The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-11-17
Keeping q Thousand Hens.
From the Massachusetts, Plouyhman.

sufficient to any given situation.
Keeping q Thousand Hens.
From the Massachusetts, Pioughman.l
With flock of 1000 fowls, at least six
acres are requisite. Some have given this
rule, an acre to each hundred. This area
should be fenced in with boards or pickets,
and houses erected, large enough to accom-
MEDIATE 100 fowls for rOOsting, shelter from
storms, and laying. II is not essential that
these houses should be expensive, but they
should face the south, and the fronts should
he partially or eotirely 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 4 free circI-
lation of air. The care of these houses should
he intrusted to a capable person, as on their
proper management the success of the pOul-
try largely depends. In addition to the
poultry house, there should be provided num-
bers of low sheds, beneath which the fowls
NAV take shelter from the heat of the sun or
from storms.
Care should he taken to prevent the in
gress of vermin, skunks, weasels, &C., 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 absolutely necessary, and unless brook
runs through or a pond il located on the
land, water should I've brought by a ram or
pumped by Windmill from 4 well. Fowls
drink great quantity of water, and it should
he OF us pure quality as can be obtained.
The preparation of the grounds, and build
ing OF the houses and sheds having been
completed, the stock may be procured.
For all practical purposes the common
dunghill fowl is as good as any, as We have
proved completely to our satisfaction. In
selecting stock take hens from one to two
years old, bright-eyed red-combed, clean
legged fowls, as large and we'll formed as
Grower with the large flocks, the breeders be-
ing selected and kept separate from the
others; for laying purposes, hens do better
number of male birds are together, the fights
and troubles will be incessant. The care Of
the poultry is not great after they are placed
in the park. The fowls selected for breed
ing purposes should be kept in tlOcks Of
twenty, in Yards separate from the Others,
and each of these small tOcks should have
a male bird. These birds should be the very
best 10 be obtained, strong, well formed, and
hardy, and the cock should be two years old,
healtiyy strong, and Outrageous. We believe
that .Braham cock, such rs we have des-
cribcd, crossed with the d,nghill fowls,
would get Letter and more marketable chick
ems than would any other. breed. This,
however, is for the poultryman to decide.
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srRAsBURG
The total amount Of destruction wrought
StrasbUrg during the bombardment was very
great, four hundred houses being bnrnt down,
seventeen hundred civiliens killed or wound
ed and eight thousand persons made roofess. !
The estimate Of the total damage done i'm the !
city is set down at $50, 600, OOOf, or between |
SD, 600, 900 and $40, 00O, 600. The havoc is
worst in the Jews quarter, the fshermans'
quarter, St. Nicholas, EinIenmatt, Broglie,
and the neighborhood of the Stein Strass |
IN the town itself nearly ali the principal /
are reduced TO ashes. The Project |
ure, the Protestant Church, the theatre, the /
the artillery school, infantry bar
racks. military magazines, railway stations, I
and worst of all the library with all its in !
valuable contents have been entirely de-
stroyed The citadel, with arsenei and
church j. no more. The grammar school is
likewise severely damaged.
The Times correspondent gives the follow
ing description Of the Of the recent
DISTRIBUTION OF THE IRON CROSSES
In the courtyard ofthe palace q Versailles:
There was a parade to-day at 10 O'Clock, |.
which WIS held in remarkable place. On
he upper step Of the two steps, from which
lrises the pedstal of the equestrian statue Of
Louis the Great, stood powerfully built
nan in the prime of life, of fine bearing, with
. fuiI beard, and keen bright eye. Two
tars are on his breast, but it docs not need
hem To mark the Crown Prince of Prussia.
lie wears his fat cap, with peak and red
and, undress frock and long boots coming
lbove the knees. On his left an officer Of
!ragoons held salver encirc!ed with iaurels
N which were placed heap Of the iron
ROSES and their ribbons which will mark
his war. The cross is of iron with silver
dge: on one side Is crown with the letters B,
!. ". for Friedrich Wilhelm, the name Of
he prince, three oak leaves, and the date
sl3; On the other side crown, with the
etter W. for Wilhelm, the kings name, and
he date 1870. The ribbon is broad black
nth white border. On the right Of the
,rince stood a group of Generals and officers
fthe staff. In the courtyard
rawn up al right angles to the statue Of /
4ouis the Great, regiment Of dismountedl
ragoons formed one E;de Of the square, of
7hich that facing the statue was constituted
y two regiments in masses of grand divisions i
q close order, with the officers on the tanks; :
nd on the LEFT of the prince, below, two lines !
ftroor,s formed kind of ailev for the recip- ,
,nts OF the crosses. A band OF buglers and ,
RUNNERS, apart at one end Of the angles Of I
he square, gave martial welcome TO the
.ince when he entered and mounted the {
cps Of the statue. There, as he stood were
France triumphant oyer SPAIN 'Frarcet q
triumphant over the German empire before !
i'm, and peace and abundance nearer at /
and; and in monumental rows on eaci side D
ere old Oh, Guesiin, grim furenne, Bayard,
onde. and the latter effig;es Of Joursian,
fassena, Lannes, Mortier, and the rest Of a
le illus,rious sixteen who once adorned the
ont dt. In ConcOrle. Higher still lift your n