Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1919 — BLIND MAN POULTRY FANCIER [ARTICLE]

BLIND MAN POULTRY FANCIER

Missourian Has Made Success of the Work, Despite Handicap Wrich Would Seem insurmountable. Blind Edward Jones of Jefferson City, Mo., has made a record in keeping poultry tVhlch many who have ■eyes have not equaled. Moving among his birds, which seem to understand how he Is handicapped, and guided only by his sense of touch, he performs his dally work. He has built his own poultry house and brood coops, and has hatched and raised all his chicks. Blindness does not prevent him from culling his flock. The birds not intended to be kept are marketed as broilers, and the others are kept for the production of winter eggs. Mr. Jones attended every poultry meeting held in his section last fall. He Is now trying to organize a club for blind people, and the home demonstration agent In the county has Volunteered to read to the members the publications on poultry sent from the United States department of agriculture.