Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-02-01

to 20 through their focks and weed
out :" imperfect birds, and those that
are not desirable for breeding stock,
fat them and send them to market or
the table. If possible. the pens
should be Thoroughly cleared OF all dc,
formed imperfect mongrels, and OLD
fowls, male and female for nothing
is gained to the breeder or lover Of
fine birds by keeping over lot OF
nondescripts.
Care must be taken to select from
the pens the best and earliest pullcts
AS regards health, size, action and
plumage. Do not, on any account,
keep over badly marked birds; have
those thai you do keep over come as
near to perfection as possible in bald
and plumage, to the strain you de,
sire TO breed to. Do not breed IN
and in, but select from the pen (other
than your OWN the most vigorous
two.year-old cock, ifa different strain,
that can be found, and place him
with the pul|ets selected for breeding
purposes. BY SO doing yon will not
only be able to introduce new strain
of blood in your flock, but variety
that will in all cases produce a
healthier breed than you would Sc
cure by keeping over your old stock
There IS no reason why poultry
bred in this manner, cannot be kept
pure, the variety made to maintain
its supremacy being just the fowls
you desire TO have preserve their
identity. 1t can most assuredly be
done by every breeder in the land,
and that with very little trouble, IL
the matter be taken in hand in time.
Our method wonld be, lin order to
carry out what we here recommend
TO take two. year old cock and six
or eight pnllets Of the Dark Brahama
yariety-thi breed being very hardy,
extremity prolific, and good mothers
if Matched in early spring they will
lay during the winter months, and
also furnish setting hens early in the
spring. There are other fowls which
might be kept as much profit, perhaps
as the BrahmaS tbs fancy OF the
amatuer must determine choice. We
have found Brahmas as general
,hiGg, more hardy and less liable to
the numerous diseases intcsting hen
ueries than most other breeds.
As egg producers we have exper-
imented for the last six years with the
Polands, and find them all we desire
in that line, though they seldom de-
sire to sit, when they do, they are not
the careful mothers that the Brahmas
are. Hamburgs are also prolific lay.
era, and breed Of fowls not ODE ig
nored. The White Leghorns and
Guelders have their friends, who
aver that they are to be d" the coming
breed" as perpetual layers. - Moore's
Rurdl Nea, Yorker.
MEDICINE FOR PoULTRY--In ordi.
nary cases it will not pay to give
medicine to sick fowls. In the first
place but little is known of the dis
eases of poultry, and again there is
HI equal dearth of knowledge respect
ing remedies Besides, the value Of
an average fowl is SO uncomfortable
that treatment will not pay unless
very successful.
The best course respecting poultry
ailments is prevention. Try to Sc,
cure such vigorous breeding stock
and such complete sanitary condition,
for all the birds at all ages, that
illness will be rare. Then the strength
Of constitution will be such that any
ordinary disease can can be resisted
the aid of medicine, it good
is given.
What we mean by nursing is this
Place sick fowls in dry sunny place,
out of the wind and safe from distur.
bance. Then give them food easy Of
such as mush, po-
taloe. and meal, every article cooked,
and warm milk for drink. If, after
NIL, they can't make out to live, say
10 yourself by way of congratlation,
" there are so many birds not disease.
proof, that have been weeded out of
my stock, at any rate. y Country
Gentleman.
REQUISITES ORA Coon BEE HIVE.
The Michigan Bee-keeper's Associa-
ton, with but one dissenting vote,
adopted the following us the requisites
of good Hive:
For outdoor wintering we recon-
mend hive not exceeding twelve
inches III depth nor less than ten
inches inside Of the Bleeding chamber,
for use in Northern attitudes.
For indoor wintering, hive may
be made as shallow as five inches i'll
the breeding apartment.
We believe the breeding chamber
should not contain less than 1000
cubic inches actual breeding space,
40 more than $500, the same to be
so constructed as 20 admit Of upward
ventilation at pleasure, and the en-
trance to be so contracted as to ad.
NIT of no more than one or two bees
to pass or repass at the same time
during the winter, believing that very
heavy currents Of air beng allowed
to pasa through at this season of tho
year will serve as cause of disease.
We believe that hive to De cheap
-, cnct 70 tho hoo manor au1 OF tho