The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1878-11-14
THE RULES FOR POULTRY NOV.
ICES.

THE RULES FOR POULTRY NOV.
ICES.
l. Wait until the moon goes down
before purchasing your chickens. Pull
lets are always cheaper in the dusky
hours that precede the dawn.
IL. If you buy fancy eggs for hatch
ing, do not buy any that were picked
last fall. Hope springs eternul in the
human breast but an egg stays right
by the date of it's birth, and is twenty
four hours older and poorer at each
succeeding sunset.
III. Always consult the hens con-
yenience in the matter of setting. Do
not insist on her breaking any other
engagements or putting off baking or
ironing day, for the purpose of taking
charge of thirteen eggs. of unknown
sect or quality. Better, far better, that
you should give up society and set on
those eggs yourself, rather than en-
trust them to a reluctant aud dissem-
bling hen. Youmight break the eggs,
but the tickle hen would break for the
verbena bed, the first thing in the
morning.
". Build your nests wide enough
for a COW to turn around in. If the
nest has an all-out-door, illimitable-
waste kind of look to it, where one
hen will feel SO lonesome and lost that
she will wall and squawk with terror
every time she locks around and feels
the burden of her loneliness upon her,
all the wealth of the Incas couldn't in
duce another hen to go in and keep
her company or gossip with her until
bed time. But if you make nest just
big enough for one lean hen to squeeze
into without breathing, the nine big
gest in your flock will fight for that
nest, and all crowd into it at the same
time, f1atten out all the eggs, and then
with gloomy but patient countenance.
and their several heads turned in nine
different directions, they will sit on
the cold ashes of shattered ambition
and wrecked dreams for the next four
months.
V. Sprinkle sulphur in the nests be-
fore the hen is allowed to enter upon
the performance of her incubation con-
tract. The smell of the sulphur will
prevent the hen from i'm bibing the
pernicious doctrines of lngersoll, and
will keep her from assuming too much,
under the impression that hen that
can produce a diurnal egg, and from
that evolve a living, breathing, scratch
ing chicken, could, if she would give
her mind to it, create a universe and
people its planets with races of lieing,
thieving, swearing men.
vi. Boost the hen eff the nest once |
q day for exercise. Too much senti- |
ment and reflection, an excess of self
is apt to make the hen
moody and low spirited. Point her |
to the dreadfnl effects of too long con-
tinued and unbroken exertion of the |
brain, as shown in the sad fate of Ser |
geant Bates and Dennis Kearney.
VII. About the time the young
chicks are coming out, borrow shot
gun, and tell your neighbor some |
scoundrel is shooting cats and last |
night he killed a cat that belonged to |
your wife that you wouldn't haye ta-
ken fifty dollars for. This will pave |
the way for future Developments. ~ |
successful henery is fatal to cats. a
brood ~ fhrff
chicks is an infallibIe- evidence that !
you can't shut your eyes and stick a |
spade in the ground anywhere in that |
precinct without disturbing the eter-
nal rest OF some cat that has taken |
parlors on the ground floor of the
place of rest.
VIII. If you have no grass lots or
kitchen garden or pansy beds for your
chicks to range in, cut hole low down
in the fence SO as TO let your chicks in
on your neighbOr. 1t will be perfect
ly safe since the loss of his cat If he
says anything about chickens, tell MIN
you told FOrseman (the other ueigh-
bOr) that if he wanted to raise chick
ems he must do as you do, and keep
them shut up. Do not give your
chickens unbridIed liberty, for some
times brood of healthy chicks go out
In the morning when the dew on the
onion tops glitters in the sunshine
and like the baseless fabric OF vision
they pass away, and like the stuff that
dreams are made of leave not a track
behind, and all the tears your burning
eyes can shed oyer the legs and claws
and heads you find in the alley will
not call them back.
IX. In raising fowls for the market,
there is the greater danger
Of sending them out in an immature
state. Chickens are not healthful
Ood nor do they contain any of the
perfect elements of nutrition, until
hey are fully and completely devel-
'ped physically. Keep them about
'ou then while planting time tolls af-
er them in vain Life is at best but
shadow, and your chicks
nouAu A"sO al iooot CiCScu years Vi |
lome care and training before they I
.est their heads for one brief second
he chopping.5lock, and 60 to grace
he table of the happy boarding house
Tor any further and more specific in
on this subject send three
ent stamp and your address, Bur-
ington Hawkeye. {
SHE FIXED HIM. II