Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1871-07-27
Care Of Fowls.

Probably no one has written upon the
subject of poultry raising, who has not
said that cleanliness is of vital importance.
"Cleanliness is godliness," to mankind,
and the next thing to it in the care of
chickens. If under your perches you will
spread little straw or hay, you will find
it no trouble to clean out your hen-house,
which should be done once week in win
ter, but less frequently in summer, where
half the time in it, will answer very well.
1t is important to see that you invariably
feed them in clean places.
Fowls are as capricious as people about
change of diet. They grow weary of Coz
even, if fed continually. A better way is
to keep a supply of corn and also of wheat
screenings, etc, and alternate the food.
And if poultry is your chief delight, what
ever else you do, don't keep dog to sup
plant your fowls in your affections, and o
get all the bones and bits of meat which
your chickens so much need. And don't
be stingy about your scraps; cut off all the
scraggy parts from your roasts, or legs of
veal or mutton and chop it, raw, for your
poultry; and observe what a concert you
will create in the chicken yard when you
feed it.
Don't forget the box of fresh, dry ashes
where they may have the fowl luxury of
dusting themselves as often as they like !;
and also the fresh lime somewhere conve-
nient for them to supply shells for your
eggs, as well as to promote cleanliness and
and sweetness of their premises. You
will not, of course, ask your chickens to
drink water which has stood twenty -four
hours, any more than you would drink
such yourself. But you will see that every
morning finds your watering places thor
oughly cleaned, and filled with good fresh
water.
l have been usinga preparation to i'm
pregnate the water with iron and sulphur
both conductive to the health of poultry
which has been recommended by per-
sons of large experience. 1t is this: Pour
two quarts of boiling rain water on to q
half pound of sulphate of iron and hall
ounce sulphuric acid. When the iron has
dissolved, bottle the preparation, and use
about gill of it in each pail of drinking
water.
When your hens are ready to come of
with brood of chicks, before coopine
them, take some kerosene oil and with {
swab thoroughly oil the feathers and flesf
of the fowl about the breast, legs anG
wings The oil is thus communicated tc
the young chickens, and all are rid of lict
most effectually. BY the same process
you can cause every fowl on your roost t.
rise up and call you blessed" if they ar,
troubled with this little poultry pest
This spring took newly hatched chick
en-, which had come out a few da, s in ad
vance of the rest, and rolled it up in fan
mel; discovered louse on it, / put SOM
kerosene on the downy chick and wher
next 1 unrolled it, 1 found over fifty lie
on the flannel. Fact
do not know that 1 have given yer,
valuable hints in all that / have writer
upon the subject, but do know that v hill
others have had fowls dying off promiscu
ously, have not had even one on tn
sick list; and out of 16S oung chicks
one-t third of which are now large enougl
to broil, have only lost four Con
Prairie Farmer.