Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-12-09
The POULTRY YARD.

"A " Set0ih PePSA Si'S' WIZ AoAAo"'
ing on this subject: The Black Spanish,
the Polish, the Leghorns and the Ham
burgs are all great layers, and not lbs
clined to set Some prefer one breed
and some another. One cock to every
ten or twelve hens is sufficient, at most
aud some of our best poultrysmen keep
less proportion than that. The fol-
lowing, from the American F'ancSer s
Gazette, gives the prominent points OF
different breeds: q -'t'-.i'..
In the egg-prodncing class, the
Leghorrs stand pre- emlnently above
all others This variety consists of tie
white and brown. The browns appear
to be the tavorites, being hardy, east y
raised, and maturing quickly-the
pullets often laying at four months.
Pullets of this breed frequently lay as
high as $50 eggs dring the year. Their
large comb and pendants require a
warm house during our rigorous
winters.
The next in high favor is the Black
Spanish; these, like the former, are mons
settlers, and prolific, but not so easily
raised. They do not, until nearly
grown. get their full feathers, being
generally half naked for considerable
time after Matching. These, like the
Leghorns, require comfortable winter
quarters, owing to their large comb
and wattles. .5.
Tie Houdans, a French breed, come
next as layer and non>setters. This is
what they call made breed, between
the Poland and Dorking, showing the
characteristic crest of the former and
the fifth toe of the latter, although not
as continual layers as the two varieties
mentioned, yet they possess points
superior to the others in size, delicacy
of flesh and hardlhood, but very liable
to disease.
The small breeds, the different
varieties of Hamburg and Polands,
have their admirers as fancy fowls.
They are excellent layers, partially
commentators, but ale not recommen-
dable, owing to their size, as likely to
improve our present stock of common
fowls.
The Dorkings. This class nay be
considered the standard English fowl,
and combine more general qualities
than any other; regular settlers, large
size, plump, square built, delicate flesh,
and highly favored. They lay full
supply of eggs and are probably the
best table fowl raised. They likewise
have large combs and pendants, like
the Leghorn and Spanish. They do
not thrive well on damp soil.
The Asiaties are the most extensively
bred and most fashionable class at
present raised in America, and Oh the
whole are probably better adapted to
the rigorous winters of the United
States and Canadas than any other,
being well supplied with an abundance
Of feathers dow to the toes, having
small combs and watt!es, no danger
thus arising from those parts being
frozen.
CARE OF You've SToCK. Some far-
mers have advanced the opinion, and
even practice upon it, that to have
hardy stock they must be exposed TO
the weather, and stinted in food while
young; or, in other words, that a calf
or colt we'll fed and cared for will
naturally be tender, and must be SO
fed through life TO be kept in good
condition. This is not SO in the first
instance, for stock half kept while
young, can never recover from the
injury thus received, and no after care
in feeding can make as good an animal
as would have been produced by pro-
per treatment in early life, To keep
stock proftably they should always be
kept in thriving condition, receivih 2
extra attention while young and grow
ing, especially during the winter and
spring. Good shelter and plenty to
eat and drink are particularly necessary
at this season of the year to make val
liable horses and cattle hereafter.
1t is related Of Paris portrait painter
that having recently painted the
portrait of lady. critic who had just
dropped in TO see what was going on
i'll the studio, exclaimed: 1t is very
nicely painted, bat why did you take
snch an ugly model? at is my mother,
calmly replied the artist. "Oh! pardon
thousand times, from the critic, in
great confusslon; 'syou are right, l
ought to have perceived it. 1t re-
sembles you completely"
A man made three unsuccessful at
tempts to blow his brains out, and then
his wife said to him, "Don't try it again
John; you haven't got any," That
man now goes about saying that ne
owes his life to that woman.