Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-11-28
HOME, FARM AND GARDEN.

-pipin Chickens Feed your chickens
with raw, fine cut onions, once in three
or four days--that will prevent pip. Also
color their drinking water with tincture
of iron occasionally. Bread soaked in
vinegar is healthy. Get all the egg shells
you can for your fowls, keep the hen
house clean, and give plenty Of Fang
during the day,-h1fbdaqe,
keeping Oniors.-The Nae ENGLAND
Homestead says: "OnionS will withstand
far more cold than is usually supposed.
Ii packed dry in tight barrels, and all in.
terstices filed with chaif, they may be
kept in 3 barn, or where they will freeze
quite hard, and not be injured, provided
the barrels are closed tight and no. open
cd until the onions are again thawed. on
ions stored in a warm cellar are very like
II to sprout in winter, and then decay,
emitting anything but an agreeable odor
Many hens, especially cunning old
ones, steal their nests late in the season,
and perhaps late in the year come of
with broods OF chickens. They are too
often neglected, or as they get large
enough for boiling, Just rs cold weather
comes on, are ruthlessly slaughtered from
the fear that they will not winter we'll.
IT cared for, and kept growing during
the winter, they will, the next summer,
prove the most valuable fowls ON the
farm, since they will commence laying
about the time the older ones cease, and
furnish plenty of eggs, when they are
most wanted and most appreciated, Ev-
cry farmer should save one or more late
hroods of chickens, in order to prolong
the laying seasu in the summer.
The following story is told as having
occurred. A Mr.. Whitcher, Whitfield, n.
H., wanted Il mich COW, and bought what
appeared to be a good one in a %neighhor-
ing market, after u number of persons
who claimed to he interested in the pur-
chase and sale had seen twelve quarts of
rich milk taken from her. The day after
Mr., Whitcher came into possession, his
dairymaid undertook to get some milk
from the same COW, and she wouldn't
give down a drop and il was soon dis
covered that the animal had no appear
ance whatever OF having milk. Ii is be.
lieyed, by those who know the circum-
stances, that n false udder had been used
in the milking scene, which was quietly
slipped of before the COW was delivered
to the purchaser .-Rard Aeie loykyr.
1t is hopeless to attempt TO fattcn
chickens while they are at hbery, They
must he put in Il proper coop and this,
like most other poultry anpurtenances,
need not be expensive. To tatten twelve
fowls, a coop may be three feet long,
eighteen inches high, and eighteen inches
deep, made entirely of bars, No part
solid-neither top, side nor bottom. Dis
erection must be used, according to the
size Of the chickens put up. Theydo not
want room indeed, the closer they are
the better, provided they can all stand up
at the same time. Care must be taken to
put up such as have been accustomed to
be together or they will fight. If one is
quarrelsome, ii is better to remove il at
once, us, like other bad examples, it soon
finds imitators. A diseased chicken
should not be pat up, The food should
be ground oats, and may either be put up
in u trough or on a flat board running
along the front of the coop. |. may be
mixed with water or milk-the latter is
the better. 1t should be well soaked,
forming n pulp as loose as can be, pro.
vided II does not run OIL the board. They
must be well fed three or four times IA
day~-the first time as soon after breakfast
as may be possible or convenient, and
then at intervals of -four hours. Each
meal Should be as much and no more
thar they can eat up clean. When they
have done feeding, the board should be
wiped and some gravel may be spread.
1t causes them to feed and thrive.