Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-06-12
KEEPING Huns.
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Each farm has it's poultry, so every
family having out buildings ought to
keep hens. They can be kept as profit
ably as with the farmers. On the farm
hens arc often greater damage than
profit, making frrays in the grain fields
and garden, and ioulirs the walks
about the buildings, for farmers gcner-
ally Go not shut up their hens. 20
There is a general Improvement
Throughout tho country in hen-hus.
bandry the breeds are disseminated
and crossed. and the increase of eggs
is in prsportior. There is, however,
ono great. drawback, which needs cor.
recring, it is the breeding from crossed
stock. 4 cross from the original pure
blood is what is wanted, and not prop.
agation from crosses; this last will
surely run out the properties for which
the original is valued. Get, therefore,
a cock Of pure blood for your hens,
whether your hens are cross, native
OF also pure blood. the latter ON the
whole the best. And there is no diff.
entity to obtain pure blood at a reason
able price of almost any breed, tho
breeds are so well disseminated. The
Brahma, If not the best, is among the
best, and can be obtained anywhere.
1t unites excellently with the black
Spanish and other breeds, afording
large eggs and an abundance of them,
being eminentiy winter layer. Its
flesh also is good, It's chickens coming
quick to maturity. It is very docilO
and quiet; can be kept almost any.
where, and more confined than most
breeds. You need no extra care to
have success with this breed; a barn,
q shed. any clubhouse will do. Among
the best examples that we know are
of the black Spanish and Rrahma cross
kept in small building used as wood
shed and pig pen. Itneeds for small
family but eight Or ten hens, which
will afford tlia eggs needed tho year
round. A miscellaneous feed is per.
haps as good as any, scraps from the
table, particularly buckwheat cake,
and the different graius. To feed corn
alone is not good. A fat hen will not
hay so we'll. and is subject 70 appO-
plexy, efte,f dropping down dead. A
mixture Of corn and buckwheat, equal
parts, is y coed feed. . sr
A great point in hen-raising, wherc
eggs are the main thing, is to have
young stock. Hatch early, and keep
growing steadily all along, SO as to get
early maturity, and hence early laying.
Eggs can thus bo obtained in four to
Ave months, and we have known it to
be done sooner. Let them lay year
or moro for You, and then die.
place them by new brood. Their
flesh, being still young. will be tender,
and the new hatch viii continue to
supply the eggs. Always remember
a hen is Of a domestic nature, and will
lay better for being well treated.
AFTER all the arrests that have
been made Of persons supposed to be-
long to the Bender family, VINO com.
mitted SO many murders IN Kansas,
all of that family are still at large.
The person arrested IN Utah recently
as the elder Bender, and who, it was
reported, had been satisfactorily iden.
tilted, proves to be q demented old
man named Koch. The county attOr.
ney for Labetta county, publishes q
description Of the senior Bender. in
which the criminal is described 40 .
man having an intelligent countenaJnce
ard resembling in go wise the vas
grants SC. frequently taken for mem.
bers os the Bender family. He also
adds that all the Benders, nOtwitl-
standing their fsndish nature, appear
agreeable and pleasant in their man.
ners, and as they are supplied With
money, it is not fkely they will be
found acting the part of dead beats
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