. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. July 30, 1904] ©h* gveebev ani> ^povtsmaxt 13 Maud Muller, a Chicken Raiser. Maud Muller, on a summer's day, ! â â¢= Set a hen in a brand new way. 3*? (Maud, you see, was a city girl, Trying the rural life a whirl.) She covered a bos with tinsel gay, Lined it snugly with new-mown hay. Filled it nicely with eggs, and then Started to look tor a likely hen. Out of the flock she selected one; And then she thought that her work was done. It would have been, but this stubborn hen Stood up and cackled "Ka doot!" and then Maud Muller came and with hurt su
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. July 30, 1904] ©h* gveebev ani> ^povtsmaxt 13 Maud Muller, a Chicken Raiser. Maud Muller, on a summer's day, ! â â¢= Set a hen in a brand new way. 3*? (Maud, you see, was a city girl, Trying the rural life a whirl.) She covered a bos with tinsel gay, Lined it snugly with new-mown hay. Filled it nicely with eggs, and then Started to look tor a likely hen. Out of the flock she selected one; And then she thought that her work was done. It would have been, but this stubborn hen Stood up and cackled "Ka doot!" and then Maud Muller came and with hurt surprise Looked coldly into thecreature's eyes; Then tied its legs to the box. ' You bet," Said she, "I know how to make you ; But still it stood, and, worse and worse, Shrieked forth its wrongs to the universe; Kicked over the box with its tinsel gay And ignominiously flapped away. Then a bad boy over the barnyard fence Tee-heed: "Say, Maud, there's a difference 'Tween hens, you know, an' it is that One says 'Ka-doot:' an' one 'Ka dat!' " Then Maud recalled that the ugly brute She tried to set had said "Ka-doot!" And ever since that historic day She blushes in an embarrassed way, To think of the blunder she made once when She tried to set a gentleman hen. âNorthwest Farmer. The Common Cow. If aDy man knows the American cow, that man is Prof. T. L. Haecker of the Minnesota Experiment Station. In Far- mers' Advocate he writes on "the common cow" as follows: I referred to the fact a few months ago that the average yield of Minnesota cows was 140 pounds per year. At the experi- ment station the annual average of our herd is 350 pounds per cow. The herd is a mixed one, comprising representatives of the various breeds, and common cows as well. The milk from these cows is weighed at each milking and a test made with the Babcock tester, so that we know just what we are doing. We have the common cow in the herd, because we must know
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