Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-05-04
Wayne, fNeb.l Herald.

one would care to live on a farm with
out her. Everyone enjoys her pres
ence, but seems to think because she
is SO good she needs no care and at
tention. 1t is shame that so good a
friend has to sleep in place not fit
for hogs. God made the feather tribe
for our enjoyment. He feeds the
ravens and all the birds of the fields,
but we have captured the hen and
made her serve us, and we should
give her the best care we can for her
faithful services. Any one that will
make hen sleep in a filthy place and
where the wind can reach her through
the cracks should be made to sleep in
room with the windows open and a
blanket with holes in it, so he could
feel the cold winds circulating around
his body. The hen would be doubly
as profitable as she now is if she did
receive the care she deserves. Let us
be honest in the poultry business. We
all like it. We all enjoy it, and yet
men and women will sell eggs that are
rotten. When | was boy | used to
carry basket of eggs to town and
sell them for four cents dozen and
buy sugar at ten cents pound and
we all thought then the chicken bust
ness would be overdone. Last Satur-
day one store in Wayne bought fifteen
hundred dozen of eggs at fifteen cents
and sugar is now about seven cents a
pound, and some people still say the
chicken business is likely to be over
done. Just think of the number of
places we have in Wayne county that
take in eggs and you can form some
idea of the number of eggs that are
produced in Wayne county. | believe
| shall live long enough to see eggs
sold not less than twenty cents a
dozen in the spring and from thirty to
forty cents in fall and winter making
an average not less than twenty five
cents year around and not in trade
either, but for cash. When only
good fresh eggs are sold and every
egg can be warranted to be good by
the merchant selling them, then eggs
will sell for not less than five cents
more than they sell now. If there
were law compelling people to stamp
their name on eggs they sell, eggs
would sell at two to five cents more a
dozen than they do now. When the
consumer knows that all eggs are
good he is willing to pay more than
he now does. Ireland two years ago
commenced to stamp all eggs and
warranted them and it has increased
the receipts of Ireland over five mill
lion dollars for eggs last year. We are
far behind other countries on the egg
question. In all Europe eggs are
stamped and warranted to be pure and
sell for more than they do here.
Now let us be honest about the scrub
hen. Farmers that never had a flock
of pure bred hens, tell their neighbors
that scrub hens lay more than pure
breds. They say all kinds are the
best, never having flock of any one
pure breed on their farm. A scrub hen
will lay abOt four or five clutches of
eggs a year, go to 70 eggs) and lay
them nearly all in spring when eggs
are the cheapest. When she is full
grown and sold she will weigh about
one half as much as pure bred. A
farmer sold last week at store in
Wayne eight pure bred Plymouth
Rock hens for eight cents pound
and they weighed eight pounds or
siXty-fOur cents hen. A scrub Ply
mouth hen will weigh about four to
four and One-half pounds and lay a
bout one half as many eggs a year.
1t don't pay to raise any scrub stock
and no one ever has been able to
prove that it does when compelled to
do so.
The question is asked every day
which is the best kind of chicken. The
best kind of chicken is the kind you
like best. There is not so much diff
ference in different kinds of pure bred
chickens as many suppose, but if you
have kind that you like you will
naturally take better care of them than
you would of a kind you do not ad-
mire, and therefore you will get better
results. If you admire big woman
don't marry a small one. You will
take good care of anything you like,
and the better care you take of any
thing the better the result.
If you will make arrangements to
have eggs to sell next winter when they
sell at twenty-five to thirty cents you
will make your poultry pay better. The
editor of this paper will not give me
enough space to tell you how to have
eggs in winter in this issue but if you
will subscribe for reliable poultry
Journal which will cost you fifty cents
year you will know how. If you will
call on the writer he will gladly tell
you how. 1t is simple and don't cost
much to winter eggs. II / ever am
elected president of the United States
/ will take down the American eagle
as an emblem and substitute the Amer
lean hen and instead of the arrow and
olive branches will have her hold in
her useful claw statement of the an
nual egg money and certificate of
character from the house wives. Re-
tire the bOastful, impractical eagle
and substitute the feathered queen of
the republic. JOHN KATE.
The three year old black percheon
horse Charmant No. (56243) 40898 was
imported by Robt. Burgess q son, of
Wenona, ILL.,, last January and was
brought to Audubon the same month
by II. w. English to be sold. English
failed to sell the horse. The animal
will now be kept the season of 1905 at
my barn on sec. "a, Lincoln twp. Fees
$1,000. Will not be responsible for
accidents. This horse is for sale,
price $1,000. John Cameron. IL W 4 \
A Creeping Death.
Blood poison creeps up towards the
heart, causing death. j. +. Stearns,
of Relic PLANE Mimi writes that a