Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-31
For Poultry Raisers.

For 1eeQlng young CHICKS lew bread
crumbs soaked in milk are the best
things for the first two or three days.
Feed only a very small quantity.
When they get older they may have q
variety of grains and vegetables
They cannot swallow large kernels of
corn, but they can have cracked corn
or small pop corn. Millet seed is well
adapted to small chickens.
One of the best thing for chickens
from a week to six weeks old is bread,
not the ordinary household bread,
but an article made on purpose for
chickens. Mix corn meal and wheat
bran, neither the fine or the coarse
bran entirely, but a little of both,
with some fine rye or wheat flour to
give 1T consistency. Put in water
enough to make dough, add little
salt and bake it in an oven as If for
the family. This cheap bread can be
used to great advantage for young
chickens by breaking or rubbingit into
crumbs or by soaking it in milk until
it becomes soft and can be eaten read
lily. Never give too much food. AL
low your chickens to leave off hungry.
Thousands of young chickens are
killed every year by gorging with rich
food.
For wellgrown fowls feed OF whole
corn at the evening meal is excellent,
because it digests SO slowly that the
fowls will have something in their
crops all night. The digestive organs
do not slumber, but keep at their work
the whole night. In cold weather,
especially, the food in the crop gives
strength and support and power to re-
sist the cold of the small hours, when,
if the crop was empty, the birds would
not be so well nourished.
It is good thing to boil fish before
feeding to poultry, although raw fish,
chopped fine, is not to be despised.
Meat and fish, when boiled, form diet
more nearly resembling the soft insects
which are procured in state of nature
by the fowls If you boil the fish no
other preparation is needed If they are
placed in a clean spot. The fowls will
pick off every morsel Of flesh from the
| bones.
Ii flooring of boards is used when
the poultry house is built, it will be
advisable to cover the same with dry
earth. If In O. dry spot, the floor may
be dispensed with and the earth may
be used for the floor. The tainted
earth can occasionally be removed to
the depth of six or eight inches and it's
place supplied with fresh earth. If de-
pendence is placed upon an earth floor,
it must of course be g. little above the
surrounding ground, to provide good
drainage. It is cheaper to build the
house upon little knoll or rise OF
ground, or to raise a little mound OF
earth before the housed is built, than to
carry the earth into the structure
afterwards.-The Poultry World.
Economy.
In these days of "hard times" any
thing that will serve to "lighten and
brighten the road" seems almost a
godsend. The problem of household
economy is q great one, and one that
many fail to solve; and it must be
solved IN 8, great degree by the women,
women, the workingmen's wives, that
struggle from day to day, from week
to week, and looking forward into the
dreary future see nothing but the
same hopeless struggle. To you, my
sisters, would speak a few words OF
cheer. You remember in an old song
this refrain: "There is never more
night than day" Let us have an ex-
perience meeting and I will relate my
own experience. In my early married
days the doctors carriage was often
est at our gate, and the bills grew and
grew as rapidly as Jacks beanstalk.
| We were poor and discouraged, and
that, with poor health, kept the black
| cloud lowering over us much larger
than mans hand. Then our baby
boy came, a weak, puny, and conse-
ouently very fretful, baby. The doc
tor was daily visitor, we lived be-
| yond our income, and could not help
it, then thought. But after many
days the cloud lifted, not all at once,
but it began to show O. silver lining.
learned that when tired and nervous
if took sitz Tor sitting) bath, warm
enough to be pleasant, that [ was
rested and my nerves soothed. When
baby was cross and feverish warm
bath was much better than powders
and pills. I learned that eating gra-
ham bread, oatmeal porridge, vegeta-
bles and fruits well cooked, kept that
sociable, affable but seldom welcome
visitor away. The baby began to in
crease in stature and weight, and to
look as baby should, when one cold
night, never to be forgotten, he awak-
ened us with that dreadful bark. Not
a moment to spare, two miles to a
physician, fires out, and our baby
gasping for breath! What did we do?
Paterfamilias rushed to the kitchen,
got some lard, and held it in a
spoon over the lamp to melt;
while he was doing that, [ was wiring
ing, not my hands, but a towel out OF
cold water and laying it on his throat
and lungs. When the lard was melted
we gave it to him. While we were
working sent up a silent prayer to
our Father for our little ones life, and
in fifteen minutes / was the happiest
mother on Gods earth. Our boy said
ooh, mammal" He could talk and
breathe. Soon Mr.. J. bought a goose
and now I have plenty of oil for my
neighbors and myself. I don't wait