Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1911 — MAN IS MOTHER OF CHICKEN [ARTICLE]

MAN IS MOTHER OF CHICKEN

Pennsylvania Farmer Hatches Out Little Chick' In His Bed by Warmth of His Body. X V Pittsburg, , Pa.-—Oscar Heinze, a farmer of Clifton, holds the human incubator record. Little did he expect when he took his bedtick to the barn recently and filled it with straw that he was to become parent to a chick. The straw happened to contain a hen egg, but Heinz did not know. Pbr a couple of weeks he slept on the newly-flUed mattress before he was aroused by a “Cheep! cheep! cheep!" He lighted a lamp and searched the room, but could not find the source of the sounds, winch had become louder. Finally he was convinced the “cheep, cheep” came from his bed, and with a knife slit open tie tick. Inßlde, near the surface, was a lively chick, which the heat of his body had hatched from the egg. ■■ ■■