The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1916-07-07


look through spyglass to see ho
o much money have made In the chic
, Ien business. Here are the figure
, ard stand ready to swear by thei
, correctness.
II ! have about fifty hens, and | hay
fed them the seed from three tons G
kaffir corn which would easily hav
n threshed out thirty bushel of seed.
have fed almost ten bushel Of oats.
, Figuring this grain at fifty cent
per bu. we have $40 for feed The,
have also picked up few things then
selves that might have gone to fee,
something Of value. have climbe,
4 rickety, tricky, half grown ladde
twice day to the barn loft and slip
Iped the heads from this feed. ant
gave II 10 them freely with my best
wishes. | have been a friend indeed
to them Placing value of 10c pei
hour for my time and using approx
limately 10 minutes time each day fol
the past five months, we have 1916
for labor Making a grand total OF
$23.75. have received counting all
of them, just one eggs.
Can you figure any other way than
that this egg cost me s23.75? And
Its newness is questioned even then.
! II would not be quite so bad If ! knew
the egg was good At $2375 each
would have to sell them for 1855 90
per dozen before | could break even.
This is not counting anything for the
numerous times we have extracted
these said hens from snow drifts, and
otherwise exerted ourself trying TO
enlighten their wayward minds that
they might know enough to roost In
the hen-house,
If this were all the trouble it would
not be so bad, but 1t Is not. During
the last blizzard all our hens were
stricken with insanity. We lost much
time and sleep trying to restore their
lost minds
One night about dark | discovered
several Of our hens sitting quietly
on the peak of the barn knew I'M
mcdiately that they had lost their
minds There being no ladder, and
the air so filled with weather that it
was next to impossible for anything
human human to exist, 0et alone my-l
sc,O | threw snow-balls at them think
ing | could frighten them off
Talk about brave things, those hens
never batted an eye. They were cool
and collected ! was cool too. but |
not very collected could throw
within five or six feet of them, and
once | hit the barn rfis so encou'
aged me that ! threw most all the |
srow near the barn at them. was
rewarded by hitting one Of the hens
and almost knocking her off the barn. |
| had hoped that If hit her at all
that would at least knock her out of
the township. Seeing that 1t was
simply waste of snow. energy, and
profanity, quit. 1t would have been
very well at this, only | strained my
arm to the extent that carried 1t IN |
a sling. and learned to perform all
kinds of mammal labor with by left
hand.
These are only part of the many
Joys of chickendom. You cannot gel
the real down right blessedness out
o. the thing unless YOU embark in
tic business Yourself Many colds |
have accumulated and have had the
exquisite pleasure of wearing for
weeks at time, by frolicking around
in this reckless pastimes, rescuins
my idiotc hens from the frigid wealth
or. and leading them in the path OF
Righteousness to their respective
abodes which in my estimation they
we're to lazy to make an effort to
reach.
Why would they not lay Ihey
had the largest repertire of songs one
most ever heard. Then again they
we're right in the prime of their hen
ood. Both my hens and the roosters
senm to be filled with blessed cusscd |
ness. and If they were compelled to |
lay. feel confident they would get
IA on the house and lay off
Such trials as am having are ho'
., to cause me to die of laughter.
Nv hens are filled with an everlast-
ny do nothingness, and ! can truth
f,lly say there is only one time IN
I,e existence of a hen when she fui-
fills my fondest dream.
When see an old hen with her
wings folded peacefully on
her snowy breast, and her feet point