My uncle John was in the fertilized egg business when I was young. He had several hundred young layers, called pullets, and 8 or 10 roosters whose job was to fertilize the eggs. My uncle kept records and any rooster or pullet that didn’t perform well went into the pot and was replaced.
Now this took an awful lot of time. So my uncle got a set of tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Now he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report by listening to the bells. My uncle’s favorite rooster was old Brewster. A very fine specimen he was, but his bell had not rung all morning. Uncle John went to investigate. Several roosters were chasing pullets, bells a-ringing, but Brewster had his bell in his beak so it couldn’t ring. He’d sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.
Uncle was so proud of Brewster he entered him in the county fair. Brewster was an overnight sensation. The judges not only awarded him the No Bell Prize, but also the Pullet Surprise.
Chicken: An egg factory - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
The name Pavlov rings a bell. - Unknown
Deviled Eggs: What wicked chickens lay - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Friccastewing a chicken on the hotplate - Archie Bunker
You can't hatch chickens from fried eggs. - German Proverb
Maybe I should just go home and ride my tractor. - Chuck Grassley
The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup. - Bob Hope
A good farm is recognized as good partly by its beauty. - Wendell Berry
Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. - Shana Alexander
Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably. - C S Lewis
No farmer ever plowed a field by turning it over in his mind. - George E. Woodbury
Corn can't expect justice from a court composed of chickens. - African Proverb
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. - Edward Dahlberg
Gentleman Farmer: One who has more hay in the bank thank in the barn - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
We better not, ya know, kill our chickens before they cross the road. - Archie Bunker
It was so windy that one of our chickens laid the same egg four times. - Unknown
Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die. - Joe Hill
The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken. - Maya Angelou
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handyman with a sense of humus. - E.B. White
I love my squirrel and dumplings, but you can make it with chicken and dumplings. - Kay Robertson
Abundance: 1. Big party held in a bakery; 2. A social event held in a farm building. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead. - George Lucas
I unfortunately still crave chicken McNuggets and bacon, which is the meat candy of the world. - Katy Perry
Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. - Charles Lamb
Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada. - Paul Prudhomme
In times of great stress or adversity, plow your anger and your energy into something positive. - Lee Iacocca
Life on a farm is a school of patience. You can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days. - Haneri Liogier
Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. - Helen Rowland
If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain? - Tom Barrett
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. - Bill Bryson
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. - Dwight D Eisenhower
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while. - Albert Einstein
I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death. - Lincoln Davis
I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.' - Ree Drummond
Any processed chicken from any place - I'll order it in a heartbeat. I'm very picky about my pork, though. - David Chang
Tension: 1. The price you pay for being a race horse instead of a plow horse; 2. What the sergeant shouts to his soldiers. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
I love lean meats like chicken, turkey. I'm obsessed with sushi and fish in general. I eat a lot of veggies and hummus. - Shawn Johnson
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. - Edmund Burke
It's life, isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels. - Katharine Hepburn
Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory. - Bernie Taupin
The name Pavlov rings a bell. - Unknown
Deviled Eggs: What wicked chickens lay - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Friccastewing a chicken on the hotplate - Archie Bunker
You can't hatch chickens from fried eggs. - German Proverb
Maybe I should just go home and ride my tractor. - Chuck Grassley
The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup. - Bob Hope
A good farm is recognized as good partly by its beauty. - Wendell Berry
Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. - Shana Alexander
Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably. - C S Lewis
No farmer ever plowed a field by turning it over in his mind. - George E. Woodbury
Corn can't expect justice from a court composed of chickens. - African Proverb
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. - Edward Dahlberg
Gentleman Farmer: One who has more hay in the bank thank in the barn - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
We better not, ya know, kill our chickens before they cross the road. - Archie Bunker
It was so windy that one of our chickens laid the same egg four times. - Unknown
Work and pray, live on hay, you'll get pie in the sky when you die. - Joe Hill
The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken. - Maya Angelou
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handyman with a sense of humus. - E.B. White
I love my squirrel and dumplings, but you can make it with chicken and dumplings. - Kay Robertson
Abundance: 1. Big party held in a bakery; 2. A social event held in a farm building. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
Put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead. - George Lucas
I unfortunately still crave chicken McNuggets and bacon, which is the meat candy of the world. - Katy Perry
Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. - Charles Lamb
Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada. - Paul Prudhomme
In times of great stress or adversity, plow your anger and your energy into something positive. - Lee Iacocca
Life on a farm is a school of patience. You can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days. - Haneri Liogier
Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor. - Helen Rowland
If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain? - Tom Barrett
There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. - Bill Bryson
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. - Dwight D Eisenhower
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while. - Albert Einstein
I'm a farm boy. If we need five people to haul in hay, we don't take one and just work them to death. - Lincoln Davis
I'm working on a second cookbook and am working on my love story, 'Black Heels to Tractor Wheels.' - Ree Drummond
Any processed chicken from any place - I'll order it in a heartbeat. I'm very picky about my pork, though. - David Chang
Tension: 1. The price you pay for being a race horse instead of a plow horse; 2. What the sergeant shouts to his soldiers. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
I love lean meats like chicken, turkey. I'm obsessed with sushi and fish in general. I eat a lot of veggies and hummus. - Shawn Johnson
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. - Edmund Burke
It's life, isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels. - Katharine Hepburn
Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory. - Bernie Taupin
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