THE “TIMES” PRIZE-WINNING COLUMN %
From
ALMAR FARM
In Transylvania
. BY CAL CARPENTER
I wish someone who knows
about chickens would tell me
about them. I’m finding the
longer I have these queer
birds, the less I know about
poultry in general and chick
ens in particular.
I’m not talking about the
downright mystifying things
like the bird that looked like
a hen and acted like a hen for
two years; and then gradually
changed into a rooster with
wattles, tail features, and a
crow that put the legendary
Chanticleer to shame. I wrote
about her? him? it? a few years
back, if you remember.
Nor am I talking about
our rooster’s, Lucky’s, psy
chological problems. Regular
readers will remember that
he got roughed up when two
dogs got in the henhouse.
They stripped him of his
feathers until he looked ready
for the pot. They also seem
to have stripped him of the
last vestige of his rooster
ish courage, for he allowed
the colorful little game roos
ter we call “P. T. Barnum”
to move in from his bachelor
diggins in the hog house and
take over as cock of the
walk in the henhouse. We
first thought Lucky was
spending his time hiding in
a dark hole behind some
separator coops because he
was embarrassed by his nak
edness, but that evidently
wasn’t the case. He has his
feathers back now and looks
as handsome as ever; but,
Alas, he’s lost his nerve. He
still hides from “P. T.” who’s
barely half his size.
I’m not talking about
these problems in abnormal
chicken psychology and phys
iology, nor even those we’ve
had with stubborn hens in'the
very normal business of setting.
I’m talking about the mun
dane, everyday business of
managing a small flock of hens
so as to keep eggs on the
breakfast table and in the din
ner combread.
Take ouit first year on the
farm. We’d traded 10 hens
from Leander Gillespie, who
was living here when we
bought the place, and he’d
thrown in a rooster. We fed
them well and all that sum
mer we had plenty of eggs.
Then, in the early fall, tie
ungrateful birds stopped lay
ing. I asked my mother about
it when I was over at Can
ton one Sunday.
“Son,” she said, “that’s nor
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mal. Chickens stop laying for
three months or so in the win
ter and start again affer the
first of the year.”
“Why do they do that?” I
innocently inquired.
“They need a rest, I guess,”
said Motiier. It’s just not their
nature to lay year around.”
“Well, my Goodness,” said
I. “Does that mean we have
to do without eggs three
months each year? — and if
so, where do the eggs in the
stores come from when the
chickens are on vacation?”
Mother laughed at me, but
she told me that new pullets,
which had just started laying,
would lay on through the
winter.
“Ah, ha!” said I to my
self. “So you have to stag
ger their laying ai d vaca
tion schedules. Well I’ll fix
that. I’ll get some i.ew pul
lets to start their laying in,
say, September. Figure their
vacation will then come in
June, July, and August; my
other chickens will be laying
then, so I’ll have plenty of
eggs all year around.”
So I bought 10 beautiful new
pullets from a lady who lives
down on Ross Road. I bought
them in October and they’d
just started laying. This was
about the time the older hens
of my flock had walked off
the nest for their three-month
vacation.
Things worked out pretty
well that first winter. We had
eggs enough for our use,
enough for Mother, who
likes our fresh eggs better
. than any she can buy; and
even a few dozen to let our
friends have.
But comes this fall and the
schedule has gone to pot. The
birds who should have taken
their vacation in June evident
ly didn’t, for we had a bang
up egg nrpduction all summer.
Now, with winter here, the
whole flock is vacationing and
we’ve been forced into the in
dignity of buying eggs — at
the same store where we buy
those bags of expensive chick
en feed to keep 20 uncoopera
tive crops full.
I’ve talked to the hens
about it — Marge says if
there’s ever a stranger around
to' hear me up in the hen
house telling the “girls” that
tt they don’t start Ikying,
“Comes the Pot” — it won’t
be long before the men in
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Cathey's Creek Community
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Has Quiet Christmas Holiday
By ■ Mrs. Ken Riley
(Omitted Last Week)
CATHEY’S CREEK — Christ
mas was rather quiet in our sec
tion, with several family gather
ings on Christmas eve and one
in our memory is that at the
home of Mrs. Myrtle Pruitt,
with daughters Mrs. Arthur
Thomas and Mr. Thomas, Mrs.
Lavaun Taylor and family of
Asheville, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas
Corn and children of Cedar
Mountain, Pfc. Keith Roger
Thomas, Pfc. Dexter Schewer
man of Fort Benning, Ga. De
licious refreshments were serv
ed and gifts exchanged. A grand
time was had by all.
Mrs. Sallie McCall and son
Junior hosted a dinner on
Christmas day for Mrs. Lona
Breedlove, Mrs. Ethel Lee and
Mr. and Mrs. Tom McKinney.
They enjoyed turkey with all
the trimmings.
One thing that touched the
heart of many disabled and
shut-ins in these parts was the
visit of the Rev. Kenneth Bragg
pastor of Cathey’s Creek Bap
tist church as he went from
home to home with a happy
smile on his face and some kind
words and a prayer before he
left.
Pfc. Keith Thomas and Pfc.
Dexter Scherman, a native of
Colorado), visited Keith’s par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L.
Thomas over the holidays. They
are both stationed at Fort Ben
ning, Ga.
Word was received here on
the 25th that Mrs. Nannie B.
Whitmire of Columbus, Ga., had
been admitted to a Ft Benning
hospital with a bad ear. We
hope by the time she receives
her copy of the Times she will
be all well. Also we wish a very
speedy recovery to “Buddie”
Buckner ad Luther Garren who
are both at present in the local
hospital.
Mrs. Winifred Taylor of
Kirksville, Mo., has been spend
ing sometime with her mother,
Mrs. Lula Buckner due to the
illness of “Buddie”. Also Lt.
Col. Emmitt Taylor came from
Missouri to spend Christmas
with his wife and Mrs. Buckner
and son.
Mrs. Ethel Lee attended the
Christmas program along with
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Nicholson at
the church of the Nazarine on
King Street in Brevard.
Sunday visitors of Albert Mc
Kinney were Mr. Arthur Raines
and Mr. Stepp of Henderson
ville.
Jack McKinney of Georgia
visited his folks over the week
end.
Word was also received here
over the holidays that “Aunt
Texie” Cairnes had fallen and
suffered a broken hip. She is
in Monterey Nursing home in
Baltimore.
She was reported to be con
valescing fine and taking physi
cal therapy each day. She is in
her early 80’s.
Several of our folk are em
ployed at American Thread and
all were presented with a love
ly turkey for which they wish to
say a great big “thank you” to
Larry Walker and all who help
the white coats cotae for
me.
Maybe so, but it’s done no
good anyway.
“Ah-caa-caa-caa- cock,” is all
I get from my pretty sing
ers, two of whom I call Lily
Pons and Maria Callas (with
no disrespect intended the fa
mous opera singers). They
don’t believe me anyhow.
Guess I’ll Just have to get
new pullets every year. And
that means some of. the old
er birds really will have to
go to the pot or we’ll be ov
errun with chickens on the
place. ,
Serves them right for be
lng so uncooperative about
ed make it a most lovely holi
day.
Kenneth Riley enjoyed a love
ly birthday on the 25th. He was
presented many useful gifts.
To one and all reading our
column we want to wish you
God’s blessings in the New
Year and a safe weekend. See
you in 1972!
Court and Wife Beating
Providences R. I.—The Rhode
I land Supreme Court has ruled
that it’s illegal for a man to
brat his wife. The ruling came
from a case where the lawyer
argued the state constitution
gives a man the right to “chas
tise his wife.”
NOTICE
In The General Court of Justice
District Court Division
State Of North Carolina
County Of Transylvania
AGNESS CLAYTON and
JOSEPHINE CLAYTON,
Petitioners
- vs -
J. L. MIMMAUGHN, GAYLE E.
RAMSEY, Guardian ad Litem
for all minors, incompetents,
and other persons under legal
disability, all of whom are un
known to these petitioners, to
gether with their spouses, if
any, heirs at law, devisees, if
anyi, and their respective spous
es, if any, and together with all
creditors or lienholders, re
gardless of how or through
whom they claim, and any and
all other persons, firms, cor
porations, institutions or legal
entities claiming any interest
in the property hereinafter de
scribed, regardless of how or
through whom they claim, the
names and whereabouts of all
such persons, firms corpora
tions, institutions or legal en
tities being unknown to the pe
titioners,
Respondents
The above named respondents
will take notice that an action
entitled as above has been com
menced in the District Court of
Transylvania County, North
Carolina, by the petitioners for
the purpose of removing cloud
from the title of the land of the
petitioners by judgment of the
Court removing any claim of the
respondents to the following de
sccribed land:
BEGINNING at a stake in
the Southeast corner of Lot No.
98 in the edge of an unnamed
street; thence circling with sail
unamed street in a Northea*
erly direction 188.5 feet to j#
stake in the Southeast corner if
Lot No. 104; thence with tHp
line of Lot No. 104 to a stake
in the rear line of Lot No.
thence with the line of Lois
Nos. 97 and 98, South 41 de
grees and 30 minutes Egst 150
feet to the BEGINNING.
BEING Lot Number Ohb
Hundred Three (103) in Sec
tion Number One (1) of that
certain subdivision known as
“Montclove Estates," as shown
and described on that certain
map or plat of the same made
by John L. Stacy, Registered
Surveyor, in 1925, same being
recorded in Book No 1, at Page
No. 1, in the office of the Reg
ister of Deeds for Transylvania
County, North Carolina, to
which said plat reference is
hereby made.
And the respondents will fur
ther take notice that they are
required to appear at the of
fice of the Clerk of the Su
perior Court of Transylvania
County, in the Courthouse in
Brevard, North Carolina, on the
22nd day of February, 1972,
and answer or demur to the
petition in said action; or the
petitioners will apply to the
Court for the relief demanded
in the petition.
This the 22nd day of De
cember, 1971.
MARIAN M. McMAHON
Clerk of Court of Transyl
vania County.
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