Knoxville Daily Chronicle

Poultry Keeping for Women.
There are many women who, especially
within the last half dozen years while the
price of eggs has been so high, make
money much faster by tending poultry
than by sewing. It is an occupation espe-
cially suited to women, because it involves
patience and constant attention to details,
rather than strength. Then again the
hardest thing for men to learn, in hand-
ling either poultry or bees, is gentleness.
How many times we have seen boys jerk
hens roughly from the nests, enter the
poultry-house abruptly and frighten the
occupants till they rush in a fluttering
mass into the farthest corner, and keep
the poultry community in constant agita-
tion and distress. But all domestic ani-
mals appreciate the manners of women at-
tendants when they are fortunate enough
to be cared for by them. Now there are
women gardeners and florists who by com-
mendable industry and business qualities,
have risen to eminence in those callings.
and while one of the most successful, if
not the most successful, bee-keepers in the
whole country is a woman, we hope to see
others give poultry more attention than it
has hitherto received. Aside from profit,
the keeping of the fine poultry for fancy is
an elegant pastime very popular with
English ladies, and we see no reason why
the fashion should not be adopted here.
Poultry World.