Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1897 — International Houesty. [ARTICLE]

International Houesty.

There is a funny case of intern otto*-, al honesty down In Arizona, just oau the line between that territory aadj. Mexico. A farmer living there wake* it ills chief business to raise chicken*.'. Chicken feed is cheap in Mexico **dl chickens bring fine prices An Aria***, but to raise fowls in Mexico and bring them across the boundary, or to feed and bring it across, would Involve the payment of considerable duty, which would eat np the profits, aad smuggling Is too dangerous for a m—os property. But tills farmer is a moa of ingenuity, and so he built a long, narrow hen coop, one-half of it in Arizona, the other half in Mexico. On the. line there is a gate; over the line there are barns containing feed. At feeding; time the gate is opened, tlie flock Walk* into Mexico and eat their meaL The* they return to the protection of tb* American flag, lay their eggs and carry: on their family affairs. The lngenlou* farmer tints makes money on both side* 1 of tlie line, and argues that if there 1* any smuggling, It is done by the inn*cent and irresponsible chickens.