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Show POOLS EXS HENS. Timothy Varney, 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 persistent per-sistent desire manifested by the fowls to set in season and out, on eggs, stones or doorknobs or anything else that comes handy. But he has got hold of a plan now which he has quietly tried this season with perfect success and which he warrants vsill cure the worst Light Brahma cluck that ever vexed the heart of man of all desire to set, 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 is white and shaped like i an egg. When a hen manifests a desire to set out of season he gently places the bogus egg under her sheltering breast, and the egg doe 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 in it wanting to get out. She grows more and more nervous as the noise keeps up, and soon Jumps off the nest and run around a while to cool off, but returns again to her self-imposed duty. It gets worse and worse with her, and she wriggles about and cackles, ruffles her feathers and looks wild, until at last, with a frenzied squawk, she abandons the nest for good and all. That Incubating fever is broken up completely. , Mr. Varney 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. St . Paul Pioneer Press. |