Frost's Farmers and the Poultry Papers
The Same Thing Over and Over, page 110
"...Reading the poultry papers is precisely like talking hens with the most intelligent and enlightened, and where is the poultryman with soul so dead that he doesn't like to talk hens with almost anyone? It is not invariably educational, and one does not expect it to be, if he is an old hand; but it does stimulate and it does strengthen one in his convictions. It affords one a sort of moral support in his faith in hens—a support that he may not need, and then again he may, if he is not quite self-sufficient and lives isolated, as most of us live in communities that have little use for hens...."
The Question of a Feather, page 1
"…Here was precisely what the editor had always feared—that someone would follow his instructions to the letter, and therefore it had been part of his instructions that they should do no such thing. Before everything he had advised the use of judgment in keeping hens. So that if sister Martha had followed his own instructions to the letter, be it upon her own head…."