The poem which follows is taken from the book, The American Dominique by Mark A. Fields. The poem originally appeared in the April 1921 issue of the Poultry Item.
"These modern methods make me sick"
Thus spake old Biddy Dominick
"We used to please ourselves you bet,
Folks took what fresh eggs they could get,
But now we stay up half the night
and lay our eggs by Mazda light.
This culling also I protest,
I'm getting old, I want to rest.
Yet if in laying I grow lax
I'll be the next to get the axe."