LIPSTICK FOR HENS
KEEPING PULLET COMPLEXION LONDON. March 6. Lipstick has been blamed for many things, but Yorkshire farmers have found a new one. They allege that it has been used to turn old hens into temporary pullets! A speaker at a meeting of the West Riding Farmers’ Union in Leeds stated that lipstick had been found on the combs of “pullets”—and that when the lipstick was removed the “pullets” were revealed as hens with faded combs. “I did not know this could be done with pullets,” observed another speaker, “though I have known it turn old hens in petticoats into young ones.” Mr. H. Jowett, of Sowerby Bridge, who raised the question, told me later: “The age of fowls is partly judged by the freshness of the comb The use of lipstick makes the comb much brighter, and because of this it is difficult to tell the age accurately at first sight. Cases have been brought to our notice from one Yorkshire district. When the lipstick came off we could of course see that youth was all a delusion!”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 May 1936, Page 2
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