The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1920-05-21
ALSO MAKES A DIFFERENCE
WHOSE CHICKEN IS PICKED

Editor Star: A farmer came to a
neighboring lawyer, expressing great
concern for an accident he said had
Just occurred. Zone of your oxen
has been gored by an unlucky bull Of
mine and | shall be glad to know how
am to make you reparation."
"Thou art very honest fellow"
replied the lawyer, "and wilt rot
think it unreasonable that / expect
one of your oxen in return"
at is no more than justice" quoth
the farmer, "to be sure; but what lid
| say: mistake; it is your bull that
has killed one of my oxen"
Indeed" said the lawyer, chat
alters the case"
With US humans, it seems, as at all
times circumstances alter cases."
Only a few years ago when the cost
Of building, maintaining and keeping
in repair and painting the fences
within the corporate limits of the
ciCy were shown to be so great and
so totally disproportionate to the
value of the stock that came into the
town that city fencing was almost
half tumbled down fence and rotten
posts was beautiful home, fragrant
flowers and green lawn, and when the
old fence was torn away added much
to the beauty of the city. 1t was a
fine move.
True, the cows and some old sows
with their litter of pigs would make
rightly visits and the next morning
the yards would look like the terri
tory around No Mans Land. Then
the poor old cow puncher came in
for his share of abuse and want of
attention. Yes. some prominent citi-
zens went so far as to use shot and
gun powder and some nice shoats
were killed for roofing up the lawn
They got by with it-no one bothered
them for the shooting of the pigs.
Mr.. Cow Puncher got busy and it
was not long before the town was
practically free from stock running
at large. The fences have not beer
rebuilt. 1t looks as if they will have
to be rebuilt closer. stronger anC
higher if the poultry farming con.
tinues in the corporate limits anC
those persons engaged therein are not
Required to have any fence to conduct
such business and let their chicks
feed on their neighbors' vegetable:
and flowers. While hogs and cattle
are put in the city pound and some
times shot for coming on the lawn
chickens have the run of the street!
and any mans lands, and nothing i!
done by the city. Instead of gun
powder and leaden bullets, let US tt!
a sling-shot or a brick-bat. Brick
bats won't do for women canno
"chunk" rocks. What is to be dom
with those chickens that take to tina
good lady's yard when she goes to he
work in the morning and spends mos
of the day away from home making
living, while her neighbors' chicken
are scratching everything up that i
took her a long time to get started ?
When a man buys a lot of stabl
manure, clears off his ground and be
, tween labor hours spades it in an
, spends his money for fine fiowe
we'll to come home and see the Who'll
scattered and torn up and chicken
cackling over the worms found in tn
ground. Nor the other fellow VIII
> has planted few rows of tomatoe:
Oh lettuce, or beans, to help feed nj
|, wife and children and battle agains
L the III. c. of L. to see the first of nj
seed that dare to peep up above tn
ground scratched up by the old he
for her little biddies.
Building and keeping in repair
I few fences sufficient to keep the cl
Z hen and her, brood from destroyi1
the other fellows little vegetables an
flowers would pay for all the chicken
l in town. Will the people have to re
. build the fences or shall poultry rails
ing be discontinued within the city ?
A Puzzled Citizen.