Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-09-14

l have received the following notice:
The WESTERN N Y. PoULrRY SOCIETY, /
Buffalo, June / 1870.

The WESTERN N Y. POULTRY SOCIETY, !
Buffalo, June /, 1870.
Mark Train Esq:
SIR-At a recent meeting of the Executive
Committee OF the Western New York Poul-
try Society, you were elected an honorary
, member Of the Society
+. @. DEASE, Rec. Sec.
at never rains but it pours." Meth
er do distinctions begin to fall upon
man in q sprinkle but very shortly they
increase TO flood. Within the space of
one short month have been raised to
the dignity of honorary membership in
agricultural and vinicultural societies in
the States of Iowa, Indiana. California,
Massachusetts, Mary land aud Pennsylva
mia; and now. as eliminating grand
eur. have become an honorary mem
Der of tue Western New York Poultry
Society, and my ravenous ambition is
satisfied.
Seriously, from early youth l have
taken an especial interest in the subject
of poultry raising and so this membership
touches ready sympathy in my breast.
Evon as a school boy, poultry raising was
study with me; and | may say, with
out egotism that as early IA the age of,
IL, was acquainted with all the best
aud speediest methods of raising chick
ems, from raising them off roost by
burning lucifer matches, under their
noses, down 10 lifting them off fence on
a frosty night by insinuating the end of
a warm board under their heels. BY
the time | was twenty years old, / really
supposed had raised more poultry than
any one individual in all the section
round there. The very chickens came
10 know my talent. by and by. The
youth of both sexes ceased to paw the
earth for worms, and old roosters that
come to crow "remainsd to pray" when
passed by.
l have had so much experience in the
raising OF fowls, that can not but think
that few hints from me might be use
full to the society. The two methods l
have already touched upon are very sim
pie, and are only used IN the raising Of
the commonest class of fowls-one is for
summer, the other for winter.
In the one case, you start out with a
friend along about ] o'clock on sum
mer's night mot after, because in some
States-especially in California and Ore
gon-chickens always rouse up just at
midnight and crow from ten to thirty
minutes, according to the ease or Difficult.
ty they experience in getting the public
walked up and your friend carries with
him a sack. Arrived at the hen roost
(your neighbours not your own,) you
light match and hold it under first one
aud then another pullets nose, until they
are willing to go into that bag without
making any trouble about it. You then
return home, either taking the bag with
you or leaving it behind, according as
circumstances shall dictate.
| N. B.-Ih have seen the time when II WAS
eligible and appropriate to leave the sack
behind and walk off with considerable
velocity, without leaving any word where
20 send it.
| In the case of the other method men
toned for raising poultry, your friend
takes covered vessel with charcoal fire
in it, and you carry long slender plank.
This is frosty night, understand. Ar
rived at the tree or feuce, or other hen
roos., (your own, if you are not an idiot,
you warm the end of your plank in your
friends FIRE vessel aud then raise it aloft
and ease it up gently against slumber-
ing chickens foot. Ii the subject Of
your attention is a true bird he will in.
fallibly return thanks with sleepy cluck
or two aud step out and take up quarters
on the plank. thus becoming so conspicu
ously accessory before the fact to bis own
murder, as to make it n grave question
in our minds, rs it once was in tie mind
Of Blackstone, whether heris not really
and d liberately committing suici lie in
the second degree. But you enter into
a contemplation of these legal refinements
subsequently, not then.
When you wish to raise 6ne, large,
donkeY-voiced Shanghai rooster, you do
it with lasso just As you would bull.
1t is because he must be choked, and
choked efiectually, 1t is the only good,
certain way, for whenever he, mention, a
matter which he is cordially interested
in. the chances are ninety nine in hun
dred that he secures something else's i'm
mediate attention to it too, whether it be
day or night.
The Black Spanish is an exceedingly
l fina bird and n f.oxIlv ona Yhirtv five