Show t. t ABANDONS WAR y AR TO RASIE CHICKENS t t 7 An old farm house at Brandywine Maryland is the headquarters headquarters head- head r. r quarters of a poultry farm which is producing the finest chickens chick- chick ens now on sale in the Washington market market chickens chickens which are being served on the White House table from time to time The owner of this farm is Baron Bernhard Rechenberg late of the theco co court rt of Emperor Wilhelm Vilhelm of Germany and during the war a major of infantry in the Kaisers Kaiser's own own- He is an American farmer farmer now making a start with poultry An interview with the Baron on American poultry raising s is a feature of the February issue of Farm and Fireside which has been called the most widely quoted farm paper in the country America is or years ahead of Europe in its poultry methods says the Baron enthusiastically It is wonderful how you have made madea a science of it When I write home that I Ih h have ve a poultry farm people think I must be crazy Twenty or thirty hens are a great many a German farmer fanner to haver have r r In the old days the estates of my family in Saxony totalled tot all all- allI I ed over acres Here I find it astonishing how v much I work vork there is on 67 Gl acres when done intensively I am a pioneer here here- My l Iy are not riot imposing yet yetI I have put into them much study and care The hens al are are e big and Jersey Giants It is a new business but a fascinating ina mating ting one J I was by trade you see a soldier But no more war more war is fought Thought f now by men who do not see one another It is fought with rith gas and lice and pieces of paper Yes and wars are made by people who do not see one another W he we meet we find do we not that we are much the same 1 r |