The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-05-03
FARM AND GARDEN.

while they are at liberty. They must
be put in proper coop; and this, like
most other poultry appurtenances, need
not be expensive. To fatten twelve
fowls, coop may be three feet long,
eighteen inches high, and eighteen
inches deep, made entirely of bars.
No part solid-neither top, sides. nor
bottom. Discretion must be used, ac-
cording to the size of the chickens put
up. They do 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 quarrel
some it is better to remove it at once,
as, like other bad examples, it soon
finds imitators. A diseased chicken
should not be put up.
The food should be ground oats, and
may either be put up in trough or on
fiat board running along the front of
the coop. 1t may be mixed with water
or milk the latter is the better. 1t
should be well soaked, forming pulp
as loose as can be, provided it does not
run off the board. They must be well
fed three or four times day the first
time as soon after day break as may be
possible or convenient, and then at in
tervals of four hours. Each meal should
be as much and more than they can eat
up clean. When they have done feed
ing, the board should be wiped, and
some gravel may be spread. 1t causes
them to feed and thrive.
After a fortnight of this treatment
you will have good, fat fowls. If, how
ever, there are but five or six to be fat
tened, they must not have as much
room as if there were twelve. Nothing
is easier than to allow the proper room.
HINTS TO DAIRYMEN.-It is stated
of Prof Law, of Cornell University,
that, having, one day during the hot
weather, observed a peculiar rosy ap-
pearance in the cream, which had risen
upon the milk which was supplied him
by the milkman, he examined it by the
microscope.
These observations resulted in the
discovery of numerous living organisms,
of character quite foreign to good
milk; careful survey of the dairy whence
the milk was obtained disclosed moth
ing wrong-the dairy house being well
kept, and the cows in apparent good
condition. But, on looking through
the pastures, it was found that the only
water to which the cows had access
was that contained in stagnant pool.
Submitting some of this water to a SIM
liar microscopic examination, he dis
covered the same class of organisms as
those found in the cream. The pres
ence of like organisms was also found
in blood taken from the cows.
In order to arrive at more definite
results, he obtained specimen of good
milk, free from all organic impurities,
and into this he put drop of water
from the stagnant pool. In short
time the milk developed an infinite
number of these living organisms, and
became similar in character to that OBJ
tanned from his milkman. Results so
clear and conclusive merit the attention
of all dairymen; while the manner in
which they were established illustrates
the value of careful observation, fol-
lowed by persistent and intelligent re-
search.
TRAINING STEERS. - One used to
handling steers with a view to making
oxen of them, says: "Steers handle
and yoke up the first winter, before
they are a year old, and during the
following summer, to accussom them
to the yoke and to walk side by side
evenly together. The second winter l
put them to light sled, and put
small rope round the nigh ones horn,
not to guide them, but to secure them
from running away from me by sud-
den fright or some other cause. l then,
with light, short whip, proceed to
teach them to draw, to go forward, to
stop, to haw and gee, use few words
with them. and few motions of the
whip, not trying to teach them too many
things at once. When they are little
older, l teach them to back by choos-
ing a piece of descending ground for
that purpose, with the empty sled or
cart for load. l never try to pillow
without driver till the steers are four
years old.
THE ROSE ON THE LAwN.-An En-
glish journal says: Few persons are
aware of the magnitude to which the
rose may be grown, or the splendid eff
feet it can be made to produce on
lawn or pleasure-g ground; yet with
sufficiently long stem, and system of
careful and patient training, there can
be no reasonable doubt but that the
standard roses can be grown to the size
and form of the ordinary examples of
the weeping ash, having the branches
all produced from the top of single
stem, and flowing downward upon all
sides-a very ornamental object for the
lawn.
oTuE RITES - Cheerfulness and