The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1892-09-20

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Turnips are good winter feed fol
chickens, ducks or geese.
Ifyou want fowls to mature early
keep them growing. Feed early and
often.
! The trough for the fowls should be
placed under tree or some shady
place. 1
On account of being easily cleaned,
easily removed and less liable to break
the eggs, sawdust is recommended as
a material for good nests.
The chickens should be fed in a
way that will compel them TO scratch.
If the grain is fed in cut straw they
will work for it. Poultry keepers say
it is the active hen that scratches, that
lays. Es fa
There is an increasing interest in
poultry raising. This is due to a
great extent to the women of the
nation who are developing the bust
ness and demonstrating to their hus-
bands that it pays. ~
Many successful poultrymen claim
that the poultry house should face the
South. If this cannot be done con-
veniently, it should at least be arran-
ged SO that it can get the benefit OF
the sun in winter. ~
An experienced poultry raiser says
that raw meat in moderation chopped
fine and fed about thrice week will
stimulate egg production. One
pound Of meat is sufficient for fifteen
hens. Some cook it, butraw meat is.
by far better.
Centralia (Mo.) Guard says that
one firm has paid to the citizens of
Boone county $4,000 for poultry and
eggs since the Both day of March 1892
Up to date they have shipped from
Centralia $50 barrels of dressed poul-
try and 1920 cases of eggs.
Somebody has given the following
directions for picking and marketing
turkey feathers: In picking, save all
the feathers that grow on the tail of
the turkey; also those on the two
joints of the wings next the body.
The pointed, one-sided quilts that
grow on the outside or tip of the
wings sell at low prices, and should
surely be kept separately from the
others. Lay the feathers straight, in
as light boxes as possible; do not stuff
them in bags, as it breaks them. Be-
fore packing weigh your boxes with
the covers, and mark the weight in
plain figures on the side of the box. ?.
A correspondent of the Bec-Keep-
ers' Review has the following to say
concerning fuel for bee-smokers: For
fuel we have tried rotten wood, hard
wood, pine sticks, sawdust, shavings,
excelsior, paper, rags, peat, corn cobs,
and a peculiar kind of sawdust that
comes from making hand-holes with
a webbing saw in bee hives. The
last named we find to be far superior
to all the others. 1t lights quickly
and smolders enough to give quite
dense blue smoke. 1t is readily OBJ
tainable of the supply manufactures.
1t should be remarked, no wever. that
the fine sawdust should be carefully
sifted out #..#
The frequent injuries from roots
and the many cases of leg weakness
that occur among the heavy hens of
the large breeds has opened for dis
cussion the question of dispensing
with roots in the poultry house, says
writer. 1t is fact that roots
sometimes take up about one-third
of the space in the house, and if some
plan can be devised for doing away
with them, it will be an advantage.
Straw or hay is suggested, but should
such be used, the house must be clean.
ed out daily. All such complaints as
humble foot, leg weakness, crooked
breast bone and frosted toes would be
avoided by keeping large fowls on
straw. 1t is admitted that the small
and active breeds, which can fly on
or of the roots easily, should have
roosts, but for large and heavy breeds
no doubt the use of straw is prefera-
Bile.
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Good Looks.