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The Universal Chicken Feed
Title
The Universal Chicken Feed
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Synopsis
This story recounts Farmer Call's efforts to discover the perfect formula of chicken feed that would make each of his hens lay an egg every day of the year.
Publisher
Farm-Poultry Publishing Company. Boston, Massachusetts
Excerpt
"Mr. Call remained a seeker for truth to the end of his days in the hen business....
'What are you feeding?' was his stock question, and though there was a discouraging sameness to the replies he got, he persevered with a devotion worthy of a loftier cause. He felt there was something his hens lacked that once found would make them lay every day in the year. That something eluded him. Often he thought he had it. Once he grasped at sunflower seeds; he had heard of them before, but had clean forgotten them. Again, India wheat came to him as a revelation. He though that an evening mash might be better than a morning. He tried everything, only to be disappointed in the result. But because he had been many times disappointed was no proof that he was always to be. Hope spring eternal in his breast. Sometime, somewhere, unless the public wearied of his quest before he did, he would light upon the right thing, and then begin to get his money back."
page 169
'What are you feeding?' was his stock question, and though there was a discouraging sameness to the replies he got, he persevered with a devotion worthy of a loftier cause. He felt there was something his hens lacked that once found would make them lay every day in the year. That something eluded him. Often he thought he had it. Once he grasped at sunflower seeds; he had heard of them before, but had clean forgotten them. Again, India wheat came to him as a revelation. He though that an evening mash might be better than a morning. He tried everything, only to be disappointed in the result. But because he had been many times disappointed was no proof that he was always to be. Hope spring eternal in his breast. Sometime, somewhere, unless the public wearied of his quest before he did, he would light upon the right thing, and then begin to get his money back."
page 169
Contributor
John Henry Robinson, Editor
Relation
Farm-Poultry, Volume 15, Number 7, page 169
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