Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1865-02-03
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Poultry in a Village.

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that those residing on farms would not see
The Importance Of SO much. We have ~
so arranged that our stable and hen PARK
occupy the back end Of our lot--the car
riaee-house being next to the park. we
partition off three or four feet OF the whole
width of the carriage-house for the hens 10
roost, and deposit their eggs. We have
hoves Eyed at one end of this room where
door opens from the carriage-house, SO
that any one can step 10 the door and gath
er the eggs without any Inconvenience. l
have cheap window in the south side OF
this chicken room, as / have said, lined
with brick, and warm, so that the large
combs of my Spanish fowls do not become
frost-btten, and SO as not to check my
hens from laying as cold quarters certain
Iy do. | provide place OF ventilation
somewhere above, and have the windows
so that can open them in moderate
weather. TO allow several hens TO roost
in close, unventiated place, in warm
weather, is very injurious; if you don't
believe it, go to a church packed with men
and women, without any ventilation what
ever, and see if yon don't become sleepy,
get the headache, etc.
I have sufficient space under the car
rage house, so that my Hottest and proud
est Spanish cock cannot strike his large
comb against the joints this have all
bricked up as tight and warm as cellar,
with south window; so that in the win
ter, when my hens are costly shut up in
there, with the sun shining in, and plenty
of good gravel, ashes, and lime, to wallow
in, and occasionally some bits of fresh
meat, pieces of cabbage, ETC., they hardly
know that it is winter, and lay eggs right
along, just as though they thought it was
required of them as much as at any other
time of the year. A space is left for them
to 90 up from this cellar to their laying
and roosting apartment, without going out
in the cold at all. have slide door, al
so, that opens on the south side of the
park, which | keep open in warm weather,
and closed on cold days. have a place
fixed in the barn, which | can open at
pleasure, to feed and water them, and
throw the contents of the table-cloth. The
water does not freeze, as it must recessa-
rily do in park.
We often have two or three warm days
in the winter, when the snow is melted off.
At such times / always make it point to
draw the slide. door, and let my hens run
wherever they choose, which they seem to
enjoy very much, and find things to pick
up, that we know very little about, that
they seem to require. When l have two
breeds at time, | make division in the
park, and extend it under the barn, and
let out but one flock at time. Some of
nay neighbors tell me it does not pay to
take pains in this manner with chickens.
My reply generally is, that | can't afford
to feed hens all winter without any return
of eggs, and never knew hen to live
all winter without something to eat. If
you don't feed her she will endeavor 10
get to your NOW or granary, and the re-
suit is, you have paid for your hens living
all winter, and in the spring you have
nothing to speak or show for it. Hens
have no time to get up eggs when they are
standing on one foot trying TO keep warm.
-Siluer's New Poultry Book.