ve me frantic if anything could. But nothing ever troubles me
long at a time, so I take your disregard of my wishes good naturedly, as
I take everything else that I can't help, and in the future I will
answer all questions whether they come through THE PRAIRIE
FARMER or not, sometime. To be sure "sometime" is not very
definite, but it is the best I can do. My poultry letters are "too
numerous to mention" and it requires no small amount of time to answer
them all; but I won't growl about that if you will only be patient and
not grumble if you don't get an answer "by return mail," or "in the next
paper." All questions of general interest will be answered in these
columns as soon as possible, while those that require an immediate
answer will be attended to by mail. Poultry raisers who desire
information that I can give, and who have not my address, can address
THE PRAIRIE FARMER. However, let me ask you not to write except
when necessary, and then please put your questions as plainly as
possible, and "be as brief as the nature of the subject will permit."

And when you are writing to me don't use postal cards. Postal cards are
only intended for the briefest of business messages, but lots of people
use them for nearly all their correspondence. I know one man who writes
love letters on postal cards. Most women and some men manage to make one
side of a 5 x 3 inch postal card do duty for four pages of commercial
note. They will write up and down and across lots and on the bias until
the whole thing is so hopelessly mixed and tangled up that if the
mystery of a woman's ways, or the fate of Charlie Ross were solved upon
one of these cards all the "experts" in the world could not unravel it.
A penny saved may be as good as a penny earned, and I have no objections
to your saving it in a legitimate way, but when it comes to saving it at
the expense of my time, patience, and eye-sight, I object most
decidedly. Hereafter I will not answer postals; I will not even read
them.

An Iowa woman writes: "If it is true that vaccination prevents chicken
cholera, how does it happen that fowls which had the genuine chicken
cholera last season took the disease again this season and died from the
effects of it? This happened on our place." I have puzzled my brains on
the same thing but I am not scientific enough to explain things that I
don't know anything about, so I leave that conundrum to be answered by
some of the learned people who have the