The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-04-02
clean food ordinance would have been made
to cover il as riridIy as the hog

clean food ordinance would have been made
to cover it as rigidly as the hog.
In illustration of how far the chickens
food imparts its character to the flesh we
may mention case, rather unpleasant to
read about, we must admit, that came I'M
der our own personal observation years
ago. An inventive genius living in the
near neighborhood OF the little town Of
Caseyville, Ky, on the Ohio river, be-
thought him f new way 10 make for
tune out of the poultry business. It was
very soon after the close of the war.
He had no farm. but he arranged some
suburban lots with high board fences that
the fowls could not fly over, and then
secured the country in the purchase OF
all the chickens, old and young, that he
could find for sale. intending 10 fatten
them for market, build up for himself a
reputation for fat fowls, and after he had
used all the surplus of the region, pro-
coed into fowl raising on most gigantic
scale. His next step was TO contract
with the town authorities for al the dead
animals within the corporate limits, he
agreeing to remove them promptly for
the carcass. Caseyville was then town
in which everybody could keep stock on
the streets. who desired to do so. and
the year figuring in this Renaissance
was q hog-cholera year, therefore this
poulterer operating on plan of his own
found good deal of work TO do in or
der TO fill out his contract with the town
fathers. The carcasses were taken di-
rectly to his poultry lots where he CHOPPED
them UP for his fowls 10 feed upon, cal
culating that the animals direct, with the
resultant insects, would be about all the
food needed in his poultry operations.
Blu. little time elapsed ere that gentle
mans hennery presented no special attrac-
lions for the visitor, it being in the sum
mer season of the year. People who had
business in that neighOOrh0Od went round
by some other way. Finally 4 shipment OF
fat poultry was made to Evansville, Ind,
where it created something Of l sensation.
There appeared nothing unusual about it
until the cooking process was put under
way-then speedily prevailed the kitchen
an odor so extremely peculiar, and so re-
marlably unlike the spicy breeZes of Cey-
Ions isle, that the cook had to go out and
stand in q vacant back lot until dinner was
ready.
Only one shipment of poultry was ever
made to Evansville from that particular
poultry yard, and we think it highly proba-
bic that the name of the ingenious proprie-
tor of the said yard has not appeared in the
printed list of hotel arrivals at that city up
to the present day.
The gentleman s new-fangled poultry in
dustry didn't last long. His fowls soon
died of by the wholesale, as we say, de-
veloping as it was asserted, hosts of dis
eases never before heard Of as affecting
poultry, such as hog cholera, blind staggers
and, in short, about everything that had
destroyed the town animals with which the
poultry had been fed.
It is not the aim of this writer to in any
way set people against the use of poultry rs
food, but rather to make people more care
full than many of them are, with reference
to what their poultry is feeding upon. Than
the flesh of fowls none could be more
Clearly, provided the food making it is of 9
Clearly character, but when this last is
otherwise the positive excellence and purity
of chicken" would scarcely be safe to
bet on.
Now that a reform is going on in every
thing, much time cannot elapse ere it
reaches this chicken question as sprung by
the doctor-our correspondent. When it
does come up it will amount to about what
has PANIED out in the butter reforms. The
man with reputation for good and nicely
handled butter can always sell it at fair
prices, while the other fellow is forced I'll
take his chances and to often find thu
chances against him. 1t will be exactlk,
that way relative to poultry-the man
known 10 supply his poultry with only
Clearly food, and to keep them away from
all other, will be able to find ready mar
ket, while the other fellow will be running
at haphazard.
1t is needless for US to go into detail as to
what ought to be considered proper food for
chickens. The only thing needed is to keep
filthy things away from them. Some per-
sons might conclude that insects feeding
upon vegetation would properly class under
the head of improper food, but not so. In
sects of the character mentioned are the
natural food of poultry