The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-07-05
HEN TRACKS BY BILL NYF--
WILLIAMS DIRECTIONS
ABOUT THE FES-
TIVE LAYER,
He Speaks of an Atlanta Friend Who
Loaned Him His Horse While he
Wa in This CITY.

AHS OldU IL WAS I1l OF
hair breadth escapes and thrilling ex-
perlences. 1 was misled regarding the
work, for 1 was led to believe that it.
was something like "Field, Dungeon
and Escape" or ''How l Put Down the
Rebellion and Boarded Myself"
The book is extremely tame read
ing, though written in a neat and
grammatical manner. "Twentv-fve
Years in a Poultry Yard" is no doubt a
valuable work, but those who purchase
1T thinking that it resembles Twenty
Years in Congress" will shed many a
bitter tear before they get through with
1T. Last night I read aloud to nv
family and to a titled nobleman from
Klnnie Kinnic, Wis, who is visiting
us this summer while waiting for an
opening in DR.. FIetcher's lanyard at
this place, a chapter on Frosted Comb
and Wattles," also one entitled "In-
dUcements for a Hen to Sit" This
part of the volume is of interest only
to those who feel an interest in such
things.
Mr.. Howells would like the realism
which the author introduces into the
description of how to deal with a hen
n try ing to get her to sit and remain
seated long enough to become a pa
rent. The author states that a warm
stove lid, when showed under the av-
erage hen. will almost Immediately
induce her to sit down and take her
things off.
To ascertain whether the hen really
feels a tendencylto sit one should watch
her closely, and especially observe her
temperature. Induce the hen to take,
about eight inches of a physicians
glass thermometer into her throat for
two to five minutes. Do not say any
thing funny to her while thus arranged,
for she might laugh and thus break the
thermometer with her teeth.
Feel the pulse of the hen at the same
time. If the pulse which you will find
just over the instep-is rapid or irreg-
ular, coupled with a loaded eye, cold
ness of the bridge of the nose, moth
patches, together with acidity of the
crop on rising in the morning, fretful-
ness, peevishness or sudden flashes of
heat and cold, there is a tendency to-
wards a sedentary life. Purchase a
sitting of most any expensive eggs.
The Indian game 1 have found to be a
good general purpose fowl, furnishing
an afternoons amusement on a rainy
day and a chicken pie for dinner at
the same price.
The Indian game at twelve weeks of
age weighs three to four pounds which
is mostly breast and forearm. One gets
good results in a short time, and unless
rearing flows for a clearinghouse the
Indian Game, aside from being a fear
less and brave fowl, is excellent for all
around entertainment both before and
after death.
Some like the Derbyshire Redcaps,
some the Black Minorcas. Others like
the Cochins the Marshal Mel and the
Early Rose, but the Indian Game, as l
say, for a general purpose hen, seems
''to meet my demands" as a quick
grower, prompt and careful layer, a
good mother and the nucleus of as fine
a gravy as I ever laid a lip over Her
husband is a quiet but manly foul,
with shoulders we'll thrown back, dark,
flashing eyes, is a good half back, and
in death, with his broad, tender bosom
padded with summer savory and a
dash of onion, he makes those who
cluster about him almost forget the
sorrowfuI circumstances under which
they are met together.
The hen of this species is also oblig-
ing and CHEEKY in the matter Of laying.
While some hens hang back and re-
quire a good deal of coaxing, claiming
that they have come away and forgot
ten their notes and that they did not
expect to be called upon, the Indian
game hen cheerily asks what sort of
an egg you want, and while you are
getting your sherry ready she makes
the arrangements for the egg.
Sherry and egg, or egg flip, may be
made by a very slight effort, and eth
er will be found nutritious to a re-
markable degree. Physicians unite in
the opinion that this wonderful co OPP
eration-hen cooperation, as n may
say of man and the hen-to make a
soothing, nutritious and easily diges-
ted food for the invalid is one of the
most wonderful of natures great phe-
nOmena.
The hen differs from the man largely
in her failure to grow teeth. Man sue
goods IN nrnuino from two to five