Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1895 — KEROSENE ON CHICKENS. [ARTICLE]

KEROSENE ON CHICKENS.

Examined Thein With a Candle and Great Commotion Ensued, San Francisco Examiner. Seven chickens, a bucket of coaloil, a tallow candle and a woman who knows how to use them in combination, stirred up the <ireatest sensation out on Pearl street in San Bernardino last niffht that has disturbed the serenity ’of that district ■in many a year. Mrs. John Sea- ■ bury was until iast night the proud . possessor of several specimens of r the galHnacean family: -Of-Iffto the I- birds have b een aliijet ed with vermin, and at dusk last night Mrs. Seabury, armed with a bucketful of oil and'a candle, started for the henhouse. She also took u brtfsh along with iHiich to auplv the coal oil. and a candle was placed on a board,while the work proceeded. Each bird received a supply of-oil; and when saturated the lady took up the light to make a closer inspection of her work. While trying to look at two chickens at the same time the candle happened to touch one, and, swish, several chickens w’ere' fired. The poultry studio was filled with more noise than a barnvard full of fowl would make over the first egg of the season, while the whole interior became as light, as if the Monterey’s searchlight ha I suddenly been turned on full. Suddenly seven animated torches shot out in as many different directions, all cackling like mad, and winding up three seconds later in a hay stack, which they began to fire in true incen liarv style. By this tipe everybody in the block was yelling “police,” and a general alarm brought the fire department on the quickest run of the yehr. Mrs. Seabury hns tiie roma-ins of seven chickens out on Pearl street, somewhat charred, but free from insects. The farmers need not expect a good small fruit patch if he merely plants and does not take care of the same. It must be “kept clean and sprayed for the prevention of rot, mildew and kindred evils.