Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1904 — Counting a Hen’s Feathers. [ARTICLE]

Counting a Hen’s Feathers.

A very •nique feather guessing contest was recently conducted by a prominent company manufacturing feed for poultry. Five hundred dollars in prizes was offered for best estimates or guesses as to the number of feathers on a hen. The first prize was SIOO. Thousands of guesses were received, including some very amusing ones. One party, who was probably looking for some “catch” scheme, estimated "none at all." Many estimates In the hundreds of thousands were received, several In the millions, the highest estimate being 000,000,017. The correct number was found to be 8,120. The company says: “iVe 1 feel a pardonable pride In having contributed to poultry science an Item of information actually new." —St. Nicholas.