The Farm-poultry . agreed to sell him the cockerels at 25 centsa pound, live weight, and the pullets at $ the two males were weighed we found that theycame to $ He exclaimed, I vum ! Who ever sawchickens to weigh twelve pounds before? The resultof this was that men came from all quarters to see henswhich weighed twelve pounds each. The school I attended was within hearing distance ofour barn, and my Cochin Chinas learned to associate the noise and uproar of the boys let out of school withtheir evening meal. The whole flock would come twentyrods down the main street to meet m
The Farm-poultry . agreed to sell him the cockerels at 25 centsa pound, live weight, and the pullets at $ the two males were weighed we found that theycame to $ He exclaimed, I vum ! Who ever sawchickens to weigh twelve pounds before? The resultof this was that men came from all quarters to see henswhich weighed twelve pounds each. The school I attended was within hearing distance ofour barn, and my Cochin Chinas learned to associate the noise and uproar of the boys let out of school withtheir evening meal. The whole flock would come twentyrods down the main street to meet me. Imagine thepicture: — cockerels that could eat off a barrel headcoming with measured strides and droopy wings, andthe pullets, half flying and running ostrich fashion, fol-lowing in their wake; all coming to meet me as I camefrom school. And this on the main thoroughfare of thetown. Do you wonder that the flock became noted, andthat people came from all points of the compass to seehens weighing twelve pounds?. FAVKROLLES HEN. Hen houses were rare in those days. With the horsesand cattle the fowls were joint tenants of the barn. Ourfine gray horse became an adept in appropriating theeggs laid in the manger. He would wait patiently foran egg, and take it the moment it was laid. It was notan unusual sight to see a particular hen sitting com-posedly on his broad loin. In the spring, when hotweather came, this magnificent gray became rubbed nearly all the hair from his mane and tail,and minute festers appeared on his body. Then inhunting for eggs my clothes were sprinkled w:ith a verylively and annoying hayseed, which, so far as old Graywas concerned, diagnosed as hen lice. So my hens were banished from the barn, and more than half of themdisposed of for poultry. Old Grays sufferings gave me a poultry house — thefirst one in the part of the town in which I lived. Itwas a building, 12 x 15 feet on the ground, which hadbeen used as a pig-sty. To fit it for the poult
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