St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-09-26
IN THE POULTRY VA RID.

greatly liked by fowls
See that the cracked oyster-shell
and charcoal boxes are not empty.
A pale comb denotes a debilitated
fowl Iron in the drinking water is
what is needed most.
Don't mate up your pullets until
the heads assume a bright red, and
they are ready to lay.
Don't have your hen-house along
side the horse or COW stable. Lice
are worrisome to stock.
Keep scraps of rusty iron in their
drinking water right along. MOult-
ing fowls must have a tonic
Put kerosene or lard on the scaly
legs. Have them look clean to COM
pare with the new dress after mOult-
ing.
A bad comb and a good body is
better than a prize comb and slim
body-when you are raising birds
for profit.
a side sprig in the comb of male
bird is bad defect in breeding for
points, but it has no drawback in
commercial poultry.
Ducks are night hawks, and love
to lie outside until morning, but we
have always found it safer to house
them before we retired.
After cutting fowls comb, apply
tannin or alum to the wound, as
they are powerful astringents and
will almost Immediately stop bleed
ing
Dry and store rOwen for fowls with
as much care as for new milk COWS,
taking care that it be kept perfectly
bright and sweet; and unless it be
quite short, running it through a
hay-cutter will be an improvements;
then soak it an hour or two in water,
drain off and sprinkle with meal and
bran.
Wash your rOOStS occasionally
with spirits of turpentine orkerosene.
This prevents the accumulation of
lice in the pOultry-hOuses, and the
fumes of this pungent oil permeate
the feathers of your fowls at night
and drive the vermin from their
bodies At from five to six months
old separate the young cocks from
the pullets, and rear each sex by
themselves. When you wish to mate
for breeding Tin December or Janu-
arv) is time enough to allow them to
run together.
A correspondent of a foreign ex-
change says that the only reliable
means of Kidding the hen-roost and
pigeon-lOft of vermin is a preparation
of sulphur and carbon, technically
known as sulphuret of carbon. A
bottle containing the solution will
last several days and the cost of ii is
small. Put two ounces of the sui
phuret of carbon in a bottle open at
the mouth, and hang it by a string
in the hen-hOuse. At the end of eight
days the bottle should be refilled.
This remedy is said to be infallible
Feed for good chicks should be
changed as often as possible. Too
rapid feathering is drain on the sys-
TEN. Some varieties feather up
quickly, while others are almost max
ed. Feed ground bone (fine) every
dav, mixed III with the feed. Where
we raise from 5000 to 10000 per
year we know by this time the neces-
sity of proper feeding. Corn and
oats ground together is our standard
feed, to which we add ground bone,
ground meat, charcoal and oyster
shell A pinch of bread soda (bicar-
Donate of Soda can be used as sub
stitute for charcoal.
1t is quite usual for many poultry
raisers to save the earliest broods
for layers the next season. This is
all right so far as late winter and
r-1t ecroc re Ora
of the particular reasons, however,
WHY farmers do not have a continu-
ance of eggs during the summer is
that they do not save late broods of
chickens for successive laying of eggs.
We always save some, both from the
early clutches, and also from the later
ones, by which we have eggs all
through the hot weather and the fall.
Try it and note the results. You will
not be disappointed.
Hens cannot produce eggs unless
their food contains the elements of
which the egg is composed. The
kind of feed that is offered to hens
must be determined by the object to
be attained in feeding them. Hens
intended for the market should be
fed that kind of grain which is known
to contain large percentage of the
fatty or oily substances. But hens
kept as layers should be fed on that
kind of grain which contains a larger
share of the albuminous or egg-pro-
ducinS elements In addition to the
essential quantity of albumen requir-
ed in the organism of the fowl, the lay
ing hen requires an extra amount for
forming eggs-the white of the hens
egg being about 2 per cent of albu-
men-and this must be furnished in
the feed