Connecticut western news., 1882-06-21
POULTRY NOTES.
Cleaned from Various Sources.

Frequent changes of food for fowls are indispensable to success. Small chickens should never be kept or fed with old ones they are apt to be injured. Have two or three yards, and separate them according to s,ze and strength.
 Fowls should be well sheltered and , fed when moulting or shedding their feathers and the male birds should be separated from the hens. especially when there is quite number of young crow CTS around, as there generally is about this time of the year.
 Every hen can be made to hatch two broods, by removing the chicks as soon as matched. Renovate her nest and give her fresh eggs.
 In whitewashing hennery put some kerosene into the mixture for the bene- fit of the hen lice.
 Pure breeds are rather more satisfac- tory to most poultry raisers than all sorts of odds and ends ; still, if we'll cared for, the difference is not so very important. When farmer desires ire. quently to draw upon his poultry for Q meal he don't want an entire flock of everlasting layers, which are usually small and wild, and not much to boast of as to quality. The Brahmas, Plymouth Rocks or Oochips are better, and will furnish good supply of eggs without running all over the farm or neighbor hood.
 Hens need to be in good order and sound health before they begin incuba- tion, and given plenty of good food while continuing in it. A sitting hens sedentary habits" are poorly calcu- lated to promote an increase of flesh. Always give her access to food, water and the dust bath.
 When hens do not sit on the ground their eggs should always be lightly sprinkled with tepid water every day or two after the first week or 10 days. This IS matter of real importance, and if attended to will prevent a good many disappointments, because many chicks will otherwise die in the shell.
 A flock of fowls that are frequently chased by dogs or often frightened by the owner, cannot be expected to return heavy dividends in eggs. They want quiet, and constant anxiety for their lives does not conduce to natural de- velopment.
 A piece of rye near poultry house is very useful during the fall and spring, and sometimes in the winter, as nen- pasture. The sowing of grain in their yards is also an excellent plan. What is scratched out will be eaten up clean, and plenty of scratching and green food are what they need.
 The great secret of French success i with poultry seems to me to lie mainly | in their painstaking, and they are de- cidedly 8 painstaking people. They give close attention to the little things as well as the greater. One thing they give special attention to in poultry rais- ing is the temperature, so that it is as nearly even as possible. Though the climate is favorable, they still strive to improve upon it, and so avoid very much { of the extremes experienced on our side of the Atlantic. In this way they suc- eeed in having eggs in plenty in the winter as we'll as in summer, and sue. ceed in rearing nearly all the chickens which get safely out of the shell.
 There is very little yet done in this part of France as to artificial incuba- bion. The hen is considered the best incubator as we'll as the best brooder.- Letter from France.
 THE food value of an egg can easily be tested by breaking it into water just before boiling heat. If the white draws 1p around the yolk, and covers it thick Ly, the egg is rich in albumen; but if the white spreads through the water in stringy lines, leaving the yolk uncov- cred, or slightly covered, the egg is pro- portionably poor, though the yolk be 9ver so dark in color. Feeding hens broken boiled lobster shells will make he yolks of their eggs dark color, at my season. and there is no kind of she'll forming substance which tLey more crave or more eagerly eat.-Cou,s" ry Gentleman.