Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-06-09


the Nea0 England Farmer to say
many farm products were produced
at loss-could not be sold for so
much as they cost, and many farmers
were becoming discouraged by this
condition of things. Poultry and
eggs could be produced so as to pay
good profit and he believed there
was no branch of the farming indus
try would pay better one. He was
aware that many had gone out of the
business, there many abandoned
poultry houses in New England; but
they had been abandoned because
the owners had not intelligence
enough and backbone enough to push
the business to success. Don't make
poultry side issue if you want to
succeed. Many of the most success
ful poultry raisers were women, they
having the patience and tact and in
telligent application necessary. Start
with small numbers and study the
steps read the poultry papers and
magazines and learn what others were
doing and how they were doing it.
There was this advantage, however
that many poultry writer's were not
practical, and based their advice up
on theory rather than experience.
A house for 100 fowls should be
fifty feet long by ten feet wide, di-
vided into two pens, and on each end
of the house an open shed twenty
five feet long by ten wide. The
ground should be gravelly to avoid
dampness; there should be six inch
es of clean, sandy gravel in the house
and foot of dry leaves in the shed.
A southeast exposure was best.
For breeds he considered that those
which were hardy, prolific layers,
good sitters and mothers, etc., the |
best, and of these he placed the Bar
red Plymouth Rocks at the head. He
was aware that breeders of other
breeds thought differently, but in
comparing the Rocks with Light
Brahmas, for instance, he found
would come to laying at six months
and the latter at eight months, and
that the former would lay eggs
enough to pay the cost of their raising
before the latter began to lay at all.
The White Plymouth Rocks he con-
sidered a good breed, but thought
a little less hardy than the Barred.
The Wyandottes were the strongest
rivals of the Rocks and were an eX-
cellent breed for a farmer to keep.
There is great demand for good
males to put with focks of farm fowls
to introduce fresh blood and improve
both the laying qualities and increase
the weight.
In feeding be careful to give only
what will be eaten up clean in ten
minutes in the morning a mash,
one sixth of which should be corn
meal, one-third wheat middlings, one
third cooked vegetables, some beef
scraps, etc. At noon scatter wheat,
corn, oats, etc., in the leaves for
,hem to scratch for. In the after
noon clover rowen cut up in a hay
cutter and steamed should be fed and
Just before dark, corn-all they will
eat up quickly. Clean water should
De always be by them and ground
oyster shells, and in winter when
grass is not available, cabbages or I
turnips should be hung in pens for {
Them to peck in pieces. Fowls hav- {
ng free range in summer need no /
green food; if confined in small
1ards they do need it. .
The following item, clipped from the Fl Madi-
on, Iowa) Democrat, contains information well
Forth remembering: MIR. John Booth of this
Ity, who met with an accident a few days ago
praining and brui>ing his leg and arm quite Sc
erely, was cured by so bottle of Cham
eriain's Balm This remedy is without an
Y ual ior syrains and bruises and should have ID {
lace il every household. For sale by IL. L.
'IerSe.
Keep your conduct abreast of your
and very soon your con-
cience will be illumined by the radi- 5
nee of God.