Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1868-04-23
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4 PouITRY IN SMALL ENCLOSURE
You can keep q score of hens and rear
chickens from them on 500 square yards.
If IL Is not all grass you Will have to
supply them with green food. They
must have green food and dust. gyflgf
To MAKE A HEN SIT IN A STRANaE
NEST. IA broody hen may be made to
sit in a strange place by being put on
her eggs at night, in the dark, and shut
down closely. After day or two she
will keep to them. i5tti
.CAMPHoR ADMINISTERED TO CURE
GAPs.--The dose for chicken five or
six weeks old 10 q pill of camphor the
size of small garden pea. Where the
camphor julep given them to drink is
strong, they seldom require pill. 1t Is
the odor Of the camphor that kills the
gap-worms; there Is no real contact
with it, which is impossible because the
parasites are in the wind-pipes. 1
HENS EATIre EACH OTHERS FEATII-
ERs.--Spanish fowls are more prone than
any to eat each Others feathers. and,
like most bad habits, 1t finds many imi-
tators. There is no doubt itarises In the
first place from the lack of some neces-
sary food-something they require at
y
no access to grass always do IL. We be-
lieve II they are supplied with grass run
they always discontinue the habit. A
good supply of lettuce cures them, and
those that are gone to seed are the best
for the purpose. If you cannot give
your fowls grass run, let them have
large soils of growing grass, cut with
plenty of mould, thrown into their pens
daily, and supply them with lettuce
freely.
PULLETs.--A pullet hatched early in
the spring begins today at the approach
of winter, and pullets hatched late in
summer begin to lay In the ensuing
spring, and il is by saving acertain pro-
portion of pullets from the early and
late broods, that you make sure of wint-
er eggs, a few early hatched chickens
for catching the highest markets. and O
numerous flock of chickens in the warm
months, when rearing Is least precarious.
The hen continues In her prime for two,
and, at most, three years--therefore, save
every year pullets equal to third OF
your brood stock, selling off at triflng
price the same number of aged hens, OIL
Offering them up in a stewed dish ol
well baked pie. However, have nc
scruple about keeping heavy, sym.
metrically made, splendidly feathered
"partlet, /" for four years, for the sake o
her stock. Many farmers grumble about
their poultry from not paying attention
to such simple matter as their not look
ing over their brood stock once n year
drafting all the old danes lknown 10y
the developed scales on their legs) and
reserving from the market basket thu
most promising young pullets raised dur
ing the season.
CHICKEN FEED.-We know of nothing
better, for young chickens and turkeys
than hard boiled eggs chopped fine, anC
fed with cracked corn and wheat. Th'
first few weeks is the most critical time
with them, and they need animal, foot
in some form, especially in the early
spring before grubs and insects are plen
ty. We have fed raw liver; chopped
fine. with advantage. A change of foot
is desirable. Wheat or barley steepet
in milk, toasted bread crumbs, and HON
my, are excellent. They should be fe'
as often as five times day, until the.
are month old, and should have ex
cess to clean water at all times.