Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-06-23

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. welcome were the words of q kind
, hearted old Mrs. Brown. ed gin
you two or three settin's for that mat
ter if I'd a knowed you wanted tel
go to raisin poultry. It's too awful
bad ter send so fer and pay so much,
and after all mebbe won't none of
of them hatch"
s'When | make an investment, .
pompously remarked Farmer Doolit-
tie. 81 wanter know what I'm get
tin of. When a man has had a flock
of fowls all his life, an his father an
grandfather before him, he knows
purity well what they be-
''Durin' the first year of Washing
toms administration" began Mrs.
Pettigree, "there was jest an even
dozen hens on our place. Grandpa
Pettigree KEEP account of the aigs
laid, and l wanter tell you what them
hens done that year" And then for
/ the one hundreth time she related the
remarkable story, and ended by say
ing that the fowls now on the place
came in unbroken descent from that
same ancient, remarkable flock. Like
many people who boast of their fami-
ly lineage, she had nothing to say of
the present.
To willfully select some new fan
gled kink of a fowl in preference to
their choice, ancient birds was an in
suit to every true Rutvillite. Hav-
ing been committed, however, by an
unprotected, we'll meaning woman,
the majority were inclined to look
upon it as a 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 commotion she had
caused, or of the deep interest her
mistress felt in the result of her task.
But one thing she did which might
have been a lesson to many of her
owners neighbors = she attended
strictly to her own business. The
result was that she came off her nest
at the proper time with eleven chicks,
active little fellows, all alike. They
had the best of care and grew both in
stature and points of beauty in a
manner that made the mistress proud |
of her venture. Even the neighbors,
for they were honest at heart, could |
not help admiring the handsome
young brood.
It was a disappointment to the
owner, as time passed on, to find |
that but four of the number were |
pullets. She was at loss what to
do with so many male birds. They |
were 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 neighbors at length be-
came sufficiently friendly to these in
truding fowls as to offer to exchange |
a 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 handsome brood as the most crit
ical fancicr need care to possess. 1t
was Mrs. Winters plan to keep a su-
perior grade of fowls, and for both
birds and eggs obtain a correspond
inglv high price. Just how to most
advantageously reach an appreciative
market was the question which puz-
zled her. Her limited means would
not permit of much advertising, and
and there was no prospect of local
trade.
She was reading the county paper
one evening, which contained an ac-
count of the fair, with premium list,
to be shortly held in a distant part of
the county, where the people were of
more progressive mind. Among the
premiums offered was one of five dol
lars for the best crop of fine fowls.
Instantly Mrs. 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. 1t was days
Journey from her home if she should
go, there was the impeachment of leav
ing her home and children. However,
the idea would not forsake her that
this was an opportunity she should
improve, and she determined to make
the effort. She engaged near neigh
Dor to attend to her place left her
two Younger children with friend,
and, accompanied by her eldest child,
q boy of -. she undertook the long
journey.
With the aid of her son she had
constructed two neat coops. One
was for her exhibition fowls, in the
other she put her surplus ROSTERS
which she intended to offer for sale,
hoping to dispose Of them at better
price than she could obtain In her
There would be too much injustice
in the fate that directs our lives, if
such hope, determination and indus
try as characterized Mrs. Winters
should go unrewarded. Yes, though
criticised and laughed at by her
success was at last to be
hers. Her fowls were by far the fin=
est at the fair, taking the premiums
offered and the five surplus ROSTERS
found appreciative buyers at the