THE
HEN-MAN
95
By R. H. WILKINSON
Hell Syndicate.?WNU Service.
THERE exists in America a certain
type of person who. born
and raised in a city apartment,
possesses what is known in the
vernacular as a yen to own a small
place In the country, firmly believing
that he can buy a few chickens, raise
a few vegetables and live there, commuting
to and from his metropolitan
job, for about one-third the cost of existence
in his city apartment.
This is a splendid idea, especially
that part about living one-third as
cheaply as in the city.
It has its other advantages* too.
There is. for example, the matter of
fresh air, fresh dairy products, plenty
of space to move around in, freedom
from the hustle and bustle of city life.
It's a pity that the plan hasn't, can't
and never will be developed profitably.
I mean the moving-to-the-country
bug.
Steve Holton was attacked by the
bug.
Steve had become fed up on city life.
He was a bachelor, young and handsome,
and was forever chasing about
from party to tea to dinner, to theater,
or any other of the dozen places where
handsome and eligible young bacnelors
are welcomed.
Steve was fed up.
lie wanted a breath of fresh air:
wanted to get up with the sun, drink
in the crisp morning air, tend to the
viuvKciis unci eaten cne i :;>u train to
town and hi* broker's office.
lie wanted to spend his evenings
routed comfortably before a cozy Are,
get in some good reading, go to bed,
at nine o'clock and sleep the sleep of
the just.
Also, he wanted to economize.
The cost of living in town wasn't
giving Steve much of un opportunity
to save for rainy days.
This plan of Steve's was swell. Too
bad it couldn't work.
Steve talked the idea over with Jim
31cDevitL
Jim had tried the same thing once,
hut far some unknown reason was
buck in his city apartment.
.1 iin approved of Steve's idea without
a moment's hesitation.
"Croat scheme. You'll like It. Steve,
out there. Fine way to live. Fact is, ]
i ll have the missus buy her eggs from
you. You can bring them in every
morning. Help you get started."
Sieve's dreams soared.
Ho pictured himself laying aside a
tidy sum from the profits on his eggs.
Hood scout, 31m.
Steve also called on Rus Whltcomb.
litis and his wife had tried the llvingin
the-country Idea. too.
And Uus, like Jim, approved and applauded.
Sure, he'd buy all the eggs Steve
could raise.
Fresh eggs from the country! Boy,
nothing could be better.
latter that same night Jim McDevitt
called Uus Whltcomb on the telephone
and the two of them held a gleeful
conversation.
So old Steve had got the bug, eh?
Well, let him find out for himself.
Won't do him any harm to get stung.
He'd never rest till he got the craving
out of his system anyhow.
Resides, It was comforting to know
there were other fish grabbing at thai
same live-cheaply-ln-the-country bait.
On the following Sunday, Steve
chartered a drive-yoor-own car and
motored out In the country.
Along toward mid-afternoon he
chanced upon a little place in the town
of Medvale that seemed to suit his
exact purpose.
There was a white house with green
Winds and a picket fence around the
front lawn, in which a half dozen
shade trees reared themselves.
Behind the house there was a barn,
several outbuildings and a rather large
henery.
Steve hunted op the owner and wai
astonished and delighted to discover
the place could be rented for less than
one-half of what he was paying at
his present apartment.
He sowed the thing up at once by
making a substantial deposit and signing
a six months* lease.
A month later Steve was established
in his new abode apd tremendously
happy.
Two dozen Rhode Island Red chickens
clucked contentedly In the heneryShrubs
had began to flower and the
hade trees were bursting forth their
buds.
Ah, yes, Steve was far happier than
he ever dreamed he could be.
He was going to bed eerly, getting
up early, reading a lot and learning a
<?od deal about the ben bosineea.
^ter the first week Steve carried
t - * /f-pAir
The Cherokee Sco
with him each morning a half dozen
nice freah eggs and proudly handed
them to Jim and Rus when he reached
the office.
Jim and Rus received them solemnly
and praised hini highly for his success
and winked broadly behind las hack.
Along about the first of May, Steve's
hens, or most of them, stopped laying.
After falling to solve the mystery
himself, he consulted a neighbor and
was told that the biddies were at this
time of year usually interested in rais
ing a family.
Steve thought this was great. He
went home, gathered together all his
spare eggs and put five of his hens
to set.
The others he locked up in a barren
anteroom to "break up" their family
raising notions.
At the end of two weeks eight of the
three dozen eggs Steve had set,
hatched.
The young man was Jubilant.
He proudly summoned bis neighbor,
to display the result of his breeding
efforts, and was told that five of the
eight chicks were roosters, which
wasn't so good.
It was about this time that monthly
hills began to arrive at the hen farm,
and after an evening spent in intensive
figuring Steve discovered that the cost
of electric lights, cooking gas. telephone
and other Inrfdentola <\t u?-oii
hood was quite as much. If not more,
than the cost of the same conveniences
in town.
It was two days after this that Steve
learned, much to his disappointment,
that the "fresh" cream, milk and butter
which he had been having left at
his door each morning were shipped
out of Boston on the night previous
and distributed in the country by a
chain dairy products company.
Augmenting these startling revelations,
Steve came to the conclusion
that getting up with the sun every
morning wasn't such a swell Idea, especially
if it happened to be a rainy
day or If the air wasn't bracing because
of the humidity.
He found also that the long, quiet
evenings were more or less palling
once you got used to them, and that
a month of rending had brought him
I up to date on current literature.
In fact, Steve began to know a long|
ing for a fling at city life, for an eve|
ning at a night club or trip to the
i theater or a gay dinner party.
Stnrtlingly, he discovered that, after
all, farming was a business, and unless
you devoted your entire time to it, it
wns pretty dlfllcult to make it pay.
Which, incidentally, when you look
at the thing squarely, is quite true of
almost any business.
To add to all this, Steve one day
awoke to the fact that Jitn and Bus.
who had had their fling of commuting
from the country, were giving him
what Is known as the merry ha. hn.
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put up a Job on him.
They wanted to see him get stun?.
And when he finally admitted that
this country idea was a lot of bilge
they would be all set to enjoy the situation
with crude and raucous guffaws.
This knowledge was disturbing.
Steve's ears burned at thoughts of It,
And in the end he vowed to foil the
instigators of the Joke, and turn, il
possible, the tables.
Thus minded, Steve on the day following
brought as usual his half dozen
fresh eggs to the conniving rascals
who posed as friends and advisers
suggesting on delivery that. In view
of the fact that eggs were scarce these
days and because these from Medvale
were strictly fresh, the recipients o!
the daily half dozen pay a little more
than the amount asked at the cornet
delicatessen for less fresh hen fruit.
Jim and Russ agreed readily enough
Of course, fresh eggs were worth
more money. *
What was more, they were eagei
and anxious to give Steve a helping
hand.
A week later Steve moved back tc
his city apartment and with a greai
feeling of relief settled once more 1nt<
the comfortable routine to which h<
was accustomed.
But each morning for six month:
thereafter he paused at the cornei
chain store en route to the office, pur
chased two one-half dozen boxes o
eggs at 20 cents the half dozen, am
later sold them to Jim and Rus foi
30 cents.
Which explains why, In the earlj
fall, when Jim and Rus, puzzled ovei
Steve's continued success as a hen
man, motored one day to the lltth
white house In Medvale (the sami
house. Incidentally, which first one an<
then the other had occupied duricj
their own venture In the egg-raislnj
business) they discovered that Stev<
had quitted the place six months pre
vtous, and were prone not to guff a v
when next they encountered the would
be hen-man, hut merely to chuckle li
good fellowship fashion and vow wlU
him to warn all others against tlx
live-in-the-country bug when It at
tacked friends and nelgfibors of tlx
city.
"V"' t
ut, Murphy, N. C?, Freda]
DEVELOP PULLETS'
BODY FOR LAYING
Use Care in Early Feeding
to Bring Maturity.
By Roy S. Dtarstyne. Poultry Department.
North Carolina State College.
WNU Service
The proper feeding of chickens during
the period of early development is
of vital importance in determining
their future laying capacities, so tests
at branch station farms during the
past five years have proved.
One of the most critical periods in
a bird's life is that between the time
It goes oiT the starting mash and the
time it is placed on a laying mash
diet. The feeding should be such as
to bring the birds to bodily maturity at
approximately the same time they
start laying, and not before. After
the birds start laying most of their
food goes into egg production and very
little. If any. goes to skeleton growth.
Hence, a bird that starts laying before
it has reached full growth Is liable to
remain undeveloped and will seldom
have the stamina needed by heavy producing
hens.
Too great an amount of protein in
the food before the laying period is
apt to start the pullets laying too soon.
An excess of carbohydrates or a feed
of cereal crops alone also are conducive
to too-early laying. A good
1 feed should have the proteins and carbohydrates
well balanced.
] A mash containing 15.1 per cent proI
teln. of which 4 per cent was animal
I protein, fed along with the regulai
scratch feed whs found to give tlie
' best results In the experiments con[
ducted with Rhode Islands Reds and
White Leghorns. Fed on this diet, the
birds reached sexual and physical ma
, turity at approximately the same time
Discovers an Easy Way
to Clean Poultry House
The ease and efficiency with whict
a poultry house may he cleaned de
pends considerably on the constructor
of the dropping boards. If they art
made in removable sections the wnrfc
is much easier, writes a correspondent
in Successful Farming.
For this type of construction, attact
supports to the wall on which the drop
ping boards are to he built. Thes'
shottId be spaced not more than 4lA.
I feet apart find should extend into tht
I center of the building about feet
The dropping boards should be mad*
I in sections 5 feet long and 4 feet wld*
so they are of a convenient size t<
i handle. If "eye" bolts are fastened t<
j the hack wall and honks placed In cor
responding positions in the droppinj
, hoards, they may be hooked to tin
wall, making them easy to remove.
Removable roosts may be placed 01
top of the dropping bonrds. Whei
constructed In this way, the roosti
may he taken out and the droppinj
hoards may be removed or raised li
\ the front and hooked to the cellinj
until the house Is cleaned.
To Stop Feather Pulling
Feather pulling among hens is not i
1 j habit, nor is It caused by too cloai
1 i quarters. Neither Is it caused by be
ing hungry, unless one could call 1
1 being hungry for salt. Salt seems t<
be what they want when they pull r>u
' feathers and pick each other. Freshl;
pulled feathers have a slight saltiness
| but the blood has more. To stop thi
feather pulling and picking, says a cot
respondent in the Uural New Yorkei
hang a piece of fat pork low enougl
' for the hens to reach it?two or thre
pounds for a flock of 30 to 40 hensp
and keep water by them all the time
? As long as they have water they cai
eat all they want, and It will not hur
lb era.
Small Eggs Hatch Poorly
Hatching eggs, weighing less thai
20 ouiices per dozen. showed, in re
cent experiments in the state of Mich
lgan. a very poor hatchability and pre
duced small chicks which developer
slowly. Eggs weigUlng 21 to 22 ounce
per dozen had a fair hatchability, bu
those weighing 23 ounces or more pe
dozen showed a good hatchability ant
chicks of good weight.
Poultry Hints
Loafing hens In the farm flock ea
the profits the bus; biddies make.
Chemically, the shells of brown egg
differ from those of white ones.
Orlt Is an aid to the gizzard I
crushing and grinding feed and shout
be before the birds at all times. Nc
OTer three-fourths of a pound of har
grit will be needed b; a ban In a year'
i time.
r, April 20, 1934
I LJ J,llJ,l,MpROVED 1L 1
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
Sunday i
chool Lesson
(By REV P. B. FITilWATER. D. D,
Mtmbcr ?f Faculty. Moody BlbU
Inntltut* of Chicago.)
#. 1934. W?st?rn N#wip?p*r L'nlot.
Lesson for April 22
OUR ALL FOR THE KINGDOM
LESSON TEXT?Matthew 19:16-30.
GOLDEN TEXT?1 have showed you
all thing*, how that ac laboring ye
ought to support the weak, and to remember
i.h? words of the Lord Jesus,
how he said. It is more blessed to
give than to receive.?Acta 20:35.
PRIMARY TOPIC?A Poor Rich
Man.
JUNIOR TOPIC?Giving Jesus First
. Place.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPIC?The
Right Use of Money.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC?Stewardship
of Possessions.
The lesson title Is likely to be mis*
understood and the teaching misapplied.
Jestis did not directly, nor by
i Implication, tench that eternal life
: can be obtained by parting with possessions.
In his dealing with the young
man. Jesus showed him his erroneous
notion as to personal goodness and
endeavored to reveal unto him his own
essential nature.
I. A Certain Young Man Came to
Jesus (v. 10).
! For a full view of the characteristics
of this man see Mark 10:17-30
and l.uke 18:18-30.
1. His virtues.
a. Courageous (Mark 10:7). Fie was
of high standing, a rich young ruler
(Luke 18:18. 23). To come to Jesus
at this time meant to this young man
! ostracism from national fellowship. II
required rea! courage.
I | b. Earnest (Mark 10:17). lie came
and knelt before Jesus.
? i c. nign aspirations (v. 10). Ho
wanted eternal life. There was an
I aching Told In his soul In the tiihlst
t of pleasures which affluence brings.
. I d. Pious and uioral (v. 20). From
youth up he professed to have conj
formed to God's holy law.
e. He believed that .lesus could Inj
form him of the "good thing" to be
done to inherit eternal life.
M *2. Mis mistaken notions.
. J a. About Christ (v. 10). ne es,
teemed Jesus to be good but did not
, apprehend hira to be God.
: | b. Concerning himself. He was selfl
righteous. He thought he was good
i and that he could do something good.
, c. Concerning eternal life. lie
thought that eternal life could be ob,
talned by good works.
II. Christ Dealing With the Young
, Man (tv. 17-22).
1 Jesus skillfully led the young man
k to see his errors and then put his
k finger on the weak spot in his life.
> 1. Jesus' question (v. 17). "Why
j calleth thou me good?" Without giving
him a chance to answer he dej
clared that only God was good, as If
; to say. "I am good and therefore 1
am God."
j 2. Jesus' answer to the young man's
i question (vv. 17-20). "If thou wilt en9
ter Into life, keep the commandments."
I Jesus here met him on his own ground,
? namely that of the law. The law re?
veals sin and thus shuts the mouth
of a self-righteous sinner (Rom. 3:10).
I The law curses Instead of saves (Gal.
| 8:10). The gospel was given to save
# I men from the curse (Rom. 1:10, 17).
g , 3. Christ's command (v. 21). Replying
to Christ's citation of the comt
! mandments of the law the young man
B glibly asserted that he had kept them
t all from his youth up. In Christ's
y 1 command to go and sell his possessions
and distribute them to the poor,
^ he put his finger upon the weak spot
4. The young man's decision (v. 22).
He decided against Christ. In the su^
preme test he chose his wealth.
e III. The Relation of the Rich to the
Kingdom of Heaven (vv. 23-20).
This teaching concerning the peril
'a of riches was most timely. Covetoust
nets was fast taking hold of the people.
Judas was well under Its sway,
1. It Is difficult for the rich to enter
the kingdom ( . 23, 24). Thij
difficulty lies not In the possession ol
ii j riches but In trusting riches. The step
!- from possession to trusting Is a verj
i- short one. Riches are deceitful (Matt
- 13:22). The tendency of Increasing
3 wealth Is to destroy the nobler life ol
8 the soul. It lulls Into security (Rev
t 3:17); It leads to self-indulgence (1
r Tim. 6:2), and to pride (Ezek. 23:3)
J Entrance of the rich Into the king
dom la possible though difficult (tt
23. 26). It Is possible for the grace el
God
a. To sanctify ricbee.
t b. To ao open a man's eyes that hi
may see his downward course and re
pent
s c. To change a man from self-seek
tng to self-sacrifice,
d. To make men humble.
n IV. Rewards for Following Chris
d (rr. 27-30).
,t Those who turn their hecks opoi
d their country and possessions fot
a Christ's sake shall receive a hundred
fold to this life and eternal life f?
the world to come.
?
Page Three
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To love one's neighbor as oneself
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