Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-02-15
the weather becomes severe. but this

the weather becomes severe. but this
is not all a matter of necessity. They
will lay as readily from the LIST of Jan.
uary onward as at any time in the
year, provided they are properly cared
for. The eggs are in them, in embryo,
and all that is needed to secure their
constant deposit in the nest is to pay
suitable attention to the hens that
have the supply.
l. The first essential is warm shell.
ter. If hens are left to spend their
days in the snow and to roost at night
on the trees or in an exposed situation
it will be the next thing to miracle
if they lay eggs. All their resources
will be exhausted in resisting the
cold: they will have none left to ex
pend in producing eggs. A good hen,
house should be provided with warm
southern exposure, and sheltered from
the wintry blasts. A glazed window
facing the south, or more than one,
should be given them, to let in light,
in days that may be dark and stormy,
or when it is too cold for them to VEN
ture out. They should not be confined
to the hen-house during the day, but
will be much better off with air and
exercise outside Of their night quar-.
tiers.
2. Cleanliness is another requisite.
Their quarters should be kept free
from the vermin that annoy fowls, and
this can be done only by the exercise
of care and labor. The hen-house
should be thoroughly whitewashed in.
ternally with lime, as one of the best
preventives to the approach of insects.
The hens should have excess to Il bed
of dry ashes or earth, or a mixture of
the two is still better. This is not op-
posed to cleanliness, for pure earth
and ashes are clean in the eyes of the
feathered tribe, and are protection
against what to them is real dirt.
They should not be allowed to scratch
Or wallow in their own droppings.
3. Meat and Drink. They must be
we'll fed, and with the right kind of
food. Almost any kind Of grain, corn,
wheat, buckwhcat or oats, will answer
for their daily bread, although it is
better to vary these staples occasion
ally, for no one likes to be confined to
precisely the same diet, year in and
year out. But something more than
the best of grain is required for the
manufacture of eggs. Hens will not
lay without some form of animal food.
If they could have access to the grass.
hoppers, as in summer, they would re-
require nothing else, but in winter
they require some kind of meat. The
refuse meat from butchers stalls, or
the poorer parts of butchers meat. OF
the scraps from the table-almost any
animal food-should be given to them
in liberal quantities every day or two.
This goes directly to the composition
of the egg, and without such food eggs
will be scarce and without flavor. 1t
is an erroneous idea that there is no
difference in the quality Of eggs, even
from the same fowls. The quality and
flavor are affected by the food as we'll
as by the breed of fowls. For this
reason we would not feed hens on fish,
in the fear, at least, that the eggs,
like the flesh of fowls, might become
fishy.
We noticed in one of our exchanges this
| week the statement of Dea. John Hodgkins,
of South Jefferson, Me-, whose son was cured
of incipiept consumption by the use of John
sons Anodyne Liniment. We refer to this
at this time as tending to corroborate the state
ment we made last week in relation to this
Liniment as applied to consumption.
DR.. Walcott has we'll said that the turnpike
road to peoples hearts lies through their
mouths, and this accounts for the immense
popularity OF the Greenman House, corner St.
Peter and Fifth streets, St Paul, and its &C.
| commodating proprietor, John Baugh. Tray
elers should not tail to give him CALL
Is there one reader OF this paper suffering
slime Il Bentley, Druggists, Washington. D.
c.. for circular of Durangs Rheumatic Rem
edy. This medicine is taken internally, and
will positively cure any case of rheumatism
! on the face OF the green earth. Price, one
dollar bottle.
WHY SUFFER from Cold in the head DR.. J.
H. McLean's Catarrh Snuff soothes and cures
lntallible tor Catar1h and any Sores in the
Nose. Trial boxes so cts, by mail. DR.. ]. H.
Mclean, st. Louis.
Down WITH H1au PRICES -Four.ton Scales,
geo: All other sizes low. Send to Chicago
| Scale Company Tor reduced price list.
=, Vegetable Pulmonary Balsam, the great
sumption. Cutler Bros. & Co.'s, Boston, only
genuine.
Patentees and inventors should read adver-
tisement of Edison Bros. in another column.