Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-04-20
A PAPER ON CHICKENS.

ny Ben spinner, of the FOsurtIa ward
s3&'1 sn5 school igs s7
Louisville Courier -JourhaI.T u;ssT
Most usually it takes two eggs for to
make chicken, because, if you will nut
I eighteen eggs under a hens only about
nine of sem will hatch ara hen Is SO care
! less and stubborn that most always she
won't cover her eggs all over and 50 they
get chilled then they are eEerlastinRly
| gone up. Also, the rats will rob nest:
30 thatf YOU get half ofia brood, it is
I tel'able crop, and you should be thankful.
Then, l think, it stands to reason this
ought to- prove what said at first.
hem which has got a young family. is
more erosser than any thing oelse which
can be compared with her under the sun
in the United States. There never, was ..
4 thing which can raf1e its feathers up
backward and rage worse thansa fool hen.
A turkey gobbleF will de It, but he don't
/ go off into q red-hot passion about Il. and
make fool of hisself, and get enemies all
for nothing like hen would. "A chicken
in the spFing1tinle which was putIto hatch
! in Mareh3 if Il has goodIluck and don't
die of the pip, or gaps, or the cholery-
morbus, or get drowned OF something,
will be big enough to sell to the restaurant
about in June. They will fetch S6 s.
4 dozen, and a chicken. is more popular
! where it liss spring chicken than if it
( would liveslong enoughto get as tough as
Methuseler. They say that a. spring
chicken is Injurious thing for to- bHoiI
4 and mix up with toast. That's what I
4 have heard. Once IN a great while we
have spring chickens for dinner. Then
We have the preacher, or else some COM
pany, and I eat at the seeond-handed
table, and can always tell by the savory
smell going on in the kitchen that
brOhed chicken ought to be good enough
for anybody. Bat if can't get some
thing to eat more sabstaRtialler than a
smell, / always fail back on roast beef.
A chicken don't gather shreWdness like a
owl, and itneyer picks up any wisdom.
1t is not a talented thing like fox. If
you can show me more stupider thing
than hen, wish you would trot her
out. The rooster has got what little
sense there ever was in the family. 1t is
J one of the worst difficulties with a
| chicken that she don't know its place.
: She won't stay in the barn-yard, where
she belongs, any way you can fix it. If
your mother has got fower-beds in the
front yand--and it's a mighty curious
mother which ain't-eyery last chicken
on the place will get ia to scratch them,
II It takes till next Christmas and then
goodby TO the hyacinfhes and crocuses,and
jerry TyFanthems, and all that kind of fool
ishness. Then is the time you want to
have two jackets on, or else forget to come
home early, if it vas you which left the
i lattice gate open. Also, q hen is hard
hearted and cruel, and will Kill every little
desolatedg stray, = chicken, who tries to
associate with her own brood, and this is
good enough reason Why sne is like a step
mother. If a hen once gets a fair hold
hof5a a little chicken to shake it by the nape
of the neck it viii .neYen kick again in
this community more than twice. The
freqBentest bad habit which a hen has
{ got is golRg off to the neighbors to lay ;
also it is too soft a thing for the neighbors;
but il is generally chronic fora hen to do
} it, and the only way for to cure her is to
cus her head of and to boil her down
into SOUP She won't go to. the neighbors
o TO lay many times after that, don't
think ~ .4s Az