The Placer herald., 1871-03-25
HOUSE AND FA X M.

10 1OO eacn, ana increase lnrce-IOlu eacn
- year, doubling the number of layers, and
furnishing an equal number of roosters for
the market, The pullets of any given year
ought to average fully five months of laying
time, during which they ought to lay thirty
eggs each.
Each hen will eat about one bushel of
wheat, or its equivalent, during the year,
and the progeny of the year will consume
for each one, say half as much more. From
these data, and taxing the average price of
eggs at 35 cents per dozen, and wheat at
81 30 per bashel, we may reasonably make
the following calculation with regard to the
ANNUAL PRoFITs ON 100 HENS
In the vicinity of San Francisco
100 hens. say 130 eggs each 1871 .05
100 pullets, 25 eggs each 72.80
100 pullets (good breed), cash value 10000
100 roosters for market, IS cts each 1900
=, Total Receipts $61S.05
Feeding 106 hens and roosters Sl59
Feeding 100 chickens as above 75
Losses by disease, etc. 1C-244.0O
Profit, 1864 80
In the above estimate, we have allowed
10 per cent. for loss by disease, but moth
ing tor depreciation from age, as such loss
would be but trihng The secret of success
: in keeping hens free from disease, is plenty
of food, and that which is good a plenty of
clean water, comfortable and clean roosting
and laying quarters, and not over thirty
five in one enclosure. They had better be
kept in separate families, although the fam
lilies may be separated only by a lath fence.
Two roosters only should be allowed in one
family.
The secret of success in securing large
.sfsock of eggs is this: Have your chicks in
this climate, Matched in February or March,
AS they do not moult until the second aut-
umn after they are hatched, the advantage
of early hatched chickens for obtaining eggs
is'apparerit- will commence laying in
August, and continue without interruption
from moulting for fourteen or fifteen months
through the best laying season of two
years.
A hen should never be allowed to moult
but once On the approach of the second
mouting PERIOD see that all of that stock is
in good order for the market, with the as
sistance of a boy, he ought to be able to
take care of 600 layers and find time be-
side, to raise nearly all the food they will
require, with little assistance in plowing
and harvesting. From twenty to twenty
five acres of land ought to be sufficient to
raise all the provisions needed for both the
keeper and his charge, and to house both
comfortably y.-Rtrat Press.
NEW GAse-P PLow-The Common Sense
Gang Pcw," patented Oct. IS, 1870, by
Atwood, Lebanon, H., is said to be the
best thing of the kind ever invented, as it
does away with the heavy-draft, horsekill-
ing, and high-prced gang plows, heretofore
in use. The advantages claimed are, first,
light draft-two horses being sufficient to
do all ordinary plowing; second, low prices
costing from one-thrd to one-half less
than most other gang plows, and doing bet
ter work; third, simplicity-any boy capa-
bic of driving team, can understand it at
once, and manage it with perfect ease;
fortuh, the driver sits behind lis plows, and
is able to see at glance whether they are
doing good work Or not.
ORANGE PUDD1NG.-Peel and cut five
good, sweet, juicy oranges into thin slices,
taking out all the seeds. Pour over them a
coffee-cup of white sugar. Let pint of
milk get boiling hot by setting it into some
boiling water; add the yolk of three eggs,
well beaten, one tablespoonful of corn starch,
made smooth with little cold milk. Stir
all the time, and as soon as thickened pour
it over the fruit. Beat the whites to a stiff
froth, adding tablespoonful of sugar, and
spread over the top for frostng Set it into
the oven for few minutes to harden. Eat
cold or hot for dinner or tea Substitute
berries of any Kind, or peaches, if you like
them better than oranges.
SoApsuDs, says the Ohio Ruralist, though
generally deemed only fit for being run off
into the common sewer in the easiest man
ner possible, are nevertheless highly bene-
fclaLvegetable feeders, as well as useful in
sect preventives. They never should be
wasted, especially by parties having gardens,
as their application to the ground, whether
in winter or summer, will show benefcally,
not only on ordinary vegetables crops, but
also on berry bushes, shrubs, border flow
ers, and even window pot-plants; while if
poured or syringed over roses, cabbages,
etc, they will prevent, or at least mitigate
the mischievous doings of the green fly and
catterpillars.
LOAF CAKE.-One and half pints of
we'll raised sponge, two and half cups SUI
gar, two-thirds cup butter, three eggs,
yoks and whites beaten separately, half
pound stoned rasins well rolled in flour to
prevent their sinking to the bottom, half
teaspoonful each cinnamon and cloves, one
nutmeg. Beat into the sponge half teas
poon of soda before adding these ingredients;
stir all together let stand till light; stir up
from bottom with wooden spoon and bake
slowly. .f.s....
CHEAP PupDING--Soak one cup of bread
crumbs in one quart of milk two hours, then
add four eggs well beaten, one tablespoonful
nf hutter a little sal nutmeo and sWeeten