The Red Cloud chief., 1876-03-09
Poultry Raising.

There is none Of the small sources Of
farm profit that equal poultry raising,
while there is none 50 overlooked.
Apart from this view Of it, nothing
10 the way OF eating is SO healthy, and
% supremacy delightful a. every day a
broiled, fried, baked or boiled ia,
chicken.
"A correspondent frop South Car
%olina, writes Us: Pray tell US some
thing about raising young turkeys and
chickens; what should be their diet?
etc. Our correspondent has easily asked
in one short line, what it has taken
many book. to answer. And very much
# that great deal hal better not have
been said. We will say. first, that
vermin is the great enemy of young
poultry of all kinds, and no care or
trouble that We have ever taken with
a hen house ever gave IS exemption
from this pest. Living, a. We do. in
the country, We prefer to have our
hens make their nests about uHder
brush heaps, or other safe retreats
provided for then out doors, that
they may escape the annoyanc. of tie
insect formentoes that wcrry the old
and destroy the youag. This means
prevention, and it is far better than
cure, of c .nr>e.
Feeding sulphur about three times
a week in fair weather will 80 imI,reg-
nate the fish with this mineral that
il willy alleviate the injury from mites.
il not entirely prevent it. IF hens are
setting in close proximity To each other,
the careful hree Ter will not fail each
dry, and more than once, to step in
and see that each proprieire>> is in her
own nest, that no eggs are broken, nc.
Should it turn out that an egg has
been broken, let the whole setting
be washed in luke-warm water. and
well wiped, for if this is not done.
there will be few or no chicks from
that setting.
After the Matching. and as soon as
the mother shows signs that her young
brood need sun and exercise, take off
the brood and place them with the
hen in a coop removed apart from the
rest of the poukry, and keep them
thus restricted four or five days till the
callow young have gained strength to
follow the active movements Of the
mother.
Do not feed too often. Three or
four times a day is often enough. if
there is anything of range convenient.
The best iced for chickens. after they
are a few days old, is the screenings
from a -four mill. and the next best.
millet or coarse meal from corn. Re-
member that a fowl, ike a man, is al
omniverous animal, and one sort of
food will not answer. TIE reason
why chicken, do 50 much better around
a stable than anywhere else is, that in
addition to the grain they pick up,
they reap the abundant crob os young
flies and grubs which fad their hubitat
Young turkeys should receive pretty
much the same treatment as young
chickens. But chopped onions aud
onion tops, and bread baked with a
grease of some sort in it. is now
popular pabu!um for young tur-
keys.
Some breeders Of our acquaintance
never omit a 'eed of curd, or clabber
ever day, and regard it as very heal
thy for the young turkeys, and pro-
motive VI rapid growth. This variety
Of p%orltry is very Irregular in its vital
Some seasons it really
'eems impossible to rear a turkey, and
It other times nothing is easier. We
ave had At one time, as many a.
all grown, aod perfect
beauties. in one drove. and then again
We have resolved, from the miserable
.ailures that followed our efurts, never
try again. But at Christmas a tur-
icy always seemed such a plausible,
ea,ible, delightful aud Indispensable,
hing, that our ill., hunor at failures al I
Ways vanished. Yet a turkey vel
ai>ed, everything having been propi-
ious, will be worth ten dollars, "a near {
: We can estimate the cost.-Rarui {