Manns says the mother quails, when
grain in the fields is cut. leave their
nests and do not return to them. Manns
recently has found several such nests,
it is said, with eggs in them. These he
carried to his chicken house and placed
under sitting hens. When the eggs
hatch, he says, the young quails follow
the mother hen about like chicks, but
as soon as they are big enough to shift
for themselves they fly away, forget
ting their early domesticity.
Manns is urging other farmers in the
vicinity to hatch the quail eggs thev
find.
BRIDGE BUILDING WONDER.
Lehigh Valley Replaces Old Bridge
With New In Five Minutes.
Wende, N. Y.In five minutes a 150
ton bridge was moved out and replaced
by a 750 ton bridge on the Lehigh Val
ley railroad here. It took exactly two
minutes to get the old bridge out of the
way and two minutes and fifty seconds
to roll the new one into place. Traffic
was not interfered with, the time chos
en for the bridge moving having been
carefully chosen in relation to the
movement of trains.
The new bridge, which is a double
tracked single span structure over a
hundred feet long, was already fitted
with a ballasted track laid on a con
crete foundation, and as soon as it was
in place it was only necessary to join
the rails to make ready for the passage
of trains. The steel spans are ten feet
deep and rest on rockers, so that trains
passing immediately afterward were
able to travel at full speed, as if there
were no bridge there.
