Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1909 — Weasel Killed Seventy Chicks in One Night. [ARTICLE]

Weasel Killed Seventy Chicks in One Night.

Blaine Peacock.son of Erastus Peacock, lias been engaged for himself in the chicken business this spring and thought he was getting along all right until Tuesday night. He set two incubators and had 77 little chicks, all of the Rhode Island Red variety. He had built a covered runway for them and they were growing nicely and Blaine was planning the time when he could turn them into cash. Tuesday night a weasel dug under the cage and the next morning When Blaine went to feed his chickens be found that all but seven of the little fellows had been slain. The ground was covered with them, and each had been nipped in the neck or under the w’ing and the blood sucked. Blaine set two or three steel traps that night and the following morning he found a full sized weasel in one of them. “It is a good deal like locking the door after the horse is stolen,” said Blaine, “but I will be fixed for the next hatching that comes out of the incubator.” The JJonon News takes grwht delight in the victory the Monon ball team secured from Hugh Kirk’s Spuds. The News was of the opinion that it was the Wrens that were beaten, and in its write-up speaks of the Rensselaer pitcher as Huff. Either the Spuds were handing the Monon fans and reporters a big “string” or else the people there in their delight at winning a ball game thought they were defeating the best Rensselaer could produce. The Spuds, however, made the Monon Reserves travel some and save for a little kidding some of the boys received at the hands of the Monon girls, which seemed to completely upset them, the Spuds might have won the game. The players who were so susceptible to feminine kidding couldn’t locate the ball after the pretty skins along the side line began talking “cozy” to them. The Spuds will probably give Monon a chance over here before very long.