The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-04-30
HENS AND EGGS
How to Take Care 0fLNY-
ing Hens. Y
QUAINT DEFINITION OF AN egg
The White Mills Brooder Factory
How White Leghorns Were
Changed into Black Minor
cas- in One Night.

You must keep your hen house
clean and dry, and your hens free
from lice. Look over your hens for
lice every few days. If you find
lice, dust every fowl with some good
insect powder, holding her by the
legs and rubbing the feathers up and
down, while some one dusts on the
powder. Go all over her with pow
der. Repeat in two weeks. Do
not have your hen house too warm
early in the fall. If you do the
hens will get too warm at night.
Then when they come out in the
frosty morning they will catch cold.
Most roup starts that way. But
there must not be any draft through
building where fowls roost. 1t is
good plan to feed the hens in
warm place on frosty mornings.
How would it affect you to be jump
ed out of a warm bed on frosty
morning to a breakfast on the lawn?
Better keep the hens in the building
till the run is well up, and the frost
gone. In winter keep them inisde
till it is comfortable for them out
side. The hen that stands on one
foot or wades about through snow
or mud is not the one that keeps the
egg nest warm part of each day.
And every time you see a group of
hens huddle together to keep warm,
you see a crowd of egg eaters-that
is, they are absorbing their eggs.
| f0 hn Cnhnnidnp
one day: John, what is an egg?"
John replied, IAN egg is a chicken
not yet"
Scientists have discovered that the
white ant lays $4,000 eggs a season.
How would it be to cross the white
ant with the white leghorn?
Three new brooders have just been
completed at the White Mills Incu-
bator and Brooder factory. AS this
is the first attempt on the part of the
new company, naturally they are
studying upon some new improve
ments.,
There is no doubt this company
will make good with the new enter
prise Being near the railroad will
save them considerable expense in
|, getting their material and also to
make their shipments. AS this COM
pany is young they have not been
able to supply the rush of orders, but
they expect to equip themselves with
, more up-to-date machinery before
long.
, The greatest object which the COM
pany has in view is to manufacture
, brooder to save a certain percent
| age of fuel; and at the suggestion of
one of our White Mill poultry rails
ers the company made abrooder to
his order. He stated that he wanted
a brooder, storm-proof, rain-proof,
; fire-proof and also rat-proof. He
further instructed to have the fumes
which are carried out at the sides
to be evenly distributed on the in
side. He pointed out to the COM
pany where the fumes from the
lamp had been a waste of heat and
fuel. The company carried out the
new inventors plans to the letter.
And as soon as it was completed ne
: at once put it into operation by
carefully preparing a drinking fount-
/ ain, shell-boX, box of road dust for
bath, and scattered fine cut straw
) on the floor to keep the brooder both
comfortable and sanitary. The lamp
was lighted; the chicks were placed
> in the newly-invented brooder, " and
/ now" he said, "boys, / have yours
, all stopped on the brooder question -
: He went away, leaving the broodeI
3 to take care of the chicks until morn
: ing. When he awoke the first time
! that entered his mind was the new
invention. So anxious was he to see
S the result that he did not even take
: the time to put on his shoes, his
Y coat, nor his hat, but with a quick
= and cautious step he reached the
t brooder. Carefully raising the cover
: to his surprise, instead of the twenty
five white leghorns which he hat
1 carefully placed in the brooder the
d night before there were twenty-five
{ black minorcas. The lamp haC
: blazed too high and commenced tt
y smoke, and turned everything com
t pletely black. Well, you have hearC
i about studying the chicken language
{ and If you had been near when ht
= raised the lid you would have founC
: it unprintable. The new inventor
t declared that he would shoot the sol
= of a gun, if he knew who exchanged
g his white chickens for black onel
d and after some of the chicken boy
q convinced him as to what wal
t wrong, his wife says, it was the frs
I time since they were married he eve
made any kindling wood.
: JOSEPH STEPHENS.
r White Mills, Pa, April 28, 1909.