Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1878-12-12
farm ann hOnstboln
Nine 1uies :c- Poultry E:-:ces.
From the Burlington Hawkeye.r

l. Wait until the moon goes down
before purchasing your chickens. Pul
lets are always cheaper in the dusk,
hours that precedc the dawn.
>. II you buy any fancy eggs for
Matching do not buy any that were
picked last fall Hope springs eier-
nal in the human breast" but an egg
stays right oy the date of It's birth and
is II hours older and poorer at each
succeeding sunset.
;. Always consult the hens con
yeuience in the matter Of setting. Do
rot insist her breaking any other
engagement, or putting oil baking or
ironing day for the purpose OF taking
charge Of y eggs, of unknown sex and
quality. Better. far better, that you
should give up society and set on those
eggs yourself, than eutrust them TO
reluctant and assembling hen. Iou
might break the eggs, but the tickle hen
would break for the verbena bed the
first thing in the morning.
4. Build your nests wide enough for
cow TO turn around in. Ii the nesl
has an all-out-door, iIlimitable- waste
kind OF look to it, when one hen will
feel so Lonesome and lost that she will
wall and squawk with terror every
time she looks around and feels the
burden Of her loneliness upon her, all
the wealth of the Incas couldn't induce
another hen to go in and keep her com
pany or gossip with her until bed time.
But il yon make nest just big enough
for one lean hen TO squeeze into with
out breathing, the niEe biggest hens in
your flock will fight for that nest and
all crowd into il at the same time. fiat.
ten out all the eggs, and then with
gloomy bat patient countenaDces and
their several heads turned in nine differ.
ent directions, they will set on the cold
ashes OF shattered ambition and wreck.
ed dreams for the next four months.
3. Sprinkle sulphur in the nests before
the hen is allowed TO enter upon the
performance OF her incubation contract.
The smell of the sulphur will prevent
the hen from imbibing the pernicious
doctrines of Ingersoll and will keep her
from assuming too much, under the i'm
preston that hen that can produce a
diurnai egg, and from that evolve liv.
ing, breathing, scratching chicken could
if she would give her mind to il. Great
universe and people its planets with
races of lying, thieving, swearing men
6. Boost the hen off the nest once q
day for exercise. Too much sentiment
and reflection and an excess of self.com.
muDion is apt to make the hen moody
and low-spirited. Point her to the
dreadful effects of too long continued
and unbroken exertion of the brain, /.
shown in the sad tate of Sergeant Bates
and Dennis Kearnev
z. About the lime the yanng chicks
are coming out, borrow a shotgun and
tell your neighbor some scoundrel i.
shooting cats, and last night he killed a
cat that belonged to your wife that You
wouldn't have taken $50 for. This will
pave the way tor future Development
A successful henDery is fatal TO cat
A brood of thrifty. coniented young
chicks is an infallible evidence that YOU
can't shut your eyes and stick a spade
in the ground anywhere i'm that precinct
without disturbing the eternal rest oil
some cat that has taken parlors ON the