The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-10-02
Poultry Notes.


Dramas and Cochins feather very slowl,
and 1t Is not safe to condemn them until the
are fourmonths old.
Fruit thickly clustered Oh branch look
very nice, but 1t Is beneficial neither to tn
tree nor to the owner.
Washing the pig with strong soap sud
Will make him grow, as 1t cleans his skin an
rids him of insect pests.
:Oh, bosb! A patent incidence Wal
until! you try Johnson's Anodyne Liniment
my friend.-adv.
| 1t Is said that heading back all the leadin
shoots OF tomato plants three to six inches
from July till late August, will increase tn
yield with an important gain In earliness.
When young chickens are shedding thei
| second feathers they should have a SINAI
quantity OF carbollc acid in their drinking
water.
After the first two or three days 1t Is impor
tant that young poultry should be provided
with good variety of food In order tC
maintain a healthy growth.
Store away the sorghum seed, some millet
ana sunnoWer seed, good bunch of clover
hay, as well as corn, oats and wheat to fee(
the poultry during the winter.
One advantage In buying breeding fowls the
latter part of the summer or early fall Is thai
purchased at lower price.
Scrofula. salt rhcum, and all diseases of the
blood, dyspepsia, headache, kidney and liver
complaints, and catarrh, are cured by Hoods
sarsaparilia. the great blood purifier. Try it.
II young chickens are well.fed SO as to
make rapid growth they ought to be ready
to market when they are six weeks, and at
latest when they two months old.
Keep the March and early April pulIets for
Iov,N f-~1ry1 Co l. l.
will lay regularly the greater part of the
winter. Late hatched pulIets will rarely lay
before spring.
A good garden, good orchard and a guam
tity Of poultry are Of first economy on farm.
Health and strength depends largely upon
these articles of diet, and farmer may and
should supply them himself.
Nitrate of soda has again been tried as a
fertilizer of tomatoes. The result was very
marked increase of crop in every case, the
most profitable increase coming from the use
of nitrate alone.
To use corn, wheat, bran and oats for but
ter mix as follows by weight: Two parts of
corn meal, two Of bran and one of oats. Al.
ways feep clover hay for butter and corn
stalks If you can. Silage Is the best corn for
the cornfodder.
President j. d. W. French said at a meet.
Ing of the Ayreshire association: "Many rec
Urds are good but more missionary work
among the farmers who worship al the shrine
of the scrub bull will be better"
Why do not our dairymen grow more peas
and beans, substituting the meal made of
these for cottonseed meal! II 1t Is not as
good. 1t Is nearly so, and enables the farm to
come so much nearer to running itself.
The many remarkable cures of catarrh |
effected by the use Of Ayers SarsaparilIa Is |
conclusive proof that this Ioathsome and dan. |
yerous disease is one of the blood, only need. |
Ing such q searching and powerful Alternative |
eradicate it.-adv.
Use plenty of coal oil on the roosts of the |
poultry house and also saturate the walls aud 4
1oor, and be sure that 1t gets into the cracks
md crevices. In this manner you will get
I'D of lice, which hatch and swarm In my.
lads during warm weather.
Geese and ducks can be picked regularly
Until cool weather In the fall, and II properly
managed the feathers will pay nearly or
lutte as well as the eggs. This and next
month are the best for Matching al kinds Of
poultry and the work should be pushed along
IS rapidly as possible. Generally late hatch.
ngs are less profitable.
The droppings of sheep are rich in nitro.
en- and being evenly spread and uniformly ,
rampled into the soil every portion Is bene- ,,
tied and we do not have the trouble of haul. :
an absorbent and but little loss In the maa. :
rial value occurs. This Is why sheep will
0 quickly bring up the fertility of farm.
The statement Of western farmer that he ,
as been trying forty years to find the most
rOftable methods OF storing and feeding A
parse feed and grain, and is not sure be has e
ct succeeded. is worthy of note as showing \
he difficulties with which the livestock
wner Is obliged tn contend. 1t might also
lrnish much needed lesson Ia modesty to :.
,me would.be instructors whose years sre
w and whose theoretical knowledge IL con. !,
derably more extensive than their actual u
lperience.
1t would be only trifling expense for the =,
rmers to have fresh meat all summer n a n
lmber of them would fit up a cheap, cold
orage house. into which TO place It. This
orage would not cost them over one-tepth
one.t wentieth of cent per pound indie. n
,ndent OF farmers who combine. They
,uld also at the same time store butter.
KS, dressed poultry and pigeons, cooked n
,getables and fruits. As 1t would require q ..
oderate quantity OF Ice to make the cold tt
orage, each family could be supplied also. 81
king care to harvest enough OF II In the In
inter to give what would be necessary for d'
Is additional purpose. b.
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