The San Saba weekly news. (San Saba, Tex.) 18??-1???, 1891-11-06
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
VALUABLE INFORMATION CON-
CERNING POULTRY.
some o:A Hens Are Very Proatabie-
Marketing Honey-IIints About
Rennet-Farm Notes and Do
nestle Dots.


While it is true that a hen is IN
profitable after two years old. as a
rule, yet there are exceptions TO this
and it is best to be so well acquainted
with your flock that you know the dis
position OF eacn hen; sometimes you
Will find it best 20 keep certain hen
during her natural life and find her
doing good service. / have such a
one now and consider her profitable,
even though she has laid very few
eggs in the past two years. She
makes a most excellent mother and
chicks grow faster under her care
than any other. and she very seldom
loses one. During her four years of
life she has raised six broods of chicks
and three of turkeys. | count that
paying her way. Up early in the morn
ing and OFF in the fields. coming in for
breakfast as soon Us she hears me, she
will gather her flock about my feet
and stand guard to keep the other
chickens away until her own are
satisfied. She is highly priced, as
sure you. and will never die from dis
located neck. Last summer while
raising flock OF turkeys. she was dis
turbed al night by rats, and on the
next evening she came TO tho house and
spent the night under my bedroom
window. l call that sagacious.
Other hens are worthless as moth
ers and should be disposed of rs soon
as they fail to lay regularly. You viii
find the intervals between their want
ing to sit will get shorter and they
viii be more persistent in wanting to
sit This time will probably come
during the third summer and then is
the time you will find them fat and
tender if made into a potpie or roasted.
Left to live longer they become an
expense.
On the farm it is not always posi-
bic 10 keep the young and old chick
ems separate although they would be
better so. as the youAg ones should
have moro feed and finer, than the
old ones. But you can manage this
BY getting up early in the morning,
as the young ones will be out one hour
before the old, and may be fed by
and perhaps the early
rising will benefit you, too. though as
q rUle we farmers are inclined TO
make the days too long always. Then
in the evening you will find the old
hens going to roost by shutdown and
The young ones not until nearly dark,
which gives You a chance to feed
again.
There are just lots OF things about
he care and habits of chickens that
are interesting and best learned by ex-
1erience, and yet we may often avoid
oss by taking heed to the advice of
hose who have already learned them.
| am afraid some of our poultry
anciers are not as careful as they
.hould be about the quality of the
Eggs they send out for Matching. I
purchased thirty Plymouth
Rock eggs at six and two-thir1 cents
,piece and gave them the most careful
attention during incubation There
we're twenty chicks patched One
? d. ~ etea anu oiA4s AAhtd tAu ad9S-
d the others, one was a Brown Leg
lorn. one a dark Bramah and one
mixed with Wyandotte. l was not at
III pleased with the result as / do not
want those strays Then how am to
Know that any Of them are purce /
Really. it is unnecessary to have such
Mistakes occur. and as a rule we want
That We order and pay for Upon
Meeting the fancier of whom the eggs
we're purchased and telling him the
esalt of the hatch. he simply re-
marked that it was a pretty good
Iaich.H What do you think about it?
again it would help US if poultry
writer's would always tell whether the
dvice they give has reference TO /
armers' fowls or to those kept in con- /
nement as the treatment must be 1
cry different ! should think. Ny /
experience Is with those having
reedom all or most all OF the time
nd of course l need not bother with
reen food. shells, etc--Ohio Farmer.