Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-06-19
FARM
Farmers Hen Should Re-
ceiVe Good Care.
FEW OF HER PLAIN RIGHTS.
She Should Have Clean, Dry Quarters,
Food That viii Make Eggs.
Pure Water, Etc.
FEW OF HER PLAIN RIGHTS.

Among all the domeSt.
has been reared on the ia
cestors and upon our owr
the target for so much al
been treated with so nue.
thought, word and deed az
hen. Oftentimes withou
in many instances even
except what she can pick
only sufficient attention to -
appropriating the products OF l.
try, she has been expected to W,
whole year through, taking care OF
herself and her broods, and to paTSa
larger proportionate income than any
thing else on the farm-in short, to fully
solve the problem of making bricks with
out straw-for woe to her if she appro-
priated any straw" in the shape of
growing grain or vegetables, scattered
seed or ripened fruit. Left to run at
large, she has been chidden for nesting
in by-places, for Matching at untimely
seasons, for being in every way "more
bother than worth" On the other hand,
being confined within proper limits, she
has been frowned upon for desiring the
comforts of sufficient food and drink
and fairly decent and cleanly quarters,
and has been stamped as useless, pam
pered creature, costing more than she
comes to-" and peculiarly subject to dis
ease and vermin. An artificial creation,
taken from unlimited resources of range,
freedom and fresh air into forced condi-
tions just the reverse of all these; i'm
proved from her natural state of laying
a single nestful of eggs in a season to a
forced artificial product of dozens of eggs
throughout the year, she is expected to
rustic for himself with all the ambition
which she displayed in a wild state,
while yielding to her owner the products
rightfully to be expected from the arti-
fetal state. Bred for a general purpose
machine, it is desired of her that she
be as good for each special purpose as a
special-purpose machine, and she has
even been asked to manufacture insult
| ticlent general-purpose material into
abundant special products-a3 when she
is expected to shell out eggs with unfail-
ing regularity on diet partly fattening,
partly heating and wholly insufficient
for her living needs, leaving out of the
question her manufacturing needs.
The question, "Does poultry paw ?''
has been Gem lnding an answer with
especial iDs Ete zee during the past two
or three years; but if this were an
swered as to poultry as a whole, there
would still remain another more peril
nent to the great majority, "Does the
farmers hen pay?" Before the latter
question can be answered with any show
of fairness, the farmers hen must have
her plain rights. If she must run at
large and secure her own living, it is
certainly her right to help herself to
whatever she may be able to find and to
raise her brood in her own way, treating
| them to all the available danties which
| the season affords. If she is confined
within bounds, treated as an artificial
! and expected to ply in cash results, it is
her right that she be furnished with all
the things that are absolutely necessary
to her health and well-being, and with
conditions that, being artificial, NAV vet
approach as near as possible to those
which are natural, besides raw material
enough and of the proper sort to manu-
facture the expected product. 1t is her
right to have clean, dry quarters; to
have food that will make eggs if eggs
are expected; TO have pure water, and
to have such attention as is necessary to
make her comfortable in conditions over
which she has no control. Having these.
II she does not then render to her owner
cash returns more than equal to the out
lay, he is justified in saving that she
does not pay; but until then he is doing
her rank Injustice to hint at such a thing
The Mystery of Maternity.