The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-07-21


"E c. DEAN.
Recording Secretary"
''It never rains but pours." Neither
do distinctions begin to fall upon man
IN a sprinkle, but very shortly they in
crease TO Hood. Within the space of
one short month, have been raised to
the dignity of honorary membership in
agricultural, horticultural, and vinicultu-
raj societies In the States of Iowa, IndiS
ana, California, Massachusetts, Maryland
and Pennsylvania, and now, honorary
member of the Western New York Poul-
try Society, and my rayenish ambition is
satisfied.
Seriously, from early youth, / have
taken an especial interest in the subject
of poultry-raising, and SO this member
ship touches a ready sympathy in my
breast. Even as a schoolboy, poultry
raising was study with me, and | may
say, without egotisrh, that as early as the
age of seventeen, was acquainted with
all the best and speediest methods of rails
ing chickens, from raising them off
roost by burning lucifer matches under
their noses, down to lifting them of
fence on a frosty night by ihsinuating the
end of warm board under their heels.-
by the time 1 was twenty years old, l
really supposed that | had raised more
poultry than any one individual in all the
section round about there. The very
chickens came to know my talent by and
by. The youth of both sexes ceased to
paw the earth for worms, and old foosters
that came to crow remained to pray
when | passed by.
| have had so much experience in the
raising Of fowls that [ cannot but think
that few hints from me might be useful
70 the society. The two methods I have
already touched upon are very simple, and
are only used in the raising Of the COM
monest kind of fowls one is for summer,
the other for winter. In one case you
start out with a friend along about II
O'Clock on a summers night mot later,
because il some States-especially in Call
ifornia and Oregon-chickens always
rouse up just at midnight aud crow from
10 TO 80 minutes, according to the case
of difficulty they experience in getting the
public walked up), and your friend carries
with him sack. Arrived at the hen
roost (your neighbours, not your uwn), you
light match and hold it under the first
one and then another pallets nose, until
they are willing to go into that bag with
out making any trouble about it. You
then return home, either taking the bag
with you or leave 1t behind, according as
circumstances shall dictate. II. B.-I
have seen the titne when it was eligible
and appropriate to leave the sack behind,
and walk off with considerable velocity,
without ever leaving any word where to
send it.
In the case of the other method tileh-
toned for raising poultry, your friend
takes along a covered vessel with char
coal fire in it, and you carry long, slene
der plank. This is frosty night, under
stand. Arrived at the tree, or fence, or
other hen roost (your own if you are an
idiot), you warm the end of your plank
in your friends fire. vessel, and then raise
it aloft and ease it up gently against
slumbering chickens foot. If the subject
of your attentions is a true bird, he will
infallibly return thanks with a sleepy
cluck or two, and step out and take up
conspicuously accessory before the fact to
his own murdep as to make it grave
question in our minds, as it once was in
the mind of Blackstone, whether he is not
really and deliberately committing suicide
in the second degree. (But you enter ina
TO contemplation of these legal refine
tnents subsequently-no then.)
VUIo., .,o., ro;,o a G.~a or,s,S
donkey voiced Shanghai rooster, you do
it with lassO, just as you would a bull.
1t is because he must be choked, ehoked
effectualIy, too. 1t is the only goud, GER
tain way, for whenever he mentions
matter which he is cordially interested in,
the chances are ninety>hine in hundred
that he secures somebody else's immediate
attention to 1t, too, whether 1t be day or
night.
The black Spanish is an exceedingly
fine bird, and a costly one. Thirty,flve
dollars is the usual figure, and fifty not
uncommon price for specimen. Even
It's eggs are worth from dollar to dol
lar and u half q piece, yet are 80 unwhole>
some that the city physician seldom or
never orders them for the workhouse-
Still have once or twice procured as high
as dozen at time for nothing, in the
dark of the moon. The best way to raise
the black Spanish fowl, is to 60 late in
the evening, and raise coop and all. The
reason / recommend this method is that
the birds being so absurdly valuable, the
owners do not permit them to roost around
promiscuously, but put them in coop,
as strong as a fire proof safe, and keep
it in the kitchen at night. The method
/ speak of is not always bright and
satisfying success. and yet there are so
many little articles of re1tu about kitch-
en-, that if you fail on the coop you can
generally bring away something else
brought away nice steel trap one night,