Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-11-23
POULTRY POINTS.
fAmerican Rural Home

by JuulClous SYSTEM VI Wluter
feeding you can materially increase
the comfort of our fowls, and get
suitable reward in an increased guam
ity of eggs and the good health of
your stock.
Iffowls are penned up in very close
quarters, without regard to the num-
bers thus crowded together, it is quite
impossible for them to be availed of
as breeders, and they will quickly
convince you also that in this cOndi-
ton hens willlay you few or no eggs.
From now till March the stock
should be fully fed. Poulty require
more and heartier feeding in cold
than in warm weather. Look out
for roup and colds this month. Give
your birds fresh water daily, and once
or twice a week drop into the drink
ing vessels o little cayenne pepper.
This is all excellent tonic, and it is
warming to the crop in severe wealth
or, but you must not use it too plen-
tifully.
Variety in feeding is not only high
ly appreciated by poultry, but, in the
experience of those who have tried
this plan, as well as the more gener-
al system of feeding out whole grain
only as regular food, it has been
found that the former is much the
best toward keeping domestic fowls
constantly in good thrift. BY variety
we mean both raw and cooked food
meat, vegetables, scraps, green food,
corn, oats, rice, barley, wheat, ground
bones, etc. Either for laying fowls,
for breeders, or for growing stock,
the varied feeding plan is always the
most beneficial.
The enormous size to winch many
of the better specimens Of the Bronze
Turkey attain was something eXcep-
donal for few years after they COM
menced TO be disseminated, but at the
present time so marked and special
has this valuable trait of size proved,
that thousands of monster gobblers
of the Bronze Turkey variety are dis
tributed in all parts ofthe United
States. The ground color of the
Bronze Turkey is mostly black, vari-
egated upon wings and tail with
brown, white and gray, while nearly
the whole plumage shows reflections,
in a bright light, of the most beautiful
bronze.
Farmers Home Journal.
If fowls are thirsty, they will eat
snow and pieces of ice as well as
drink from the vile gutter, but that
is no reason for neglecting to provide
them with fresh water.
If poulterers would believe how
succulent and valuable potatoes, cab
bage, turnips and carrots are when
cooked and mixed with meal, and fed
while warm to the fowl, they would
make ample provision for them the
coming winter.
Cooked food is more nourishing
and more easily digested it is more
economical than the way of feeding
wholly on raw grains; il tends to
make the stock more thrifty, and as
sists in increasing their steady growth
All fowls Will bleach their legs by
lying i'll ashes, and lime will still in
crease TINS iauihg process. rows
.hat nave snelr liberty, running
lhrough the Jew ana grass eacn gay,
preserve tnelr iegs III much 1etter
Gonu'.,oh' Dut ohly once VIII Iney
nave Inc Iresh p.o0M anu c0ior Oh
you'n. Decay loiiows an tnings.
DuI wnen pirus are penheu up III ury
yaruS .hey always s9ner Dadly, ana
oH'y uy constant .nan Tipping , WIN SWEEP We
Un, ai.er 'lorouShiy wasning' tha'
dition ~" " "p'''"'' W"
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IL corn was charred IN the oven De,
iore Deing Ieu 10 the iowis' II would
oe mucii Deller ior all STOCK IN geher-
al, anu laying mems especially as II
serves 10 cream oat their system and
keep their Dlooa IN good order. do
not ieed u entirely, put give one q
DAY, and be careful in preparing il
or 1t VIII be burned to ashes. This