Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1917 — PATRIOTIC HENS RAISE THEIR OWN WAR GARDEN [ARTICLE]

PATRIOTIC HENS RAISE THEIR OWN WAR GARDEN

1 Mansfield, -O. —A. A. Arnold, superintendent of parks, has a flock of Rhode Island hens that planted, cultivated and raised a war garden that produced a peck of potatoes. The largest potato weighed 17 ounces, the next one 16 ounces. The owner says that when pq- , tatoes were selling for $4.25 a buphel last spring his wife was so economical she pared the potatoes as thin as she possibly could, then fed the thin parings to the chickens. Instead of eating the parings, the chickens planted them in the barnyard. All summer long the fowls not only kept the weeds down in their war garden, but kept the bugs off. These patriotic chickens did their bit to win the war by raising 84 potatoes from three stalks that came up from the thin parings which they conserved. <-