Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1910 — TWO HEADS CONFUSE CHICK. [ARTICLE]

TWO HEADS CONFUSE CHICK.

Staten Island Freak Whines Every Time it Tries to. Walk. Stories of freak chickens that haw come along in the spring brooding season have been read with much interest by farmers oo Staten Island, but they had not heard of any freaks in their vicinity up to yesterday. Then August Woeckner, who has a farm on Willow Brook road, Port Richmond, met several of his Neighbors in Bitterli’s restaurant on Richmond turnpike and Informed them about & wonderful two-headed chicken born a few hours before on his farm. “This is the most unusual chicken you ever saw,’’ he explained. “It has two heads, one in front and the other where the tail ought to be, so you never can tell which is the front head. The body is long and it only has two legs.,, “It stands on its feet, all right, taut then it has trouble. The legs start to walk In one direotton when the front head wants them to start moving. Then the back head wants to go somewhere else, and the chicken keeps walking forward and backward all the time, keeping in a straight line only a few inches long. Every once in a while the mother hen comes back to get the chicken, because it can’t follow the brood when the two heads get oppositie notions. -When she cackles for it to follow her both heads try to go after her. Well, the head that’s furthest away from the mother hen starts to turn round, putting the other head at the further end. Then that head starts to turn round, and finally the chick is going around like a whirling dervish.” All the farmers were eager to see the freak, so they asked Woenecker to take them to the farm. “It’s no use,” he said. "My cousin, who lives 'way out in Long Island, came in for a visit this morning. He took a fancy to the chick and I gave it to him. He took it home and is going to try to raise more like it.”— Now York Press.