The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-12-03

are deao because you dldn ttake the
necessary care and precautions" "But,"
said the questioner, sit must have cost
you considerable for so much lime and
carbolic acid, to say nothing of the
work" eyes, Of course, it cost me
something and made extra work, but
lime and carbolic acid are in the long
run cheaper than cholera medicine, and
the results are much more satisfactory
and profitable.
With October came the County Fair,
and although Mrs. Slocum was little
fearful lest the Judges" might not
know good Brahma from poor one, she
decided to send coop Of her earliest
and best. She reasoned that there
would certainly be some people present
who would know fine fowls, and that
even though her Brshmas failed to win
premium; it would pay to exhibit
them. And it did; Mrs. Slocum's
Brahmas were the finest chickens on
the fair grounds. and as the Judge"
was man who knew something about
fine fowls, he awarded them first pre-
MUM. Reckoned in dollars and cents,
that premium didn't add much-only
50 to the credit side of the poultry ac-
count; but in the minds of Plainville
people it set the seal of approval on
Mrs. Slocum's Brahmas, and from that
time forth. if any of her neighbors had
any doubts,in regard to thesuperiority of
the Brahmas over common fowls, they
said nothing about it in public.
After the fair, and about three weeks
before Thanksgiving time, Mrs. Slocum
carefully culled her Brahmas, and all
the disqualified ones were put up with
the haif.breed chickens to fatten for
market. When dressed for market, the
half. breed chickens averaged fully two
pounds apiece heavier than common
chickens Of the same age. 'Only think
of itr' exclaimed one farmer, when the
weight Of Mrs. Slocum's market chick
ems was mentioned before the usual
evening meeting of loafers in the store
and postoffice, ''she gets a good quarter
apiece more for her chickens than we
did for ours. We raise about hun.
dred chickens for market every year,
and twenty-five cents apiece on hun
dred chickens, amounts to something
1t will pay us to pay her three dollars
apiece for Brahma BOOSTERS to run with
our hens next year, and mean to have
pair" "And l." said another farmer,
"mean to fix up my old hen-house, and
see if cant get some eggs from our
hens this winter, and shall set some
hens early next year, so as to have some
pullets old enough to lay in the fall,
those early pullets of Mrs Slocum's
have been laying month, now"
I Verify it looked as if Mrs. Slocum's
missionary poultry work among Plain
willie people was bearing fruit; certain
it was. that before cold weather, there
was a good deal of repairing done on
old hen.houses, and Mrs. Slocum sold
not less than dozen Brahma roosters
to farmers who wished to raise "some
} thing bigger than common chickens
for market" The sale of fresh eggs,
of the market chickens, AMI of the doZ
en- BOOSTERS, placed the balance on the
credit side of the poultry account; but
it didn't stay there very long. for anoth
err poultry house. large enough to ac-
commodate 100 hens and still leave
room in which to keep at least hun
dred early chicks for the first month OF
their lives, was nut up on Slocum
Farm. The neighbors wondered how
ulny hens Mrs. Slocum meant to
keep, but no longer expressed any
doubts in regard to her ability to make
them pay; indeed, the prevailing opin-
ion among neighbors was that she
would eventually get rich by keeping
poultry,
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