The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-08-26
Farm and Home.
AND USEFUL IMPORTATION.
Seas enable Hints.


In harvesting your sorghum, do
not let the seed remain in the field
10 rot, as many do, bullet it dry q
iew days, and then haul it to some
shelter and feed it TO the fowls as
u. eded.
Feed largely on wheat, wheat
screenings. oats, small and unsaila
bic potatoes cooked and mixei with
corr meal and wheat bran, winch
si"uld be thoroughly mixe- with
billing water. Feed but little corn
until cold weather sets in.
Il, saving :he seed from an acre
or wO II 500 gnun GU have enough
ced TO las 30 or 100 wis >. veal
y exchanging portion of it for
corn and un's that would he fed to
other stock, you have greater va
Iiptl for all, amt tile Their stock is
benefited As well rs the poultry.
1t is desirable 10 supply poultry
as we'll as other stock with variety
of food, and by saving the sorghum
seed you have IA greater variety
than Jou would if you neglected to
save it, besides, every bushel OF
sorghum seed fed, saves the feeding
OF that many bushels OF wheat,
corn or oats.
There are many tons of sorghum
seed allowed To 60 to waste in the
fields annually, which, il properly
saved, would answer as the princi-
pal food for many fowls. The seed
is relished by other farm stock as
well as by fowls, and it will pay any
farGer TO save his entire crop, no
matter how much feed of other
kinds he may have.
Dispose OF the c. ckerels now as
fast as they become of an eatable
or marketable size. If intended for
the market there is more profit in
selling them now at one dollar to
one dollar and half per dozen than
by keeping them un ii next Christ
mas or spring ana then selling at
81 80 to SD per dozen.
BY disposing Of the cockerels now,
they are out of the way, and you
do not run the risk of their dying
between now and spring, besides
your hens and pullets have more
room to forage and get greater
supply OF insect food, will be much
more thrifty, and will lay better
than if your place is overstocked
with young and active cockerels.
The housewife that succeeds in
rearing a large numb of early puI
lets and in getting her hens through
the moulting season in a good,
thrifty condition, will be well paid
by liberal supply of eggs during
the early fall, at which season they
are often as high as at any time of
the year.
1t will be some two or three
months yet before adult hens will
be well through the m0ult, and un-
til then they will produce but very
few if any eggs and unless well fed
during this period their constitu-
tions will become somewhat weak
ened, and they will be unproductive
in the supply Of eggs Tor a much
longer period.
Eggs are low in p-ice just now,
but look out tor quite an advance
about the last of August or Septem-
Der. Most of the adut fowls have
began TO moult and but few are lay
ng at this time, but 1T Is so warm
1t this season OF the year that eggs
will keep fresh but a very few days, |
;On sequently there are but very
ew fresh eggs to be found in the |
arge city markets during the heat
ID term; therefore those that usual |
y consume eggs in large quantities
urnish their tables with mutton,
,eef, spring chickens. etc.
Feed the hens and pulets liber-
lily from this time on if you want
hem to lay well during the fall and
winter. AS l stated through the
columns of the Run al World some
months ago, l would advise farm
RS, or their wives, to Kill or sell
,nly the cockerels Of the earliest
latched broods and save the pullets
o lay through the fall and winter.
oullets Matched out in March or
April, if of variety worth Keeping,
ought to begin 20 lay during Sep
ember, and continue to lay well
the fall and winter if
fed and housed.
Do not fail to keep a supply of
ool, pure water where your fowls
an have free access to it at all
ines. Fowls need large supply
# water during this hot weather,
which should be furnished them
resh two or three times a day.
Their water troughs should be set
n cool, shady places and should be
calded and rinsed out often in or
er to keep them clean anu pure.
Warm, filthy water Is very injurious
o stock OF any kind, and especially
o poultry. Pure, cool water has a
reat deal to do in keeping poultry
ealthy, especially during the hot
Ypatler