The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-04
turning them every day will answer, any
hnx or basket being sufficient

turning them every day will answer, any
box or basket being sufficient.
Put young chicks on new ground
where they have not been reared in
former years if you would avoid the
gapes. The season for lice is now ut
hand. Watch your setting hens closely
and also the nests and perches of your
poultry houses.
Fowls like newly-cut grass. They
should have all they want Of it. The
clippings from a lawn-mower are just
the thing for them. Sun6ower seed,
which can be easily grown without
trouble, forms food of which fowls
are extremely fond.
Whitewashing for the cleansing of
the henhouse can be advantageously
done this month. This operation should
be performed at least twice every year.
Apply the brush vigorously. Use plenty
of whit ewash and pay especial attention
to the corners and crevices.
Large eggs, which frequently contain
two yolks, either will not hatch at all or
will produce two chickens joined to-
gether, making monstrosity. The
chickens will die in short time. Some
hens, notably Asiatics, produce double
yo!ked eggs nearly all the time.-P0uItry
World.
Languor ana loss of appetite are the
first symptoms of roup, the bird moping
about or lazily basking in the sun. Some
times it runs nervously about. This is
next followed by dry cough, soon fol-
lowed by foul discharge from the nos
trils. Constant cough is result of the
irritation caused by this discharge.
Emaciation progresses very rapidly, al
though in some of the fowls the appe-
tite is ravenous.
For chicken cholera there is nothing
better than carbolic acid, one dram
mixed with two gallons Of water. Let
the fowls have free access to it as a
drink and mix it with their food once a
day. To prevent cholera some recon-
mend taking one gallon of tar, resin and
crude turpcntine, and after dark, when
the chickens have gone to roost, smoke
them, making dense smoke, so that it
will burn during the night. Repeat this
operation once or twice during the week.
Animal matter, in the shape of meat
scraps or bone chopped up, may be fed
to poultry at any season judic!ously to
very good advantage. There should,
however, be 10 excess of this food. Bone
meal is very good mixed in small guam
titles with soft food for young chickens.
The coarse offal of the slaughter house.
pIucks, harsfets, ETC., should be cooked
and minced in small particles when fed.
A little of this hearty food goes great
way. and an over supply is not conducive
to health. Raw meat is too crude and
gross for fowls.
Dampness is important in the nest of
the sitting hen, especially just before the
Matching. Frequent changes of food are
especially requisite for young chicks
Buckwheat is excellent for layers if not
used too freely. When one hen learns
to break her eggs and eat them, the
others learn from her example. The only
way to break hens of eating their eggs is
either to contrive very dark passage
through which they must pass to find the
nests: where they are to lay, or else the
nest must be constructed with a hole in
the bottom through which the egg will
roll and find admission to receptacle
where it will be out of the reach of the
hen.