The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-07-14
A schoolboy's Letter. On Chickens.

Most usually it takestwo eggs for to make
Il chicken, because, if you will put eigh-
teen eggs under a hen, only about nine
of EN- will hatch. A hen is so careless
and stubborn that most always she won't
cover her eggs all over, and they get
chilled; then they are everlastingly gone
I'D. Also. the rats will rob nest; so
that, if you get half of the brood, it is
torable crop, and you should be thank
full. Then think, it stands to reason
this ought to prove what | said at first.
A hen which has got young family
is more closer than any thing else which
can be compared with her under the sun
in the United States. There never was
IL thing which can rut1e its feathers up
backwards and rage worse than fool
hen. A turkey gobbler will do it but he
don't go of into red-hot passion about
it. and make fool of hissclf, and get
enemies all for nothindg, like hen would
A chicken III the spring-time, which was
put to hatch in March, if it has good
luck and don't die ofthe pip, or gaps, or
cholerv-mOrbuS or get drowned or SOME
thing. will be big enough to sell to the
resterant about in June. They will fetch
So a dozen, and chicken is more popu-
lar when it is spring chicken than II 1t
would live long enough to get as tough
as Methuseler. They say that spring
chicken il luxurious thing for broil and
mix up with toast. That's what I've
heard. Once in great while we have
the preacher, or else some company, and
| eat at the sccond-handed table; and |
can always tell by the savory smell
a-going on in the kstchen that broiled
chicken ought to be good enough for any
body. But if can't get something to
eat more Substantialler than smell, |
always fall back on roast beef. A chicken
don't gather Shrewdness like an owl, and it
never picks up any wisdom. 1t is not
Il talented thing like a fox If you can
show me more stupid thing than hen,
| wish YOU would trot her out. The
rooster has got what little sense there
ever was in family 1t is one ofthe worst
difficulties with chicken that she don't
know her place. She won't stay in the
BARNARD, where she belongs, anyway YOU
can fix it. If your mother has got flower
Deus Ill lllt lTOnI NaTu---uuu us might
curious mother which amt every last
chicken on the place will get in to scratch
them, if it takes till next Christmas; and
then good bye to the hyacinthes, and
crocuses and jcrryanthens, and all that
kind of foOlShncSS. Then is the time
that you want 10 have two jackets on, or
else to forget to come home early, if it
was you that left the latticc-Sate open.
Anyhow, that's my advice. Also, IA hen
is hard-heartcd and cruel and will kill
every little desolatcd stray chicken who
tries to associate with her own brood; and
this is good enough reason why she is like
IA stepmOthcr. fla hen once gets II fair
hold of Il little chicken. to shake it by the
nap of its neck, it will never kick agcn
in this community more than twice. The
bad habit which a hen has
got is going off to the neighbour today;
also, it is too soft athing for the neighborS
but it is generally chronic for hen to do
it and the only way to cure her is to cut
her head off and boil her down into soup.
She won't 20 to the neighbors to lay
many times ater that, | don't think.