The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-11-26
FARMERS COLUMN
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FARM NOTES.

Early poultry will sometimes lay early IL
the Fall. hut usually, unless separated from
the main 1Jck and fed every stimulating
ford ,,they will not begin carly. Aud ifthe,
do begin early by forcing or nigh feeding
they will lay not at an early day, 50 that
forcing is not much value in the end after
eli.
One reason why many poultry aocks are
Improbable is the age of most of tho hens.
For laying purposes they hnd better not ex-
eeed twh years Of age. Good layers and
successful mothers are sometimes kept over
as pets or for what they have done, bnt il
is not profitable except in certain cases !,
pallets are what arc wanted for profit
Where it is desired to keep both pullrlt
and old hens, they should lie fed separately
80 as to have separate aud special ire atmert.
High feeding Of old fowls. makes them in
Ordinatcly at,snd that rather prevents than
promotes laying.
For turkey breeding, select the very best
and largest, aud feed we'll, particularly in
March and April.
Warm food in cold or damp weather is
doubtless as agreeable to fowls as usrn food
or drinks are to men and women. Some
scalded food each winter day is excellent.
Their drink, also, should not be ice water.
Give II TO them warm.
A few pigeons on the farm, ifa suitable
place can be made for them, will furnish n
good deal Of tist-class eating Tor the fam
,ly, and often the sale Of squads is source
Of profit. The boys or girls will supervise
this department Of work if properly encour-
aged. .r......
neat poultry house is an ornament 10
the farm us we'll as useful. But be sure that
while 1t looks well ext .~nolly, it is kept
clean and prescntable inside, so that the
owner need not be ashamed to show it to
his friends. Such houses are not likely to
be visited by chicken cholera.
The man who can keep his tenper,or can.
con,rol it, will usually succeed in making
gentle aud wel.behaved animals out of
rather wild heilers and colts. But, perhaps,
th; best way to make young animals fear
less of man is TO londle them when young
Never allow them TO be teascd by boys or
hired men II farmer must ever kick
anyb"dy, let him kick the boy or man who
ventures to tease his domestic animals.
An excess Of bran fed to horses is ant to
generate stony secretions in to bowels
Post mortem examinations have shown
them TO be composed OF hard crystalline
mass, deposited in regular rings, resembling
the concentric yearly rings Of wood, aud
they proved to be composed of phosphate of
nagnesa and ammonia.
The Prairie Farmer advocates the entire
abolition Of premiums at stock fairs for "the
best animals of any age ar breed" This is
81 sensible that we wonder it has not been
suggested before. 1t is absurd to say that
certain animal is better than all others of
different breeds. One might almost as well
say that COW is better than horse, and
turkey better than hen, or that ham is
better than bcef-steak.
Seward Dill, in the Maine Farmer, pro-
mulgates a plan for domestic hog raising
that is quite taking. He would plant 100
apple trees in an acre of land, graft them to
prolific sweet apples, and in nota very long
time, "there would be a few bushels of ap-
pies per acre. This one orchard should be |
a hog pasture for twenty hogs, and the |
hogs would soon weigh 300 each, making
splendid pork, which at 6ve cents rer lb,
would bring $500, all from one acre ofswect
apples. What can be nicer than that?
Popcorn ripens sometimes in seventy
days, while in the Southern States ordinary
oorn requires 200 days.
The exhibition Of dairy cattle at dairy
fairs is recommended in some quarters, and
IL would seem To be ''wondcr." A visitor
who has been admirng fine butter aud
cheese will naturally be glad TO see the
cows from which they are made, or cows
capable Of making that which is equally
good. Visitors will learn more readily to
understand which are distinctivelv dairy
breeds and what are their peculiar physical
characteristics.
Sow salt early in tho spring. and tho
more the ground is stirred afterwards the
better il will be. .