Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1885-02-27

Fanciers exhibit your fowls at the
coming shows and see If you cannot
carry off some of the honors.
Offer the hens every inducement
you can to set early and bring off a
nice lot of early chicks, for early
hatched pu'lets are very desirable to
use for breeding from the following
spring and are preferable to older
hens.
Separate all the ambitious young
cockerels from the hens and pullets,
and do NOT let them run together at
all, for if they are allowed in the same
lot together the cockerels will harrass
and bother the hens, making them
nervous and irritable. and the effect is
many times seen in their offspring.
The raising of geese and ducks is
becoming more profitable than ever
before owing partly to the fact that
the wild water fowls are not as plenty
now as In former years, having been
slaughtered in such quantities by
sportsmen from all our large cities and
towns.
All fowls, especially the laying hens,
should be provided with plenty of
exercise, as 1t serves to make them
strong and healthy and keeps them IN
god breeding condition. The eggs
from hens that are too closely confined
for long time without sufficient ex-
erclse, are really not fit to use for
breeding purposes, for the chicks from
such eggs will not have a good, strong
constitution, and will never be as Wig
orous and healthy as they should be.
A variety of food is very important
at all times OF the year. and especially
during the cold weather of winter, for
then the fowls are confined to then
coop most of the time, and cannot get
out to scratch for a living as the
ground is hard and frozen most OF the
winter, SO that they have to depend
entirely upon their keeper for what
food and nourishment they receive,
and change of food, with the add.
ton of green food of some kind and
meat scraps is highly appreciated by
the fowls, and they will show it by an
increase In the supply of eggs.
All of the old hens should be killed
off or sent to market and their place
filled with early matched pullets. Ole
hens are not as vigorous and healthy
as early-hatched pullets and do no
lay as well, hence it is a good policy
to sell them off and fill their place
with more profitable stock. 1t is
good idea to keep few of the oil
ones which have proven themselves tt
be good settlers and mothers, for the,
are a great help In raising chicken
when an incubator cannot be obtained
and are far superior to the averag,
Ipullet for setting and raising chickens
Of our domestic poultry, the pea
fowl takes the lead as an ornamenta
variety. There is nothing NOR
beautiful or appropriate for a well
; kept lawn than snowy, finely feath
cred peacock. They are very prou
and like to show off" their fine color:
The pea hen, however, is altogethe
inferior to her mate, both in style c
carriage and fine plumage. 1t
quite amusing to note the diferenc
in the disposition of the sexes, tn
cock being very proud and SNOWY
while the hen is quite modest an
Quaker-looking. She is quiet an
cares very little about displaying wha
few colors she has on her plumage.-
H. S. Waldo, tn " PIowman.
Mrs. NJ. E. bearing, Macon, Mo
says Il was seriously afflicted wit
soreness of my lungs for eight month.
one bottle Burk's White Pine Basar
cured me.