The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1859-10-13
Prsduci.s and Agricultural Ttsss.
CARROTS FOR rKxDNa POULTRY.

I have seen nothing In your papsr, says
correspondent Of the homestead, recommending
carrots a. food for poultry. l feed them to my
- fU X. 'ys,y asy saS isS nd pHes ,%S1e's % &c.
worth while fer people to use any substitute
that will answer tho same purpose. l venture
to say that those who have fed their fowls on
carrots, chopped fine, will not readily disoon-
tinue the practice. 1hc chopPing Is most easily
done with common sausage meat cutter, cost
lug about o.. These machines viii pay their
entire cost, In most families In q single
wear. A couple Of boys In q single evening,
could easily cut q barrel full Of carrots,
which, II fed to hens, mixed with meal,
scraps, &C., would DO worth much moro
than the same value In grain at the present
prices. At the conversational meeting Of OK
hibitors at the last National Poultry show, car
rots were recommended for general use, a bet
ter than anything else, for laying hens ''shcm-
icslk considered" It vas said, "they contain
more fsod than a husdrcd caf-loads of turniPs.
This may be fec cartloads too many, but l
think their value as IN article Of food for al
most anything In tho farmers barn and barn
yard, or his family even, Is not generally over
rated, else We should 500 moro Of than raised.
PROFITS FROM POULTRY.
At q late discussion by tho Concord Farmers
Club, as reported In the Ne,o Engtord Fdrner,
J. II FARMKR remarked a. follows last year
he hal twenty hens, and raised ono hundred and
| fity chickens did not know how many eggs
| his hens cost him half cont per day. This year
| he had thirty hens In January he had fifty
dozen eggs he got thirty cents doz%- Bought
one hundred and fifty pounds Of besfS and kept
boncs the hens eat pounded bones greedily.
He gives them warm dough once day In
cold weather. II We keep hens for the eggs
only, he thinks the Poland, W black Spanish,
or Bolton Greys, are better than the
larger breeds II Is more profitable to raise
l--. Gan AZ,
| he keeps scraps by them. Hons should be treat
cd gently hens that are perfectly tame will lay
| twice a many eggs a. lid ones. Ho thinks hen
manure better than guano; Last year he had
enough TO manure three acres OF corn In hill.
ruK ANTwERr RAsrBKRRr.
/ smarkable success seems to have attended
tho introduction into this state OF the Antwerp
red raspberry. In Ulster aud Geneseo counties
| where their cultivation has been attempted, Tho
result Is Of tho most gratifying character. In
/ LEROY, in tho last-namod county, Mr.. DAVIr
| MApsu pcked this season, in his garden, from
A SPACE Of IS by 40 feet, three bushels and thrc'
pccks Of this fruit. From the town OF Milton
| Ulster country, there were 395.O32 baskets O.
these berries sent to New York, the present sss
sop. at an average Of five cents per basket
realizing sl9.SOi.60. Thousands Of baskets
| were sent from tho same section OF country
| Une berry raiser produced and sold from ono
third Of an acre over 5000 baskets, which nette'
him five cents per basket, amounting to sbou
| f3OO. Il is thought that ego would paw To-
| the labor manure and use Of the land. This Il
| having we'll for six woeks' business on third .
| an acre. and, no doubt, will induce many 9th
crs to engage in the cultivation OF these Der
ries. Three hnndrel dollars cannot otien b
earned In so short time. This business pay
batter than mining at Pixies Peak. or even Il
| California When land can be riade to ear
ssiO, clear money, por acre, with such triiiin
expense, and In 50 brief period, few acre