Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1908-10-01

to cottage among the oaks
and orchard trees on a country
farm. Here old biddy and her
brood could hide in the weeds
from the prowling hawks, or
gather grubs and seeds under
the orchard trees. Here al
timely, thoughtful present from
a city friend and poultry raiser
of a pair of Black Minorcas,
frightened the going from city
to country. In the country,
however, two chicks is a small
supply, and the country neigh
bors began to bring of such as
they happened to have until the
astonished preachers wife
found variety Of poultry stock
and was puzzled to plan so she
could keep the Alinorcas in one
yard, the Plymouth Rocks, the
Leghorns, Brahmas, etc., in
other separate places. To do
this required more outlay of
money than the layout of eggs
ior a whole year; so the whole
llo !ii must be turned out to
snlIt and suit themselves as 70
pasture Pa.s and picking. Light
bra a cannot fly Very biob
1 not l minorcas or Leghorns are
~ ~ large enough to pull down
Inc ears of corn in the field o b,l4
". tne :, combined industry of t, oue
varieties of poultry was oi e oaese
~ ~ as d standing army or a rai(Ii I@r
/ . one kind gathering insoo4.,
IL. 10 me preachers wei n 1Ii9eeIS
BBa saae IS spoiled the spr r5Ttitea
of oean 4S another clipped the ' siIlEs
oa the sugar corn before 'l thS
ears e,,t were ripe enough to e S,1e
ana another took to fha - ten cav,
R the PODS that come so ear iIt'f fe,,
n yae good q, woman's special con- mn
PEany; The Plymouth Rock oo ON
G o,, mothers fed their li All
| loi,noe OiEc tomatoes, canta.
i wbi1e A. and big red appIe es.
fo a1tle me young and =, nimbie
t 100 L1eeghorns could fly ' to tbe
top of the Kafir corn sn ~ IN Inc
o,p j., on it reed on the mi IL
;n ans before ripe for harvest
ing; AS apples were nie , tfsI1
a a.; not handy to market H. ~
++aagment of the largest a md
, ,eliaerest under the trees. Even
JI ,', came in to furnish
aIlnk for the little biddias sii? ~
cry weather. 1t seems hard ~ ~
d anything in the line Of pa y
a orchard or farm prod,ct
sna5 a strong combination If
poultry stock will not cons,,,, W
u, ,ni,i Ior rag for worms. They lev
WI Mlll not eat caterpillars. he'd
Jugs, onions, Irish potatoes nor
ullea peans. These last named
vegetables when boiled ''' tbeu
VIII accept cheerfully and viii
eat walnuts with songs of glad
ness if you will crack them.
| With all these trials of ma
tlence and good nature the
preachers wife holds on to her
variety stock while all the force
OF poultry journals and the
keepers of show stock are
against the practice. AS the
country farm has lots of graz
ing ground, all kinds are pro-
yided for and each intruder on
favorite vegetable or fruit,
loses something, and eggs come
thick and fast in return for
food, and the loss is not so
great after ak In fact near
by farmer whose better half
knows a good chicken on sight
and who sends a basket of eggs
to market every day or two,
boasted that the eggs more than
paid for the wheat the chicks
eat from the old orchard field
:. near the barn. Besides this the
hen with chickens, in her flock
not only raised the friers on
the standing grain but added
to their own weight with wheat
at 60 pounds to the bushel. If
at any time eggs were lacking
a few of the largest and fattest
hens quickly made up the bal
ance with the merchant. When
people will not or cannot pay