Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1907 — An Agricultural Surprise. [ARTICLE]

An Agricultural Surprise.

“Eastern visitors to the West are .generally . DEftpured for , any phenomenal. showing la the line of agriculture, "stock raising and the like,*’ says a Colorado man, “hut once in a while they are taken by surprise. A New Hampshire man who was spending his vacation on a ranch of a relative I& Colorado went out one morning to inspect a large Incubator in which . the young chicks were hatching. In one corner of the Incubator a neglected peach seed encouraged by the warmth of the atmosphere had burst, and a tiny sprout several inches long was growing out of it. “ ‘Suffering Caesar!’ exclaimed the New Hampshire man as this caught his eye, ‘Do you hatch out your peaches in this country?’’’—Kansas City Independent.