The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-06-11
POULTRY DEPARTMENT.

To assist in learning the boys
upon farms to love the homestead,
allow them to build fowl house,
and then give them a trio or two of
choice fowls and a years subscrip-
ton to a good poultry paper. Such
investments will pay as well as amy
yoa can make. So says the Farm
Journal.
The guinea is noisy creature,
its noise is said to frighten many
of the enemies of the poultry yard ;
besides guineas require but little
care, and lay Great numbers of eggs
in summertime. We have never
tasted the flesh of a guinea, but
have been told that it was splendid.
-Stockman.
In supplying water to the small
chicks manage in some way to pre-
vent them from getting into the
pan. water and especially milk
causes the feathers to rumple and
become matted ABOUT the breast,
and the chick will not thrive. A
shallow pan in which few
blocks of wood will float is a simple
way of obviating the difficulty.
The chicks can stand on these and
Aot get wet when drinking,
September is usually a good
month for chicks, as there are so
many insects for them to devour
but the September chicks more Of
ten perish because there ara so
many early spring aud summer
chicks that are large and strong
enough to get most of the bugs,
etc, and the little fellows are not
allowed a chance for their lives,
even at the troughs and water pans.
Being less able to obtain a liveli
hood that almost invariably attack
the weakest Of the flock.
Have a WaGohful eye Ga the sit
ting hens. A hen should not be en-
trusted with the eggs until she has
left her nest once or twice, and re.
| turned to it without too long an alb.
sence. Arrangements should be
made whereby she will not be inter
rupted by other fowls. Food
should be within her reach, so that
she need not be long in quest of it.
Corn is the best food Tor her, and
green or soft food should not be
given her during this period, as
they induce a laxative condition
A dust box should be provided, SO
she can take her bath; for the hen
is clearly creature if she had an
opportunity to be so.
The last thing that the little
chick does before leaving the shell
is to draw into its body the yelk Of
the egg, from the white of which
the body of the chick has been de-
veloped. So the first food given it
should not be materially different
Boiled eggs, crumbled into little
bits, form the most natural food
that the little chick can have. But
don't be in a hurry to feed il
when it comes from the shell, il
will not need food for at least
twelve hours. In that time it has
learned to use its legs and is much
more active than at first, and will
readily pick up what TODD that its
wise old mother invites it to par
take of.
The manure from the fowls, if
all saved, will be worth 40 cents
per fowl. 1t should be taken up
with dry muck, plaster or road
dust. Such manure is too strong
to be freely used in the hill, but
should be spread broad cast and
narrowed in.
One of the difficulties which
many farmers experience with their
poultry is that the fowls persist in
leaving their own houses, how
ever, comfortable, and well fed
they. may be, and. will betake
themselves to the barn, where
they soon become a nuisance
around stock. The best way to
remedy this evil is to partition off a
small room in the barn exclusively
for their use. 1t should be re-
moved from horses or other stock,
and the fowls should be confined to
their own apartments, at least dur
ing the night. 4 few fowls thus
kept by themselves around barns
will prove very profitable, as they
will eat much that would otherwise
prove Improbable.
The most delicious morsel to a
little chick is a worm, and it is
amusing to watch the eagerness
with which he will scramble for
one when some other chick has it.
But as worms are scarce in the ear
ly spring, it is we'll to supply animal
food artifcially. Meat,if lean, either
raw or cooked, is good for them.
A piece of beef steak the size of
walnut, If chopped up into very
small parasitic smaller the better
will furnish a very desirable
meal for a dozen or more chicks,
and such food should be given eve
day or two. Cooked meat, espe-
cially if it divides into fibres re-
sembling small earth worms, is
very tempting to them, and we
have seen chicks that seemed utter
ly discouraged with the things
of this world, again take a lively
interest in it when such food
wss placed before them. Do not
give much fat meat. 1t is muscle,
and bone, and feather-makiDg ma
terial that they need, and fat meat
supplies none of them. Lean meat
contains them all.
The Southern Planter says: The
best cream globules rise soonest to
the surface because they are largest,
and the favoring oil rise with them