Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1916 — HATCHES A BROOD IN TREE [ARTICLE]

HATCHES A BROOD IN TREE

Hen Belonging to Delaware Man Makes Her Nest Twenty Feet in Air.

Georgetown, Del. —Perched 20 feet in the air, an old hen on the farm of former United States Marshal John Cannon Short; lias 'hatched out"ten chicks where the whole family is nowmaking their aerial home. The nest is in a large tree and is reached by a 40-foot ladder which lies against an adjoining building. The hen Climbed the ladder and made her nest in the tree and there she hatched- out her family. So far the chicks have not yet set their feet on the ground, and the old hen carries their food up to them. The owner highly prizes the hen and will allow no one to disturb her unique abode,