The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1912-01-26
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is very much improved. They score
higher under the tests than last
years stock, and those who have
been looking after the breeding take
great interest in visiting around the
place, comforting about things they
have learned and followed the past
year that they did not know about
the year before, for there are just
as great secrets to be unraveled con-
corning the creation of chickens as in
any other kind of creatures, and the
nearer one approaches perfection in
mating the pure with the pure, in
harmony with the principles of
growth as discovered in nature, the
finer is the product, the quicker the
growth and the better and greater
| the size and usefulness.
| 1t is written of Deity, I'm six days
God created the Heavens and the
Earth, and all that in them u.s." and
while astromomists attempt to define
the boundaries of ''the Heavens" and
are confronted with the problem,
"Since there is no end to space, what
a great distance it must be to where
it ceases altogether" and while ge-
ologists classify the six periods of
creation and assure Us that each OF
them must have covered thousands of
years, and that the word day" must
be taken figuratively, they give us
ample proof that in the Cretaceous
period the Creative Power brought
Ornithos into being, and following
down through the ages we find that
additions and branches were devel-
oped until an infinite variety of
birds added beauty and usefulness
and comradeship to the inhabitants
of the Earth, preparing it for Man.
To the child who watches the
Matching period of a brood of eggs,
it is a long period from setting time
to the hatching-the completion OF
the little bodies with the eyes that
peep and the bills that peck-but to
the one who through many succeed
ing years has bred up the parent
fowls to secure certain purity and
thrift, this is but a passing interval
of development. But the mature man
in his broader vision, stands with
uncovered head when he contemplates
the infinitely slow and tedious pro-
cess by which the Creative Powers
brought fowls into being, and he also
stands in awe and reverence when
he observes what man has accomp-
lished in a brief century or two by
applying the laws of creation since he
realized that God has taken Man into
partnership in the work of Creation.
Creation of the World
The study of geology reveals to
us that in the tenth period of the
creation of the world, when the
earth's crust was still warm and the
hot-water fishes abounded in the
seas, Ic%hthyornis pronounced ich thy
or nis) was brought into being-a
great bird with a breastDoneH like the
keel of a ship, a backbone resemb-
ling the spine of a fish, and a pair
of long slender jaws fitted with rows
of teeth resembling the cutter bar of
a modern Yankee reaper.
Fitted with these implements OF
locomotion and of securing nourish-
ment, it was the sole representative
of the feathered kingdom through all
the lapse Of time known as the Gre
taceous and the Tertiary ages. But
with the ushering in of the Age of
DIRT some thousands of years later,
the Creator gave to the world an
other simple fowl the size of a pig
con, and more perfect than the first.
And in all the illimitable lapse of
time that has interviewed, He has
been improving and varying the
species, and for the past brief period
of a few centuries, He has been STIR
ring the interest and the efforts Of
Man to assist Him and be His partner
in p~erfecting this and all the other
species.
And SO it comes to pass that on