Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1912 — Chicken Race War. [ARTICLE]

Chicken Race War.

“A sectional issue has arisen in our town,” said the commuter. “Before it is settled I am afraid the civil war will be fought all over again. Anyhow, our southern friends are sure to indulge in some fire-eating language “A resident of our village, who undertook to raise chickens, received a crate of fowls from a South Carolina farm. When the neighbors learned where -tbe chickens came from they raised a row. ‘“lf you must get chickens,’ they said, ‘get northern chickens. They don’t crow nearly so much as southern chickens. There is something in the climate down there that makes a chicken crow four times as often as a chicken brought up In any other part of the country.’ “That peculiarity of southern chickens was news to the amateur poultryman. He noticed, however, that his chickens really did crow more persistently and more vigorously than any other chickens he ever had known, and when an experienced poulterer assured him that they always would, because southern chickens always do, he sold them and bought New Jersey chickens instead. Now he is in hot water with the southern families in our town, and heaven only knows how the squabble will terminate.”— New York Times.