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THE CHICKEN. Those Who Iave Made Farming Pa -California Town Whose Pros perity is Based on the Chicken. Correspondtnce of New York Herald When one takes a trip to Petaluma (a.he is disposed to think that h< has reached a new kingdom-a plac something like those told about b3 Giulliver in his travels. Here withir a radius of twelve miles, is the great. est chicken population in the world and it seems to the visitor as if ther( must be a chicken ruler and all th( human bipeds were there simply foi the purpose of catering to the want. of the feathered people. In Petaluma the chicken is king and a generous king he is too, foi there is not a business day in the whole year that he does not bring tc the city of Petaluma for distributior to his subject $35,000 in good hard cash. It is a wonderful population whiel immediately surrounds the thriving city of Petaluma-a population al: dressed in white, with just enougl other color to make one more fully realize the vast number of whit( dresses' to be found.' This is a bus3 kingdom too. So busy, in fact, that z few of the members of the populatiot have time to devote to the rearing ol children, and this important functior has been relegated to machinery. The hens are wanted for their eggs alon( and, all -desire or inclination to sel and eary on the duties of motherhood is nipped in the bud, and the would be mother is told to go ahead and gel out a new supply of eggs and let the business of attending to little chickens be looked after by the human servani in the kingdom. A sitting hen in and around' the city of Petaluma is al most an unknown quantity, and aftei the hen has served her usefulness a4 an egg-layer she is consigned to the not, bringing more in the market thar she originally cost, while she has paid more than the cost of her keep and care each year. Within a radius of twelve miles oi Petaluma there are 7,50Q;000 chick *ens. Tlie night after a person takes a trip through this chicken land he is apt to dream of a vast landscape cov* ered with white dots. That is about Sthe way the chickens around Petalums \look. Everywhere you look you see whi,te chickens, and the further yot look ,ths more white you see, until just at the horizon comes to your re lief thE~ dots seem to merge into a white siiowlike covering. It is all white, fcor the chicken raisers in and around Petaluma have. followed theii leader most loyally, and the whit< Leghorn is the prime favorite. Nearly half the eggs and chickens *consumed in California are suppliei by thegpoultrymen in and around Pet alum., and in addition to this largi quantities of eggs. and fowl are seni from there to Hawaii and the Philip pine Islands.* Take a walk along the streets od Petaluma in any direction,, and yoi will be confronted i'ith signs every *where sanouncing the. fact. that thi business houses which they adorn ca ter to the chicken trade. You will set in addition to the ordinary countr3 store sign of "Highest prices paid fo: eggs," signs telling about "poultra feed." "poultry supplies.'' "poultra -muedicines.'' "egg shell bought,' " feathers bought'' and a lot of sim ilar signs, which shows that al thoughts in the commercial worl< heve a chicken basis. Even the big factories of the place are built upoi a chicken foundation. The largest factory which build: incubators in the world is at Peta -lumia, and besides this one there are numerous, others devoted to the sam4 industry. In fact, there are more in cabator factories in. Petaluma thai in any other city in the world. The chickens must be well fed ii order to induce them to lay well, an< it is estimated that to properly fee< a chicken costs $1 a year. That doe not sound large when only one chick en is to be considered, but when w figure that there are 7,500,000 chick ens to be fed it means that it costs il round numbers $7,500,000 every yea to feed the chicken population o Petaluma neighborhood. *It will readily be seen that it take an enormous quantity of feed of va rious kinds to keep all these chicken from going hungry. Some of ik pa+trm.e. buy their feed in .quanti ties up to 2p0 sacks at a single pur- I chase, and many of them buy in ear- r load lots. The marketing of the poultry pro - ducts of this territorv is no simple matter. A considerable portion of the trade is done direct with San Francis- s co. Small steamers make daily trips r1 up Petaluma creek from the metropo- I: li, and in addition to these thirty- v eight sailing vessels assist in carry- I ing the 500 to 700 cases of eggs s ;which are sent every day. t These cases hold from thirty to thir- It ty-six dozen eggs each. Besides these p cases of eggs, the vessels are frequent- V ly loaded down to the waterline with t crates of chickens. Sometimes these i loads are so large that they reach t from the lower deck to the pilot house I In addition to these river boats. a I railroad connects Petaluma with San a Francisco, and this carries thousands f of boxes of eggs and crates of chick- t ens in the express car. The bulk of n the shipments is made by river, but n where it is necessary to hurry the t goods the trains are brought into s play. ~ It costs 10 cents to ship a case N of eggs to San Francisco and the case s is returned to the shipper. e In aAdition to being the largest i chicken community in the world, Pet- o aluma has the largest individual I chicken raneh in the world. This i: ranch has on its premises 18,000 lay- a ing hens, besides thousands of young 6 chicks in the brooders, which are s growing up to fill the places made va- b cant when the old hens are sold off n after their third year of usefulness. a The other poultry ranches vary in n size from those of 300 hens to 2,000 hens within 'the limits of the city, while a 15-minute walk will take you to the big ranches with from 3,000 to I 5,000 hens. These lie within easy dis tance of the steamboat landing, and the eggs are shipped directly to the dealers or commisionmen in the city. It is considered among the Petalu- c ma chicken raisers that the eggs are v all clear1 profit. By selling all the e hens which have passed their third s year and the young cockerels for la b'roilers and fryers the poultryman is g able to meet all the current expenses c of his ranch and pay interest on his a investment. Other sources of income e are to be found in those things which the ordinary chicken raiser usually b~ neglects. Egg shells are carefully t: gathered up and sold by the crate. l1 Stray feathers are picked up and on p a large ranch they make quite an item a Iof income. The modern poultryman' has to look out for all these little s sources of income and the closer at- b: tention he pays to his business the e Imore certain and the larger are his r profits. I The big poultry raiser buys his feed t at wholesale. It takes a ton of mid- t dlings and a ton of wheat each month I to feed 1,000 chickens up to a profit- t able laying point. When a man has b a thousand or more chickens he pur- 7 chases his feed for his flock by the t car-load, and he sells the stray feath- i: ers, the egg shells, the guano and all 2 the odds and ends about the place i Thich ordinarily go into the dump. i Teegg shells alone are worth $1.60 a t bushel. When the hundreds of in- t eubators on the poultry ranches near and in Petaluma give out their little1 chicks there is an immense lot of We have b ~know tne bes and have pic ~them. THE CH versible Disc.] Se hells to dispose of, and these ar( iow part of the profit of the poultri 'a ser. Doings Of "400" In Aiken. Aiken is pro)ably the most exclu ive of New York society's southeri esorts. There are no hotels in tht dace to speak of, and the transienl -isitor receives scant consideration .ut the trades people and natives how themselves eager tO promot< he comfort and pleasure of the cot agers. who have broiuit so imel rosperity to this sporty little town chicli may be said to owe its vogue tc he late William C. Whitney. It lia5 orse racing on one of the prettiesi racks in the south: the Palmetto goll inks are probably the best south ol >hiladelphia; the woods for rmiles round are stocked with gray and rec oxes. furnishing splendid sport foi he hunt club, which has regulai acets under the mastership of Tom ly Hitchcock throughmut the season here are tennis curts, and a hand om squash court at the luxuriouV Vhitney place, while there is a con tant round of social gaities restrict d to a. circle, most of the nembers ol rhich are sufficiently intimate to cal, ne another by their Christian names here is also some splendid cock fight Ig. Indeed, visitors are apt to com( .way with the impression that coel 4hting is the chief industry of th( tate. and there are few of the mem ers of the New York colony who d( ot possess something more than ar cademie knowledge of "shaw: ecks" and the like. TILLMAN ON MORGAN BILL is Intentlion to Canvass South Car olina Upon the Whiskey Ques tion Next Summer. Declaring that it is his intention t( anvass South Carolina upon thl hiskey question next summer, wheth r the Morgan bill is passed or not ays a Washington dispatch to the iews and Courier. Senator Tillmar ae the highly significant statement onerning South Carolina conditionm nid politics, particularly with refer lnce to the dispensary. Commenting on thd passage by the ouse of the Morgan bill, he remarked bat the members of the present legis iture appear to be emulating thei2 redecessors who were elected in 189( nd have since been known as th< 'Driftwood Legislature." ''I note,' aid he. ''that Mr. Dabbs, of whom] ave never heard before, is very un asy for fear I will do some 'ranting ext summer, and that feeling on his art must be due to the conseiousness hat conditions are being producei hat would warrant some hot talk Por instance, on Mr. Hamel 's motior o substitute a straight prohibitior ill the vote was 21 in favor of ani 7 against. We thus have proof thal here are 21 avowed prohibitionist n the legislature, and only 21. Ye: 1 conscientious, God-fearing gentle ren have voted for a license provis on permitting Charleston to reope he whiskey shops in that city, an< his is done evidently in carrying ou Sbargain to get Charleston's vote t< :ill the state dispensary. ''The first agreement ,was to havi P1L een in the I t. We have ked. the Chi ATTANOOGA REVE Plow built wholesale liquor dealers in Charleston as well as retail, but that frightened the leaders of this conspiracv against the dispensary, and the wholesale pro visimn was struck out. Without - Charlestuln's nine votes the Morgan bill wou(ld have been defeated by a majoritv of two vot!. so if the state dispensary is abolished at this ses Sion it will he done by a dirty bar gain betwee the old bar room clement in Charleston and these 21 prohibi tionists. I think it is a very nice text upon which to preach some good. hon est polities next summer. and if my I health continues as good as it is now I shall certainly feel called upon to oppose that and a great many other shorteomine-s and mysterious transac tions that have been transpiring in the legislature of late. With regard to the investigating committee 's recent investigations he said: "That only further exempli fies the need of arousing the people. I have noticed in the debates constant allusions to the state dispensary as 'that damnable thing on the Conga - ree.' I want to ask who is responsi - ble for the management of the dispen sary"? The board of directors, of I course. Who elected the board of di rectors! The legislature. How many - of the men who have voted in the house of representatives to kill the state dispensary voted for the direc tors who were responsible for the la bel steal? Who appointed the county > board of Spartanburg, where there i has been the* most scandal and cor I ruption in the local management? The members of the legislature from Spartanburg. "Do these gentlemen in the legis lature imagine the people are all fools and that they will not next sum mer hold to a strict account those who, without instruction from them, pre sume to destroy the state dispensary, sacrificing several hundred thousand dollars worth of property? Can it be thought for a minute that the legisla ture will be permitted year after year to encourage corruption in the state dispensary by the election of men whom they know would be unfit to manage its affairs, and then destroy it because their own agents have car ried out the programme they had in mind when they elected them? It won 't take any 'ranting' to make the people .acquainted with all these things. Thousands are quietly taking notes now apd the three-for-a-quarter politician who thinks the people asleep will find that he is mistaken 1next August." Asked whether he would canvass the state on the. whiskey issue next summer. Senatoi- Tillman said: "I certainly will, whether the Morgan ibill is passed or not. I am pledged .to oppose license in any form in any tpart of the state and I do not believe ithe constitution permits local option, I but the whole state and not a part of bit must be prohibition, dispensary or ; license; and if we cannot stop corrup t tion when one board buys the whis - key how in the name of common sense - can we stop it when twenty or thir i ty boards, one in each, county, shall I be charged with buying it ?. . t "Furthermore the whiskey ques > tion will be the paramount issue in the next election in our state, and noth a ing which this legislatuire will do can O V MPLEMENT handled all attanooga aft R$IBE ISC PLOW prevent it. It will he a fight between dishonest polities and a conspiracy th among men of wholly antagonistic views. on the one hand, against those who believe in men voting as they ni think and dealing with a complex bv subject in a rational and conservative way." MURDERED IN BED. oD Negro Preacher Meets Horrible Death w] -Two Negroes Killed and Oth Vn ers Badly Wounded. Di fiv~ The Mars Bluff section of Florence sa W] county was the scene on Monday w< morning of a bloody tragedy, in which C two negroes were killed and several an others badly wounded. at Early Friday morning, about 4 o'clock, a party of young negroes went to the house of Edward J. C< Pinckney, a negro preacher and teach er, near Mars Bluff, and shot into his house, shooting him in bed. Not con tent with inflicting wounds that . would surely have proved fatal, as he D was struck in the head by the shot from the shotguns, the party went into the house and beat the negro preacher to death with the butts of of Of their guns. To do this they had to es break down the door. ' Bi Leaving Ed Pinckney dead in his K bed, the party went to the house of vi Sam Johnson, another negro of that T section, and calling him to the door, 9 shot him down. He was not killed H by the shots and was then beaten with bc the guns. He was not killed and may recover. While this punishment was being inflicted on Sam Johnson, another ne- tr gro whose name is unknown came up and he, too, was shot. Johnson's wife hi came out and she was also beaten with sticks very brutally. After the inquest the sheriff was M forced to shoot and kill one of the th negroes, Jesse Pinckney, suspected of w being a party to the murder, who re- B( sisted arrest and fired upon the sher- sa iff. Two other negroes were arrest- t ed. at It seems that the origin of the quar rel with Edward Pinckney was over some property in which the Pinekneys er were interested. Edward Pinckney, he who is said to have been a good ne- " gro. was a cousin of Jesse and Isaac er Pinckney, and Willie Brown was re lated to them by marriage. The Pinckney family had come into some property by inheritance and it was bi harged that Edward Pinckney had w been trying to kedp the others out of L the property. o. Pn Not In His. P Houston Post. "Do von think there are microbes in kisses, Miss May ?' "I don't think there would be in your kisses."i "I-ah-that's nice of you; let's-"' "Microbes are said to possess intel ligence and nothing intelligent lin gers where it is apt to come in cou taet with cigarettes.'" A married man never gets a chance1 to spe.nd half the money he earns. After reaching the top a man ceases to talk about the room there. If you would transform a friend in to an enemy, remind him of his faults. V-U business long standard mak er the farmers is the only su Irs. D. Lush.-Your husband's on e lush again today. Mrs. McSosh--How do you know? Mrs. D. Lush-I saw him in a far ture store this afternoon trying to v a weather bureau for your Christ is present.-Cleveland Leader. 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