Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-04-11
THE SITTING HEN IS A SCIENTIST.
Can Discount IncubatorS in Getting
Good Results.

learn that the fellows who ar
Matching eggs in incubators are no
having very good success this spring
This shows that the old hen at he
trade knows more than men do.
have known learned doctor. and {
lawyer and a banker who couldn't pro
duce one chick ont of dozsn eggs anC
yet my wifes hens have brought out
good iitters of chickens in February
and March this year. aud they sal
under an open shed too. The sitting
hen is a scientist. They used to tell II
when was young that she counted her
eggs every day. She YVES simply
turning them over with her feet so
they would hatch better. An egg needs
moisture to hatch good and this is one
reason why eggs laid on the ground in
the summer nearly all hatch An egg
shell must be clean 10 hatch good
The oxygen of the air, 1 believe they
say, must permeate the shell and a
broken egg In nest may spoil a lot of
eggs. There is lot of knowledge to
be obtained regarding the egg and the
production of living chick, and / re-
member that Prof. Agassiz used to give
very Interesting lecture on the egg
'Omne Vivum ex ovo." Every living
thing comes from an egg. Bnt in the
case of mammals the egg is the size
of a pins point 1t is neurished in the
body and does not require the supply
of nutriment stored up that the hen q
egg does, From the hens egg is pro-
duced an animal having in its structure
bone, muscle, brain and every element
Of an animal body, Eggs and milk are
foods that supply every elem sut the
animal body needs.
The secretary Of the American An
coma club informs me that the earliest
eggs he tried to hatch in the incubator
proved not to be fertile. Henry thinks
he was little too previous. | tell him
the recOTda show that more human
soula are conceived in March and April
than in other months My Adventist
brother may quarrel with ne about
such use of that word soni | heard
Anne Bssant the great theosophisr,
lecture in Boston Only one Thought
do ! retain. She said that to deny the
pre- existance of the human soul was
like a stick with only one end-the
soul of human being always existed
and always would exist / rode next
day to New Bedford beside an Adventist
clergyman He said man didn't have
any soul until he died A bright young
mother said to me, yesterday "You
see how much stronger and healthier
this boy is than his sister older is2 | de-
sired this child and we tried to have
every condition right l wanted the
other one too l replied that q child
undesigued and undesired had a sad
time in this world, and that child
loved in its prenatal life would love
that mother and care for her, while the
one hated would probably become q
criminal or a defective Do yoC re-
member the boy murderer, Pomeroy,
whose mother testified that because
maternity was thrust upon her without
her C nsent, she had hard work to keep
from numbering her husband? We
have big fair up at Viroqua. They
bring in all the beautiful blooled horses
and cattle and swine and sheep and
hens and ducks they are all pedigreed
they have all been created by design
and then five thousand men and women
come Are they thoroughbredsG Was
there design in their creation? Oh, moi
Seven out OF ten of us were undesi0ned
and we go through life handicapped
from that fact.
Jim Honaker and stumbled into DR..
Babcock's Office one day and were
cordially received. The subject of ma.
nures was discussed. DR.. Rabcock
would not fertilize soil too heavily.
The danger is that too rich soil may
give too great growth OF straw and
too little seed; or too great growth Of
tops and very few potatoes. That law,
he said, applies both in vegetable and
the animal world Breeding stock
kept too fat will not reproduce as well
as that kept poorer. spoke of the fact
that in Belgium the higher the price of
bread the greater the increase in the
birth rate The same principle" said
the learned doctor | might have add
ed the couplet.
"a lean mare for u race
And lean woman for love
Fat don't do much good in the active
animal. The little pigs that will come
soon will be getting thumps IL kept penn.
ed up too closely. That disease is fatty
degeneration of the heart from too rich
food, and too little exercise. Beer
drinkers have fatty heart. They say
beer is healthy. Bnt just think OF put
ting beer in where you pat your victuals.
just think of iiltering IL through your
kidneys What rotten stink IL puts in
fellows mouth. How easy confirmed
| beer drinker dies of lung fever. How
the learned doctors of Germany are
fighting beer drinking Boys better let
IT alone
My neighbors had lot Of foe pigs.
He fed them mostly corn and when
maiured they were stubby, short bodied
hogs There are five thousand boys
and girls growing up In the country.
We all admire a tall, large man OF
woman Feed that child little candy,
| pastry and carbonaceous foods, but
feed plenty of milk. eggs, oatmeal,
graham bread and other bone and
muscle foodF, and your child will be
taller than IL fed much pie, cake and
candy Instead of candy carry home
fruit to the child Prof. Elmer GATES
gave me this illustration and tried II
on my year old boy who was getting
too much candy. Att he is feet {
inches tall and weighs 100 pounds
feel like thanking Prof Gates, and
pass the fact along. q. Y. PORTER
Long Winters and lung Men
The Marlnette Eagle Star has come tc
conclusion about the Wisconsin eli
mate that may ut least be eonsollng,
It says 1t has been shown 10y actua
measurements at the Wisconsin univer
sity that the young men students be
| longing to this great and favored stats
are taller aud OF Gner physical buili
than Ine ones coming from any othei
state This Ia matter OF cOngTatuia