The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1890-07-03

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It's too awful bad tor send 40 Ter snd pa
90 much. aud after I'll mebbe vont non
of them Gill hatch.
When ] make al investment pompous
" rem srked Farmer DoolI,tie. lsanie
knos VIA, I'm esl,ia' % When ma
has bad . h,ck Of fowls sii his life, Az hi
father M grsn'fsiher before him, he know
purity we'll ~hs, they be.
DARN the frst year OF Washington
dminisiraiiou. began Mrs. Pe,,isree. ther
was lest an even dox,n beur on our place
Grandpa Pstiisree KEEP sccouot Of the sis
isd. aud | wsnier tell you What then
hens done iba, yesr And then for the on'
d haujreitb ,ins she rotated toe remarks'
BILE story. and ended by saying that tb,
fowls new Cd the place came in unbroket
descent from that same sDcieut, remarka-
bile q ,ck. Like many people who boast o.
their family lineage. she had nothing Il
say of the present.
To ~ilIiully SOLICIT from some nsw fan
elsd kiod ola fowl IN preference TO theii
choice. aneit ut birds was IN insult to every
true Rulvilleisn. Having been committed,
however. by IN unprotected, well meaning
woman. the msjori,y were inclined to look
upon IL ~ mistake, and TO pity rather
than censure the offender.
Meanwhile. the old hen that sat with
such patience on the eggs little dreamed
OF the commoiion she had caused. or ol
the deep interest her mistress felt in the
result sf her task. But one thing she did
which might have been lesson to many
OF her owners neighbor's-she attended
strictly to her own business. The result
was that she came Of her nest ut the
proper time with eleven chicks. active IT.
tie fellows. all alike. They had the best
OF care and grew both in stature and points
OF beauty IN manner that made the mise
tress proud Of her venture. Even the
neighbors, for they were honest at heart.
could not help sdmiring the handsome
young brood.
IL was disappointment to the owner.
as time passed on, TO find that but four OF
the number were pulets. She was at
loss what to do with so many male birds.
They we're too valuable to be sacrificed for
food, and she we'll knew there would be
no sale for them in her locality. One OF
her peighb bors at length became sufficient
ly friendly to these intruding fowls as to
offer to exchange = hen for one OF the
young roosters; Mrs. Winters courteously
declined this generous proposition.
Toward fall. when the young fowls were
several months old. they were as hand
some brood Us the most critical fancier
need to possess. II was Mrs. Winters plan
to keep 3 superior grade Of fowls, and for
both birds and eggs obtain correspond.
ingly high price. just how to most I'D
vsntsseonsly reach an appreciative market
was the question which puzzled her. Her
limited means would not permit OF much
and there was no prospect Of
q local trade.
She was reading in the county paper one
evening, which contained an account OF
fair. with premium list, to be shortly held
in distant part Of the county, where the
people were OF more progressive mind.
Among the premiums offered was one five
dollars for the best crop OF fine fowls. In
stantly MIS-. Winters thought OF her own
fine birds and Of the good opportunity
this would be to display them. But there
was the difficulty she would encounter in
getting her birds to the fair II was
days journey from her home; il she should
60, there was the impediment OF leaving
her home aud children. However. the
idea would notsiorsake her that this was
40 opportunity she should improve, and
sbe determined to make the effort. She
engaged near neighbor to attend to her
place; left her two younger children with
a friend. and. accompanied by her eldest
child, boy Of IL, she undertook the long
Journey.
With the aid OF her son she had con /.
,tructed two neat coops. One was for her
exhibition fowls. in the other she put her
surplus roosters which she intended to Of
er for sale, hoping TO dispose OF them at
better price than she could obtain 10 her |
ieig borbool
There would be too much injustice in the
ate that directs our lives If such hope,
aud industry as character
zsd Mrs. Winters should 60 unrewarded.
les, though criticised and laughed at by
Ter neighbors, success was 1T last to be
lers. Her fowls we're by fsr the finest at
he fair, taking the premiums ogered; and
be FIVE surplus roosteTs found spprecia-
i've buyers at the handsome sum OF 81
acb; giving the happy widow SIS 5asare
ult Of ber trip to the fair.
II is useless to describe the feelingenof
ictory that Mrs. Winters enjoyed on her
eturD home. The neighborbors we're ~
ouisLed. Mrs Winters success was the
ole topic OF conversation f5r fortnight.
nd the rspidity with which her fowls
rev in popularity vas something sur.
rising. The prejudice OF her neigbbors
0 far snbeided that IN less than three
ears every Aock Of fowls 10 the neighbor.
God bad been improved by the introduce
lon OF this new blood. Mrs. Winters
commenced her poultry business as IN of
boot to the farm operations. At present il
her main business. aud = thriving one,
20. Bat fsw farmers Of RutviIle are more
rosperou. than ,tbe slender little woman
ho dared to have mind OF her own and
ep outside of the fu,. even though living ,
the depths Of Ra,viiir. II
The Cannisg SesseB.