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Show FOOLS HIS HENS. Timothy Vamey, who lives three miles east of Le Sueur and keeps about 200 'hens, has been greatly troubled, as have most people who keep hens, by the per-. per-. slstent desire manifested by the fowls to I set,, in reason and out, on eggs, stones I or doorknobs or anything else that ' comes handy. But he has "t h"i . plan now which he has quietly tried this season wltu pentct .tiu., iuu k.a he warrants will cure the worst light brahma cluck that ever vexed the heart of man of all desire to sit, and all in less than three hours. The cure consists of a cheap watch, with a loud and clear tick to it, inclosed in a case that it white and shaped like an egg. When a hen manifests a desire to set out of season he gently places this bogus egg under her sheltering breast and the egg does the rest. It ticks cheerfully away, and soon the hen begins be-gins to show signs of uneasiness and stirs the noisy egg around with her bill." thinking, perhaps that it is already time for it to hatch and there is a chicken chick-en in it wanting to get out. She grows more and more nervous as the noise keeps up, and soon Jumps off the nest and runs around awhile to cool off, but returns again to her self-imposed duty. It gets worse and worse with her, and she wiggles about and cackles, ruffles her feathers and looks wild, until at last, with a frenzied squawk, she abandons aban-dons the nest for good and all. That Incubating In-cubating fever is broken up completely. Mr. Vamey finds use for half a dozen of these noisy eggs, and claims that they pay for their cost over and over during the year by keeping the hens at the business of laying and not permitting permit-ting them to waste the golden hours in useless incubating. SI. Paul Pioneer Press. |