Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1911 — FOOLS HIS HENS WITH SIGN [ARTICLE]

FOOLS HIS HENS WITH SIGN

Delaware Poultryman Makes Chickens Lay by Posting False Quotations on Board. Ellendale, Del. —Carey Palmer, well known as a poultry raiser, is responsible for the story of how he is keeping his hens laying during the winter. Palmer noticed that whenever eggs assumed a high price his hens would stop laying, and, after thinking the matter over, he determined that the price had a great deal to do with the work of the hens. When eggs took-jheir recent jump Palmer put up a large sign* in his henhouse, reading: “Eggs, 10 cents a dozen.” He declares that the sign has done the work and that, while eggs are bringing 48 cents a dozen, his hens are laying every day without any hesitancy.