HOUSE AND GARDEN 
July, 1913 
being old-fashioned, she would make a 
good mother. 
As it was getting late in the season for 
raising chickens that would bring a good 
price, I hurriedly appealed to a man who 
was in the poultry business to sell me some 
setting-hens. He was willing to sell at 
fifty cents each, so I took five, and after 
getting the eggs I set them about every 
other day. 
During the twenty-one days of incuba¬ 
tion, I gave more attention to the care of 
laying hens. I bought three more hens 
and a White Wyandotte cock for $3.25. 
In the morning I fed a mixture of oats or 
wheat and cracked corn, and the same at 
night. The table scraps furnished a va¬ 
riety of food that kept them happy, and 
there was always plenty of green stuff, 
fresh water and dry mash before them. I 
sometimes pounded up broken plates as a 
substitute for oyster-shells. 
At last twenty-one days had passed since 
I set the old-fashioned hen, and not an 
egg stirred. On the twenty-second day 
the second hen’s eggs began to hatch and 
still no signs of life from the first setting. 
Had the old-fashioned hen been sitting on 
old-fashioned eggs? By breaking one I 
immediately decided that such was the 
case! The remainder I buried without 
breaking. Nevertheless the other hens 
hatched a good number, two of them 
hatching fifteen and the lowest number 
was eleven. 
After I had moved all the chicks and 
their mothers into movable runs where 
there were fresh grass and abundant 
shade, I started out to buy more hens. 
Finding a place where there was a beau¬ 
tiful flock of White Wyandottes, I bought 
eight at eighty cents each. These were 
laying so well that by the middle of July 
I had saved enough eggs to set three more 
hens. I had put some of the Hamburg’s 
eggs with these, and I was pleased when 
they hatched, for I wanted to see what a 
Wyanburg chicken would look like, the 
result of crossing Wyandotte cock with 
Hamburg hen. There were two Barred 
Rock chickens for which I could not ac¬ 
count, as I had none of that kind. 
Having no further use for my “crower,” 
I sold him alive for ninety cents. He must 
have been my mascot, for soon after he 
had gone, my Hamburg hen died, the 
chickens began to disappear and a white 
hen began to act queerly, staggering in 
circles continually. Feeling worried over 
her rapidly failing condition I asked a far¬ 
mer what he thought was the cause of the 
trouble. He diagnosed it a case of hyp¬ 
notism by a snake and I was persuaded 
to part with her for ten cents. 
As it was nearing time to return to the 
city, I began to watch for a chance to sell 
out advantageously. Some of the largest 
chickens weighed two pounds, which was 
less than I thought they should weigh. 
However, finding a chance to get thirty 
dollars for the sixteen hens and forty 
chickens, I decided to sell them. In reck¬ 
oning up my accounts, which I kept care¬ 
fully all summer, I found that my re- 
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