The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-09-02
AN EXPERIENCE WITH CHICKENS.
by BILL NYE.

Ny DEAR Son: We are still pegging
along here at home in the same old way,
your mother and me. We are neither of
us real well, and yet l suppose We are as
we'll as folks at our time of life could eX-
pect to be. Your mother has good deal
Of pain in her side all the while, and am
off my feed more or less in the morning.
Doc has fixed me up some condition pow
ders that he says will straighten me out
right away. Perhaps so. Doc has straight
ened out a good many people in his time.
| wish L had as many dollars as he has
Strengthened out people.
Most every spring I've had to take a little
dandelion root. limbered up with gin, but
this year that didn't seem to get there, as
the boys say. l fixed up dose of it, and
took it day and night for a week, till / wore
that old dandelion root clear down 10 skin
and bone, but in ten days my appetite was
worse than ever, and / had head on me
like 2-year- colt. Dandelion root
never served me that way before, and your
mother thinks that the goodness Is all out
of it, may be. It's the same old dandelion
root that I've been using for twenty years.
and / believe when you'v tried thing, and
proved it's good, you orient to change off.
/ tried to get your mother TO take dose
of it last week for the pain in her side.
Fixed up two-quart jug of it for her, but
she can't bear the smell of gin, so i had to
take il myself. Dandelion is great puri-
fer of the blood, Henry. Some days after
I've been taking this dandelion root for an
hour or two, feel as if my blood was
pretty near pure enough. / feel like a
new man.
You know / wrote you last winter, Henry,
that was going to buy some new-fangled
hens in the spring, and go into the egg
business. Well, / sent east in March for a
couple of fowls, one of each sect. They
came at 80 per pair over and above railroad
charges, which was some S4.35 more on
top of that.
/ thought that as soon as the hen got
here and got her things and got rested she
would proceed to lay some of these here
high-priced eggs which we read about in
the Poultry Keepers Guide and American
EgOist. But she seemed pensive, and
when / tried to get acquainted with her
she would cluck in croupy tone of voice
ana go away.
The rooster was no doubt fine looking
brute when he was shipped, but when he
got here he strolled around with preoc-
cupied air and seemed to feel above us.
He was poker-dot rooster, with gray
name and tail, and he was no doubt re-
fined, but / did not think he should feel
| above his business, for we are only plain
people who are accustomed to the self
made American hen. He seemed bored all
the time, and l could see by the way he
acted that he pinned to be back in Fremont.
| Ohio, having his picture taken for the
| Poultry Keepers Guide and American
Eggist. He still yearned for appreciation.
He was used to being made of, as your
mother says, and ii CALLED him to enter into
our plain. humdrum home life.
| / never saw such naughty rooster in my
life. Actually, when / went out to feed
him in the morning he would give me
n cold, arrogant look that hurt my feelings.
/ know I'm not what you would call an edu-