Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1885-09-11
BREvlTIEs

Plan your fowl houses so that they
shall be warm IN winter. cool in sum-
mer, and sunny and dry at all times.
Poultry at certain seasons are some.
times over stimulated by high feeding
to make them lay. 1t should be re-
membeyed that fowls can be Injured in
this way.
A'lady IN ENGLAND, successful
breeder OF pauliry, preserves eggs
fresh by inmersing Them IN melted
tallow and then packing in bran. This
process closes the pores Of the shell
and excludes The air and it is claimed
will keep eggs fresh Tor months.
Dry and store rowcn for fowls with
as much care as for new mich cows,
taking care that it be kepr perfectly
bright and sweet and unless it be kept
quite sholt, running it through a
hay cutter Vii be an improvement !;
then soak 1t ah houf On two in water,
dram off ard sprinkle with neal and
and bran
Old fowls are more subject to being
Infested with parasites than are the
rapidly growing chickens. The mass
% p.omage Of adult foNls forms a
gfBa retreat far the lGs,dious creep
gs waicA aT- iasl nOW enjoying their
auHos carnival where the birds have
mot been properly seen to, up to this
month
DoEot confine growing chicks if you
caa possibly help ii, but ler them have
ample range over the lawns or pasture.
i you have 20 grass pasture, if you
have 40 grass plots, lei your runs be
upon dry, grageily bottom, apd give
them grass 81 cabbage ssaySs, tgrniP
tops. ETC, and cooked meat daily,
alth taeF dry srAn food,
It's qgits usual f5r many poultry
/ -ajseys 10 save the earliest broods for
/ layers tae aeX season. This is all
( Tigag Sc fsr as !a5e winter and eslly
/ sPng eggs are concerned. One OF the
( particular reasons h0weysr, why lar
7 msrsdo not have Q continuance Of eggs
! during Iae. simmer, Is that they 10 not
IsaveL1te broods of chickens fox sue
1 cesslye laying Of eggs AZ always
( save some both rom tie early clutcL-
IS and also from tae I5ter ones, even
- iass rs Auu. by witch re have
eggs 81 tarcugF-he bos weather and
The fail 1IyH, ana note the results.
4 goaw.l'Icz be disappointed.
5gldit just o know wh5 this
JOKE IS about. ID IS told by Daisy
. Boon, the Philadelphia lady cores
pondent Of the Columbus Dispatch.
/ She says ths, a Philadelphia lazy,
shortly after her marriage, WIS PIE
scented By neighbcr Wi.h O. 0upg
chicken, which the husband put down
IN The cellar because it hurt The Tow.
ers. TIE next day, when he came he
/ found lis wife in great distress She
said the chicken was sick and she
/ knewit had taken cold 81 Beng put
( down IN the cellar, ana SIG a1aid
! 1t was getting the Group Sic tod
bin she bad heard t1at goose ggease
( and lard were good fer fine complaint
so she get the Cmckeg and creased it;
throat, and then Wrappee 8 p5sce OF
ired lanlsl around e. The husband
asked her how dis chicken YVES affsc5.
i ed She told him thg i kspc goinf
JghC3 ugLso cg-Cea !! al tht
time 3ao Ez5 1rae1iCliy ncarse. b
dis tine be was convulsed with laugh
fer, and tumblaE ON the foor, he roll
ed and screamed. iiet,irg the chair
and table cvcr ard making such ;
Esszl that the neiga5ors came rush,
rg IN tl see what The matter was
-i1g-himself up as well as he could
he io'd them the chicken had tn
Group; and darling down in the celia
he soon returned, holding the poor pa
tent Up TO their view. 1t looked as
+ it had been taking an oil bath. 1t
S feathers were pfastered with greas
+ end around it, neck was broad piee
: ofred flannel. She askew him wha
T aided it, why, my DEAR" replied h
!. nothing ais it. Its young rooster