The Ouachita telegraph., 1882-12-16
POULTRY AND EGGS.

ISenator Battle in shreveport iimes.l
a flat, stale and Improbable subject
for newspaper leader, do you say ::
Probably you are right, but every one
accepts the wisdom of the saying that
he is public benefactor who causes
two bladtt of Grass to grow where only
one grew before. Aud if this be so, is
it not qua 'ly true of him who causes
two eggs to be laid where only one was
laid beforeo
The price of living everywhere, and
especially in Shreveport, has been
greater this year than usua.. Not only
western groceries have been higher, but
the same can be said Of butter, eggs
and poultry in this market. Our peo-
pie are so given to devote all their ener-
gy, capital and talent to the raising of
cotton that they almost entirely ignore
every other product. Chicken cholera
may have taken off some tender fiocks
from the delusive summer in the long
grass, but this is not the only reason
for the short crop. The main reason
was want of enterprise. When eggs
sell at fifty cents a dozen long before
the holidays it shows that there does
not begin to be enough eggs raised.
The raising of poultry is always rather
the incident than the business of farm
life. 1t is an episode in the midst of
other crops. 1t is left to the women
and girls to carry on long with their
other labors of the farm in doors. With
all the cry of want of work from unem-
ployed intelligent women, it is sur
prising that more time, skill, ingenui.
ty and capital are not put into poultry
raising.
The successful ones in other iocali-
tics a fD
to others, either privately or through
the columns of journals devoted to the
subject, and they are the ones to ex-
press surprise that this branch Of sslit-
tie culture" as the French say, is not
undertaken by women who must make
their own living. 1t is not as pleasant
nor as hard work as crOQuet or kim
dred games; not such dainty occupa-
ton as painting china and embrOid-
cry; but look at the demand for it; see
how it would pay in the increased de-
nland.
To carry on the business successful.
ly needs personal supervision of the
smallest details. The fair young dam
sci should nerve herself up to the point
of not dreading the fearful peck of
setting hen. Or to escape this fright
full danger an incubator could be pro-
vided at comparatively trifling cost.
In this case constant attention is re-
quired. The fire in the stove that heats
the incubator may go out in the night,
or the chickens which have been
counted before they were Matched may
come TO grief by being roasted in their
ovens. 1t is scarcely Il business to be
done by deputy; even when the depu-
tics are hens themselves. The poultry
grower must be ready to doctor and
muse an untinely or a delicate brood.
By the new method of poultry-raising
all seasons are timely; but the raiser
must temper the season to the calIow
things. This que 1tion of raising tur-
keys, geese, ducks and chickens is
well worth considering by the women
and gir's "e til" country who often
times find tame hang heavy on their
hands.
We know a lady in this parish, now
vcrging upon the seer and yellow leaf,
who in the younger days Of her mar
ried life wrs indeed a help meet to her
husband. While he devoted his time
and attention to the raising of cotton
she made it rule every year to sell
enough butter, eggs and poultry not
only to supply the table of tho white
family but 70 purchase the clothing of
all the negroes on the plantation, big
and little aud there wcs quite a num-
Der OF them. 1t IS scarcely nece =saly
to say that man prCspered and grew
rich-and this in face of the fact that
he for a numL cr Of yeals before coming
to Caddo + ."ish cultivated Il one of the
poor t hi! places in De Soto. What
that lady did every housewife in the
country can do.
Mrs. Cora Richmond, Il spiritualist
trance speaker, gave Chicago audience
an account Of the people who lived on
the lost continent, now covered by the
the southern Atlantic. The Altanteans
had clear faces, lather darker than the
typical Anglo Saxon, with full eyes,
varying rom dark blue to extreme
light blue, and with forms whose
stature resemblol those which, we are
accustomed to suppose, belonged to the
ancient Spartan-full of athletic vigor,
muscular strength, and nervous eu-
ergy, and six feet and half in height
on the average. Mis-. Richmond OBJ
tained her information from the spirit
of a native.
During the trial of one lawsuit in
Cairo, n. r., an old man who mistook
the court house for a chr~c entered
and Saptr several hyms hofpro ho RI ;u