The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-12-30
Poultry Notes.
Fowls need sunshine.

Fowls need sunshine.
A Texan has started a goose
rancho with 500 of the feathery
tribe.
The Plymouth Rocks when bred
the true Rock shape carry more
breast meat than the Brahmas OF
Cochins.
Look out for symptoms of roup
and cholera in this variable wealth
err, and be ready to nip the incipient
disease in the bud.
Farmers rarely feed their laying
hens enough, and the consequence
of too little food to birds expected
to produce matter so rich in nutri-
ment as eggs must be obvious.
To break dogs from sucking
eggs, break an egg, and after pour
ing out part of the white, put in
seven grains of tartar emetic; lay
the egg in the yard where the dog
will find it; he will be sick for q
day or so, but will not be injured.
Should one dose fail, repeat tit
is seldom. however, that the second
dose is required
Give the fowls cracked or ground
oyster shells, or lime rubbish; also
put gravel within their reach, If
there is none in the soil where they
are kept. You cannot expect them
to produce eggs in abundance I'M
less you supply them the material
for their manufacture. Cracked
bones are also good for them. Take
the old bones lett from the table,
and pound them up with a hammer,
and don't forget some green food,
at least twice a week-three or four
times would be better. Chop up
cabbages, turnips, carrots and on
ions for them. They will return
thanks in a most substantial and
satisfactory manner.
William Hayne, V. S., has the
following in the Country Gentle
man; after experimenting with
kerosene, sulphur and nearly every
thing else. l have come to the
conclusion, based upon facts, that
gas tar local tar is the best pre-
tentative of scurvy and lice among
poultry that / have discovered
For cholera and other maladies l
believe the tar to be propylactic.
The parts of perches, nests, etc,
which come directly in contact
with the fowls, should be painted
with boiling tar. This will set in
in an hour and not soil at all. All
parts, such as under the perches
and under the nests, ETC., should be
well painted with the tar. Tar
lasts much longer as a disinfectant,
deodorizer, insect destroyer, ETC.,
than anything else. Twice year
is an amply sufficient application
for all purposes and pays WE'LL
Kerosene will kill all insects and be
otherwise useful, but it evapoTates
so quickly that it must be used at
least once a week.
Each fowl ought to produce $50
or l60 eggs a year. In winter the
fowls should have warm house to
roost in and also an open shed
where they can stand In the sun in
the day time. The fowls should
have some of the food they find at
other seasons when at large. They
should have plenty of room in their
house and the laying boxes kept
clean. They must be fed corn,
wheat, oats aud rye, and they should
have sand, gravel, oyster or clam
shells powdered up fine; cracked
bones are good. Boiled potatoes
mixed with wheat bran are excellent;
fatty matter of any kind, fresh beef
or pork scraps, must form portion
of their diet. Hens are fond of
matter during the winter,
and a head of cabbage stuck on a
pointed stick about a foot high is a
nice thing for them To pick at
They should be kept from vermiu,
and there is nothing so effective in
removing them as rubbing the top
of the head, under the wings, and |
along the backs, with lard. If these |
suggestions sre followed, q man |
may expect success and satisfacto-
ry profit from his poultry.-ID. N.
Kern.