Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-01-18
Farm and Garden.

| Eng HuAOoI VI oSSo l1lNaj Ao"o'OAy was
very large. From an average of about
100 hens during the year he had 1884
dozen or Is, ,414 eggs. He gives the plan
of treatment as follows:
I keep an exact account of all re-
ceipts and expenditures. I have upon
an average through the year about one
hundred hens, three-fourths Leghorns,
| the remainder Dorkings. 1 prefer the
Leghorn to all other kinds for layers, as
each hen will lay about two hundred
eggs in a year and seldom want to sit.
The Dorkings keep for Matching and
rearing chickens, though they are good
layers and weigh dressed or alive nearly
twice as much as the Leghorns.
My plan is to dispose of two-thirds of
my stock of old hens each year and
rear others''to take their place, as young
ones are better layers than those two
years old, and consider poultry year
and a half old worth as much, pound
for pound, as younger ones.
l feed them upon oats in the morn
ing; at noon give them a mash made
of corn and wheat screenings and
boiled potatoes about equal parts three
or four times week add little fresh
meat. 1 feed but twice day and care
fully save all the manure, which think
many people do not understand the
value of; each hen will make from
seventy-five cents to dollars worth in
year.
My hen-house is forty feet long and
| twelve feet wide, fronting east and west
with doors and windows on either side,
built in the cheapest manner to answer
| the purpose; it is divided into ten
rooms, each six by eight feet, connected
with yards eight by twelve feet. Each
room is furnished with four movable
nest boxes placed about two feet from
the ground, over that a shelf two and
| half feet wide and the roost about
one foot above the shelf. 54ls 3, ~,
Each room is furnished with box
containing sand and ashes for the hens
to scour themselves in, box of broken
oyster shells, and trough for water.
which I am careful to provide fresh
every day ; this consider very impor-
tant. The food is placed in rack made
for the purpose In the nests 1 keep
sawdust with little sprinkling of air
Stacked lime, the dust of which pre-
vents the hens from disturbing their
nests. at'f
Lice very seldom make their appear
ance, as 1 keep the house clean, well
ventilated, and sprinkled every week
with ashes and lime if any make their
appearance / put four tablespoonsfull
of sulphur to a pail of food and feed
with this six days in succession; this
remedy never fails.
Lice on Hogs.-The Tennessee Agriclllt,I-
rist says: "W. s. Swami informs us
that he has an infallible remedy for
ridding hogs of lice-simple and easy
of application-which is to take butter
milk and pour it along the hogs, back
and neck, and after two or three appi-
cations not louise will be seen. He has
tried, and seen tried, in several cases,
with the same success in every instance.
Mr.. Swami being a reliable man, we
recommend its trial to our farmer
friends whose hogs are troubled with
lice"
Property for CGildren.-Every girl and
every boy should have the care of some
thing belonging to them, to grow or
cultivate or improve. When there is
should own horse, or COW, or have a
given portion of the garden to cultivate.
Girls should be allowed to possess bee
hive, or certain number of hens, or
fruit bearing vines. Something of value
that by care and proper cultivation in
creases and returns a value for itself.
Children will acquire an interest, and
derive a happiness from this form of
industry that will repay the effort and
trial.
Ne,o Use for Fresh Eggs.-The Maine
Farmer says: " Mr.. John Murphy, a
gentleman of intelligence and..close OBJ
servation recently made to us some
interesting statements in regard to the
value of fresh eggs in affording nourish-
ment to weak animals, that are worth
remembering by all farmers. He re-
marked that he had known young
colt which to all appearance was nearly
dead, the breath of life being barely
perceptible, to be quite instantly
revived by giving it one or two fresh
eggs. The same results, in several
cases to which he was knowing, have
followed the administering of eggs to
weak calves, and also to feeble and
chilled lambs. A remedy so simple, SC
easy at hand and SO effectual in the
with calves and lambs-should be re
membered by all our readers"
Frozen AppLes.-It is not an unusual
thing for apples to be frozen after they
are gathered, especially when they are
for a time kept in an out-building, as il
is the custom of many before storing
| III Gu0 C61ldTs IL ID hOD SChOAoAAJ AhOWI
that apples are not much injured from
being frozen, provided they are kept II
dark place where they will thav
gradually. Frozen apples lying in heaps
in out-buildings, should be deepl!
covered to confine the air and perfectly
exclude the light, until the frost is ou
of them; besides this, when it can b.
done, the room should be darkened, or
what would be better, remove them t.
dark cellar, in which the temperatur
is six or more degrees below freezing
We say six degrees, because sound az
} pies not yet mature, will thaw out at
temperature less than this. But whel
} ever they are kept the frost should no
? be extracted too suddenly, nor must tn
, light be allowed to strike them Will
they are thawing, because frozen apples
t from some cause not yet well under
: stood, if thawed out in the dark Wi
, remain plump and sound, while
2 thawed in the light, even though tn
a sun should not shine on them, the
: will afterward be soft and spoiled.
4 Again, it often occurs that apples &c
n frozen in barrels on the way to mark ct
!, keep such barrels headed up, and
Y holes have been bored in them, clos