The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1878-11-14
Management of Poultry,

'chlCKen Herature' Is
plenty and good, still when a farmer
keeps a few fowls for his own private
use, with perhaps a few sales of eggs
and dressed poultry for the wife or
daughters PIN money, it is not
bic to expect that he will provide him
self with all the houses, feed-boxes
and other apparatuses and appliances
necessary to the fancy breeder or those
who make poultry raising their princi-
pal business. For the average farmer
we have found the following to en-
brace nearly all the instructions for
the prevention of chicken cholera and
other diseases troublesome to poul-
try.
L. Good, dry houses, well g Hated
but avoiding drafts.
2. Keep the houses clean and the
floor we'll covered with ashes.
3. Give the inside a coat Ct white
wash every month, from February un-
I'll November.
4. Feed regularly, but never over
feed cease feeding when they cease
to run for il
D. Scatter the foOd Oh the g-ound
when the weather will permit.
8. Feed mixed grain, or alternate, as
corn one day, oats next, wheat next,
&c.
Z. Allow adult fowls freedom as
early in the morning as they desire.
8. Keep hens with chicks in small
coops (well covered and dry), until
they are three weeks old.
Q. Feed chicks morning, noon and
late in the afternoon.
10. Feed cooked food mornings AMI
broken grain noon and afternoon.
IL. Mix ground black pepper with
the food, mornings twice a week,
about one tablespoonful for every 100
chickens is about a fair average.
With this much as to their care, then
If they have any disease, treat them as
follows:
Mites ,-Iake common leaf tobacco,
and make a strong tea, letting it boil
for some time SO as to extract all the
strength from the leaves then, with a
rose sprinklet, sprinkle the tea all over
and about the place where the mites
are. Ii the first application does not
do the business effectually, use in the
same manner the second time which
will in all cases be all that is requir-
ed,
loz
For cholera, take of alum. ..........2
resin. ..........2
cOpperaS. .......2
lac sulphur.....2
cayenne pepper.2
pulv> rized thoroughly then mix three
tablespoonfuls Of the powder with one
quart o coafse e~orn-meal, and dampen
before feeding. This quantity is suffi-
cient for twelve fowls. Give once a
week at first, afterward once in every
ten days, until a cure is effected. If
cats trouble them, take a dead chick
and tie it round the cats neck and
make her wear it three days and she
will not 90 near a chicken again but
perhaps the best way, when the cat is
caught in the act, 10 10 place a small
paper bag around her, and, after
placing about three or four pounds of
clean flint stone with her, drop the
whole carefully in the water, which
should be at least four feet deep, and
after rem lining there four OF five days
she will be cured.
If it is desired to keep the hens lay
ing all Winter, a good plan, if the
house is warm enough to prevent the
eggs from freezing. is togive a portion
of minced meat, mixed with their
other food, every day, or as of en- as
convenient, and see that thew have
plenty of gravel, old plastering or
powdered shells. Without some sub
stance of this kind, which cannot be
Obtained when the ground is frozen or
covered with snow, there will be moth
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