Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-01-31

especially when the weather ~ very cold.
Ii keeps up comfortable heat Give
steamed clover the first thing in the NOM
ing / have mentioned this before, but L
give it from SO good authority to make it
all the more observant.
from the same same man: Don't forget
that clover hay is the best food you can
give your poultry. Cut it up fine and put
in rack ON the wall of the house and let
them help themselves. 1t is not necessary
to scald, although when scalded and mixed
with q bran and fed warm, it makes the
best breakfast you can give the hens"
Farmers make a note of this, this is cheap
feed for You.
Is it right TO caponizef There is no
doubt that a capon is u more desirable
table fowl than a rooster; that the flesh is
possibly more tender, palatable, and the
bird more plump. Prices, too, OF capons
is always in advance of other fowls, and
the dainty epieure don't question the differ
ence. But in justification of all these
reasons, is it right, is it humane to take u
live bird aud mercilessly scalp and dig the
live, quiveling flesh with instruments often
in the hands of bunglers, and tear open the
healthy body of male chicken aud rip out
the undesirable partsf / cannot pronounce
otherwise but it is highly unjustifable.
Nature has not placed these parts in fowl
-,-;t1 H. ;nta 1f n Ia All
matter of taste, and that only of the
arstocrat and this consideration along
with the difference of few cents in price,
is certainly not enough to justify the
wanton cruelty exercised in caponizing-
TO START POULTRY.
4 Feic SsdSoadble HINTS to Oae Desiring
10 Start out with Poultry.
have frequently produced evidence that
poultry is profitable, even the most so of
any occupation that can be followed on the
farm. 1t is profitable on aud off the farm,
and any one, man, woman, or child, who
is in position to utilize small patch of
land from lot ten feet square to one hun
dred acres can make it pay high rate OF
interest by properly managing suitable
| number of fowls on it.
| The first thing you want with which to
start III the poultry business is good,
healthy enthusiasm Without this there is
failure before you begin But I say it
must be healthy, and this comes only by a
careful study of the subject from reliable
authority. Then select the site for the
house Let this be on the most protected
spot at command, and facing toward the
sun That is, locate the hou se so that the
sun shines inside of it from as many sides
and as long in the day Us possible. | shall
not describe what plan Of u house is most
| desirable This is matter of taste, econ
omy and means, aud according to how ex-
tensively the business is to be carried on;
but however built, it must be spacious
enough convenient inside and so adapted
as to give the fowls the best comfort circum
stances allow Much of the profit is to be
derived from comfortable house. Supply
all the necessities belonging to 1t water
troughs, roosts, nests, dust t-baths, dc.
Now select the breed or breeds. l have
said before each breed has its good quail
tiles, and that this part is but matter OF
choice. 1 will give few points. If you
want layers, the Leghorns are first, the
Brown preferable for various reasons
However, these want high fence or plenty
of room-more room less feed. Then there
are the Black Spanish, Hamburgs, and
Houdans the last named very desirable
| breed
The most popular breed is the stable and
reliable Light Brahma. They are easy to
rear, make no trouble and can be kept i'll
an enclosure four feet high. They have
substance, beauty. and quality combined,
and. if properly managed are equal with all
| others.
The wyandot is preferable to the Ply
mouth Rock for various reasons. is bet
ter layer, not so persistent sitter, more
beautiful, not harder TO rear, and kills
nicer, all reports to the contrary notwith-
standing. / know whereof ] speak and
defy proof but, of coarse, the Wyandot
must be understood to rear.
There are numerous other varieties, but
to start with get an old, reliable one. Get
pure breed and buy from breeder whom
you know to be honest. Let price be no
consideration to start with though the
high priced breeder don't always give bet
| ter stock than a lower ono. Be cautious,
and be s1re you lnow what You want and
what you buy, aud cut square bargain.
BUILDING AN IcE HoUsE.-It is d good
time To think about building an ice house
now If you are running dairy you
should have an ice house; If you have to
build it alone. Select shady spot, for
shade saves the house better than sawdust
Get northern exposure, and do not put
any fancy txings in the ice house, such as
milk cellar or meat room. Such rooms
are prolific OF waste in the ice