
testify. Often these females with cow
bird tendencies deposit but a single egg
in a nest. When laid with those of do
mestic fowls, these small ones are often
mistaken for the abnormally small eggs
occasionally laid by hens. If deposited
in a quail's nest in which incubation has
begun, they of course do not mature, and
are considered by the casual observer,
when found with the shells in the empty
nest, as being addled, when in truth they
are the unhatchedeggs of freakish quails.
Break open the shells, and there are the
live immature birds. And now, having
observed this weakness on the part of his
whimsical wife, 1 do not intend to accuse
bob-white of polyamy until 1 see him
strutting around with a wife on each
wing.
Those who have cast reproach on his
good name, however, have given him
much credit for the assistance which they
claim he renders to his mate while sit
ting on her eggs. My observations do
not wholly justify the claim that the work
of incubation is shared by the male. Bob
white does sometimes sit on the eggs and
rears the brood ; but I am of the opinion
that he does this chiefly as a widower.
I When an accident happens to his faithful
mate he shows his heroic spirit by taking
he place.
Of the several nests I have had under
close observation, three were cared for
entirely by males. Where the females
had charge and came off to feed, the eggs
remained uncovered, and at no time did
I observe the males on or near the nests,
although their cheerful notes were heard
on every hand in the neighborhood.
It is not difficult to distinguish the
sexes. A white throat and a white line
above the eyes are, in brief, the distin
guishing marks of the male, while the
female has no white line over the eye and
her throat is buff.
The contents of a quail's nest are gen
erally well arranged, the white eggs be
ing placed, as a rule, with the small ends
down to economize space, but they often
become disarranged and sometimes
broken, when the frightened bird goes
booming off. These, however,' should
not be touched, for the taint left by the
fingers may cause the quail to abandon
her nest. Mowing machines are more
destructive perhaps than any other,
agency, though flooding rains may de
populate whole districts. The clatter of
the sickle-bar frightens many sitting
quails away from their nests for good.
An uncle of mine uncovered several nests
in his meadow one harvest, in all, nearle
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