Connecticut western news., 1874-04-10
Farm. Garden and Household.
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 Chiekon Cholera,
 As this disease has proved a terrible scourge and one hard to arrest, I think it may be interesting, perhaps, to many to know 'of remedy which tried with perfect success. My long experience has satisfied me that the best practice where diseases prevail among fowls is to use disinfectants. I had some chickens so badly affected as to be partially blind, and in attempting to pick up corn would fail to reach it where it lay upon the ground before them. They lost tbeir appetites and wasted away till they became so weak as to lie upon the ground as if they were dead. never saw any fowls before that recovered from such deep .prostration. Some of them evacuated dark, watery and ex- .cessively foetid matter; and as some of them were common dung-hill fowls, let the disease take it's course with them, and these all died. Such as I took in hand in time managed to save. ! placed the ailing birds in boxes, on clean straw, and cut away such feathers as had become soiled by their evacua- tions, and as means of sustaining life fed them twice Gay with oatmeal gruel, into which was put some finely chopped rue; this of course had to be poured down the throats of the sick birds. In addition to this I sprinkled carbolic powder upon the straw in the boxes where the fowls were placed, dusted some into their feathers, and gave them teaspoonful or two of water slightly impregnated with carbolic acid, which can be had of almost my drug gist. The ailing fowls were kept apart from those that were in health, and after the administration of the remedy referred to, recovered rapidly. treat ed some two or three dozen altogether. of different breeds, and believe I should have lost all if had failed to apply remedies.-H. Hales, iss Poultry Bulletin. = s-.1 sss tasote Rousehold Notes.
 E LAAB.-Lamb should be roasted un- til the gravy that drops is white: the fore-quarters are the best for a roast the leg is good broiled or roasted: two hours will roast the fore quarters we'll
 RYE BREAD. Into two quarts of four stir half coffee cupful of yeast, a tea spoonful of salt and enough warm water to moisten the flour, making a thick batter. Let it rise over night: in the morning stir it again; then put into pans without kneading, making it quite soft. Let it rise till very light. then bake an hour in moderately heated oven. This bread makes a pleasant change from wheat; and when the slices are toasted and spread with but ter they are really as delicious as health
 "One who has tried it." writes as fol- lows: ~ If any farmer wants cheap and convenient cushion to ride on, let him take sheepskin as soon as it is off the sheep, and scrape the flesh of, then lay It on smooth place. Pulverize one pound of alum and one of salt and cover the flesh side of the skin, and let It lie for week or two, and it will be well tanned. They make the best seat TOT the reaper, raker, corn planter, and to throw on the horse to ride from the held to the barns and if one should be caught in sudden shower, they would answer for s protection"
 iia Poisonous Ely Papers.
 Fly papers, Of different sorts, are now sold in immense quantities, and are positively stated to be perfectly harmless to animal life of higher or der than insect pests. That the claim ef harmlessness thus made is not. how ever, trustworthy, appears from state- ment in one of the London technical journals, in which the writer says that ne took four sheets of such paper at random, and digested them with dilute hydrochloric acid, until pulpy mass was obtained; the pulp was then placed on nlter and washed with diluted wa Ger until the filtered fluid amounted to about four pints, and this was evapor- ated until only eight ounces remained. and sulphfde of hydrogen was passed into It for two hours. During this time copious precipitate of su1phide of arsenic was thrown down, and the beaker containing the fluid was there fore set aside in warm place, to insure It's complete separation. The precip. tate was collected on a filter, washed. and dissolved in dilute solution of am monla, from which it was reprecipita- ted by hydrochloric acid. The pure suiphlde of arsenic was finally collected upon filter, dried, and weighed; the average quantity of arsenious acid found in each of the sheets was 2.55 grains-quite enough to destroy hu- man life.
 A Few Words About Ducks.
 Adomestic duck is one of the most valuable fowls of the farmer, but it has one great objection which is, that it, is an unmerciful gormandizer, and it. is difficult to raise. Where there are ponds or streams, it is as profitable as any fowl; it is very prolific. and it's eggs are perferred by many to those of the hen. v Where they have free access to ponds, they feed on various reptiles, and several species of aquatic grass, which they find beneath the surface, and which is very excellent, substitute for animal food. When insects are abund- ant, they require no supply of meat, as they obtain sufficiency of animal food themselves, but when this is not the case, they must be be furnished liberal ly, or they will speedily die. Potatoes boiled, mashed and mixed with meal, make an excellent article of food for the ducks. They become very fat on it, and when in preparation for the mar ket, it is perhaps the best food that can begiyen except meat. Young ducks require great attention--their voracious habits often induce them to eat to reple- don, and many die while quite young, from no other cause.
 Your Daughters.