The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1898-12-01
NEWS FOR FARMERS.
SEVERAL NEW JERSEY SETTLERS
COMBINE ON A WONDERFUL IDEA.
jars L. Ford, William Curtis Gibson
and X. K. Munkittrick Stockholders In
a Company That VIII supply a Long
Felt Want to Our EEg Producers.

| ana Ii. n MunEIstI1ck SSOChholueEs An
a Com pnny That VIII supply Long
Felt Want to Our Egg Producers.
Il A company has just teen formed in
New JeI sey for the pu. osG Of suppl
Ing inst net to hens. sch we'll kn
farmers as James L. Ford, Will -,-r
: Curtis Gibson and r. K. Munkittrick
are stockholders in i and if filling
long felt want is all tat is needed the
success Of the oompaLy is already as
sured.
Ma one who has ever dabbled in hens
needs be told that she gallinaceous
birds haze no instinct yhatsEsr-- SAsAA-
have blind luck, bat "a hen with in
stincts in good working order would be
an anomaly.
visited Mr.. Ford at his extensive
farm in New Jersey in order to find out
what could about the project. found
him in a frcck e5at and overalls train
ing squaeh vine up maple tree. He
greeted me cordially and asked me to
como and SEQ his tomato trenches He
also showed me qU1Je all extensive area
covered with birch poles for his radish
es to climb on He was very urbane
and willingly told me all about the
company.
"No man," said he, sitting down on
one Of his largest cucumbers and mo-
tioning me to q seat On another, "who
has ever kept hens but has wondered
why they were not provided with good
common sense brand Of instinct. No
animal needs instinct more than her
1t was to supply this need that cur COM
pany was formed You know that if
you put hen On cCbblestones she will
brood ever them with all the devotion
possible, and if at the end CT three weeks
you put Eaby chicken under her, her
what you might term false instinct
will cause her to cluck and call to the
cobble to come forth and follow her. !"
admitted the force of his remark
because when boy had once set a
ben on some green apples and she had
covered them without a murmur for
week, when l took pity on her and re-
placed them with real eggs. The fol
lowing day, not liking the feeling Of
the eggs. she left them and gathering
together the apples that / had left scat
tered upon the barn floor she sat on
them again.
/ told this experience to Mr.. Ford,
and he said: If she'd had few of our
instinct powders before sitting, she
would have repudiated the fraud at
once. Is it instinct or the lack Of it.,
be continued, that makes a heavy
Light Brahma plant ponderous and
feathsEed foot unQa hler aS,s-as =, 'ss',-
listen calmly to their expiring peeps?
It's lack Of it. She needs one Of our
powders. "
/ made a mental calculation Of the
plumber of chickens that had seen sac
rificed in that way by mothorly and
good natured hens who would have felt
hurt if you had told them that they did
not know how to bring up their young.
We had risen and were now walking
as we talked, and we soon came to Mr..
Ford's corn trellises. He is great be-
liever in climbing, and it was pretty
sight to see his corn waving in the
breeze that blew through the trellis net
ting.
Poultry raising would be en un-
mixed joy" said be as he picked tur-
nip and offered it to me, eff fellow
wasn't constantly running up against
this lack of instinct Oh the part of the
fowls. If hen had instinct, she'd
know enough to keep her mouth shut
when she laid an egg, but as it is she
cackles away like woman with a Sc
cret, and before size knows it her egg is
ON the way to the table. But the aim Of
our company will be to furnish each
hen with a sufficient amount Of instinct
to render her profitable to her master.
When she has that instinct, she will
not set ON her nest long after her eggs
have been removed, she will not walk
off through the long grass, calling to
her brood to follow her, when the
chicks have all been swallowed by the
treacherous domestic cat and she will
not do the Thousand and one things that
any hen, no matter what her breed or
breeding, will do as it is. /"
l told Mr. Ford, as | shook hands
with him in parting, that there was not
farmer, either amateur or profession
al, in the whole Union who would not
be glad to purchase a package of his
instinct powders, and as l left the ge-
nial granger he was putting cushions
under his water melons so that they
would not get bruised by contact with
the earth.