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Show Justice to the Hen The htu is coming Into ber own i Here In America we have long appreciated appre-ciated this modest and useful fowl as a national institution, but It Beams thai this appreciation has not been of world-wide extent. We know that I the hen is responsible for no small 1 part of our national wealth, but other; nations have yet to learn her alue i But her day is at hand. The news ; comes from London that the international interna-tional poultry experts. ho hae lcen i In convention there, are about to spread the lad tldincs that there is1 money in hens for every one able to i keep them if only B few trifling things, are done for their comfort and well - j being Therefore, a new organization has been formed. It is a permanent lu- ; ternational poultry association, with headquarters in Ijondon. and Its purpose pur-pose Is to encourage and improve the breeding of hens throughout the! world s is fitting, an American, I Dr. Pearl, a noted biologist, is general gen-eral secretary and organizer. Another thing that the association is to do Is to hold a world's congress of povltrymen in London two jrears from now ;md at that time arrangements arrange-ments are to be made for taking a world s census of bens, together with the gathering of definite data regarding regard-ing the best and most profitable breeds. Thus is tardv justice to be done. While the world has been bus with igarding more blatant but less useful animals, the hen has been suffered to remain In seclusion. Quietly going alout her business of supplying us with the succulent egg and the tooth somo chick She haB laid the lounda-tions lounda-tions of wealth for millions and has added vastly to the comfort and happiness hap-piness Of the human race with no more noise than her modest cluck and regular morning cackle. She Is typical of all the virtues, and perhaps for the lack of sensationalism sensa-tionalism attendant upon her methods has failed to receive her due meed of attention She is an earh riser a constant worker, an Industrious producer, pro-ducer, a solicitous mother, and. following fol-lowing ancient saw, she demonstrates her wisdom by retiring with the com- I Ing or the first shades of evening Yet with all this category of vir-tures vir-tures which are hers she hys been largely neglected do not know how many there are of her In the world, our famous travelers fail to tell us of the distinctive breeds which I hey encounter In their Journeyings; we do not even find stuffed and mounted effigies of her in prominent places, to say nothing of monuments in Parian marble, which should be erected to commemorate her deathless fame. Put all this, we trust, Is to he changed. The world is coming to a tardy recognition of the value of the hen. More power to the International |