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Show CHICKEN RAISING There are some vocations for which I women are particularly suited Women Wom-en are born cooks, born nurses, and It must be admitted born chicken rais- , ers. For many reasons women take to chicken raising as naturally as a duck takes to water or a turkey takes to the woods. On the old fashioned farms the chicken department was left entireh 1 to the women. There was a reason J i for this, although perhaps neither the, i farmer nor his wife ever stopped to put (he reason Into words It was such a well understood, long estab-I estab-I llshed custom that no one ever thought ' of the why or wherefore, but as an actual fact the good wife raised th--, chickens because she could raise then bettei than her husband. Now there are male cooks the great artists generally are men. Today To-day there are well known chicken farmers the best known chicken raisers rais-ers lo the country are men. Bui considering con-sidering the average man and the a erage woman we must admit that temperamentally woman is better fitted fit-ted for chicken raising than her hus-baud hus-baud or brother A woman is patient Watch aii wife while her husband is making a fool of himself and deny this if you can. For Instance, she will set a hen, but the hen will not stay et Mrs. Biddy wanders away to pastures new. leaving the eggs to spoil. A man would give Madame Hen a swift kick or knock her in the head with a club for this performance, but a woman wo-man calmly will set another hen and then find out why the first one did not remain on the nest. Woman is a better mother than a man which hardly can be denied. When the chicks are tiny fluff balls her heart goes out to them as it does to any baby creature To look after the tender little things is a labor of love for her. Some men also have this feeling for downy chicks, but all women have It. Women are masters or mistresses of detail They will watch the little lit-tle things in a business better than a man. A woman of course there are exceptions can run a small school store, stationery store, candy store or any business where the small de-I de-I tails are of prime importance but when she gels into the bigger things I she is lost. A man looks after details de-tails only under protest. He looks ahead to the big things and is impa-i impa-i tient with the petty present both-I both-I ers. The chicken business is a business I Of small details. From the time the chickens are hatchet until they are I sold there is a constant succession j of trifles to be looked after anil looking look-ing after these trifles properly is : what maker the business profitable. |