The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-08-05
Marx Yvsin,s Honors.

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WESTERN N. Y. POULTRY SOCIETY,"
BUFFALO, June i, 1870.
Mark 7icdin, Esq:
SrR:-At recent meeting of the Ex-
eeutive Committee of The Western New
York Poultry Society you were elected
an honorary member Of the Society.
E. c. DEAN,
Recording Secretary.
1t never rains, but it poHrs." Meth
or do distinctions begin to fall upon a
man in a sprinkle, but very shortly they
increase to a food.
Within the space of one short month /
have been raised 10 the dignity of honor
airy membership in Agricultural, Horti-
cultural and VInicultural Societies i'm
the States of Iowa, Indiana, California,
Massachusetts,, Maryland and Pennsyl-
wanna; and row, as a eliminating gram
deur, have become all honorary mem
Der of the Western New York Poultry
Society. and my ravenous ambition is
satisfied.
seriously, from early youth have ia
ken an especial interest in the subject of
poultry-raising, and so this membership
touches a ready sympathy i'm my breast.
Even as a school boy, Poultry raising
was study with me, and l may say
without egOtism that as early as the age
of seventeen 1 was acquainted with all
the best and speediest methods of rails
ing chickens, from raising them off a
rOOss by burning lucifer matches under
their noses, down to lifting them off a
fence on a frosty night by insulating
the end Of a warm board under their
heels. BY the time was twenty years
old, really supposed i had raised more
poultry than any one individual i'm 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
BOOSTERS that came to crow "remained
, to pray" when passed by.
- / have had so much experience in the
raising of fowls that i cannot but think
that a few hints from Inc might be useful
10 the society. Epcf 80
The two methods l have slready
touched upon are very simple, and are
only used in the raising of the common
est class of fowls one is for Summer, the
other for Winter. In the one case, you
start out with friend along about eley-
en- o'clock on a Summers night mot la
ter because i'm some Subsequently, i'm
California and Oregon, chickens always
rouse up just at midnight and crow from
ten to thirty minutes, according to the
ease or difficulty they experience in get
ting the public walked up), and your
frierd carries with him sack. Arrived
ut the hen roost (yOur neighbours, 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
trouble about it.
Iou then return home, either taking
the bag with you or leaving it behind,
according as circumstances shall dictate.
n. b. hare seen the time when it was
eligible and appropriate to leave the
sack behind and walk off with consider
able velocity, without ever leaving any
word where to send it. f.t,.s.,......
In the case OF the other method men
+, toned for raising poultry,,.your friend
takes along a covered vessel with a char
coal fire i'm it, and you carry long slen-
der plank. This is a frosty night, I'M
derstand. Arrived at the tree, or fence.
or other hen-roOst (your own, If you are
an IDIOT, you warm the end of your
plank i'm your friends fire-vessel and
then raise it aloft and ease it up gently
against slumbering chickens foot. Ii
the subject Of your attentions Is a 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 cOBspicuously accessory be-
fore the fact to his own murder as to
make it a grave question in our minds,
as it once was in the mind of Blackstone,
whether he is not really and deliberately
committing suicide i'm the second degree.
But you enter into a contemplation of
these legal refinements subsequently
not then.i ,.
When you wish to raise fine, large,
donkey-voiced Shanghai rooster, you do
it with lasso, just rs you would bull.
1t is because he must be choked and
choked effectually, too. -'.'i u ID
1t is the only good, certain way, for
whenever he mentions matter which
he is cordially interested in, the chances
are ninety mine in a hundred that he Sc
cures somebody else's immediate atten-
ton to 1t, too, whether it.be day or night.
The Black Spanish is an exceedingly
fine bird and costly one. Thirty-1ive
dollars is the usual figure, and fifty a
not uncommon price for a specimen.
Even its eggs are worth from a dollar to
a dollar and q half apiece, and yet so
unwholesome that the city physician
seldom or meyer orders them for the
work house. Still have once or twice
procured as high as a dozen at q time
Tor nothing, in the dark of the moon.
The best way to raise the Black Span
ish fowl, is to go late in the evening
and raise coop and all. The reason re-
commend this method is, that the birds
being so absurdly valuable, the owners
do not permit them to roost around pro-,
miscuously. but put them in a coop as
g -
in the kitchen ct night. The method |
speak OF is not always n bright and sat
isfying success, and yet there are so
many little articles Of Uertu abouta kitch-
en- that if you fail on the coop you can
generally bring away something else. /
brought away nice steel trap, one night
worth ninety cents.
But what is the use in my pouring out
my whole intellect Oh this subject? L
have shown the Western New York
Poultry Society that they have taken TO
their bosom a party who is not a Spring
chicken by any means, but a man who
knows all about poultry. and is Just as
high up i'm the most efficient methods of
raising it as the President of the institu.
ton himself. | thank these gentlemen
right pleasantly and heartily for the hon
orary membership they have conferred
upon me, and shall stand at all times ready
and willing to testify my good feelings
and my official zeal by deeds as well as by
this hastily penned advice and informa-
ton. ...-..
Whenever they are ready to 90 raising
poultry, let them call for me just any
evening after eleven O'Clock, and i shall
be on hand promptly.
a..r MARK TWAIN.
P.S.-To the Recording Secretary: L
know two or three good places. NJ. I.
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