Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1906 — Big Jump For Poultry. [ARTICLE]

Big Jump For Poultry.

Pullins Brothers, of the Iroquois Poultry Farm, in Barkley Tp., had in town on Thursday morn ing a coop of nine fine spring chickens which were started on the longest journey that any Jasper county birds ever took. They are to go to Para, Brazil, in South America, and far beyond the equator, and where it is now the dead of winter, so far as they have have any winter in that tropical region. There were six barred Plymouth Rocks and three white Plymouth Rocks, in the shipment, of which three were roosters and six pullets, and all fine spring birds. They were photographed at Parker’s before sending away. G. L. Lewis, the machinist expert who is setting up the big Sternberg dredge, is taking the birds down there as a present to a friend. He expects to return there in a short time and is now sending the birds to Toledo, Ohio, his former home, and they will rest there until he gets ready to start for the far south.

The Pullins Brothers are getting quite a menagerie out at their place east of the Pullins bridge, their present most interesting feature be ing a baby elk, born to their pair of adult elks on Jane 12th y bqt which until the last few days has been kept hid in the brush by the mother, and only lately began to venture into sight. They are usually to be seen in the evening along about six or seven o’clock, but keep in the underbrush during the heat of the day. They also have three deers, and expect an addition to the deer family before long. ~ Besides these they have a brood of genuine wild turkeys, the eggs from which they were hatched, coming from West Virginia. These wild turks as well as their expected baby deer are intended to be ex hibited at the coming poultry show here next winter.