Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1916 — First Church of Christ. [ARTICLE]

First Church of Christ.

Sunday school at 9:30, a class for all ages. Morning subject: “The Body of Christ.” Service at 10:45. Evening service at 7:00. You ought to attend church.

The next morning I got up, took my eggs and went down to the hogshed. Iclimbed-up on top of it, and made a nest of straw. I built a little roof over it, and laid straw on top, so the” crows would not see the eggs. Every day I would go down several times to see if she was all right. A week be/ore the eggs were to hatch I tested them. One was bad so I cracked it open to see what was the trouble. There was a little chicken, a week old. It had died. I had fourteen eggs left, and all of them hatched. A few days before they hatched," I dusted my old hen with lice powder. I did not have to help my chickens out of the shell. They came out very well. I tied a little string around my chickens’ legs, so I could tell them apart. When they were hatched, I put them in a galvanized coop, which v.as rat tight. I placed this under a goose-berry bush. I went to the bam and got some timothy chaff, which had some seed in it. The old hen scratch in this. I did not feed- them for two days, Then I gave them 'grottrid corn-mcal, sour—milk—and water. I left them locked up for a week before LLumed them out. They went to a sand pile, dusted themselves, and then disappeared into the wheat field. I fed them a gallon of corn-meal. The rest was farm range. I have ten cockerels and four hens. When they were four months old the cockerels weighed 23 pounds, and 8 ounces. The hens weighed 7 pounds, s x k ounces. The chickens are running here and there now. They go to their same home every They scratch just as much as ever. I am going to exhibit one or more of my birds at the show, if any are alive at that time,