Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1911 — Valparaiso Booster Has Brood Of Own Hatching, Says Paper. [ARTICLE]

Valparaiso Booster Has Brood Of Own Hatching, Says Paper.

Although regarded habitually reliable and trustworthy, it is almost too mudh to swallow the following from the Valparaiso Vidette: For several days neighbors out in the’ neighborhood of Frank Ludington's farm have been waiting and watching for the time to come when his famous old rooster would be the proud keeper of a. brood of downy little chickens. This Is the rooster which, hen-like, took the job of sitting on a nest of eggs. Last Friday the eggs pipped, and by Saturday eight chickens had seen the light of the world. Yesterday a man from Valparaiso stopped to look at the curious combination, just to see if it was really true. There the rooster was, by this time with ten of his own and an extra one. thrown in which had been taken away from an old hen to give to £he motherly old rooster, that the lone little chick might have brothers and clumsy old fowl of the barnyard, with his long tail feathers and the dangerous spurs on his legs, taking good care of the brood. And he clucks in a deep bass voice, and has never raised his head to crow since he took to his nest.