The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-05-12
LOTS OF TROUBLE
RAISING CHICKENS

WllSJ We nave SpSuJ Jul LhOhSy anu
here are our thirty-fve chickens
and there is nothing left to cover
them, but little kindling wood.
don't think that you ever studied the
personal characteristics Of poultry
man. Don't you remember when we
were living on the farm, how you
kicked the poor hens around and
smeared the walls with the eggs
when they would not sit?" "Oh
yes, dear, but you see these chickens
are getting cold; sit down and cover
them with your apron. 1t always
makes a man tired to hear women
talk on the poultry question. They
want to raise poultry and they want
to vote and the poor man he gets
the blame for it ALL" Yes, but see
here, do you want me to sit here and
keep these chickens warm all day.
"Well, wife, we don't want to loose
the chickens and you are the only
brooder that | have just now. What
are we going to do? We have spent
all of our money" "Well see here,
you go into the kitchen and take
down my new wrapper and put on
that apron that | wear on Sunday
afternoons. Come right up here,
sit down on these chickens, and keep
them warm until / get a new brood
err" and away she went. Gee wiz,
l have heard about a hen gathering
her chickens under her wing but
the brooder factories never tell what
you would have to do in case your
brooder broke down. Theory is all
right, but you must have practice be-
fore you undertake to go in the
poultry business. l have read jour-
nal after journal but they never
gave any experience compared to
this. Oh, dear, it's commencing to
rain and l am getting hungry. But
the calling down that my wife gave
me on how | acted on the farm this
time l will have to prove myself to
be a dutiful husband if l have to
sit here all night.
Oh, here she comes now. 81
thought you were going to bring a
brooder for these chicks. | have
been sitting here all day. "Yes,
dear | have a brooder coming from
the White Mills Incubator and Brood
er factory made to order. 1t is storm
proof, rain proof, and rat proof.
All right Mr.. Factoryman just leave
that brooder right here and we will
report to you the result in few
days. You see Mister l was more
wide awake than my husband. l
took it on thirty days trial. l will
take care of the brooder myself this
time. Men are foolish anyway; they
always smash everything to pieces if
things don't go to suit them. Now
you can talk about saving heat and
. fuel all you want to, but | am just
going to put this lamp in the brood
er with the little chicks and then
they will be able to see each other
night they will be able to eat and
drink" "Well, wife, l think you
have struck great idea and before
long we will be classed with the
Vanderbilts and Rockafellows."
"Yes,-I can see it coming but now
we are getting tired and l think that
we ought to go and take little re-
freshment and retire for the night"
"Well, wife, l don't think that |
will need any rocking to put me to
sleep tonight" mo, l don't think
that / will either if some of those
people that cannot sleep nights
would start in the chicken business
they would not have to take so many
sleeping powders" "Hark wife,
what is all that noise l hear, why
surely that sounds like the fire de-
partment coming. Oh dear, dear,
there goes my new invented brooder
all in a blaze. Save the young
chickens! If you can, help me to
put on my clothes. Get my stock
ings. Where did l put my shoes last
night? Dear, dear, l shall never be
able to get dressed" Fireman:
Mister get out here, your brooder
and chickens are all gone up in
smoke. Why don't you hatch your
chickens under hens. The blamed
brooders are given us more trouble
than all the ordinary fires put to-
gether." Looking out the window,
she said: well, here we are just
where we started, without a chick
or child. Hurry up, do down and
tell Ham & Hittinger about the big
fire and say thirty-five lives perished
in the ruins" Wife, SAY Joe, don't
go Matching any lies tonight at the
White Mills Poultry club" "Oh, no,
dear, they are already out of the
she'll" The prepared sizes of eggs,
is to be six dollars and ten cents a
ton for May. Why don't they quote
the wholesale price per dozen and
let poor man have a chance? The
ordinary housewife becomes alarm
ed when she finds blood spots within
the egg. Sometimes it is found on
the yolk and then again in the
white and the blame usually goes
to the man that sold the eggs. They
are often times taken for stale, or
eggs that have started to incubate.
If the blood spot is on the yolk, then
it would be an hemorrhage in the
ovary, and if in the white then the
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