Show THEY HAD KNOWING HENS coir a a pd and sensitive ensi tive fowl iier her dignity ile he was being interviewed on the poultry business by a wabash times time reporter when he said 1 I dont want to boast but I 1 do think we wa have got the know ingest hens i in n t the he world in our end of town I 1 have a flock of all I 1 lack it is a theory of mine that black ben hens s lay better than those afan oth otha r color one day I 1 found a lien ben iu in my floe cock k with a few white feathers in her tail I 1 called the hired man and told him to catch and rill kill her you cant ean rely on the laying capabilities of a hen with white feathers I 1 said Isaid the hen gave me a sorrowful i look but did not say a word avord next morning morn ing the hired man told me that he I 1 could not find her A month or two later I 1 opened a pile of potatoes 3 1 I hari stored in the cellar and found a big hollow spam space in the cent center C r of them there was a bunch of black feathers in the place with three white ones standing up in a defiant sort odway of way behind belkind the feathers were 66 eggs I 1 recognized abonce at once that it was the work of the missing hen the proud sensitive creature had stowed herself away and worn herself out laying eggs to tad prove that the theory was a mistaken one |