Show california hens flens the rev mr colton the late alcalde of monterey finding finding it difficult to procure eggs when required d either for love or money took the hen fever er in a natural way and that our friends in in new england may know what kind of birds they have in california and their habits we give mr coltons collons Col tons own description of them I 1 purchased six hens of an indian woman for 6 dollars and a rooster for 50 cents on asking in g the woman why she char charged d only hamp half price rice i f for 0 r the rooster she replied tie that at the fellow laid no eggs and as for his crowing that did nobody bod any good sounder reasons than these could not be furnished on a much higher place than a hen coop the habits of these hens are I 1 a little singular they are perfectly tame aud and are as much at home in the kitchen a as s the cook they never trouble themselves about a nest but deposit their e eggs g age where they find it convenient one takes the tea tray and another the ironing table a third the oven and there is one otie that always grets gets into the cradle she is not at all disturbed disturb edby by the tossing of the little fellow fediow on whose premises she is intruding neither she nor any of her feathered sisters cackle when they leave their nest they do not seem 0 o think that anything worth making an ado abolt has come to pass the rooster it is true crue pricks up a little and perhaps feels a feather taller lerT r 1 but this is the vanity vanita of his sex there area great many who craw crow over what others have done |