The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-08-05

W ESIE1tN M L . 1OULTRH SOCIETH,
- BUFFALO, june l, 1870. (
Marx Team, Esq: r..s
| SIR At recent meeting of the Ex-
ecutive Committee of The Western New
York Poultry Society you were elected
an honorary member of the Society.
E. G. DEANE,
Recording Secretary
alt never rains, but it pours." Meth
er do distinctions begin to fall upon q
man in sprinkle, but very shortly they
increase to a food.
Within the space of one shOr month ]
i have been raised to the dignity of honor
ary membership in Agricultural, Horti-
cultural and VInicultural Societies in
the States of Iowa, Indiana, California,
Massachusetts,, Maryland and PennsyI-
Vania; and now, as a eliminating gran
deur, have become an honorary men,
Der Of the Western New York Poultry
Society. and my ravenOus ambition is
satisfied.
Seriously, from early youth I have ta-
Ken an especial interest in the subject of
poultry raising, and so this membership
touches a ready sympathy in my breast.
Even as q school boy, Poultry raising
was a stt with me, and l may say
without sm that as early as the age
of seventeen ] was acquainted with all
the best and speediesG methods of rails
| ing chickens, from raising them off a
rOOsS by burning lucifer matches under
their noses, down to lifting them off a
fe ice OH 4 frosty night by insinuating
the end of n warm board under their
heels. By the time 1 was twenty years
old, really supposed I had raised more
poultry than any one individual in all
the section round about there. The very
| chickens came TO know my talent, by
and by. The youth of both sexes ceased
to paw the earth for worms, and old
ROSTERS that came to crow " remained
| to pray" when passed by.
| 1 have had so much experience in the
raising of fowls that l cannot but think
| that few hints from me might be useful
10 the society.
The two methods aI have :lready
touched upon are very simple, and are
! only used in the raising of the Amon-
est class of fowls one is for Sun the
other for Winter. In the one case, you
start out with friend along about elev-
en- O'Clock on a Summers night mot la
| ter because in some States-especialIy in
California and Oregon, chickens always
rouse up just at midnight and crow from
ten to thirty minutes, according to tile
ease or difficulty they experience in get
ting the public walked up), and your
friend carries with him sack. Arrived
at the hen rOOst (yOur neighbor's, not
/ your OWn), you light match and hold
| it under first one and then another pull
| let's nose until they are willing to 90
into that bag without making any
| ti<sslle about it.
Yoa then retur ome, either taking
the bag with you or leaving it behind,
according as circumstances shall dictate.
/ n. B.--I hdCe seen the time when it was
| eligible and appropriate to leave the
/ sack hnhinH and walk Off xE-ifl1 oOpci1or-
able velocity, without ever leaving any
word where to send it.
In the case of the other method men
| toned for raising poultry, your friel
takes along q covered vessel with char
coal fire in it, and you carry a long slen-
der plank. This is a frosty night, ua-
| derstand. Arrived at the tree, or fen&.
or other hen-roost (yOur own, if you are
an idiOt), you warm the end of your
| plank in your friends ffe-Vesss1 ID
then raise it alOft and ease it uI
] against slumbering chickens S1f
| the subject of your attentions is q true
bird, he will infallibly return thanks
with sleepy cluck or two and step out
and take up quarters on the plank, thus
Becoming so conspieuously accessory be-
! fore the fact to his own murder as to
make it grave question in our minds
as it % was in the mind of Blackstone
| whether he is not really and deliberately
committing suicide in the second degree.
| But you enter into a contemplation of
these legal refinements subsequently,
not then.
| When you wish to raise a fine, large,
! dOnkeY-VOiced Shanghae rooster, you do
it with lasso. just rs you would bull.
1t is because he must be choked and
chOked effectually, too.
It is the only good, certain way, for
! WhnnnVnF q wi
he is cordially interested in, the chances
| are ninety-nine in a hundred that he Sc
cures somebody else's Immediate atten-
tIon TO it, too, whether it be day or night.
The Black Spanish is an exceedingly
fine bird and costly one. Thirty-fiVe
dollars is tie usual figure, and fifty q
not uncommon price for q specimen.
Even its eggs are worth from a dollar to
a dollar and half apiece, and yet so
unwhOleSome that the city physician
/ seldom or never orders them for the
work house. Still have orce or twice
procured as high as q dozen at a time
for nothing, in the dark of the mOol
The best way to raise the Black Span
iSh fowl, is to 90 late in the evening
and raise coop and all. The reason re-
commend this method is, that the birds
being so absurdly washable, the owners
do not permit them to roOst around pro-
miscuOusly, but put them in a coop as
strong as n fiTe-prOOt safe, and keep il
in the Kitchen at night. The method
speak OF is not always bright and sat
isfying. success, and yet there are sc
many little articles of Ucrtu about kitch-
Ell that If you fa'l on the coop you car
generally bring away something else.
brought away Il ,ce steel trap, one nigh
worth ninety cents.
But what is the use in my pouring Ou
my whole intellect on this subject?
have shown the Western New YOrl
Poultry Society that they have taken Il
their bosom party who is not a Spring
chicken by any means, but Il man whC
hi2h up in the most efficient methods o
raising it as the President of the institu
tiOn himself. l thank these gentlemen
, right pleasantly and heartily for the hon
orary membership they have conferred
upon me.and shall stand at all times read,
and willing to testify my good feeling
and my official zeal by deeds as we'll as b,
: this hastily penned advice and informal
I: ton.
Whenever they are ready to go raisini
: poultry, let them call for me just an.
evening after eleven O'Clock, and l shal
be on hand promptly.
MARK TWAIN.
P. S.-To the Recording Secretary:
'' know two or three good places. MT.
A SAYING OF HENRY CLAY.-Henr
Clay used to say that there were thre
classes of people with whom it wa
never safe to quarrel.
First-NIinisters For the reason tha
that they have pUIpits from which the
could denCunce me, and l had non
from which to reply.
SecOnd-EditOrs. For they had til
| most nOyy+rfII anpiDoS from which the
e could every day hurl wrath and fur
upon me, and 1 had none thrOug
which to reply. And, finally, with W.
men, for they would have the last wOI
anyhow.