The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1909-05-06
Making Hens
Register
How ST Haskell Tried to Make His
Hens Register the Eggs
They Laid.


has just received tslly-graft from
Mr.. Roosenfeit to go over inter Wiz
consing an investigate natur fakir
over thur what says he has invenshuned
a apparatus what will keep tab on the
hens.
l immejetIy sent word back to Mr..
Roosenfelt that diddent have to go
over thur to do it as could lambaste
that candy date for the Anny-nias Club
to FRAGILE and never move out of my
cheer for has sure had considdy-bul
experience in my time with vary-us
an numerous speeshus of the hen
family an knows purity much whur-
of am about to discourse.
In the fust place / wants to brand
that Wisconsing fakir as stoopendy-
as prevarry-catur, fur no pusson no
whurs never invenshuned anything
what would keep tab on any kind of
hen any whurs. An that's gospel.
wunst knew a man down in Ommy-
ha what hired four good dertecktives
to keep tab on a certain hen what he
claimed was wearing the wrong brand,
but them dertecktives never stopped
that young hen wunst from meetin' tip
with lot of young spotes what she
had been layin' fur some purmisky-us
fur some time.
But infurs this Wisconsing spote
has alooded to the hens of the feathered
speeshus and not to the regular She
male hens of the humaB speeshus, so it
is of the feathered hens that am about
to lucy-date and in this narrashun l
hopes to show that when it comes to
the genooine quintessence of foxyness,
even featheIed hen can shamble
along at record maxim gate fur q
while. =
An instunce comes inter my mind
what happened when was away back
IN the coppertoed boot stage of my ca
reer, an the more l thinks of 1t the
more | cOncloodes this Wisconsing
spote is not only a natur fakir, but be
is also burned plagy-rist, which lattur
is some fierce.
Durin' my juvy-neal perryod | wuz
considdy -bui affiickted with what wuz
then called "an inquisitive turn of
mind"-the same as what is now called
@muck .raking," an in the natural
course of events wuz some curry-us
to know that ever absobbing quest.
shun: "Why is an eggy"
Now on the farm down in IaWay
whur wuz incubating in them days,
thur wuz a plenty-ful supply of the
feathered speeshus of the hen family
and of cuss, they lays more r less pur.
misky-us durin' the year, but when
starts in on my muck raking experdish
un agin them hens, the egg crop com
uenced to dwindle, an by the time
had been bizzy fur about Steffini
spell this is ambigger-us) the liaskel
family wuz buyin' thur eggs at tht
store, at so much per dozen.
OF cuss, there wuz much discusshur
as to why them hens had stopped oppy
rashuns; but we has hired man wha
wuz called Darry-us Green, Z some o
them other invenshuners, and he con
tends that the hens hassent stopped
oppy-rashuns. He says that they i
either eatin' the eggs thurseffs, r SOM
varmint r some other obnOxshus pus
son is committing preedaturry raid
agin the egg crop. After delivering
hisself of this bunch of wisdom, thi
hoozhur invenshuner goes to work al
invenshuns apparatus to keep Ia
on them hens. Well, the results WI
some marvy-lus, as will be seen.
His invenshun was the same as tn
Wisconsinger's. He had band to g
around the hens body, an the painfu
expresshun on the hens face while Pre-
cessing the egg would stretch the ban
and tally one fur the hen, and the ottel
matte registnr would show what th
score wuz when the processing WI