The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1921-12-15

were brown eggs, white eggs and
speckled eggs, and out of the 10 eggs
there were two double-yolked eggs
and one soft-shelled egg that broke as
| T laid it down beside the basket. i
saw in an instant that was beaten,
allu badly, too; but / picked out
seven OF the best looking eggs and
set them under trusty hen that had
been picked for this special duty, and
hsres The result: three eggs infer
tile two p. Rock chicks, and two
others that were just chicks, without
any given name. Well, they didn't
live long enough to get a name, for
then.
wrote Mr.-, giving him
facts, and told him he must make
this right, as he certainly was filling
these Sc orders from the corner gro
cery. Whereupon he replied that
there must have been some mistake.
and that to make it right he would
send me a SIS cockerel, a fine one,
and allow me So off for the eggs and
my trouble. To this / replied, that
the trick he had played me was mean
enough without rubbing it in with a.
81 cockerel worth 10c pound in the
market. This ended the matter, and
! placed it on the loss side Of the
ledger. But, a few years later, while
travelling in this mans state, / had
business in the town in which he
lived, and naturally inquired where
ne lived. "Oh," said bystander, hes
mot living, he's dead" Whereupon /
inquired what took him off, and the
answer was, "r,othing much, he just
died, that's all" "Too id dishonest
to live" piped up another voice,
He ran for mayor, got beat A to J.,
and it broke his heart, tho don't
believe he had a very big one."
If we must have new blood, or
wish to start breeding any special
breed, don't wait till the last moment,
but look up before hand some breed
er OF that variety, who is morally
and financially responsible and re-
liable. Wher an advertiser tells too
big story about his stock and their
record as layers, just chew it while
before you swallow it, and if it tastes
like lie, don't bite, It's quite easy
to detect an honest advertisement
from q gross Misrepresentation, for
the latter in his eagerness to get
orders at his big advertised price, is
apt to overdo the matter.
011act.onc -Te cxxyoo% o1Nxyo,. n SrNnI
green food for hens when confined in
winter quarters Mrs. r.
Ans.: Sweet clover cured under
cover is good as green food, but
fowls do not take to it like red clover
or alfalfa, and only eat it when
forced to, or go without green food
Bessie G. writes: We have five
pullets hatched June 18 and three of
them are laying now. Why is not
June Matched chicks as good as
earlier ones, as a lot of time and
feed is saved?
Ans: Bessie does not say what
breed her pullets are. However, that
matters little. Likely these five pull
let's were all she had of that age, and
naturally were fed about like a pet
lamb is fed, plenty and otter, and
likely those persons table scrap NOR
sells were saved for them also. They
being about 5 months old, ought to
be laying especially if treated as
described above, but possibly Bessie
does not stop to think that if these
pullets had been hatched two mouths
earlier and laid at the same age, she
could have been selling their eggs
for two long months for Soc to Wc
per dozen. That's what counts, and
also she could not have taken 80 TO
40 pullets Matched June 18 ard made
them get to laying 3 out Of 5 BY this
time. May / to Is is the ideal time
for Matching, tho even April is safer
than June, as a. rule. 81