Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-11-09
POULTRY NOTES.


THE Amesican Rural Home.
While fine hay or fine, well-broken
straw makes good nests, Il very good
nest can be made with shaviugs from
wood select only the thinnest aud
softest, and make the nest well with
them. They can be lightly sprink-
led with diluted carbolic acid TO keep
away lice, and, being very porous,
will retain the smell and effect of the
acid much longer than any other ma
terial.
A Stony Hill, Conn.,, party has a
rooster whose wings are silvered by
the frOsts of thirteen winters. Its
head is almost bald, and about its
neck are the marks of the fingers of
the many who have attempted 10
adapt it for the pot by wringing its
head off. The aged grandsire, the
man in his prime, and the patlering
child, have each taken hand at that
rooster, but its no go. AS soon as it
10 dropped, it shakes its head, winks
a few times, and steps off with
martial freak, licking its chops, ard
appearing to consider the whole affair
as a good joke.
Farmers Home Journal.
A lady in Illinois, giving her ex-
perience in the poultry business, says
she makes every year more money
than her husband does OH the farm.
She does not neglect TO state that her
stock consists of pure breeds and that
she gives it good attention.
One great mistake in attempting to
raise fowls Oh large scale is crowd
ing them too much. 1t is extrava-
giant economy TO utilize space by
crowding as many as possible into
one house for however clearly the
house may be kept, the air will be
more or less impure, and in winter
to secure sufficient ventilation to keep
the air pure, is to allow drafts that
may cause roup.
A GOOSE FOR Al YEARS.
A goose, the property of Moulton
LaClair, living just over the town
line in Western, died last Saturday,
aged forty-one years. Her gooseship
was once the property of Mr.. La
Glars mother, whose death occurred
thirty years ago. The goose had
been kept by the family, therefore
Mr.. LaClair can Youch for the truth
of the statement as to her age. The
members of the family have died one
by one, leaving Mr.. LaClair alone,
but happy bachelor and enjoying
all the comforts connected with bach
elor life. The goose had been kept
by.him, and has laid a great many
eggs, but never to his knowledge, a
golden one. She lived to see several
generations of geese pass away and
was herself widow over twenty
five years.-Booneville (Texas) Her.
aid.
THE HEN.
She is of remote antiquity, as any
one may know who has purchased
fowls to eat. There arc traces of her
shedding her feathers in Noah's ark.
She cackled when Babylon fell and
laid her egg coexistent with the lay
ing of the corner stone of the Bunker
Hill monument. ...
A hen has no feet-it is all toes.
With these she scratches for living,
and will go over more ground in .
day than two men with hoes. don't
think she is particularly fond of good
eating because she consumes 80 much
that is bad. She takes in corn, wheat
bread crumbs, meat, gravel, stones,
worms, bugs, grass and the Lord on.
ly knows what else. Wouldn't
have the dyspepsia tho, if lived on
her fare!
Sometimes, while working Out
Father Adams sentence by tilling the
soil, the hens from neighborine
coop perambulate up and down and
to and from the field seeking, like
Satan, what they may devour. At
ter having carefully arranged the
soil around some plant, 1 look behind
and Miss Biddy-or Mrs, rather, fol
she has had at least five husbands
has leveled off the dirt and possibly
laid my choice plant on the top of the
ground to air. | raise my hoe ham
die TO demonstrate with her, when
10! she is half way across the field
and | despair of giving emphasis to
my remarks. Once out of reach, she
settles down as quite as an old wo.
man, looking as if she had never at
tempted wrong thing in all her life.
This is why l say beware of the hen
she is deceptive.
AS somebody has remarked, Biddy
eats but one meal day, and that is
all the time. She never had the
toothache in all her life, nor knew
what it was to sit up half the night
mending her children's clothes. l
would think more of her if she would
Keep her young ones at home and
wasn't so much of a scold herself, but
she is industrious, good provider
for the family, and always looks neat
and respectable in her dress or
would if she didn't persist in going
about without shoes and stockings
She is jealous of her rights. Disturb
her while setting and she will pre-.
sent bill for damages, unfolding a
moving tale of distress. She is a
Mugwump in politics-always prone
to scratch but don't think she be-
longs ~ any church. i'll remember
rightly, she was eggs communicated.
National Agriculluralist.