Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-06-28
SPRING CHICKEN S.
EPICURES GIVE THANKS TO THE
CHICK PRODUCING iNcU-
BAToRS.
Birds Born While Mother Hen is Walt
Ing for the Hot Weather = All Veg
etables Are on the Local Markets -
Retail and Wholesale Prices.

Rushed from immature life into
death. without ever having nestled
under the protective wing of the moth
or hen or responded to the cluck which
denotes a worm, the incubator chick
en-, known on the bill of fare as
spring chicken" plays the most
thankless part of any of the birds and
beasts which man sacrifices to his ap.
petite.
The incubator chicken is denied all
the pleasure of life and even the
Joy of having real live mother. The
incubator chicken is born to be eaten.
IL accomplishes its functions by dying.
The wooden and glass box, with its
burning lamp, takes the place of the
mother, and according to the argu-
ment OF those who maintain that the
mother OF the chicken is the hen that
matches it. is the real mother The in
cubator just now is producing nearly
all OF the spring chickens that are be-
ing eaten at fancy prices, and but for
this invention to defraud the youthful
chick OF its doting parent, man would
wait for some weeks before enjoying
the juicy breast of the young fowl
Few people of Ottumwa who are eat
ing chickens now realize that they
were Matched by an incubator raised
in an incubator, brought to semi-ma-
turity in a hot house and passed en-
tirely through their brief career with
out having even seen hen the closest
approach to the hen being when the
eggs from which they were hatched
were laid. Spring chicken has been
on the market for some weeks. In
fact, it has now reached the point
where young and tender chickens can
be obtained at almost any season of
the year, and the incubator is respon-
sible.
Warm weather came so late this
year that without artificial means for
Matching eggs no chickens could have
been obtained except by shipment from
the far south. Hens are not prone to
reach the setting" stage until the
weather begins to get hot, so the
chicken crop would have been late but
for the ever reliable incubator. This
works all the year round and the young
chickens are kept on the market dur
ing the entire year.
Many Vegetables.
Strawberries are nearly all gone for
the season, the few that are left sell
ing at various prices. Large and lus-
cious ones are selling at three boxes
for 25 cents, or at 81 per crate.
Cabbage promises to be plentiful
this season and the shippers are al
ready getting busy. A large head can
be bought for nickel
String beans grown in this vicinity,
are retailing at 35 cents peck. This
is big drop from the price the deal
ers were asking for the shipped va
riety.
The last of the new vegetables to
appear on the local market were wax
beans, which came in this morning in |
large quantities and sold retail at 1871 |
cents pound. The addition of the
beans to the supply of fresh vegetables
the list, all of which are now
on the market and being grown in the
vicinity of Ottumwa. The list includes
radishes, lettuce, peas, wax beans, tur-
nips, beets, cabbage, caulif1ower and
spinach.
The Local Market.
The local wholesale markets this
remain the same as those
quoted Saturday.