Gunnison news-champion., 1923-03-30

would-be cullers. We know if we were
asked, We could improve upon it, so
far as its brevity is concerned.
Then some one sent us an account
of the daily life of that $1,000 Montana
hen. We read it thru several times
and were quite overcome with admira-
ton for that hen who has a trained
nurse to wait upon her every fifteen
minutes, and lays so many eggs in a
year, her owner can't escape the in
come tax. Somehow we always asso-
eiated trained nurses and special
attendants with hospitals, and in all
the methods we used at our boarding
house We never thot of hiring u re-
tinue Of trained nurses for Ruifles and
Fluffles, and Buffy and Speckle and
the rest of them.We shudder to think
of the eggs we missed because Of our
lack of knowledge.
Then came the suggestion about in
Guiding rabbit meat in the daily bill
of fare. Our friend wrote: "a few
rabbits day will make your hens lay"
She said she kept Sonny busy spare
moments shooting rabbits. which she
afterwards fed to the pullets. Results,
she's been getting from ten TO twenty
eggs a day from forty hens. Presume
she didn't have enough rabbits to go
round. or the egg capacity would have
been doubled. Well. our own Sonny is
in school and only comes home for
week-ends and some times misses a
few of them. Occasionally thruout the
winter, we have had few rabbits in
our Iarder, but did not think Of serv-
ing them to the pounltry boarders..
And, even IL we should do SO another
year, our friends advice lacks definite
ness. She failed to tell US whether
she served the rabbits hot or cold, or
III they were to be accompanied with
hashed brown potatoes or cream
sauce.
By far the best suggestion we have
received and the simplest and most
explicit and economical, tells us to
hold few petting parties for our
hens, in fact have several day. And
this, too right on top the worldwide
campaign against petting parties for
fiappers. The petting parties sugges-
ton came from a writer named De-
Lapp, a correspondent for the Ameri-
can Poultry Advocate. He advises
petting hens early and late, and he
tells us that il we bill and coo and say
sweet nothings at our poultry parties,
the hens will ut once become content
ed, and when hen is deeply contented,
she doesn't mind laying an egg a day,
in fact, she enjoys it. "Oh, you've got
to make regular babies out Of them
and give them the same care you
would give a human baby, and when
ii comes to keeping house for them,
you must keep it as carefully as you
do for hubby and sonny" He gives
rules for diet, warns you to keep the
dogs away, for If you don't, they are
likely to scare the daylights out of
your hens" QUOTED verbatim). You
must not let the poultry feminities get
their feet wet. In other words, your
whole and bounden duty is to keep the
hens contented, and the best way to
contribute to their contentment is by
holding these petting parties.
So much for the care of the flock.
Then after getting US all excited over
these prospective petting parties, and
encouraging US to think we can, with
safety, fill up our boarding house again
in the fall with boarders, who will pay
their feed bill, we are told we must
"cull and Gull continuously" And the
contributor thinks we are just as smart
as he is and doesn't tell US any special
way to Gull. And-oh, well!--
It's very plain we've got to work
in season and out of season and be-
tween times TO get definite set Of
rules formulated to do this culling
practice effectively and thereby be able
to dispense with eggless meals.
i As we recall our loving family of
recently departed boarders whom we
culled and axed short time ago, and
who now adorn our pantry shelves in
pint jars, it is with regret we remem-
Der our sins Of omission in the loving
care we gave each member-we did
not feed them rabbits, we did not have
a special nurse for each one, we did
not have time to ferrit out the four
teen culling points from the college
extension bulletins, but of course,
our deepest sorrow comes from the
fact that we did not have any petting
parties. OF course, it is always the
thing you didn't do that should have
been DONE.
Our new order for baby chicks will
likely reach US in another week. We
will begin the petting parties at once.
At the rate culling suggestions con-
tinue to fill our mail sack, as they
daily arrive from interested friends,
there is going to be very little left
that we will not know when culling
time cohesive might have been eat
ing eggs now If we had known about
petting parties.
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