The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-07-29
The Poultry Yard.

The cross of the Langshan with the COM
mon fowl gives splendid brOilers.
A healthy fowl will drink fifteen to twenty
times per day, and in q close coop or III hot
weather still oftener.
Separated early and raised up by them
selves, pullets are worth at least a quarter
more for use than if allowed TO run with a
lot of cockerels.
The most desirable eggs for setting are
those the freshest laid. liberal daily
sprinkling of tepid water upon them when
incubation is near its accomplishments
a week before hatching-is an aid to the free
issue of the chicks at maturity.
a Holliston correspondent writes that
Silas o. Thomson, of that place, has a Ply
mouth Rock pullet which, at eighteen weeks
of age, has laid five eggs, and all of them
double-yolked. Mr.. Thomson thinks the
Plymouth Rocks are still ahead.
The best way to induce a turkey hen to
care for large number of chicks: Wait till
she gets ready To sit; give her rs many eggs
as she can cover well, and a week later set
several hens; when they hatch give all the
chicks to the turkey and she will mother
them.
A small plot of ground Tricky sown with
barley as soon as the ground is dry enough
will be eaten bare by fowls. 1t is better to
let them have a little piece for themselves
than 70 allow them to run over winter and
spring grain in the fields. or than 10 shut
them up to keep them from trespassing.
"COckchafer," a writer for the English
Live Stock Journal, is of the opinion that
mixing meal for poultry feed requires
practice and boiling water, and some of the
ingredients which a great painter said he
used TO mix his cOlors with-brains."
The standard weights of Wyandottes are :
Cocks, 81 pounds; cOckerels, ~ pounds
hens. 81 pounds pullets, 5H pounds: these
weights being about "a high as is compatible
with great egg production. In some in
stances of course, they will oyerrun the
above weights, but are more apt to fall be-
low than exceed them. Still the standard
weight is the average Of the breed, and
there is no trouble in making them reach
that size.
For every three gallons of soft water.put
in one pint of fresh-slacked lime and half a
pint of common salt. Mix well. and let the
barrel be about half fall of this fluid, then
with dish let down The fresh eggs, tipping
the dish after it fills with water, so the eggs
viii roll out without cracking the shell, for
If the shell should happen TO be broken the
egg will spoil. If fresh eggs are put in, fresh
eggs will come out.
If it pays to keep poultry it pays to care
| for 1t properly, and it pays TO keep pure
bred poultry as well as any other kind Of
| pure bred stock. try to be broad in my
views on any subject, and although l believe
the brown leghorns to be the best breed fol-
every farmer, / could go into DIR. ROBINSON
pens and heartily enjoy looking at his lighi
Brahmas or Plymouth Rocks. Experienc,
has taught me this fact-the best breed fol-
any man TO keep is the one he takes mos
delight in.
Much profit Is missed by feeding younl
chickens too long. The early broods should
now be ready for feeding. 1t is better t
have them already fed, for then the cocker
els will be ready for sale and the pullets vii
be so far forward as to be ready to begin lay
ing early in the fall. But il the chicken
have not been fully fed the cockerels shouls
be separated now and the old cocks turned il
] with them. At any rate, the cocks shoul'