The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1878-06-26


scalded) for breakfast. Buckwheat,
wheat, oats and corn at night. Corn is
lho poorest grain for producing eggs;
wheat or buckwheat the best. Screenings
hFe of not much value. 1 keep old NOR
lf, ground oyster shells, gravel dust, box
with dry earth and little hourof sulphur
herein. There is nothing your fowls
delight in more than box of hard coal
nshes. In winter use chopped chand-
Iers' scraps or boil beef heads all day in
boiler in my poultry house, also add
ing chopped turnips, potatoes, onions or
cabbage, and at night turn the whole
into large iron vat, thicken it suffici-
entity to be as dry as it can be well
mixed. Cover the vat, and in the morn
ing it is just warm enough. Those
keeping only a few fowls need not at
tempt anything like this, as the scraps
z Of this and that from the table will
ceuse your poultry and eggs to cost next
: 10 nothing. The drinking vessels should
] be frequently (every day in summer)
] rubbed inside and rinsed to prevent the
! accumulation of green slime, so detri-
mental to health. Fowls will do best if
feed is constantly varied.
FEED FOR CHICKS. In early spring,
/ Indian meal scalded, meat once per day,
grass if it can be had, wheree they can
gather it for themselves. If too early
for this, raw turnips chopped very fine,
cabbage, lettuce, etc. When warm
weather comes 1 discontinue the meat,
rs it has a tendency to make large
combs; but if your chicks have q good
run and they are not too numerous, they
will pick up considerable animal food in
the shape of bugs, crickets, grasshop-
pers, etc., which reminds us that few
chicks can be raised at little or no
expense. But when you crowd large
unmber on a small piece of ground their
cost is more. Fresh fish in summer is
excellent (boiled) for young chicks.
When l go fishing the chicks always get
their share. Bone meal is good mixed
With their feed. For their last feed I
use invariably cracked corn, wheat, or
some other grain they can eat, as soft
Soon dlgests, while grain will last nearly
oh night Although corn and corn meal
are not good for the egg producer, 1
consider it the very best thing for grow
ing chicks. l also provide ground oyster
ehells In plenty. Do not neglect their
upply OF pure water, several times per
4Ay, If necessary, and rub out the water
fishes every day to clear them from the
green slime. When you shut them up
~ night do not let many huddle to-
tether, nor shut them so secure that
hey will be without plenty of pure air.
Dut holes In their boxes in different
places Qor summer) and nail on pieces
Of wire netting to exclude rats, etc., or
bore inch holes with an auger. Separate
sexes as soon as they show signs of ma
turity, if you desire large fowls. When
the chicks begin to roost see that their
roosts are large enough so the chicks
will not be deformed. The roost L in
yariably use for all my yards is a two by
four inch ioist -four each side up).round-
cd on top. Sweet or sour milk is excel
lent for fowls and chicks, mixed with
their soft feed.
Young Asiatics (Brahmas and Cochins)
honld be fed all they can eat, at least
afee times per day. But do not expect
n Asiatics to lay either large, fertile or
1merous eggs if fat They should not
~ ted all they can eat. feed old stock
ce per day. A young cockerel needs
pre food than old hens, and when 1
eed this way 1 nail a cup or box of
fn high enough that the cockerel NAV
from it, but too high for the hens.
grass run is indispensable for the
ith and comfort of any flock of fowls.
be more hours per day you give them
this the better they will do. In win
cabbage hung by a cord in their
'tn is excellent. Instead of this I gen.
tlly use large raw turnips cut in two
N run through the half a one-fourth
pointed wire, with the other end
lly fixed III board to keep the turnip
f9s cut side up.-G. S. JosSelyn's
zlogue.
Household HInts.
Remove mildew, take equal parts of
pa lulce, salt, starch and soft soap;
+ pp thickly, lay on the grass in the
sun. Renew the application two or
Zines day.
mixture of red lead, Indian meal
nolasses will be eagerly eaten by
les, and will soon exteIminate them.
green, phosphorus or arsenic are
mes used, but are very dangerous.
TO which reaches have a great
ify, will drive them away.
begged boots are occasionally
d with petroleum between the
md upper leather, they will not
the soles of boots and shoes are
with petroleum they will resist
wear well. The pegs, it is said,
ct affected by dryness after being
aturated with the liquid.
effectual and inexpensive deodori-
obtained by dissolving half dram
lrate OF lead in a pint of boiling
and two drains of common salt in
OF water; the two solutions are
alxed and the sediment allowed to
A cloth dipped in the liquid and
up in the apartment is all that is
Sd to purify the most fetid atmos-
a. It is recommended for its cheap
q pound of the materials costing
t twenty-five cents.
ecipe for varnish suitable for wal