Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1918 — Patience With Bitters. [ARTICLE]

Patience With Bitters.

To be successful with sitting hens requires careful and faithful attention to their needs, and above all, patience. Even with the best of care some hens prove to be fickle mothers and cause trouble and loss in hatching by breaking their eggs, leaving their nests or trampling on the chickens when first hatched. Most hens of the generalpurpose breeds,. such as the Plymouth pocks, Wyaridottes, Rhode Island Reds and Orpingtons make very good mothers. The heavier class or meat breeds, including the Brahmas and Cochins, are good sitters, but are Inclined to be clumsy on the nest. The Leghorns and other Mediterranean breeds are very nervous and usually do not make good mothers.