The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1911-09-09

meat always crave Lank shank
meat whenever any chickens of fry
ing size are about. You husband
men with large families had better
cut out this breed in order to keep
from cutting off the heads Of too
many of your chickens.
The Black Minorca is an excellent
breed Of fancy fowl and you need not
he afraid that the hens will not lay
white eggs and lots Of them. The
big advantage in raising Black Min
orcas is found to be the difficulty in
finding them experienced by that
class Of chicken raisers that simply
hoist chickens off the roost at night
and mysteriously disappear with
them. The Black Minorcas lay one
or two eggs each day per hen and in
spired the poet to write:
Tiggledy- piggledy, my black hen,
She lays eggs for gentlemen;
Gentlemen come every day
To see what my black hen doeth lay.
OF the fancy breeds none are su-
perior to the Rhode Island Reds.
They are Of medium size, when
grown, and the Red Islands come
next to the Boneyards in ability TO
range and take care Of themselves
when it comes 10 the matter of pro-
viding their own food. In fact so
noted are they in this respect that
they remind you Of the ancient con-
undrum why was Robson Crusoe's
man. Friday, like a rooster" Be
cause he scratched for living and
Crusoe."
Now Of course we all know that
all business Is more or less of a
speculative nature and it is perhaps
not putting it too strong to say that
husbandmen are the greatest gamb-
lers on earth. Consider, for instance,
| the raiser Of cotton. He not only
| takes all the chances on boil and
| other weevils and on the weather
proving unfavorable. but he likewise
| plants with the expectation OF OBJ
| tanning a high price for his product
with no assurance whatever that he
Will not receive a very low price. So
It is with chicken raising or the rais-
| ing Of anything else.
1t can be admitted at the start that
IyOur chickens. no matter what their
breed may be, are going to cost you
moro 20 raise than you will ever
realize by selling them in the ordinary
way. The only way to make a pro-
1T on chickens is to raise the fancy
varieties for which you can demand
an exhorbitant price when they are
run over by vehicles.
Have your poultry farm close to a
sand-clay road that is much used by
| high-class automobiles and when
you are ready TO realize a profit on
the poultry. just shoe a few Of them
out Of the gate from time to time in
front of approaching automobiles
! and demand small fortune per
dozen for each lot Of biddies that
are squashed. Care must be taken not
to shoe the biddes out in front of
one Of those one-seated mobiles, be-
| cause the chances are that it Is be-
ing run by dude. either with or
without his best girl. and If he runs
| over your poultry the most you could
| expect to get from him would be the
| dime that dudes always save up for
package Of cigarettes and a coca
| cola. To take his dime would be
| equivalent 10 numbering him. Wait
for the touring cars.
The society for the prevention Of
cruelty to animals will send out a
| representative to interview you, but
it is quite easy to show him that
| chickens have got to die in any event
| and that If the chicken was given the
| choice OF dying Of the pip, or Of the
cholera, or Of the sore head, or by
having It's head wrung off by hand,
or chopped off with a hatchett, or of
being choked to a finish on it's roost
at night. or Of being instantly flatten-
ed out by an automobile, there could
be no doubt about it's preferance for
the last mentioned mode Of Depart
ure.
G. HAWLEY WISEACRE,