The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1884-01-10
Poultry Paragraphs.

Among the other Indispensable duties
is that Of looking to the cleaning of the
pens and roOstS before the windows,
| doors and woodwork are fitted up and
made snug for the fowls before cold
weather sets in. Whitewash the walls,
nest boxes. rsosts and feed trough thor
oughly. Don't spare brush nor white
wash thrust it into the cracks and
crevices, and give no quarter to the enc
my, though they show the white feather
or beg for truce. The Whitewash should
he put on hot, and if an ounce of carbolic
acid be added to the pailful it Will make
it more effective. 1t is not a hard task
TO WhiteWash, where there is a will. All
one has to do is to draw on a pair of
overalIs, roll up his sleeves and 90 to
work He need not be particular how it
may splash, if it only penetrates and
purities every place where vagrant
parasite or louise might take refuge.
There is really no limit to the white
washing process. Poultry Monthly.
Dr Jacob Brandmier who has had
years OF experience in raising chickens,
says that the "cholera" has always ap-
peared among them in the fall of the
year when they are very fat. and has
never occurred in the spring, for the rea-
son that the chickens are poor at the
,lue. He says when they become very
fat in the fall yellow, oily liquid oozee
from their mouths. which indicates the
appearance Of .'chicktn cholera" and
the only remedy for it is to keep plenty
cf oak bark in the water they drink and
also mix their food with water OFF of the
bark. Madison Courier.
haze tried al sorts Of boxes and find
"bittfrs' boxes or similar ones best.
Such boxes are portable and easily re
moved To be cleaned or sunned. They
may be placed upon each other. My
house is olttened and lined with tArred
paper board. place the nest openings
towards the wall, The backs to the roosts
and The chiet portions Of the house.
Poultry requires secrecy when setting or
laying, and this plan answers well.
Wm. Horne, Janeviile, Wis.
Fowls thar have plenty of buttermilk
or skinned milk, viii be likely to lay
well Puultry World says: Should you
be keeping large flock of hens. and the
choice lies between feeding the milk to a
pig and giving it to the hens. decide in
favor OF the hens every time. The extra
production for one year 10y the milk feed
will buy all the pork your family may
need. and make Your occupation much
pieasanter all round.
Bad poultry management shows itself
in making poultry houses unsuted to the
wants of the fowls; it shows in the buy
ing OF poor stock to save a few paltry
dollars; it shows in keeping old stock
beyond their usefulness it shows in bot
raising early pullets to take the place OF
olt hens: II shows in net selling oil the
surplus stock at the proper season it
shows in not culling out all faulty birds
It shows IN improper mating of the
breeding fowls, ana it shows in not pro
vidng suitable food, etc. for the wants
OF the poultry stock. Poultry Monthly
4 Western lady states that, as her ex-
perlence as q poultry raiser. that one
bushel ot corn, on its equivalent in corn
mixed with other foods, viii produce
fourteen pounds Of poultry in the form of
growing cockele!s At the same time it
must be borne IN mind that something in
addition to corn must be used as food
Coniine d fowl in a yard with 30 other
food than corn. and, as all the wants Of
the fowl system would not be supplied,
it would soon die of starvation in the
midst OF plenty. Tribune and Farmer
Experiments with poultry IN orchards
prove that they ettectually protect plum
trees from the curculio. \ few Of the
largest farms devoted to poultry are set
partly in plums, among them being that
OF Mr.. Hawkins, OF Lancaster, Mass
The peach tree is also benefited by
poultry. and the cherry trees always
bear best when poultry range among
Them