The Republican journal., 1913-02-06

able, considering that there are fifteer
good producing acres of potatoes.
WHY WOMEN GET ALONG BETTER WITH
CHICKENS THAN MEN Do.
In the current issue of Farm and Fire
side poultry expert says that for many
years he has observed that women are
far superior to men in raising and caring
for poultry. He goes on to say:
1.-The average farmer is busy man
Hen-raising is but an Indifferent, neg
lected side-line with him, that he knows
and cares but little about.
1.-The result is that when eggs bring
the best prices his hens do not lay. The
great need of controlling their moultine
is unknown to him, so his hens moult al
the wrong season. They roam at large,
steal their nests and brood according tc
their moods, which is always to his dis
advantage Chicks receive no attention,
and many perish. He lives and dies
without realizing that the hen business
is much like his pocketbook. 1t he would
take money out of it, he must put money
in it.
with a woman conditions are the OPP
posite. The care of hens is no side-llne.
1t is her business, and she considers her
business seriously and studiously. She
eXpends her time, money, labor, pa
tience, care and affection on her hens.
She lives much with them; she broods
over them, watches and pets then',
names them and calls them by name; she
strokes their feathers and talks to them
as to a person. She studies her poultry
books, magazines, market reports, her
hens, their conditions and the difficulties
confronting her. She gives her poultry
an abundance of feed and water. She is
always watchful of every mood, condl-
ton and symptom of her daily compan-
ions. If disease invades her kingdom,
she knows it at once. She isolates the
ones affected. She has a hospital. She
is nurse by nature and hen-physician
by study
Are her hens appreciative? Watch
Ter feeding them. They enjoy her So
ciety. They appear to be trying to talk
to her. They perch on her shoulder, eat
out of her dish or hand and flock about
her until she can hardly take step. But
that is not all; it is but small part
just the beginning. When eggs stand
nigh in the market reports, her hens
show full appreciation OF her investment
in them, in kindness, care, patience, de-
votion, affection. And when ,he markets
call for fries and broilers, money flows
her way
SAYS FARMERS SHOULD NOT SHEER AT
sKIN-DEEp BEAUTY.
A contributor to the current issue of
Farm and Fireside writes:
'Of all people, farmers are most prone
TO sheer at Skin-Geep BEAUTY.
''Of all classes of people, farmers are
most dependent on the beauty that is on
the surface; that is, only skin deep.
Can you sell apples which are ugly in
appearance? Don't you find ready sale
for rosy, fat apples?
Does a scrawny colt sell as readily
as plump colt? Hasn't the plump colt
finer hair, better laid on than the scrawny
colt?
Doesn't well-painted farmhouse add
TO the value of the farm? Doesn t an
implanted house hurt sale prospects?
Doesn't a straight fence. almost
beautiful because of its symmetry, lend
value 10 the place? If every fence on a
farm is ugly, you have an ugly farm.
Hadn't you rather see litter of fat,
round pigs than a litter of lean little
cusses, and don't the fat little porkers
give better promise than the skinny
ones?
There can't be too much Of the skin
deep beauty. 1t sells pears and peaches,
potatoes and pumpkins, corr and calves,
horses and hay, wheat and automobiles.
butter and eggs, and it makes true-iove
Matches
$50 POUNDS OF POTATOES FROM ONE
POTATO.
The following is taken from the cur
rent issue of Farm and Fireside:
"a lad in the outskirts of Albany, New
York, and only twelve years of age, has
made world record. The State fair
board offered prize for the largest
yield from one seed potato. Each con-
testant was furnished one potato of a
special and unusual variety in his part of
the State.
eugene Durand raised and exhibited
6S6 pounds Of potatoes, twelve bushels,
of contest quality and size, and left at
home, unweighed, about two bushels of
non-eXhibitahle size So far as known,
this is fully twice the yield ever before
known from one potato.
''The potato had fourteen eyes Each
of these was planted in hotbed. When
the sprout was about three inches high.
he cut it off and placed it IN sand, where
it took root Durand then set it out in
soil adapted to potatoes. The sprouts
kept on growing, and he kept on roofing
them and then transplanting them, and
great was the harvest thereof"