The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1901-10-23
GENERAL OF TURE CLUB.
The Turley org lion Has ali Interest
ing Meeting

The Turlsy Org non HAS ali Interest
ing Meeting
Edgar a ken of this city handles
the Saturday ,vel, j i Post. which
has more good articles han al Z
ether paper Of the kind put lished,
The articles are educational and
deeply interestin and everyone
should read the Post In one of the
recent issues there is an article on
the General Culture club Of Turley.
This IS worthy Of reprod uction IN
part. After the preliminary or
ganization with Mrs Frobisher IN
the chair. q letter is read asking
the club to take up and consider
the question whether the growing
Eelnploy ment Of incubators with
steam heat for the hatching of chick
| ems might not properly excite the
vigorous opposition Of persons who
desired to prevent unkind treat
ment ofsanimals and to secure for
them Uniform tenderness of treat
ment. The practice of removing
Ieggs from the nest. and from the
natural processes Of incubation sup
piled by the hen, the producer Of
| the eggs. is becoming more and
more common; and while the soci-
lety forwarding the communication
ibid not desire to encourage that ex:
cess of zeal which would pursue
thrilling causes Of complaint, the
feeling among the members is that
las the number OF domestic fowls is
VERY large and their feeling pre-
lsuInably are not so wanting in SEN
sitivenass#as to warrant complete
disregard of}them, there is at least
reason for discussion of the matter
by humane persons whose minds
L
Irevolt at any act of unkindness
towards these helpless friends Of
man.
lInterrnpting the reading Of the
Iletter, Pnella BIuitt said she would
hardly regard this matter as having
any considerable claim upon the at
tention of a society devoted to gen
leral culture. She would not will
Iingly Wound the humblest creature
Tor sanction anything likely to in
Ifict the smallest pain; but she. as
serted with the. confidence OF pro
Ilonged experience in the raising
and care Of poultry that the domes-
tic hen cared little whether certain
eggs were committed to her func-
tions or not. Few animals have
less sentiment than hens. She had
known hens to sit for weeks pom
porcelain eggs and with perfect in
difference to the result.
But how do you know how the
hen in her inner consci ousness may
have felt? asked Florabella Burns.
Puella Bluitt retorted that, while
the study of the inner consciousness
LOT hens had never largely engaged
her attention, she felt sure that
such sciousness could never be
Sufficiently vivid to produce genu.
Inc suffering. Possibly the hen,
lunder8such conditions, might have
yearnings underlined warnings
after something, it knew not what.
but in her view the worst feeling
that could be experienced would be
only a vague kind of disappoint,
ment, and it really seemed to he1
THAT a society for general culture
would be going very far out of its
way to devote much time and intel
J " OH cbGOClll fJO&lS
measure and to sympathize with the
possible chagrin Of a hen.
Florabella Burns was about tc
take the floor when the secretary
lipterposed with the remark that
she had not yet read the last sen
tence Of the letter. This gave the
reason Why the society in the city
had taken up the matter. The feel
ings Of the adult hen had had no
|conside ration. The proposition 81
the society was based wholly upon
Isolicitude for the chickens yet IN
Matched.
Why, asked Florabella Burns,
should there be any more solici.
|tude for the little chickens Matched
by an Incubator than for a little
Ichicken Matched Inv a hon -: sss-s