The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1906-06-22

give the readers OF the Republican re-
port Of Edgar Shelman's experiment
with chickens, and we now have the
pleasure. This report is not like the re-
port on the Panama canal, dealing with
Questions of malaria, high salaries, sea-
level vs.. locks and the like, nor is it like
the packing house reports, bringing in
statements of bad sausage, dirty aprons
and poisonous preservatives. 1t deals
with things which are sometimes spoken
OF in connection with "the simple life,"
and brings us back to first principles,
long way from union rules and boycots.
The hens work ten hours day, never
put union label on their product, use
only perfectly natural and harmless pre-
servatives in canning their eggs, never
make kick about the figures on their
time checks, don't care how much their
product is inspected nor who pays for it,
never raise question as to whether
their food is home grown or imported,
wear their clothes without worrying over
whether they were hand made or not,
laundry their wearing apparel in dust
heap and ask no odds of the Chink.
These hens are of the Brown Leghorn
breed, and now comes the
REPORT.
From January to June !, AZ hens laid
3,0sl eggs.
Customers bought the eggs at the
farm, paying 20 cents dozen, which
makes total of S51.35. In pecuniary
values this may not look large, but the
eggs were used for Matching chicks on
other farms, and one man, Mr.Coe, has
"a saucy chicks from one setting of 100
eggs in the incubator, and 90 from an
other. Some of the hens Matched Is
chicks from dozen and three eggs, and
what hen could do better? The hens
that did this were not club hens either.
Nor were they presidents of clubs nor
delegates to conventions of federated
clubs. Mr.. Shelman says they were the
kind that Just rustic around home and
tended to their knitting.
No credit is give whatever to the hus-
bands of these hens and we doubt
whether the chicks will be brought up
with any clear conception as to the sane
tity of the home. If the fathers belong
belong 70 an organization that breaches,
practices, counsels, or advises others to
preach, practice, counsel or advise plural
marriages, nobody will kick when the
are done brown, even unto the
third generation.
The figures in the report make some
nice equations.
Since AZ hens lay 3,0S1, how many
eggs does each hen lay?
Answer Sixty -tive and five hundred
fifty three thousandths eggs.
For convenience in setting them we
will drop the five hundred fifty-three
for who cares for five hun
iiCo my tlllco tuOuSdHutuS OF chicken
in shell unless he can have the rest of
it? n
Second equation Since hen lays 65 :
eggs in five months, how many is that
per month";
Answer Thirteen and eleven hun
lredths.
Third equation Since hen lays 50 a
Eggs in five months, how many will she 3
ay IN II months, at the same rate? le
Written in figures it reads s. IS * 10. n n
md the answer is, X equals 156, the
lumber of eggs she would lay in year :
Of course that might be modified by a
strike in behalf of the wild 4:
lucks, or walk of the polywogs.
The value of the eggs laid in year,
lnder present conditions, would be $3.50.
Mr.. Shelman says he feeds the hens on II
wheat. He Just put it out in pans, sc
where they could approach it at any
ime without presenting a meal ticket &C
r giving countersign, and eat what "
yer they want. r