Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1880-08-12

ated chicken apartment, just GO out some OF
these snltry mornings and thrust your nose
inside the door inside the door before tile
fowls have left the roosts. and that organ
will soon convince you that thorough ven
tilation is a necessity. Pure air is plenty
and cheap. in the name Of humanity give
all the live stock on your premises enough
of it.
Next In the list of the primal causes of
d'sease among poultry comes impure water
A good many farmers who make adequate
provisions for a supply of pure water for all
other kinds OF stock OH the farm, never
seems 9 think that the hens need water
just as much as the horses. 'Oh they get
enough somewhere!'' Yes. but where
You woul'ln'tthink Of watering your horse
or taking a drink yourself from under the
slnk-spout or from stagnant ditch. or from
the teachings Of the barnyard. but that 10
just where you compel your fowls to drink
when you neglect to supply them with pure
Water. ''llens don't drink much anvwav.'
Don't they? Just set a pail of fresh water
in the shade and watch tile bi,ldies. What
do you suppose the good Lord ever made
all tie water in this world for if not tur Hjs
creatures, brute as we'll as h,.ma.s. to drink.
Now we come to the question, of food
anu imagine that when YOU think of al
the bugs. worms, and other .'crilters, . that
hen will pick up ami swallow in the course
or her rambles, you will laugh at the idea
OF anything i'll the way Of food upsettiny
mems digestive apparatus. But. my dear
sir, those bugs. worms and '.critters'' are
the natural food of fowls, and if, where such
food is abundant, we forced our fowls to
scratch tor the greater part of their living
during the summer months, they would be
healthier than when tei on grain. A good
''eal q the food that is fed 10 fowls that are
confined to yards or .'runs'' during hot
weather is absolutely poisonous. [ would
about Is soon think Of feeling nv fowls
Paris green as giving them butchers ottaI
hnrIng warm weather, hut know poultry
keeper who fed the stuff to his fowls ri.ht
straight through July and August ana
when they sick,ne.i and died with cholera
declared that he had 1.-THE meanesl luck with
hens fahy man in the State OF Ohio" and
he would "be banked if he ever had anoth.
er OH his PREMISES
Another would-be poultry raiser fs.l his
lusfy Cochins and Brah,nas whole corn RIGHT
along until they We're too fat and lazy to
move. SO when the hottest wea,ll her came
they just toppled over and died. and their
owner made haste to condemn the whole
tribe of A>iatic fowls.
Over-crowdng is another fruitful source
u disease among fowls. A gool many be-
snlers III the poultry business have IN IL
sane desire to keep u half dozen different
'arietics. when it would probably tax their
xii TO bree'l even one variety properly, so
hey crowd dozen fowls OF each variety i,,-
o house that would probably acconlnno-
iilIe twenty fowls of one variety. and as \
natural consequence sickness and all man
ser OF s'cussedness' follows; fowls are
rood deal like human beings III this respect.
Sut THIS question of too many varieties
must wait until another lime-Fannu Fseid
y Prairie Farmer.
THE SEASON OF M0ULTING.