Mexico weekly ledger., 1910-05-12
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Montgomery City, Mo-, May g..
Mrs. Edgar Scanland, of neal Min
cola. has broken the record i'm tur-
key raising. She gathered seven ex-
IRA large eggs, and Notwithstanding,
she believed they contained 2 yolks
each, she set them. AS a rule, 1t
is against nature for double yolk
eggs to hatch.
The result of her experiment was
five pairs of tim turkeys, nine of
which are alive and healthy and bid
fair to participate in several Thanks
giving dinners. II she has good luck,
Mrs. Scanland expects these five eggs
to net her $27 next fall.
1t is not thought this record can
be broken i'm the poultry belt in any
State.
The King of Freak Chicks.
Rapid City, S. D., May 8.
"Bill' Edwards, a Hills rancher, hv-
ing near Pactola, in Rapid Creek,
took off a Barred Plymouth Rock hen
and a fine brood of chicks recently.
In the brood was one freak chicken,
the like of which was never before
seen in the Black Hills.
This PARTICULAR chicken had 1.-TWO
pair of perfectly formed legs and
feet and two sets of perfect wings.
This freak chicken came to an I'M
timely end three days after 1t broke
out Of the shell. The old hen was
str1ltthlg about the barn lot with her
brood, the freak chick chasing
a bug for breakfast far from its fell
lows. Mother hen started to corral
the little wanderer when it started
packard SO suddenly that she stepped
on 1t and broke dts neck.
S. J. Bovine and j. r. Sites filed
a petition, with the county clerk,
Saturday, asking a special election
at which time the abolition of the Of
flee of High Commissioner will be
voted upon. The county court does
not meet until June and IL they de-
eide the petition has the required
number of signers and to grant the
request tt will be the latter part Of
July or August before the election
can be held.
The petition presented clSims to
have Is per cent of the voters i'm
Wilson, Sailing, Loutre, Prairie and
Linn townships.
Like the rail fence, proverbial-
ly connected with President Lin
coin, the hedge fence, that once
formed a wall of undulating green
about farms in this section, is fast
disappearing and In a few years will
be but a memory. The disappearance.
of a hedge fence, it might be added,
is much more difficult than a rail
fence. The latter can be hauled
away and burned but the hedge has
to be uprooted and then you can al
most depend upon its temperance
a few years later. It is harder to
kill than almost any plant.
"The hedge fence is not profitable
and timber is too scarce fer rail
fences" said County Clerk E. H.
Carter to a Ledger representative. "a
hedge fence ruins the ground an
equal distance upon each side of IT,
because of the shade it casts. The
trouble and expense required to keep
1t trimmed lis far too much when the
farmers time is as valuable as it
is today.
1.-THE hedges were planted here be-
fore the day Of cheap fences and
the farmer of to-day wants an en-
closure that requires little attention
and gives the best protection. When
a hedge grows large enough 1t makes
the finest fence posts in the world.
But these hedges, impenetrable as
they were i'm places, were never an
entirely dependable fence, and 1t was
found that as they grew older the
labor of keeping them i'm shape and
intact was greater than could be sup
ported, therefore, gradually, on
large farms, they were grubbed out
and superseded by the ornamental,
and, to some extent, dangerous barb
ed wire fence"
The tough and thorny Boise dare
or Usage orange, with its numerous
zigzag branches, its abundant, glossy
foliage and its immense milky ber-
ries, each bearing seeds enough to
inclose an acre of land was the
hedge planted in this section by the
pioneers. This was greeted with &C.
claim as meeting a long-felt want,
and in ten FEARS miles Of hedges d.
vided the broad prairies into squares
and parallelograms, with a very at
tractive effect for a few years, be-
fore the enthusiasm for training and
trimming them waned.
The hawthorn hedge rows of ENG
land and those of many other easily
controlled plants i'm France and Ger
many invested in this verduous
means of Enclosure and outliner of in
divAdual property with greater charm