North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-07-19


tic economy less understood than prof ably raising
poultry. When we say probably we do not speak
Of their value in dollars and cents, for hold that
every dwelling, however humble splendid it may
be, should have few chickens around them for
there times in almost every family, both in sick
and health, when money cannot buy the Ii tile
luxuries that the chickens give US. What profit is
there in keeping fifty or one hundred hens, without
corresponding supply of eggs? Most people think
that chickens pick up their living and yield
good supply of eggs in the bargain, but we have
found that chickens forced to for their daily food
have little time inclination to lay and those who
expect good supply of eggs without generous feed,
may well plant their choice vegetable seeds in
sand bank, and look for TENDER delicious vegetables.
We have had some little experience in the ''henery,"
and have found the great secret in getting supply
of eggs through the season, but not in driving the
hens up hill, in feeding them exclusively gravel
or in supplying them with chalk nest eggs. The
whole consists in giving them plenty of food,
grain and flesh any of the grains will answer,
the chickens mill is very convenient For eight or
nine months in the year chickens will supply Them
selves with animal food in the shape of insects, but
the rest of the time feed them regularly with
flesh well as Boiled sweet potatoes is an ex-
celent food for fowls, but with it they grain of
some kind, and flesh also. In long, hot sum-
mers, poultry are inclined to become lousy, but if
clean, good ashes placed the hen-house, the
hens will dust themselves in them until the vermin
disappear. Nature is their teacher, and hers is an
unerring guide. A good shelter should be provided
for the chickens to roost under the of chick
en- properly saved will repay the expenses of feed
Ing. 1t is great error TO crowd many chickens
together. We know nothing of the patent chicken
hatching machines, but do know that fifty hens
will lay more eggs and raise chickens upon
lot enclosure than will hundred. They do not
flourish in crowded state, neither will hens lay as
we'll when great numbers togethe:
hen is right prudsh old lady, and affects great
modesy in selecting her nest and laying her eggs,
always taking quiet. sly place when it be found.
We say, then. 10 readers keep no more fowls |
than you and aOiHeed we'll. Provide good shell
tiers for them, all the manure, and your gardens
will pay in their increased productveness, for all
your culture of chickens and then when beet resem-
bles sole leather, and bacon becomes STALE Young
chickens and fresh eggs will prove Injuries in
deed Soil of tie South.
PoMPEII recent letter from an American gen.
tleman in Naples says:
4" Vesuvius is calmly smoking, and seems
disposed TO repose himself from the fatgues of his |
devasting labors of last year. Pompe is slowly APP
pearing above ground. About twenty laborers are
kept at work, who manage to get off a carload of
earth day from the subncumbent city. Not one
half of the entire city is yet excavaied The earthly
mound which covers it is exceedingly beautiful
and rich vineyard, with houses of peasants scattered
over its surface. baston of the sea-wall has re-
Gently been unearthed, which goes TO confirm the
opinion that the sea, nearly mile distant, once
aved the walls of Pompeii.'' @
We learn from the Wilmington Commercial, that
The tress work at the Neuse River Bridge, about 900
feet, which was destroyed by fire, has been replaced
and that the to the river The bridge will be
in readiness by the first Of August. > 20