Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-09-11
Poultry Hints.

OVAPAStO Immunity AIom 4lSO5 WHtcu
can only be secured by the frequent
use Of limewater, sulphur and car
bolic acid, or kerosine, upon the
roosts, together with frequent clean
ing of the floor, and occasionally
the use Of fresh earth or sand; and
secondly, the Importance of plenty
of fresh grass, or green vegetable
matter for food. If these are
adopted as of prime necessg, there
will be little difficulty in raising
poultry successfully; Group and other
diseases will be scarcely ever
known, From careful watching,
the giving of lin grass runs) young
grass, cut and put into the pens has
been found indisputably necessary
to the well-being of fowls and
young chicks, particularly when
kept in confinement in small yards,
or pens, to prevent them
from destroying the gardens, or from
necessity, in the cities where yard
room is scarce. "A flock of sixty
chicks has been raised by ourselves
in yard, or gravel run of ten by
thirty feet, kept in perfect health
through the summer months by Civ
ing them cut grass, lettuce. young
beet leaves, carrot tops once q
week, onions and raw potatoes,
chopped and mixed with soft food,
with a supply of meat twice a week.
A cheap Enclosure may be made by
farmers who have the room for q
grass run, by using tarred twine
netting. A good fence, about eight
or ten feet high, may be made With
it round gardens, and the birds may
be allowed to roam over the farm
after the seed is well started they
can do no harm, but rather good, in
destroying vermin that would 9TH
erwise damage the crops. A flock
of turkeys would keep large field
of potatoes almost free from the.
ravages#of the potato beetle,
As the warm days come on the
nests used by your laying hens for
the last few weeks should be thor
oughly cleaned out, and fresh straw,
or hay, provided occasionally.
will collect a out the
nest and roosts in the best appoint
ed fowl houses, and a few hot days
will bring the lice out in swarms in
old nests.
Wash the nests thoroughly, out
side and in, with common Kerosene,
as soon as they are empty, and keep
everything sweet and clean; your
birds will be comfortable, and pay
you for your trouble by a weli-flled
egg basket. Wash the roosts, too,
once a fortnight, or even every
week, if necessary. Do not allow
the lice to get the better of you. Id
Keep your broods we'll protected
from rain and cold; provide q place
for them, SO that, during a few days
of continuous rain, they may be
kept dry, and leave as much light
as possible; giving them plenty of
good, sweet, healthy food for the
first three months this will develop
your chick ems into good, healthy,
well formed birds, but, if they are
neglected, they will become serag-
gy, long~legged, deformed and unfit
for anything except the manure
heap. A little carelessness now,
when the young stock is growing,
will ruin a whole seasons work. i i
17s Many a prize has been wonby
just the proper care for only one.
day. goYou have protected your
young broods, perhaps, and they
have been allowed scrun on q pleas
ant morning}in THE sunshine, when
q sudden change has taken place in.
the weather; perhaps ascoid rain
Set in and you have taken the pre-
caution to see them well protected,
and kept from getting cold and wet,
thus saving them from rum by lit
tie foresight. srassr r. var,I
: Plow or dig up the poaltry yards
thoroughly, SO that young 2 fowls
may have. a spot of fresh earth to
run upon, or to dust and burrow ID,
during hot weather. There are al.
ways a good many worms in freshly
turned earth that the fowls will pick
up and eat with avidity, and the old
earth being turned under, will be
purified from the noxious matter it
contains, : caused by the running
upon it for months previously. e9
Fowls will follow the farmer when
blowing and turning over the
ground for cultivation, and pick
from the soil the vermin which are
detrimental to it, invisible as they
are TO him; thus RIDING him of his
worst enemies, insects and other
injurious denizens Oft he=soil.-
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