Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-14
A Few WORDS TO THAT POULTRY GIRL

A FEW WORDS TO THAT POULTRY GIRL
Go ahead, miss. 1t is just the rgh
kind of business for girl. | will give
you a little advice and make some sugges
tions. First if you engage your crop in
the spring to be delivered in the fall. better
not sign for more than sixty chickens
| from five dozen eggs. They seldom
average better than that. Mine usually
fall little short about fifty short ! guess
In regard TO deep or shallow setting
dairymen differ. A woodpecker will stuff
nine or eleven (some would, say ten or a
DOZEN eggs into II knot hole and hatch
them all, while whippoorwiIl will lay
two on naked ledge and do as well.
Hens sit better than roosters.
If you manure in the hill don't have the
manure too hot. | cooked some goose
eggs that way once. Sulphur spinkied
in the nest will kill the lice and the eggs
little ut time and none after the second
week. A drop of some harmless oil like
sweet oil or neatsfoot on the head and
under the wings when they ale few days
old, is good thing.
Lice is terror! They must be kept
of. Set two or three hens at time if you
can, so if they do not hatch well one hen
can take all the chickens; put some more
eggs under the others and keep them at it..
[ have made Tor let) a hen set nine weeks
and hatch three broods.
Go up in the woodhouso chrmber and
get the old wooden bowl that you Grand
mother johnson used to keep soap in, and
have it for your dough dish. Corn meal
wet with water or milk is good enough.
Have it quite wet or leave it long enough
TO swell before they eat 1t for few days.
Take that old cast-iron concern that came
with the cook stove for an iron heater
and fill it with water and lay board side
of II SO they can get up to it. and give
them clean water often. If you cannot
get that dish take the cover of your great
grandmothers old dutch oven and sweep
out plac. to lay it in bottom side up. Do
not go into fancy birds, when you sell
poultry it is poultry, and when you sell
eggs they are eggs no matter whether you
paid dollar or shilling dozen for the
seed. No fun in feeding n flock OF chickens
that are all of a color. Mix them up If
you want them to look just us bad rs they
can and have feathers crown on the mall,
mix the p. Rock and w Lcghorn, II you
want tho preltiest flock Of chickens that
can be raised, get some Buff Cochin or
half blood puIlets anda b. Legholn rooster.
The ROSTERS of this (second) cross will be
a bright, cherry red and the pullets
different shades Of buff and brown, good
size, nice flesh, good mothers and very
fair layers.
1t is written: Not sparrow falls to
the ground wi hout His notice." but
never heard of his revamping dead
sparrow or making one out of dust in
place of one that got its head C, off in n
moving machine. He thinks it better to
let them rip and try again. And it is so
with chickens, live one is worth more
than dead one if he is not so old he will
grow faster Do not worry about the
dead ones.
Hawks are II great pest here, and 1 do
not know of any remedy, but suggest as
an experiment that you put OH your
mothers old shaker bonnet and that old
plaid gingham dress that hangs up stairs
there near the chimney and stand out in
the orchard till a hawk comes along, and
then give such yell as most girls do when