The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-05-29

Oats stand next to wheat as an egg.produc
Ing food. ."
Radical changes Of feed often make IN,
hens eat sparingly.
1t Is not necessary to coddle or pampe
fowls to make them grow.
The fowls will not thrive II thew are forcef
to stand In mud all day.
Twenty-four hours after Matching is soou
enough to begin feeding.
Wheat bran wet with hot water makes ,
good summer breakfast.
When turkeys are first hatched thew need n
little reed often rather Than large feeds occa.
siOnally.
There are 6S standard breeds of chickens. 1C
OF ducks, nine OF turkeys and seven of geese
quicker than anything else on earth, John.
sons Anodyne Liniment will reduce ipflam.
NATIONALLY.
Hens that are two years old and are not
good layers had better be fattened and mar.
keted as soon as possible ;they are an expense
and return no income.
When the fowls are closely confined and
fed too high they are liable to be affected
with cramp.
with young chickens II Is not the small lice
that make the most trouble, but the large
body lice.
on rainy days the hens with young poultry
Will be all the better off if they are kept con.
fined In dry quarters.
Tobacco leaves put into the nests and bum
ches of 1t hung around inside the poultry
house will keep away lice.
The best time TO pick duck and geese
feathers is when they are ripe; whenever
they are clear they are ready to pull.
Push the early chickens now; few days'
difference In getting to market will often
make considerable difference in prices.
The extraordinary profits that are some
times realized from one hen should not be
taken as guide to what can be made from
any particular breed.--St. Louis Republic.
viii be found an excellent remedy for sick
headache. Carriers Little Liver Pills. Thou
them prove this fact. Try them.-adv
With the small, quick-growing breeds of
poultry April Is plenty early to hatch, and If
kept growing they will readily mature by
November. The larger, sower.growing
breeds should be Matched earlier.
1t Is always profitable for the farmer to
have good flock of fowls on the place, but
with these just as with any other live stock
it Is the best sort that pays best. Blooded
fowls and bOoded cattle are all In the same
line and one will pay as well In proportion
for tine increased cost as the other.
Young chicks should be well fed. A chick
must have plenty and good food else all the
other care in the world will avail little and
plenty of warmth is also necessary with the
air pure. Experience will tell with close OBJ.
servation, what they will eat and what they
will not. Vary their diet and treat them as
If you had some money In them and wanted
to make 1t pay interest In growth.
Here Is an opportunity for Vermont farm.
ers to try their hands at partially supplying
the home market with meat. Western beef
has largely driven the Vermont product out
of the field, and the farmers of this state may
now be able to take advantage of the present
high prices to gain new fOothold In the pro-
duction of beef. 1t seems to US, however,
that the thing for Vermont farmers to do Is
to go to raising sheep to greater extent than
they are at present. Meatmen In Burlington
and other towns say that 1t Is next to impos-
sjble to obtain mutton, although there IS a
good demand for it. Vermont's hills are
better adapted to the production of sheep |
than of cattle. and the increased Importance of
The wool product Is also an argument In favor
If an extension In Vermont's sheep industry.
The expel iment is at least worth trying
Burlington Free Press.