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Prairie Chickens.

The Dubuque Herald states that twelve tons of Prairie Chickens were purchased at Cascade and vicinity a few days since by certain fowl speculators. It took twelve wagons to haul the birds to the railroad depot at Warren. The birds were packed in boxes without being plucked. As many as could be procured alive were […]

Hen Pecks Out Baby’s Eye

Two-Months-Old Child Seriously Hurt by Chicken that Invades House. Mount Vernon, Illinois July 1.-The two-month-old child of Mr. and Mrs. A. Potts, living at Thacher’s Gap, southeast of this city, was injured by a hen that pecked out its right eye. The child was playing on the floor and the hen wandered into the house […]

Boy Nearly Killed By A Rooster

Duluth, Minn., Aug. 1,-Lloyd Burley, aged two years, was nearly killed by a rooster. The child was so seriously injured that it is feared that he will lose his eyesight.

Chickens.

The French feed hens with bread soaked in wine to make them lay. Soaking bread and eggs in wine in this country, often make the “old cocks lay in the gutter.” We don’t know how it would effect the hens.

Geese.

A few days since a gander was “on duty” near the canal basin, Albany, in keeping guard over a flock of goslings, which led to a encounter between his gandership and a rooster. The contest, however, was of short duration, for the gander seized the rooster by the neck and straightway flew into the canal, […]

Steals 415 Chickens In Zion City; Makes A Record.

Capt. A. A. Walker Locates the Leader of Chicken Thief Gang at Kenosha. Did It On Wholesale Plan. Not Contented With Taking a Few at a Time, Gang Took Up to Fifty at Once. The wholesale chicken thefts that have been so sorely perplexing Zion City people for the last few weeks have come to […]

No; Fish Story “Isn’t In It.”

Tale of an Egg That Has the Ordinary Fisherman’s Yarn Beaten Badly. Peoria, Ill., Aug.15.-This is not a fish story. It is the tale of an egg of tremendous size and of peculiar shape-a sort of prize box, as it were, for until the owner opened it he had no idea of the surprise that […]

Killed Thirty Chickens.

Thirty chickens belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Enoch Trepanier of 1024 Jackson street were killed by a dog last night according to a police report and the canine is being hunted down.

Honor For A Champion Chicken.

Bloomington, Ill., Aug. 13.-A monument is planned for a chicken belonging to O. L. McCord of Vermillion county. It has just died, aged 12 years. It was to be the champion of champions, having won first prize at eight successive state fairs and also at the Pan-American exposition.

Chickens.

A hen, belonging to Benj. Gallaway, Esq. of Weakly county, Tenn., was sometime ago bitten by a rattlesnake, but by proper attention, the wound was cured. However strange to tell, we are informed that every egg laid since that time by this hen, has a picture of a rattlesnake represented upon the shell.-Mr. Galloway, who […]