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Show CHICKENS WITH HAIR . ' . Chicago Man Goes Secretary Sec-retary of Agriculture One Better. 4 CHICAGO. Feb. 28.Whlle Secretary Wilson and his Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture are trying to produce a featherless breed of hens for the Southern States, Miller Burvls of Chicago, a noted authority" au-thority" of henology. Is busy producing chickens with hair on instead of feathers, feath-ers, for cold climates. The experiments are conducted by Dr. W. M. Black of Bolivar. O. . The fowls produced by Dr. Black are called Klondike Klon-dike chickens, and the doctor says they are warmly enough thatched to stand any amount of cold and go right on laying lay-ing eggs. He believes that an Arctic explorer, supplied with a dozen of his hens, can travel all over the. frigid regions and have fresh laid eggs , and broilers aJl through the Journey. The doctor's chickens chick-ens cannot fly. |