The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-05-31 00:00:00

EGGS AND POULTRY.

Among all nationS, and throughout all grades of society,
eggs have been'afa-vourite food. But; ih all our citieS;''and
particularly in winter, they are gold. at siren prices that few
families can afford to iise then] at ail, and even those '.. ho are
in easy circumStanCes consider them toe, cipensiVe couir
racn Use:. Theie is no need of this: Everylarnily, or 'nearly
every taniilp, can, With 'Very little 'trouble, have ,eggs
Pie.lits' during the whole year ; ,andi of alltheanirmilS-4oules
tieitted for. the use of inan; 'the: common dung hill fOWI is
capable of yielding the greatest possible profit to ow=ner.
In the month' of November I put- apart eleven hens.; and a
cock, gave.theiri a saran chamber, in a wood hhuSe, defended
frozn Storms, with an opening to •the south. Their fo6d,
water, and lime were plaerci On'shelVes convenient for them,
with nest and chalk riest eggs in :plenty. -These hens cimfr
tinned to:lay eggs tarotigh the Winter.. From. these (*yen
hens 'I reeeived an averageof si.ieggii daily, 'during N,illter;
and whenever any one-of 'there ,ker&dispeedlo 'sb, zi:tnieiv,
as soon as. she beiaii 'to- cluck, :she itas'seParated front tile
otherS by a grated, partition, and her apartment darliene6.
'These cluelrers„ mere well attended; and'Well fed they cowl l
see and Partly. associate througn the -spates with the other
fowl, and, as soon as any one of these prisoners began tp
Sing, Ate was liberated, and Would very soon liTeggs.. It Is
a pleasant thing to feed and tend to a bevy of layin•r- hens;
they may, be talhed so, as to follow„the children, and will la~ "
in a box. • ---- . ,

Egg shells contain lime; and when, in winter, the earth is
bound with frost, or covered-with-snow, if. lime, is not pror
lided for them, they.will not lily) or, if -they do, the eggs; df
necessity, must be without shells.- Oid rubbish from
chimneys and old buildings, is proper for tit:Pm:and only
needs to be broken. They will -often attempt to swallow
pieces of lime and plaister as large as walnuts. iThe singing
hen will.certainly lay eggs, if she find all things.agreeabie to
her; but the hen is much a prude, as watchful:as a weazel,
and as fastidious as a hypocrite ; she must, she will have
'secrecy and.roystery about-her nest; all eyes. tut 'her own
must he averted ; hollow or watch her, and she will forsake
?tier nesti:and stop laying. ghe- is •best- pleased; with a tlo;i
'covered at the top, witlra backside. aperture for end a
side:door by which, she-Can escape unseen. far:nein-4
keep'one hundred fowls in the Kinn-. May stifficr'theln to
,trample upon-And destroY•his-nlows of COM, and other grains,
and still have fewer egga.thani the- cottn.ger tvhotkeelis.,ll,.
single dozen, who-provides secret nests, chalk egri,'pOttiided
bricks, plenty.ef-corn, water, and gravel for them, who takes
care that his hens are -notrdisiurbed about their:lest?.
1 Three chalk eggs in a 'hest are' hate than ote,"ithit lade
eggs please them most: I have often smiled to see them
fondle round and lay into a nest of geese eggs. Pullets will
begin to lay. early in life schen nests: and eggs are plenty, and
when others are chuckling around them,', A dozen dunghill
fowls, shut up away fray other- means of obtaining fooilovill
ra-tire something luore than a quart. of corn `a-flay. ' I tbi-,-11,'
fifteen hushelsn-year a fair allowance for them, hut, more or
ess, let them always have. .etiough by them,. and, alto th4y
have be !Gine habituated to findepough at all times, a plenty.
in their- little manger, they, take but few 'kernels at,a
except just beforo retiring to roo4t,_ when they
nearly a spoonfull in their crops ; hat, just ;:o sure as-their
• provisions come to., them, ,scanted, or, irregukirly„..so.sku.:eiy
will they raven up.a,whole cropfell at a .time,' and will stilp:.
laying. kkingle dozen ,fowls,„ Well Attended,
..,will fttenishia.
family with more than two thousand, eg2;s a-year, 4wloge
-hundred full-grown . for:Alin, fad, a.nd writer-Aort.
Phe ex per se of feeding a dozen foWls will nOt.amount .„
than eighteen husheis of. cord.. They may.be kept :in eitits
is well as in -the country t do 'as.well, shut up" "the yeAr
round as• to run .atlarge and a grata roam, well LizAted,
10 feet:by, 5, partitioned from -a stable: or other, out-LOW e„
sufhcient :for the .41ozen ib.'N.Js, with. tl ear...rwstings-plaCeii,.
nests, and feeding,troughs. In, the, spritig.hf fita .
or six bens will hatch at a time,. and the tifty or sixty chiekeils
may be. given to one hen. 'Two bens Will. take Care of one.
hundred chickens welLenough until theybegiinto
little. stick roosts :_ they then. should .be separated from-the
aens entirely. • .1 have often kept the chickens, when young,
in my garden ;. they keep the •„May .bugs and other--inseet.s
-erova•the case.of confinini,•fowls
oier it should hoiremembered, that a ground'iloor should he
.:hosen, onit would be. just as well to set in their ,peu-bOx'es
sell-dried pulverized. earth for them to' wallow in in warns
veathe,r. Their pens should be kept clean.
Mobile, lst• January, 1839. 'l7 • .

THE. f einstq
lepe;trient, the organ otpriestcraft
,aqd.nitra-radicidisin in
iris town„ has. censed to draw its .slanderotis breath. - Ithas
fallen." we, understand, "never to, rise ;10111.7. R`eyili
escatin. Pace f---7Cailoo, .S'e;7,ll4el.
MIMI) B R. AT Woett,wien.—A shocking eircurnstance..to9k..
-dace on • Sunday morning, -in tront,cf.the. Royal: :Artillery.
• Barracks. Serjeant.Major Shepherd, of the 2d.'battalion cf
hat corps, had just left sotup of . the non-commissioned oili-
:ers in- front of tae stack of:battalion officers, for the,pur-
pose of inspecting the men fur guard-mounting, when one bf 7.
,11e, gunners intended for that: -duty followed him . out. to the
Inrade.and held some conversation-with him, and upon the
ierjeant-Major turning away, :the.gunner-deliberately raised:.
its musquet to his shoulder and shot .him through. theli.ack,
,he ball coming out through his..shoulder-belt in front. The "
• • infortunate -roan, tell-upon.: the parade, bereft of life lame-
liately, , while the.murdererthrew the. instrument :of death u=
.)n the ground, and-neither attempted escape nor resistance,.
neither of which indeed would hue. availed, its, the garriSyn
was turning out for church parade, it being about 20,11th-tufo .
iefore-10 •o'clock. . considerable :consternation ensued,
'.liidst which the- lifelessoorpse..was carried intoe one (lithe
aearest barrack-rooms„ and to give the tragic scene an addi--
tional feature, one of the unfortnnate deceased's sons (, an+ .
Annmissioned officer) happened, to belong-to this room.—
Mere can be no doubt _that the wretched man had made ,
Ids-4111nd to the horrid deed-from the circumstance of his ea.. "
king out his piece loadedwith hall cartridge, and-from his re-
marking when.,• tiring. upom.the. Queens birth day :that he
-should not loafi many, more direlocks..• • Ile is a.- young -
!tier, having only mourdfd..a guard _or; two, uponwhietiocciv...
sion• the Serieant...Majorlbund it necessary .to find sittnefinlit
with his appearance, ,with respect-to N,vantof boldierlike clean-
kiness, and which appears, to -have, led to so horrid a result.
spectable of-the sFunday inor-
Instead of -the usual splendid,
cling parade, the troops were all marched 'back.to their bar-
racks without music, preyious to their going to church, and
it is needless to 'say that this was a solemn service in the
litary chapel, and that- the awful charge that "Thou shaltl.l6
no, murder -,,.struck sleep. upon .every.hearty !Poor Shepheyd
has left4-tillfi land faitolltAithent?.r cia4o,..4apon the servite, -
with the exception of what The au iorlties may think proper
to do fen them. A verdict of " wilful murder" was returned,
and the prisoner was committed to Newgate,