The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-07-02
AcRlcULTURAL.
nnLrs ron pouLrRY RAIsINo.

applicable to the Pacific coast:
If you begin by purchasing eggs
for Matching order, them from some
reliable breeder nearest to your own
locality and thus save the perils
incident to their transportation from
ai0ng distance.
Always set your hens in the even
ing, rather than by daylight. They
viii be more sure to stick to the nest
afterward. And for two or three
days at first be careful that they are
kept undisturbed.
II you can make your nests upon
the ground, do so. If not, place a
fresh cut sod at the bottom OF your
box, and sprinkle sulphur or coarse
snuff into it to keep off vermin.
Scatter powdered sulphur through
the hens under-feathers, also during
the period of setting. She must be
kept free from lice. This mode Of
treatment is good one for her com
fort, as well as that of the chickens.
Remove your hen daily, let her
roll in the dust-box near by; feed
and water regularly; see that she
goes back before the eggs chill dn
cold weather), and cover her sitting
box with coarse bagging, If she seems
half inclined to give up her work.
On the twenty-first day, when the
chikens are coming out, leave her to
herself until NIL are released. Then
wait twenty-four hours yet for the
little ones to get upon their feet.
Then clear the nest out nicely.
Apply a little dry sulphur upon the
down, and under each wing of the
chicks, as soon as they emerge from
tho nest. Keep mother and brood
thus free from vermin. Give them
food when day old, and keep them
dry and warm, in fresh, clean coop.
Commence feeding with soaked
bread crumbs, rice and hard-boiled
eggs. Follow this up for week !:
then cooked soft fond and broken
wheat; then cracked corn, chopped
meat Or scraps, and always plenty Of
green food, until the grass starts.
Give the young ones sunshine, all
you can command. If cold when
hatched look out for the harsh winds.
Give them dry shelter till the wealth
er becomes warm, and above all, save
them from rain and storms.
at one to tree months old they
should have ample range over the
lawns or pasture. If you have no
grass plots, let your runs be of a dry,
gravelly bottom, and give them cab
bage leaves, turnip tops, etc., and
cooked meat, daily, with their dry
grain food.
Always supply young and old fowls
with plenty Of fresh, clean water.
Into this, occasionally, drop little
cayenne pepper tea, which is prime
tonic, rs well as a preventive Of gapes
III chickens.
TO "cure roIp," look out that it
don't get started in your fioeks. 1t
is helped by colds, dampness, ex-
posnre to rough weather and neglect.
Prevent its presence by constant care,
good shelter, and dry, clean hem
houses. This is the surest method.
Wash your roosts occasionally with
spirits of turpentine or kerosene.
This prevents the accumulation of
lice in the poultry houses, and the
fumes Of this pungent oil permeates
the feathers Of your fowls at night,
and drives the vermin from their
lodies.
AT from Ave to six months old,
separate the young cocks from the
puletts, and rear each sex by them
selves. When you wish TO mate
them for breeding Qn December OF
January)is. time enough to allow
them to run together.
Permit all your hens, so inclined,
to sit and hatch one brood in the
year. 1t is better for the fowls, and
yoH will thus get just as many egg
from them in twelve months as i
you bothered your brains "to break
them up"
II you commence with fowls
(instead Of egg), buy Of reliable men,
who knew what you want and who
will deal honorably with you. Pay
such a man his price; get good stock
Of whatever variety II may be, anC
take care of it after you get 1t.
Keep but one kind Mt first, Of what
ever kind you may fancy, Whel
YOU can breed that well, try some
thing else If you get tired Of this
But don't venture upon too much !,
the "variety linen at the commence
ment or you will fail with all,
Don't attempt to raise five hundred
birds within limits fitting the need
cfiive dozen or less. Crowding fowl
into close quarters will breed thou
sands office, but precious few chick
ems, remember.
Select the best OF your progeny 70
breeders. Sell your patrons wha
YOU have to sell honestly. II yol
dispose Of eggs, send Off fresh ones
and paelI them carefully. Do as yol
would be done by every time, an'
avoid the temptation to play the roll
of shuclSsterv on any occasion.
Thus may you prosper, reader
If you Will try the rearing OF poultry
with tho above brief directions ii
view, you viii succeed and a yer.
pleasant ~ cupation you will find it
take our word for 1t. There Is moth
ing mysterious about it, but 1t re
quires care, attention, application an'
experience, noyerthless--an epitom,
nf which Is embodied briefly in tn,
above recommendations, which ar
the fruit Of our personal experience
Of many years.
The Times says representative 0
ilse English company which purchased
j. II. Reed a. Co.'S placer digging
on Galicc creek, arrived in Jackson
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