The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1891-01-21
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

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House the pullets.
Tree tops are not the warmest roost-
ing places at this season of the year.
Always feed by scattering out so that
the fowls will not gorge themselves.
Feeding sulphur twice a week will, in
many cases, euro hens of feather pulling.
Many make the mistake of overfeeding,
keeping the stock too fat to be profit
able.
Better sell the extra poultry reasonably
early than be Obliged to purchase feed in
order to winter.
Go over the poultry house now and see
that all cracks are closed tight. Warmth
is an essential item.
If your runs and house are too small
don't try to keep a large flock and wonder
why you are not successful.
If you ventilate, don't make a draft;
if you do there will likely be a ''draft'
on the number of your flock.
Poultry intended for breeding should
never be pampered. Vigor and health
are more important than fat.
Soft soap is considered a good remedy
for scaly legs. Rub on and let remain
a short time and then wash off.
Guineas generally GO in pairs, and in
selling off the surplus in the fail this
fact should always be remembered.
So long as a good variety of food can
be given, the fowls will usually need
very little stimulants or condiments.
Healthy, thrifty fowls are invariably
early %risers, and they should be fed as
soon as they fly down from the roosts.
Unless good care is taken in the Sc
lection of the breeding stock, the best
breed will soon degenerate to be moi bet
ter than dung hills.
BY this time the demand for dressed
poultry comes in, and generally it will
be found more profitable to send to mar
ket in this way than to ship alive.
Fowls will fatten more rapidly if they
are fed often rather than a large quantity
fed less frequently. Fattening poultry
ought to be fed at least five times a day.
At the present price of grain will it pay
9Ou W carry u lalb VI COChSISlS Jill
spring and then sell them as sold
roosters2" Don't go to sleep and lose
your head; act with Judgment.
In our own flock of poultry the remedy
we find a sure cure for all diseases and
ailments is to bleed, with one blow of
the hatchet, directly back of the ears.
1t is very inexpensive and effectual.
On many small farms a combination of
small fruits, bees and poultry can be
made very profitable. Like every other
kind of work, however, care and atten-
ton must be given if the good results are
realized.
1t is unnecessary to teach an incubator
Matched chick to eat, they will soon
learn. They never require food for the
first twenty-four hours. Afterward they
will generally obey the instincts Of
nature and peck around for a morsel.
The cold affects the milk product of
unprotected dairy COWS very unfavorably.
II you wonder what makes the cattle
shrink so in their milk we say cold wealth
er and exposure 20 wind and rain. 1t
pays TO keep mich lows in a warm
stable these cold nights, also to mix
their mess of mlll-feed with warm (not
hot water.
With plenty of pasture land geese can
be made profitable if they are we'll man
aged. They need a good shelter in
winter. 1t is not too late yet to lay in a
good supply of road dust to use for the
dust bath, and to use as an absorbent.
Good males are the most important part
of the flock, at least so far as the breed
ing is concerned.
The manager of a poultry farm which
has been in existence five years, without
an epidemic of any kind of diseases, says
an inhexible rule of the establishment is
to kill every chicken that shows a de-
cided lack of vitality. 1t is poor economy
of time, patience and feed to attempt TO
coddle weak or sickly chickens. The
healthiest and strongest alone are kept.
Three turkey hens with one gobbler
will usually bring as many young turkeys
as one will care to raise on the farm.
When a speciality is made of them more
breeding fowls should be kept. Feed
soft feed Of all kinds in troughs. If
it is fed on boards or floors the fowls
will tramp over more or less of it and
make it filthy, much more so than if
fed in troughs.
Beans do not love moisture, and a wet
season is more unfayorable to this crop
than a dry one. Yet they are sometimes
injured not so much by drought as by
dry weather coming when the crop is
overgrown with weeds, which rob it OF
whatever moisture the soil contains.
Good cultivation early is the only remedy.
After the beans get into blossom stirring
the soil covers the leaves with dust and
causes rust.