The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1900-02-09
Must wri.e Something
EDrrOR DEmocRAT

EDrroR DRMocRAT:
Several years ago your predecessor
made 10 me the following remark !;
ssThsre are times In i man'n llie when he
feels be must write aomething.n Person
81 experience confirms the truth Of the
remark. This Ia especially true at ihis
time. just now the impulse to write
something 10 irresistible and will not
down. Ii tirst originated the evening
that read the Albany College Student
for January. 1900. and the articls with
the headline, "The Faculty at the Poul.
try SHOW" 10 responsible fos the feeling.
Ia that article the Associate Editor Gays:
asPerhaps the readers Of our columns
will soon hear Of chair Of Poultry
Graft 10 having been established In Al
bany College," This intimation OF the
possibilsty.of the establishment Of De-
partment Of Cockerelology in the college
set ms 10 thinking, and the more I
feel that must write. II seems 70 be
utterly impossible 10 get rid Of the feel
ing in any other way, When an asth
matte attack deprlves me ct the blessing
Of stlred natures sweet restorer' and
darkness and silence prevail, / can see
Ia my minds eye the headline, "The
Faculty at the Poultry Show" !" and ] feel
that muet write. II go to the Pos.
Office or take walk In any direction and
see cockerel BY the way, the same feel
ing comes over me. When ! 60 to the
college and meet the Associate Editor In
the classroom or elsewhere, | feel that
must write and advocate his appoints
smsnt TO the chair Of Cockerelogy in Al
bany College. That he 10 an adept in
the science OF "Po1ltry Craft" have
not the shadow Of donht. His article
In the College Student shows that he 10
thoroughly onYersant with the termin.
ology Of the science OF Cockerelology
He perhaps does not aspire 10 the dig. !
nifty Of Professor of Poultry Craft" but
that mikes no difference. Important :
positions often seek the man who 10 2
qualified to fill them; and how Albany =
College has rare opportunity OF secur- y
ing a specialist for the char OF Cockersl. Il
ology. That it has such opportunity 10
rendered indisputahle by an incontro .
yertahle fact. "The venerable and wise il
professor OF Greek and Latin" 10. these
many years, has been attending Poultry
shows with or without young ladies, but
le is compelled to confess that the
'outhiul Assistant Editor Of the College
'tudent is more convereant with the
rinciples of Cockerelogy than he him. n,
elf lie. although he was brought up on IL
farm and had many opportunities for is
the habits of cockerels. he nm
as never heard an illustration OF of
habit, which, according to the As ev
,ciate Editor is one of the distin- m,
lishang pec1llarities Of cockerels. be a
10 often heard pullet advertising their he
,slness aud has thus been able TO find n,
rest full of eggs. which otherwise in
ighs never haye been discovered; but s;r
} has never heard cockerel cackle at- IN,
r laying an egg. "nesuel vac die
J. ali tt ese years, "laid aside for the ~
ne being their giddy caekles' for the n,
me reason that those at the Poultry A..
ow are reported TO have done 30. be pla
not pepared to say. He merely states wo
. fact that he never neard cockerel tio,
yertise his business by giddy cackle. ,hi
CELEBs. 49,
b 8, 1900. onl
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