The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-04-27
TIE POULTRY YARD.
Poultry Notes.


correspondent of the America
Rural Home says: 1t is getting to be
the rule for some men and most women
to raise chickens, the general conces-
sion being they pan out better for CAPT.
tai invested than almost anything else.
In ante bellum" days nearly all the
servant women had their hen houses and
the planters wives would buy from the
negro women when the fowls at the big
house were laying in a desultory sort
of fashion that could not be depended
upon for the many cakes and endless
breads that could not be made without
eggs; these same "colored ladies" would
daily throw cabbage, string beans, pota-
toes, or anything of like kind to their
fowls, but now since fancy poultry" is
so much the order of the day, We read
land give hot mash in the morning,
vegetables for n midday meal, ETC., etc.
Some seven or eight years ago | was
walking in the barnyard of Mrs. NJ,
with Mr.. H., her agent, and seeing a
large number of beautiful Chester and
Berkshire" hogs, | asked him what
stock he liked best? He walked on TO
large house full of corn and with an al
most chuckle, pointing to the corn said,
that is the stock | like best" SO it is
with poultry.
You may like the Asiatic fowls, which
take the lead in size, and We have the
Langshans which originated in the
northwest part of China and were first
| imported to England by Major Croad
| there is where We get the Croad strain"
of the English navy, the Brahmas,
| Partridge. and Buff Cocbins and others.
| Then we have the Houdans and Dorkins,
with the supernumerary ton, Black
! Spanish, Leghorns, and the Minorcas,
much esteemed for their fine laying
qualities and their fine large white eggs,
| as non settlers usually lay a white egg
while those that set, lay from pale
straw to a rich orange. But to be such
| everlasting layers, or egg machines,
| they have to be fed regularly and with
out stint.
| The man leaves home for a few days
! and comes back. The first time he looks
at the meal is surpris / to see SO little,
! commences to watch the feeding out of
! a pan to the chickens, and not the stable,
! as the hired help takes meal by the bag;
| then the dear old man says, If you gave
/ your fowls less, don't you think the
| meal would last longer. The little wo-
man who mixes the mash, feeds the
vegetables and corn, or mixed grain Mt
night (put in place by papa, says very
/ little, as she remembers the twelve in
! the family Of hired help and knows the
trusted help has an index finger that is
every ready to point toward the poultry
yard.
| The way to realize profit is not to
| crowd your fowls; have just what you
can care for yourself. Measure the food
! (by noticing what they eat heartily, leav-
! ing nothing over, and in two weeks
| time You viii be able to know what it
/ takes to feed them comfortably on. Then
! no optrnl ont law nd
| credit them not only for the eggs sold
and eaten and chickens disposed of, but
! the feathers may be utilized and also the
! droppings. The raiser of fowls Will
! find it a good investment to give the
| droppings to the father or husband, as
he Will take it for his plant land" or
| garden. AS stated, count all the cost
/ and profit, and if after you get we'll
under way with your favorite kind of
poultry, your Income dosent double the
outgo you'll be more unlucky than have
! been.