The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-03-11
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POULTRY ON The FARM.

Sixteen Points Essential to Rig Profits
In the business.
Jacob Bicycle, who is an old and high
ly esteemed contributor to the Philadel-
phia Farm Journal states the following
points as being necessary to profitable
poultry business ON plain farm;
1t is not necessary to have any particu-
lar breed for success, There is great
deal more in the feed and care than in
the breed. But the large Asiatic breeds
are the best winter layers, are the best
for broilers. The small breeds will lay
the greatest number of eggs in a year.
The broody hen should get in her
work early. Give an interested woman
in charge OF her. Interest her by letting
her have the profits, or divide them with
her children.
Set only well fortified eggs; have the
hens that are to furnish these eggs Sc
lected from the whole flock for their ex-
cellence, and fence off from the others
and with these hens have thoroughbred
ROSTERS, in the proportion of one rooster
to eight or ten hens-the best you can
! find anywhere.
For eggs for market alone hens do
best without any ROSTERS among them
they lay more eggs, and the eggs will
not get stale so quickly.
| 1t is essential to have the chickens
abundantly supplied with fresh water.
Fill the vessel twice day at least, and
clean them every time before they are
filed.
Feed the flock three times day. Give
them liberal supply-all they will eat
up clean and no more.
If abundant water be given no sloppy
feed need be. Give for breakfast some
wheat and oats in sheaf; for dinner,
some bran, ground oats and cornmeal,
moistened little; for supper duplicate
the morning meal, adding a little whole
corn in very cold weather
Throw the whole grain in a bed of
straw or leaves so they must scratch for
it. They must work for their living in
order to be healthy,
In addition to the above they should
have some vegetable food-a rack filled
with boiled potatoes, beets. turnips or
with raw cabbages. Clover hay and
corn fodder and skimmilk are good for
them too.
They must have access to sharp gravel
and ground oyster shells or they cannot
grind their grain. In winter, when they
cannot forage for insects and worms,
they ought to have meat scraps, crack.
ings, etc.
They must also have a box handy
filed with dry coal ashes or road dust to
wallow in; it is thus that they keep free
from lice.
The floor of their house should be dry
and covered with leaves from the woods
or cut corn fodder. Among this litter
their grain food should be cast.
Whitewash their house and perches
frequently or spray with kerosene oil to
prevent lice, and remove their dropping IS
once or twice week.
For every twenty chickens there ought
to be $50 square feet of floor space mol
more than twenty chickens should be
confined in one apartment.
The egg and Matching boxes should be
removable so as to be readily cleaned
and whitewashed. The feed troughs |
should never have dirt in them-should |
be so made that the chickens cannot get
their feet III them.
The house should face the south. 1t |
should not be inclosed in glass, because
it is not desirable to have the house |
warm in the daytime and cold at night. |
Half the front could consist of sliding
doors, to be closed on cold nights and in !
stormy weather