Morning journal and courier., 1893-10-25
Hn.,. orsucee.. win poultry,

a veteran poultryman put deal of con-
centra;od wisdom into the following ad-
vice to poultry raIsers In cne Of the New
England farm pGpers: There are thOso
who have but a limited AREA for poultry,
and ths flock must be kept under conine-
ment or be discarded. Nearly all the diff
fculties to bs met with In raising poultry
can be overcome by q iudicious selection
of breeds. Certain breeds are easily kept
under confinement, while other breeds give
better results on a free range. The farm
ers are not the clsss most lsrgely interested
in poultry In all sections. Il Is a question
whether more poultry and eggs are not
raised In the cities, towns and villages
than in the country. The suburban resi-
dents of cities and towns produce a large
proportion of the poultry and eggs con-
sumed in this country, while the residents
of boroughs and Villages are nearly all In
terested in poultry. Where the farmer
has only one flock on a large farm, an
equsl area more denssly populated may
have several hundred focks. II lie s mat
ter of great Importance, therefore, to con-
troll these aockR, and to this end possess
birds that are ,ontented In confinement.
The bsst eggs recorded are from the
fiocks that have been kept In yards, In
stead of being allowed frea range, but the
eggs produced by the hens that have the
privilege of forsging cost less. More Ia
Dor Is required to manage flock of hens
confined in yards, but this Is more than
balanced by the saving In the cost of range.
In many instances the land given up to q
flock is too valuable for that purpose
The breed for the range is one that Is
small and active. The Leghorns, Ham
burcs and games are good rangers. Such
fowls, If kept closely confined, will be as
restless SIS turkeys, and not give good re-
sults, while the vices of feather-pulling
and egg eating will sooner Of later appear
among them. No method of keeping them
busy by providing litter will answer. They
will not be content in a small yard. It is
not only the exercise of scratching and
working that they need, but they are par
tial to roaming over large areas TO forage
for what they want.
1t is useless to give q large range to
| Brahmss and Cochins, for they will not
use It, They will forage, but do not wan
der far from thsir coop. This has been
apparent to all who have turned such
breeds on the range. One end of the field
only will be used. The large breeds pre-
fer TO scratch and work In a spot selected
by themselves. They will work well, and
need but little room on which 10 do 1t.
But the Leghorn will work here and there,
moving from place to place, often running
TO chaee an insect, and travelling TO the
bounds of the field. The large breeds do
not feed in that manner, for they are heavy
and less active
The Plymouth Rock and Wyandottes are
between the large and small breeds, and
thrive best on the range, yet they viii moi
utilIz. the range to the extent the Leghorr
will, nor will they endure the confinement
the BrAhms aud Cochin will submit to
Their excellence Is In the hardness ant
adsptability to variety OF purposes
or Leshorns for the purposes to which tn
latter breeds are sdspted.
Hens that are kept In confinement at
usually ovsrfed and made too fat. If
large breed, If not an sctige forsger, an
can thrive In confinement, ID is not 70 b
supposed that II does not need sIstciss