The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1911-04-14
BY A. L c.

Everybody in Cobb County knows
Jim" Lindley, the farmer who still
lives in his ancestral home and who.
in years gone by, won prizes at state
fairs.
Mrs LindIey also cultivated fine
COWS at one time and sold butter of
superlatiye excellence. Now she has
been hen-pecked, so to speak, with a
chicken fad and her successful meth
DDS are so simple that any other wo-
man can follow her. She declared
her reason for adopting hens in place
OF COWS was because dairying entails
such constant work even on Sunday
and in all kinds of weather.
Last Friday we stopped at the Lind
ley home on the way to Powder
Springs to drink the fine water, and
the first thing we saw was a flock of
snowy chickens-two immense roos-
tiers, very dignified and gentlemanly
in their demeanor, and lot of beau
tiful hens all exactly alike.
They were white Plymouth Rocks.
There were also "barred rocks" and
two brooders in the back yard swarm
ing with brown leghorn infants and
with plain chickens intended to end
their brief lives in frying pans. Mr.
Lindley made those brooders at small
expense although they have panes
of glass on one side to admit light in
rainy weather when the lid is down.
Can you imagine anything more pa
thetic than crying, shivering little
chicken on rainy day ? Could the
idea of tender solicitude be more fit.
tingly expressed than in those words
as hen doth gather her brood I'M
der her wings ?''
These brooders have at one end a
box with hole cut large enough to
admit one small chicken at time. 1t
is carpeted with coarse straw and
covered with a warm cushion. The
chicks crowd into this bed room,
"snuggle' close together and keep as
warm as if three hens were mothering
them under their downy bosoms
Meanwhile the hens are busy produc.
ing eggs.
Watching the active, clean and COM
Portable teathered orphans in those
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her family is simply an imposition
upon poor hen. Chickens are such
selfish and voracious creatures and
require such constant admonition and
protection, in addition to meals, it is
no wonder hens become cross and
hysterical
Mrs. Lindley has one small incuba-
tor which holds about 100 eggs. This
week she will take out the third brood
OF chickens. She had from 100 eggs,
at one Matching, 81 fine, strong chicks
and at another IS. She uses the in
cubator four times in the spring while
the weather is cool. Hers is the
"Trusty," | believe, and is simple
and easy to keep perfectly clean. 1t is
zinc or galvanized iron on the outside
and black walnut inside To be sure
every woman is not so gentle and pa
tient and experienced in caring for
pets as Mrs. Lindley is. She has
several Plymouth rock hens sitting
in boxes, some on a side porch and
some under the caves of her chicken
house in the yard. These hens allow
their mistress to lift them shout and
none of them object more strenuous
ly than by few subdued and re-
spectful clucks. A sitting hen used
to be horrible incarnation of i'll
temper and intolerance, despised and
avoided by other folks. There may
be an explanation OF the ladylike de-
pertinent of these hens in the fact
that their nests are shaded by rose
vines and apple trees and their mis-
tress is possessed of merry heart and
that most excellent thing in woman
voice ever soft, gentle and low and
hands whose touches are never
intrusive.
Mrs. Lindley sold nine dressed hens
for twenty cents pound Friday. Not
those big white beauties, like school
girls on graduation day, but plain
barn yard fowls. She did not men
ton selling eggs but does sell fami-
lies of chickens for breeding purposes
and the work of caring for her fowls is
rather pleasant diversion.
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