The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-05-12
HORSE SCRATCHES LIKE A HEN.
And Hens Drive 10 wagon Ike Horses
-Ith Swedish Farmhand's Fault.

And Hens Drive 10 wagon Like Horses
ITS Swedish Farmhand's Fault.
CALDWELL, N. j., May n.-Pincak Bush,
n truck farmer living near this village,
drove into town yesterday and to q group
of men gathered in the local hardware
store told a story Of q mixup on his farm
which II true 10 rather unusual. The tale
was elloited by the actions OF q sorrei horse
that, attached TO a light farm wagon. stood
hitched in front Of the place Of business.
The animal was paving up the ground.
not with bold swinging strokes OF the front
hoofs, as horses usually do. but with q Pc
culiar scratching motion Of all four feet
that resembisd the edorts OF Shanghai
rooster trying TO secure the early worm.
Every few minutes he would give vent to q
peculiar kind of Whitney, which IL not an
exact imitation Of O roostsr's crow was
about the nearest thing 70 1t that ever a
horse uttered.
THAT darn fool of q horse has an idea
he's O rooster, and it's all because i trusted
a green Svode 10 take care Of my stock
last winter was Mr.. Bush'G comment on
the actions Of the auadruped.
Last fall my wife heard Of some nsw
tangled chicken food, guaranteed to mako
hens lay In the coolest weather Nothing
else would do but I had 70 get her some.
Old Dobbin wa kind OF run down. I'd
worked him nearly twenty years, and 90 1
rot him some condition powders at the
same time that i got the patent chicken
food for my wife.
sI've got q green Swede working for me
and I told him to mix Q little Of the chicken
food with the hons food and 70 throw q
handful Of the condition. powders into
Dobbin's mangor. along with his Data,
every time he fed him. J. thought nothing
more e6 sS ,t the 6 6IsMtsa dGs I no s %sa 2
name-said that be was all out oil both
the food and powder.
said there was something strange up,
for abe hadn't got an aines l frat
Some' I noticed that Dobbln's appear
anoe hadn't improved either. II anything
he looked worse than ever, his hair stood
out on his back like 90 many feathers;
Il asked Ole II he had done as ! told him;
he assured me he hSd' g. 60, asoerm = Sot
twice as much chicken food and condition
powdere az 1 had at ArBt, n told Ole to
double the dose. II there wae any virtue
In the stuff l was going 70 find 1t out. .
AT Easter we had 70 buy eggs instead
than any settin' hen you ever saw. I'D
been havin' such . good time all winter
loa6n' around and lettin' the Bwede work
that I hadn't noticed thinRs much. but
havin' TO buy eggs with q hundred hem
on a. the Si 9lSG' s sss % sst 1a inGAiSS but began to
take observations In o quiet sort OF way.
when / went out in the yard johnnie
that's my boy-had two hens hitched. 70 q
little cart and wa drivin EN- around Just
Is Il they we're usea d e is al. gu ssei Z h I've.
the same way.
s'What's more. pa he says, the chickens
don't roost on their perches. any more.
When night comes they. just lay down In
the straw any old place
told me was true. and when J. went into
the stable | saw Dobbin had broken the
manager down trying TO roogt on the rail.
well, I asked Ole 10 how me what he
had been feedin' them critters oil winter
The dam sWede couldn't read English and
he'd been giving the hens condition pow
ders and Dobbin patent chicken food.
sThe result was what any one might
| ~expect-they'd been feedin' on the blame
| stun 90 long that their natures were com
nietely changed. It's more than q month
ago since / first found II out, but you can't
undo in that time what IL X four month
TO accomplish. I've almost given up hops
| OF ever getting things back where they whs
| last fall with old Dobbin and my wife'f
chickens.
sYesterday 1 started In 10 do some plough.
ing, but l had 10 quit, because. Dobbin
| stopped to q every angleworm be could
| scratch out. ] guess IN have 10 let johnnie
! finish the job with the hens.'
SWELL, there amt any angle worms In
| the gravel OF the road out there In front Of
the store interjected the proprietor OF
the place, sRnd az ] don't care to have q
well dug you'd better move on
AZ Dobbin and his master passed out oil
sight around q bend in the road those on
other very close imitation OF q rooster
CROW. A neighbor OF Mr.. Brush who AM
into town In the evening naid II took the
old man four hours TO drive the four miles
10 his home. Dobbin wanted 90 join ever
dock Of chickens he cav On the road