Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-10-26
Keeping q Thousand Hens.

With Hook OF one thousand fowls, SIX
acres are requisites; this area should be
fenced in with boards, or pickets-refuse
stock viii do as well as any-and houses
dating one hundred fowls for roosting,
shelter from storms, and laying. It is not
essential that these houses should be ex-
pensive structures, but they should face
the south, and the fronts should be par
TALLY Or entirely glazed. The glazing
should be by sashes which may be opened
easily by hinges above, and may be left
open through the summer to permit free
circulation of air. The care of these houses
should be entrusted to a reliable person,
as on their proper management the success
of hepoultry largely depends.
In addition to the poultry houses, there
should be provided numbers of low sheds
mere lean-to sheds are enough-beneath
which the fowls may take shelter from the
heat OF the sun and from storms.
Care should be taken to prevent the in
gress Of vermin, skunks, weasels, etc, to
the grounds, and one or more good dogs
should be confined within the enclosure.
care being taken to secure dogs which will
not trouble the fowls, but which are good
watch dogs and vigilant. An abundance
of pure water is also absolutely necessary,
and unless brook runs through, or pond
is located on the land, water should be
brought by ram or pumped by wind
mill from well. Fowls drink great
quantity of water, and it should be of as
pure quality as can be obtained. The pre-
paration Of the grounds and building of the
houses and sheds having been completed,
the stock may be procured.
Fer all practical purposes the common
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proved completely to our satisfaction. In
selecting stock take hens from one to two
yeals old, bright eyed, red combed, clean
legged fowls, as large and well formed as
can be obtained There is no need of t.
Grower with the large focks, the breeders
being selected and kept seperate from the
Others; for laying purposes hens do better
away from a cock than with one, and if a
number Of the male birds are kept togeth-
er, the fights and troubles will be inces-
SAINT.
The care of the poultry is not great after
they are placed in the PARK. The fowls
selected for breeding purposes should be
Kept in focks of twenty in yards separate
from the others, and each of these small
hocks should have q male bird. These
hens should be the very best to be obtain
ed; strong, well formed and hardy, and the
cock should be two years old, healthy,
strong and courageous. We believe that q
Bfahma cock, such as we have described
crossed with the dung-hill fowls, would get
better and more marketable chickens than
would any other breek. This, however, is
for the poulterer to decide. Massachusetts
Ploughnaan.
A FUNNY accident happened at a large
wedding in neighboring city some time
ago. The church was crowded, and the
brilliant bridal party had just begun to
move up the aisle when suddenly every
light in the building went out. The gas
could not be lighted again, and the wed.
ding had to be performed by the light of a
solitary kerosene lamp placed on the lee,
tern. The illumination was resumed for
tunately before the party left the church,
so that the bride and her attendant maid
ems were enabled to display their toilettes
once down the aisle, and We're thus saved
| from utter desperation.