Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-08-05
Agricultural

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ARTIFICIAL HATCHIyG BY MASCRE.-
There is nothing new under the sun.
Matching chickens by the heat of sr
ordinary manure heap was practised il
the last century, and from the subjec,
Of an elaborate volume in octave by ths
celebrated naturalist, Reaumer, trans.
lstion of which, illustrated by numerous
beautiful executed copper plates, was
published in England $50 years since;
Its exact title being 'The Art of Hatch.
ing and Bringing up Domestic Fowls OF
all kinds at any time of the year, either
by the heat of Hot Beds or that OF the
common fire." By NJ. De Keaumer, OF
London, 1850. This rare and curious
book contains many interesting details
connected with the development of the
chick, and acknowledged ''copies OF
copies" of these plates appear in the
most recent works on poultry.
Alta meeting of the New York Farmers
Club, held on March II, DIR. Peters, OF
l59 Bowery, exhibited many chickens
that he had Matched artifcially, aud We
are informed in the Ne,O York Poultry
Bulletin ''that DIR. Preterre has this
year tried the experiment of hatch
ing eggs in manure, and finds it equal
ly good, and in some respects superior
TO The incubating machine. He places
the eggs in barrels, which are raised
from the ground by posts around the
barrels are beds of manure nine feet
thick; when the bed is three days old
the eggs are pat in, and in forty-eight
hours the beating of the heart is visible
on breaking the shell.
Reaumur's book gives very ample
details as to the management of the hot
beds, the arrangement of tine baskets
of eggs within the barrels, the construc-
tion of thermometers necessary to regu-
late the heat; and he designs a very
simple butter thermometer, made by
partially filling a small bottle with q
mixture of butter and tallow, which
by Its degree of fiuidity or solidity
would show when the eggs were at the
proper temperature, the liquid becoming
very fluid when the heat is excessive,
ana solid when ii is too low; the proper
consistence being a little more huid
than that which would result from
carrying the bottle under the armpit
for a quarter of an hour. Reaumur
states that this plan was decidedly SIC
cessful; but like all other plans for ar
titicial incubation, it has not been ex-
tensiveiy practiced either in France or
In any other country.
VALUE OF POULTRY IN THE UNITED
STATEs.-PoultTy raising is one of tine
industries of the nation, quite as much
as sheep, dairy, or cattle husbandry.
Profit is the object in view of each,
and in poultry it VIII arise from three
sources-eggs, feathers. and stock fat
tened for market, The demand for
barn-door fowls is increasing; their
sales, therefore, may be safely calcula-
ted upon. / do not find either in
the United States, or any State census,
except in that of the State of New York,
an enumeration in regard to poultry, an
omission which i hope will be corrected
in the next national census.
The census OF this state gives data
whereby We may approximate the mag
nitude of the poultry industry for the
nation. In the State census the value
of poultry sold for 1854 was 81, 22S, ,O44,
and value of eggs for 1864 was 81, ,303,-
OlO, total value of poultry sold, s., 53l,-
O54. This amount, it Will be noted. is
only for single State. The number of
farms by the United States census was
210, 233, which would allow US the yearly
value of poultry for each farm S11 70.
The number of farms in the United
Statesi is put down at 2, 6j9,9S5. Taking
the data furnished by the New York
census, and the poultry industry of the
nation exceeds in annual value oyer
S31, 900 600. If to this be added the
sum of s. for the value of family con-
sumption, the annual value of the poul-
try interest is over 81, 900, 600.
IMPROVING SEED NHEAT.-Sow none
but the largest and most perfect kernels.
1t has been my practice for the last
sixteen or eighteen years to run my
wheat for seed over very coarse seed
screen, so as to SOW none but the very
largest kernels. By so doing have i'm
proved my wheat SO that l have sold
nearl y all of my wheat at home for seed.
But in 1871 l hit upon a new plan.
/ had piece of Treadwell that was in
jured by insects in the previous fall and
killed by insects in the winter, so that
there were spots not worth cutting.
After harvest 1 observed few scatter
ing heads of unusual size. 1t occurred
to me that there was wheat that had
withstood the ravages Of the insects and
the rigor of the winter. l gathered
enough to SOW one rod square, from
which 1 realized twenty pounds of
wheat, of unusually large size, even
berry, which was at the ratio of over
fifty bushels per acre last harvest had
twenty bushels which weighed siyty-six
pounds to the bushel. 1t is nv opinion
that We realize the best crops from the
best and most perfect seed in the vege-
table as well as the animal kingdom.
FIsTULA CURED.-We give Il recipe
for the cure of fstula, or pole-evil, in
horses. We have used it in two instan-
ces with great success: forty grains
iodine, twenty drops oil of cedar, thirty
drops oil sassafras, fifty drops spirits
turpentine, one ouncegu euphorbium,
one half ounce Spanish flies: cut the
iodine with alcohol; mix all together,
then stir in hogs lard to the desired
thickness. Then cut away the hair over
the swelling with sharp scissors for
some inches around, even if it has gone
into a running ulcer, and spread the
salve with small mop. Every second
or third day, wash of clean with strong
soap-suds, and repeat the application.
A permanent cure may be expected in
a short time, unless the treatment has
been too long deferred.-N. y. Tribune.
PRECAUTIONS AGAINST TRIcHINA. A.-The
medical Society of Kalamazoo urge -
Eat no uncooked or half-cooked hogs
flesh. The raw flesh OF the hog, whatever
its shape or condition, whether ham,
bacon, or pork, salt or fresh, smoked
or unsmoked, is liable to contain this
parasite, full of life and activity that
may work remediless mischief in the
human body. Bologna sausage, if pork