The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-10-01
"PEGGY" CHARTERED
IN ROYAL QUARTERS
$4,000 Hen Has Finest Man.
icure Set
HER EGGS ARE PRICELESS
Her Breakfast Every Morning Consists
of Hamburger Steak and Cabbage
Chopped Tosether-Life
Heavily insured.
HER EGGS ARE PRICELESS

at interviewed Peggy for you,' SAID
Eugene Demontreville, who has just re-
turned from the fair at Memphis. 1.-THE
Kellerstrass White Orpington $4,000 hen Is
a lady of the first water. She is MEM
Der of that class of unassuming aristoc-
racy. and she carries herself with the air
of queen.
..she was idly scratching in the hay IN
her pen when 1 approached her. Grouped
around her were 16 of her children, IN
cubator- matched chickens, but her chill
dren lust the same They are simply a
mart of the spring hatch, and are fun SIS
ters and brothers to the famous i've
which Madame Pederewsd bought Tor
$780,
.Her coop was above them all. as was
Justly due her social position, and 1t
was lined inside with blue ribbons which
she has won at numbers of poultry shows.
Peggy looked up at me. and when l
got too close. dashed a bunch OF straWs
in my eye. Then she held her head high,
and actually laughed in my face, walking
off to the other side of the coop, singing
the music of the barnyard.
"Her comb was small, but perfectly
red. and her feathers were pure white
one of the most beautiful chickens L ever
saw. I began dreamily to calculate II
Peggy cost $4,000, and she has oOoO feath-
ers, what's each feather worth? But
I did find out that her eggs We're worth
something, for when the valet showed me
the egg she had laid a half hour before
he told me that 1t Is priceless and cannot
he bought In other words 1t was a
golden egg, although outwardly 1t was
simply a good-sized little white egg.
."rhen l asked the trainer what he fed
her that morning, and he said hamburger
steak and cabbage. chopped up together.
Not a very refined meal for queen, 1t
seems. but Peggy sets the style for her-
self.
..There was never 4-year-old so royaliy
treated. She travels with valet always,
and Mr.. Kellerstrass has his son with her
as WELL Her life is insured for sooVo De-
fore making each trip.
mo Young lady in Birmingham can
boast a more splendid manicure set imam
the queen of the Missouri fowls. They
comprise everything necessary 10 Keep her
beak, feet, legs and comb in the highest
state of perfection. The keeper told me
her feathers, cleaning her feet and polish
ing her legs with special French prepa-
ration, he gives her a bath In rose water
and then wraps her in towel. Under
this careful treatment Peggy may live
many years, as she seldom catches coio
and is never exposed to disease.
peg is never allowed to get into the
chicken pens and eat ordinary worms
such as the average chicken does. She
is, in fact, not permitted to associate with
them on her own barn yard. Peg has
pen splendidly equipped and two acres
of barn yard all to herself.
Her owner, Mr.. Kellerstrass, owns a
farm Of 40 acres just outside OF Kan
sas City, where he raises thousands or
crystal White Orpington chickens. He IS,
in fact the originator of this particular
breed of fowls, and has raised many prize
winners.
Peggy has won prizes at London, Hong
Kong, Pekin, Honolulu, Madison Square
Garden, New York, Chicago, the James
town exposition, and other places. She
has been around the world twice and Wis
listed every city Of Importance in the Uni
ted States. Her valet receives $50 a
month and does nothing else but take care
of her..
'Mr. Kellerstrass has refused to show
her at the big poultry expositions this
season, but as the hen had never been
in the south he agreed to allow her to
go to Nashville Birmingham and Men,
phis If $500 was paid in each place. This
barely pays the expense to which he is
put in transporting her to the fairs and
caring for her while there