The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1884-07-09

...VictOria, b. c., July IAN eX-
plosion at the Wellington c%olliery yes
terday at Nanaino killed twenty-rour
miners and injured a number Of others.
..Smithfield Hcrald: Our town may
be congratulated upon the selection Of
Mr.. NJ. Q. Waddcll for town attorney.
Mr.. Waddell is one Of our oldest and
most highly esteemed citizens.
....Lorl Drummond, who has been
working as a porter in New York, has
lost his position by the failure of the
firm, and is anxious to obtain a situation
to support his little family. He is still
resolved not to desert his wife, though
by doing so he would be acknowledge by
his lordly relatives.
...Albertina Anderson was shot dead
yesterday morning at San Francisco by
William G. Milton, who her blew out
his own brains. The cause OF the act
was her refusal to marry him. In a letter
which lie left tIilton says hat Miss An
derson was known as Mrs. Bockmann.
Milton, who was a widower, left three
young children conide1 to the care of the
Danish Consul in San Francisco.
ia lady in New York city has
Just finished a silk quilt composed OF
$4,000 pieces, each about the size of a
ten-cent piece. The pieces are hex
agonal, and there are on an average ten
stitches on each of the six sides, which
makes the total number o. stitches 420,-
900. 1t las taken Mrs. Collins seven
years to make this quilt, working at it
during her spare hours. 1t has been
valued by a large dry good house on
Broadway at $500 or 5000.
....Chicken raising, like everything
else, may be overdone by trying to raise
them in too large numbers, or not being
properly prepared for their care. Chick
ems crowded together become hot; they
catch cold; they have roup; sick fowls COM
municate disease to each other. A very
sick fowl should at once be killed; if not.
the balance of the flock will be sacrificed.
Feed them on boiled scraps of all kinds,
quire mixed food. Oats fed freely to
hungry chickens is apt to kill them. The
fowls eat too large quantities at once the
oats swell in the crop, and the points of
the oats penetrating the crop induce
inflammation, ending in death. Sand is
lot as good as dust or ashes for hen
baths. They should have old plaster,
cracked oyster shells which have been
burned. anything with lime in it, and
apart from the dust bath. They should
have a plenty of fresh water to drink,
put a little iron rust in the water.
Whitewash their houses. and when the
fowls are out summing themselves some
fine day, tumigate the house with tobacco
and sulpher burned on an old pan while
the doors and windows are shut, Ven
tllate afterward, and before the fowls
70 back. Scrape the perches with an
old knife, and wash them with kerosene
to kill insects; or better still. have sea-
soned poles, barked and ready to fit
into the roosts for perches: make a hole
IN each for a nail to 90 into so as to
clasp them and keep them from rolling.
After bark II, rasp the perches so as to
give the fowls a grip. Rub these per-
ches with kerosene oil. These perches
can be changed whenever occasion re-
quires. In using carbolic acid for a dis
infectant or insect killer do not NIX it
with whitewash: the fowls nav peck
the whitewash for the lime, to use in
their systems for shells. and thus poison
themselves with the acid taken inter-
nally. They must have lime in some
shape. or they will eat their feathers.
Lime can be used in water, the lime set
tiers and the water retains all it will
hold. Old plaster is a good eggshell
maker. Bone MEALS very good. With
lime give hens meal three times a week:
bone meal in milk. Salt should be
given very sparingly with the cooked
food: never feed it raw. A s~uperabun-
lance of salt kills but some is needed.
t may be given in thick milk. Birds
hat eat their W feathers require lime
md 4 little salt in their food.