Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1890-03-14
NO 10
AGRICUI.TUl \
wnArIsA MoprL VIE,

" IA ~ \ MopEL VIII
model wife is the woman in whom the
heart Of her husband doth safely trust
She is The woman who looks after his
household, and makes her hospitality a
delight to him, aud not burden.
Who has learned that soft answer will
turn away wrath.
Who keeps her sweetest smiles and most
loving words for her husband
VINO is his confident in sorrow or in
JOY, and who does not feel the necessity Of
explaining her private affairs to the neig-
borhood.
Who respects the rights Of husband and
children. and in return has due regard paid
to her
Who knows that the strongest argument
is her womanliness and SO she oultivatos
it.
Who is sympathetic i'll joy, or in grief,
and who finds work for her hands to do
Who makes friends and keeps them.
Who is not made bitter by trouble, hut
who strengthens and sweetens under it,
Who tries to conceal the faults of her
husband rather than blazon them forth to
an unintcrested public.
The woman whose life book has love
written on every page.
Who makes home for mana home
-, n
he is sure Of. home that is full Of love
presided over by one whose price is above
rubies
She is the model wife.-Lodies' Home
Journal
THE POULTRY YARD
As spring comes on anxiety increases.
That is poultry anxiety.
The matings must be watched that no
admixture of the llocks occurs.
The breeding pens must have special at
tention to to insure the best results.
The eggs to be used or sent away to pur
chasers must be carefully assorted
That none but the finest shaped, correct
color and uniform shell he selected
That the nests be gotten in condition as
best adapted for Matching in comfort ard
warmth.--
That they be placed SO IL -te~vassaatn no
disturbance from other hens, rats and other
intruders.
That the coops be ready when the chicks
make their appearance, and they be warm,
comfortable and roomy
In short, that all he ready in every de-
tail To make the poultry business success
from a spring standpoint.
There seems to be much controversy
among poultrymen a5 to whether oyster
shells, or lime, is necessity to laying
hens
Some say they must have it, others aay
they need it not The real fact is, they
need it and ought to haveit.
I: is not a definite fact whether grit in
the form of oyster shells, gravel, bone, or
broken croekery is digestcd in the fowls
gzzard or not, but the fact remains all the
same that fowls nature demands these
things, and because no proof has yet been
brought forth that they are not digested is
evidence that nature requires them.
1t is true, where proper amount ot
wheat and oats is fed these supply the cal
careons and phosphate elements essential
to egg formation, but where these foods
are not fed sufficiently the salts must be
supplied from some source Corn will not
answer sufficiently
Some would-be theorizers also claim that
fowls must have meat but then they can't
agree whether it is best fed raw or cooked.
Some declare that raw meat makes the
birds cross and irritable and is apt TO ere
ate the desire for feather pulling, and
should therefore be fed cooked. The other
side claims cooking destroys the album
noids and other nutritive elements and it
must be fed raw. Now what are we to do
when both sides claim they are rightS |
suppose cooking just half, or soak in water
at half boiling point Q06 degrees) and give
meat and water together would come very
near the mark Next
Right here it comes A recent poulterer
of scientific turn of mind says: "Pepsin
is the great stimulant to digestion. We
find it in all patent egg foods. Pepsin is
found in the corrugated membranous lin
ing of the stomach of cattle. Hence in or
der to feed the most stimulating meat
food use the paunches of cattle, which can
be purchased at any slaughter house. !"
This profound thinker just cuts short the
meat question and says stomach is the
thing. But he didn't mention whether il
is to be cooked or raw This again viii
create controversy.
REMEMBER THESE POINTS.
It's probable that most of the breeding
pens are made up. If there are, zee that
these points are observed, if not, observe
them in mating:
Houdans must all have five toes on each
foot, and beard and horned comb.
White Leghorns must not have red
feathers nor pink in ear lobes, nor white
legs
Partridge Cochins shall not have white
in leg and toe feathering. nor white in
flight feathers.
Langshans must he absolutely free from
white feathers, aud the eyes must not be
red, but brown OF hazel.
Black Cochns must show yellow on bot
tom Of feet lf this is not present they
are TO be discarded as breeders. Leg and
toe feathering we'll developed ont to end OF
middle toe.
Light Brahma males should have q dark
streak through the middle to the end of
the upper mandible. Lower mandible
solid yellow. Leg and toe feathering to
end of middle toe and showing little or no
black. Legs yellow, or yellow with yer
million streak down the center of tho side.
Wyandots must hare red ear lobes.
stain of yellow is allowable, but not stand
ard, white disqualiiies. Legs yellow with
ont blue spots, and beak horn color taper
ing to yellow toward the point.
Plymoth Rocks must have pure yellow
beaks and yellow legs, or yellow with pink