The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-04-28
DOOM OF THE ROOSTER
UNCLE SANS EXPERTS READ
RIOT ACT TO CHANDELIERS.
In Same states Merchants VIII Pay
Same Price For Them as For Hens
- Interest of UnfertiIe Eggs.

In Some states Merchants VIII Pay
Same Price For Them as For Hens
in Interest of Unfertile Eggs.
Every Well informed rooster in
Kantuckv and Tennessee is probably
looking forward to May l6 with fear
and trembling. On that day mer-
obonts in these states will, according
- on agreement with the department
If agriculture, pay the same price
for ROSTERS that is paid for hens.
This is part OF a dark conspiracy TO
aocima+a male poultry in the interest
Of the unfertile egg, The depart
mont has advised farmers that the
for+ila egg is the one which turns
had and that it is responsible for the
lass of millions of dollars a year to
nonltrr raisers. Unfertile eggs may
drv M. but they Will not rot; they
are the ideal of the cold storage man
ond the root of commercial success
for farmers.
When the department decided that
The fertile egg was a bad business
nroposition experts without the
milk of human kindness in them, so
far &C ROSTERS are concerned, devils
ed or Matched, a plan to get rid OF
tho roosters because it is set down
in the books that fertile eggs are
found in poultry communities in
facted by chandeliers and that I'M
fertile eggs, warranted to taste for
ever. are laid by hens not distracted
bv the philandering expeditions of
lusty roosters.
Why Is a Rooster?
1T is not necessary" says the de-
Dartment of agriculture, in the death
warrant fixing May 16 as the date of
exesution. flor a rooster to be
among hens in order that their lay
ing qualities may not be curtailed. "
'Why is a rooster" All his ira
ditional proves has been stolen by
dramatists and scientific experts, and
he is reduced to the mournful philos-
ophy of only a rooster today and a
feather buster tomorrow"
The department of agriculture has
not confined its murderous activities
to Kentucky and Tennessee. Execu-
ton days will be fixed in other states
until the dark shadows of every hen
house from Maine to California and
from Minnesota to Texas will be fill
ed at night with the ghostly wraiths
of departed BOOSTERS, slain at the al
tar of the unfertile egg.
These conspiring experts wanted
to help the farmer without causing
him too much financial loss on ac-
count of the exile of the roosters.
For that reason they obtained from
merchants an agreement to pay
equally high prices for roosters and
hens on May 16. That is supposed
to be sufficient inducement to cause
farmers who want to produce ever
lasting eggs to dispose of their Toost-
ers.
Since the conspiracy has come to
light every rooster able to read has
been seeking sympathy from his
cousin, the turkey gobbler. Since
day was invented the
gobbler has been trained to exhibit
a stole demeanor during November.
The chicken-hearted rooster has
turned to him for solace. The roost-
er, in effect, has been placed among
the game birds. The department of
agriculture advises that he be killed
Or jailed from May l to December 1,
as it is during warm weather that
fertile eggs most readily display
their propensity to change into hy-
drogen sulphide tombs.
During the winter months, when
nature is conducting a terrestrial
cold storage plant, eggs are not sub
jected to the temptation to depart
from the straight and narrow path
of freshness and chase after the NAL
odorous god of rot. Open season for
ROSTERS is, in consequence, from
May l to December /. During the
other months those which have es-
capped the axe may return to their
homes, renew their acquaintance
with the hens, and lift their clarion
voices in matutinal chorus without
having q Damoelean weapon over
their heads.