The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-07-05
FARM AND GARDEN.

CHICKENS versus Hoes There is
between the nations Of this globe con-
tinual warfare even when thov do not
shoot or sabre each other. For while
actual fighting with guns and swords
may cease at some distant time, even
the millennium would not do away
with competition. And competitor In
stroy the weak and lead to a survival
Of the fittest, that is to say, the strong
est and most gifted.
AS with human beings so with AMI
mails and plants, nature is stern task
master. Only those are allowed to
increase which are capable of improve
ment and even Of rapid improvement.
If they fail in the development Of their
physical ard mental faculties, they
arc soon replaced by other animals, or
plants which have outstripped them
In the universal race for perfection.
Now among the domestlcated AMI.
mails, the pig has been hitherto con-
sidered the consumer of garbage par
excellence and Is kept and tolerated
mainly for this reason. Twenty years
ago the rabbit was brought forward in
competition, but 1t was not a success.
France certainly adopted rabbits and
turned a cold shoulder to tho fat aud
dirty pAchyderm but the swine did not
care. If Frenchmen lived on rabbits
pork retained its sway nearly every
where else and they grunted defiance
alike at the tidy little rabbits and their
polite protectors. What else might be
expected Of frog-caters like themp Let
them take their custom elsewhere and
welcome. People with sense and
digestion would require pork for ever
and aye; Americans, Englishmen and
Germans would know how to apnreci-
ate its merits.
The pigs really held their own In
the market as well as In argument.
But Of late there Is fresh stir among
them, for another animal Is pushing
them hard In the struggle for the post
of honor among the vlands which are
daily converted into human beauty,
human energy, human Intelligence by
the processes of mastication and diges-
ton throughout this broad land Of
ours. The feathered birds, ducks,
geese and turkeys, and especially
chickens have entered the lists against
them and Justify GROW challenge for
the position on the national bill Of fare
which has been for generations con-
sidered as being above the aspirations
OF even the most ambitious birds OF
any family whatever.
Poultry, as is we'll known, consume
garbage quite rs we'll as pigs and
much more thoroughly. Their personal
qualities are In some Respects less Of
iensive and If some people cannos
stand their morning song, why tho
lay of a Iull-grOwn porker or the
yQueals of his sons and heirs are also
far from agreeable to the human ear.
The drawbacks therefore which may
be laid TO the charge Of tho winged
creatures are comparatively light.
However there IL against them one
ought to be Judged. with more than
human lenlency - their nlgh,lncss.
1t Is easy enough to herd swine. Let
them settle In some convenient bog or
marsh and they will not move out of
1t on their own account, for pigs arc
phlegmatlc. But try to keep chickens
penned up In u yard be 1t ever 80 nice |!
And II you could even keep them from
sparring and running about your gar
uens and tearing up your tavOrito
flowers Is there anything more diill cult
or more trying than to make Them
hatoh and bring up their chickens IN
decent moJherly way?
so the popular mind was badly di.
vided In regard TO tho hogs versus
chickens question until lately, say
cause has been holped onward by the
most marvellous discovery ofartihcial
Matching or incubation. The result of
1t has been that hens arc absolvod from
that pal Of their maternal duLies which
has always In their minds played the
part OF a mental bugbCur, ana chickens
may be brought Into this nte at Il ratio
whloh is really astonishing.
Mira. N. q. Grove from ArClmore,
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Il
lady who is renowned for her way OF
farming chickens, writes to tho Pcriec-
LiOn Incubator Company al Pnilauel-
phia:
"We hatchod out Of your Il.cubator last fall
l4S onioks out OF ITO cgss. Or tnis number
there were no more than 8 chicks uoiu. ulod
the balance strong nnu noal.hy.'
We say well done for the lady, and
also for the Perfection Incubator. If
tho ot1nl OF our great cities can be
transformed into chicken broth and
delicate spring chicks by tho patience
and skill of American women, and II
new line of action can be opened in
every farm house in those United
States, th1 sooner the Perfection lnru-
batcrs are introduced all round the
better IL will be for the common wealth
ut large.
Meanwhile the hogs arc turning up
their noses at what they call these now
tangled notions, and the toathercd
ones tcel eiated. That Is all about
chickens versus hogs for the present
FALSE ECoNoMY.-Therc Is vast
amount of false economy in business,
and 1t has found Its way to the homes
Ofmany Of our farmers. True economy,
not parsimony, is the basis of success,
and this Is as true in tho farmers occu.
patton rs IN any other. Tne farmer
who objects to giving his son liberal