The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-20
SOMETHING ABOUT EGGS.


 The Harrisonburg (va.) Times dis eusses very Interestingly the question of hens and their products. Let the hens get busy and lay eggs right along" 1t says "and put money in the household treasuries ot the Valley peo. pie." Then 1t goes on in this way:
 A few years ago the womenfolks be- gan to see the money, which was in more attention 10 their raising and Th' SShre' ,n ana & . nsT poultry era began; better For % awaSenins G el the sH0 Women nenSe to the value of the hen as a revenue pro- ducer: the huekster was largely re- count. and as the reprssentatiys of the were sent to the store. it was on c. ss snd nsn suSar wSsS Sss fsn ssms hs consumption. But the huck ster came the aSG SG0F 'ash Ts psxd ass ton to their feathered possessions.
 Rsn Ra aSy hed ay Ry0f thought sS ha savs ss % feeding time, except when they were chased from a freshly.sowsd garden s. t ps WSdS RIf long s rss ns snsea most empty-handed. resulted in his getting eggs at almost every. house. merchaSts ra.S 10 follow Suit, and they now pay more out in money than they do in trade for eggs.
 Naturally 1t did not take long for the women of that section to learn that eggs meant ready cash. and that the way to have plenty of cash was to bend their energies and efforts to the task of increasing the output of eges-or the outlay. if that is better. The next natural result was for the housewives to pay more attention to this valuable asset of the farm, and to treat them in such way as would cause them to respond readily and prohtably
 Many people who undertake the busi- ness of raising poultry. do not at all understand hens. They have ways of their own and will follow them in spite of the desires and inclinations of any human of them all. Some old humor- ist. perhaps 1t was Josh Billings. said that "the best time to set hen Is when the hen is ready, and that re- mark showed that the speaker under stood hens. When one doesn't want ! to set she will not set, unless you lay a fence-rail across her back. Even then she would break the eggs for spite, we suspect.
 And if a hen Is obstitate about set ing, and that's why many people fail to get results. They satisfy them selves by throwing an occasional hand full of corn, or the leavings from the table, out into the yard and seem to think they've done all that could be required of them, and that the hens ought to go right off into fence cor ners and deposit baskets of eggs with out more ado.
 | Hens are not built that way. They respond as readily to proper and in- telligent care and treatment as any l pOIllOh OA bbO VIII 0Ns If they are properly fed. housed and otherwise cared for, they will do their part and delight in their industry. That Is why those women in Virginia are getting such such satisfactory re- turns from their hens They feed them well, treat them properly and the re- suit is eggs and money in quantities to gladden. the hearts of thrifty house. wives.
 And while on the subject of eggs. we have often wondered why 1t is that some genius has not found way to make artificial ones. We do not mean an imitation of the contents of the egg. for We believe that has been done. but a real egg shell and all, so natural in appearance that the hen herself would believe she laid 1t until ] she tried to hatch a chicken out of 1t.