Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1881-08-18
GUhe Aoulhp gard.
QUESTIONS ANSWERED.

ID. A. asks how to prepare dust-bath for
his fowls.
Make box three or four feet square, one
foot high, and fill two-thrds full Of div
road dust, with a half pound Of sulphur
mixed in. Keep a barrel or so of the dry
dust on hand to replensh the box with
-FOUR pan Of sitted coal ashes, or wood
ashes without Sitting, into the box OCCASION
ally when the roads are dry, and other
work is not pressing, procure supply OF
DUST and store it under cover for use next
winter. Where fowls have access to one Of
these dust boxes, they are seldom troubled
with lice. e., if you keep the fowl house
reasonably clean.
L. A. complains because his hens Law thin
sheled eggs
Give them plenty OF burned bones crush.
ed oyster shells or old plaster. We keep
crushed oyster shells by our fowls all the
time, and give them old plaster when We
can get it, and all the burned bones that we
can get
L. L. r. says he intends crossing the
Brahmas ard Leghorns for market fowls.
and Wuld like to know whether to mate a
Brahma cock with Leghorn hens, or a Leg
horn cock with Brahma hens.
The latter by all means
+. ID. wants non-setting breed, that are
good layers and good table fowls, as we'll.
Get the Houdans; they are non-setters.
excellent layers if you give them unlimited
range, and superior table fowls, which is
more than | would be willing to say of any
other non-setting breed that am acouaint-
ed with,
"Reader'' wants to know how often
feed chickens after they are full feathered,
and if chickens will get along on two meals
day after they are three months old.
have chickens five months old that feed
regularly three times day and they are
fully one-thrd larger than my neighbors'
chickens of the same age and breed that
have been fed only twice day for the past
two months. OF course chickens can ..eet
along' on two meals day, but they will
not get along very rapidly unless grasshop-
pers and other insects are plenty. Don't
stint the feed; 1t is poor economy.
Several people want to know if they car
procure eggs from my yards next sea-
son.
No! | shall not sell any eggs for hatch
ing next season. When can turn eggs into
chickens that will sell for ST. each at ten or
twelve weeks of age, cannot afford to sell
eggs even at So dozen. Heretofore the
great trouble has been to get setting hens
early in the season, but the incubator does
away with all that.
Several correspondents want to know if |
really think that an incubator pays?
1t pays me so well that shall invest in
another next season. Of course cannot
say whether one would pay you or not but
am inclined to think that it would paw
anybody who lives within reasonable dis
tance Of a good city market.
About this time complaints of the depre-
datlons of hawks are numerous, and peo-
pie are eternally asking me how to circum
vent the thieves
Well, eternal vigilance, and shotgun in
the hands of good malksman, will circum-
vent some of them, and if you are 'sri.ht
SMART you may manage to trap one occa-
sionally.
A smart boy in our neighborhood has
caught three in traps this year l offered
him twenty-five cents apiece for every hawk
ne found in his trap, and it sharpened up |
his wits wonderfully. If you own boys.
you might try the same plan.-Fannie Field |
N Prairie Farmer.