Mower County transcript., 1871-12-21
4 Hen Convention.

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4 Hen Convention.
FUNNY FACTS ABOUT FOWLS.
The Hartford Courant of November
l6 prints a lively account of the Hen
Convention in that city, which we
quote:
THE COLOR TEST.
Poultry breeding is O science that
the color of IL feather frequently deter
mines the whole existence OF u rooster.
The man who has got this thing to q
tino point can go into the great conven-
tion now in session in Allyn Hall and
enjoy himself by detecting q single
small feather which is off color coming
out Of a surface that, but for the dis
coyery, would send an immortal hen
(whose "son never sets"-old joke)
down to posterity as frst-class sue.
cess from an egg-shell to a broil. The
man who cannot see early mortality
and absolute failure in life growing out
of pin feather may gaze into the rows
of coops as if he were looking into
spaces, and when compared to the sci
encc of pulling feathers. But when
you have got educated up to the right
pitch-to the poultry standard-there
is more real enjoyment i'll cultivating
the intimate acquaintance of hen or
high-toned rooster, than in gong to
Europe on fine art excursion. Not to
know, however, the difference between
fowl, from appearance, that would sell
on the hoof for thirty cents for round
steaks and one that is said to be worth
800 because ne will bring it out of his
subsequent family relations, is 50 fatal
to human pleasure that the man nim-
self would probably consider it an in
suit to havo his garden scratched by a
gray-leggcd wanderer, worth his weight
in gold, from his neighbor's crop. It
is probable that family Of children,
taken early, and shown with care the
whole process of hen perfection in the
color line, would make, should not
the measles and sudden cold inter-
iere to give them apull-back, frst-class
scenic painters. Education from ma.
ture is great thing, and education
from a Cochin standing two feet high
in his bare feet is nature from great
thing. But besides colors and strips
on the body, the fanciers now are MAX
ing strong eIertiOn on the ear. A hens
ear is of little use except to the hen,
and has always been considered of no
account, but since breeding in and in
has got to the fashion, the fanciers
have discovered that the developement
of the ear, in a coloring point Of Wow,
las a vital bearing on the intellectual
greatness of the bird. Sometimes de-
ception is practised, as, for instance,
where quarrelsome fowl bites the ear
of his companion, the scar has been
pointed to as mark of family distinc-
ton, when it is only evidence of do
nestle agitatlon; but there are few buy
ers nova u days who have not got educa-
ted beyond the Car bite, and there is
little danger of fraud being practiced
in that direction. All friends of pro-
gress will rejoice to know that such
base attempt to impose upon good ma
ture has finally met its reward. The
mutilatcd-ear dodge has been fail
urc.
BALLOTING FOR HENS.
In the exhibition yesterday there was
several new features introduced, nota-
BILE one inviting ballots (very appro-
PIRATE at such convention) at ten
cents each for the presentation of stock
to persons receiving the highest num-
Der of votes as follows: Clergyman,
pair of fantail pigeons, by S. j, Bes-
tor; lawyer, pair Of dark Brahmas, by
G.. w. Bradley & Son; phpsican, pair
OF pyle games, by P w. Hudson edi-
tor or reporter, pair OF white Leghorns,
by w. A. Lockwood. Visitors may,
therefore, vote for theil favorite clergy
man, physician, and SO on, and q pleas
ant little excitement may grow out Of
it. Suffrage is not restricted in conse
uuence Of age, color, sex, or previous
condition of servitude. Women can
vote early and often in this election.
The vote at 10 o'clock stood;
Clergyman-Parker So, Skinner 21,
Mills 81, Turnbull Il.
Reporters II. Burr 3S, J.L. Bar
bour 30, A. S. Hotchkiss Ii.
Physicans-Willcox IS, jackson 81,
Jarvis 80, Stoors Is Curtis II, Brownell
II, Stearns 20.
Lawyers Merrill Is, Eaton 8, Jones
3, Cole 6, Strong 3, Simonds 3. Hyde 2,
Hammersly l.
PRICES OF STOCK.
Some of the stock exhibited rs ad
vertised on the cards apdearing on the
coops to be for sale, and some of the
prices which are asked are given as fol-
lows: black bantam, no age given, SIS :;
silver land Seabright, no age, SIS ::
Irish bantam, gray, eight months, $40 :;
silver duckwing, game, SIG; Derby
bantam, game, $25; red pyle, five
months, $50; one year and three
months, 800: Heathwood pyle, six
months, $780, black-rcd game-one
rooster-$25; black Polish, five
months, SO, one year $50; Houdans,
no age given, i515, five months $12; +;
no age given, $l5, five months $12;
light Brahma. seven months, $12 dark
Brahma three and a half months, $40 :;
gray Dorkings, no age given, SIS and
500; white Dorking, two years, $40 :;
black Spanish, two years, $15; span
gled gold Hamburgs, NO age given, $40
and SIS; spangled game, one year, $50 :;
white Georgian, seven months, $50,
one year $40, four years $50, two years
800; ginger red, five months, $50 {;
black red, five months, 500, eighteen
months $25; Earl of Derby, one year,
$50; black-breasted red, five months,
$50.