The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-06-30
CHICKENS eersus Hoos.--rhere + !,

CHICKEEst Versus Hoas There lis
between the nations of this globe con-
tinual warfare even when they do not
shoot or sabre each other. For while
actual fighting with guns and swords
may cease at some distant time. even
tho millennium would not do away
with competition. And .competion In
the ordinary walks of life would de.
stroy the weak and lead to a surviva,
Of the. fittest, that Is to say, the strong
est and most gifted.
AS With human beings 80 with ami
mails and plants, nature Is a stern task
master. =, Only those are allowed tC
Increase which are capable Of improve.
ment ard even of rapid Improvement.
If they fail In the development of their
physical and 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-
excellence and Is kept md 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 cold shoulder to tho fat and
dirty pachyderm but the swine did not
care. If Frenchmen lived on rabbits
pork retained It's sway nearly every
where else and they grunted defiance
alike ut the tidy little rabbits and their
polite protectors. What else might be
expected of frog-caters like them? Let
them take their custom elsewhere and
welcome. People with sense and Il
digestion would require pork for ever
and aye; Americans, Englishmcn and
Germans would know how 10 apnreci-
ate its merits.
The pigs 1eally held their own In
the market as we'll 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 viands 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 teathercd birds, ducks
geese and turkeys. and especially
chickens have entered the lists agains,
them and Justify crow challenge fol-
the position on the national bill of fare
which has been for generations con-
sdcred as being above the aspirations
OF even the most ambitious birds OF
any family whatever.
Poultry, as is we'll known, consume
garbage quite as well as pigs and
much MOI thoroughly. Their personal
qualities are III some respects less OF
lcnsiVe and If some people cannot
stand their morning song, why the
lay Of 1ull-grown porlter or the
SQueals 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 the winged
creatures are comparatively light.
However there is against them one
trait in the character of birds that
ought to be judged with more than
human lcnlency - their 1lighllness.
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 are
phlegmatic. But try to keep chickens
penned up in Il yard be it ever 50 nice
And ii you could even keep them from
Sparring and running about your gar
dens and tearing up your tavUrite
&oWers is there anything more difficult
or moro trying than to make Lhcm
hatch and bring up their chickens in
II decent motherly way?
SO the popular mind was badly d.
yiucd In regard to tho hogs versus
chickens question until lately, say
during the last five years, the chicken
cause mas been helped onward by the
most marvellous discovery ofartiticial
Matching or Incubation. The result OF
1t has been that hens are absolved from
that pal OF their maternal duLies winch
mas always III their. minds play ed the
part OF mental bugbEur, ana chickens
may be brought into this l,ie ut a rate
which Is really astonishing.
Mrs. N. @. Grove from Ardmorc.
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, a
lady who is renowned tor her way OF
farming chickens, writes to the Perfec-
tion Incubator Company at Pniladel-
phia:
"We hatched out of your Incubator last fall
148 cLicks out OF IT'S eggs. or this number
thero wero no moro than s chicks doiolmed
tho balance strong and healthy.
We say well done for the lady, and
also for the Perfection Incubator. If
tho oital 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 1arm house in these United
States, the sooner tho Perfection Incu-
bators are introduced all round the
better IL will be for the common w cal tn
at large.
Mean while the hogs are turning up
their noses at what they call these new
tangled notions, and the tcathcrcd
ones icel elated. That is all about
chickens versus hogs for the present
FARMHRs who are wide awake and
given 10 Investigation do not SOW SC
much wheat to the aero az they