The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-09-06

dAhie1S IeJOlc6 IN good crops, and
have visions of better times.
While the farmers of Kenosha coun-
ty during the past season have been
busy tilling the soil, and gathering in
the products of their toll, we farmers
wives and daughters have evinced q
good deal of business talent raising
poultry. And when we sell a few
dozen chickens for cash these hard
times, we are fairly enamored with the
business, for by our own industry and
enterprise we have attained place in
=" Woman's Kingdom"
But IN our exaltation, we would not
forget to offer the balm Of sympathy,
and helping hand to those sisters in
Salem who have been unsuccessful in
the business, owing to chicken cholera
and other devastating causes.
The cholera bafled our sisters medi.
cal skill. They administered sulphur,
salt,and Cayenne pepper to their chick
ems, and medicated their drink with
tar, and their food with chopped
onions, assafetida was also highly
recommended. But their medicines all
failed, and they mourned because their
chickens are not.
Though in the midst of the affection
and danger [ plume myself OH my sue
cess, and numerous family Of beauti-
full healthy chickens strikingly testify
to my superior wisdom and good man
agement. I'm q believer in the old
saying, that an ounce Of preventive is
worth q pound Of cure. Accordingly
Imy success is due to a few sanitary
rules which [ will append for the bene-
| fit henceforth of my unfortunate towns
women.
In the first place, l knew all the
while that doctoring and dieting
chickens was a most humane way of
killing them, but I was so deeply in
terested in the medical experiments
that [ remained a silent spectator. So
you see my chickens were never dosed
with a drop of medicine; and were
brought up on a mixed diet Of bugs,
worms, grasshoppers, and herbace0us
and farinaceOus food. I fed them on
the latter kind three times day all
they could cram till they reached the
feather period of their lives. After
that [ fed them twice day, morning
and night, all they could cram till they
became adults. I am told that the
true educator deprecates the caaInming-
process, but I don't care if he does, it's
| just the thing for chickens; and with
all his fine-spun theories I would like
to see him try to raise a promising
flock Of chickens without examining.
And withal chickens must have plenty
! of pure water to drink, unmedicated
with tar.
Then ashes sprinkled with coal, and
burned bone pulverized, should not be
forgotten. The mixture tones up their
system wonderfully and gives them an
appetite. They are not slow either to
discover that an ash bath is beneficial
Ito their health. So should you chance
to see chickens sitting in ashes, and
sprinkling them on their heads, don't
imagine they have come to grief be-
cause the total depravity Of their race.
No mater about your own house, but
the hen-house should be tided up fire.
quently. The appreciative matrons of
the roost will reciprocate the favor in
eggs; and their progeny will grow up
in health, strength and beauty.
BY way Of remark, I am happy to
add that prosperity never demoralizes
as it does the human biped.
inasmuch as chickens are instinct
with the important life-lesson that it
is necessary to scratch for a living.
Now ladies I wish you success
another season, and please do not
think [ have chickens on the brain.
even if I do know as much as the next
one about rearing them.
There is annually imported into the
United States from italy, Sicily Snain