Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1893-03-24
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Use whitewash freely around stables
and out. houses.
Lice are more apt to gather in the hen
nests than anywhere else.
Very late moulting hens should be
culled out from among the breeding
fowls.
Geese need plenty of room for exer-
else in order to prevent them from get
ting too fat.
If geese can have good pasture and
plenty of water they can be raised very
economically.
Amy of the common geese may be i'm
proved with any of the poor breeds by
using good ganders.
Having vigorous, active roosters with
the hens will be help towards inducing
the hens to take exercise.
Milk is a most excellent Grink for lay
ing hens or growing chicks. It matters
little whether it is sweet or sour.
A dry place and a good opportunity to
exercise are important items in maintain
ing good health with all kinds of poul-
try.
The demand for early broilers increases
every season, so that prices are not apt
to go down even with increased produc-
ton.
Ducklings can readily be hatched in
the incubator, and should always be
pushed from the start if they are intend
ed for market.
A dozen hens and an active rooster
will supply all the eggs usually needed
for hatching and will give better results
than larger number.
For leg weakness with chickens raised
in brooder mix litter with dry dirt, and
in this scatter some small grams for the
chicks to scratch out.
Leaving out the fact that profit can
be made In raising poultry for market,
still greater profit can be made in raising
full supply for home use.
A very little exposure to cold in win
ter will stunt young chickens. They
must be kept warm and dry and be well
led if they are to grow rapidly.
One of the best ways of feeding bones
to poultry is by pounding them up into
bits small enough to be swallowed read
lily and then let the fowls help them
selves.
s. F. Scott, of New York, says he has
tried all ways of applying paris green
to potatoes, and has settled on using it
with wheat middlings and applying with
sieve. If fine ashes are mixed in part
it works just as we'll.
An important reform in methods of
buying and selling eggs has been
adopted by some Western dealers who
are purchasing for the English markets.
they buy by weight, refusing all that
do not come up to certain standard.
Mate good, healthy, well-matured
two .year-old hens to cockerels of last
springs hatch to insure strong vigor in
the chicks that come forth the coming
season. Do nothing at random; use
good judgment in the selection of each
breeding pen.
The large body lice on the heads and
necks are at work during the winter, and
as they lie close to the skin they do not
feel cold weather. Hold the head of the
fowl downward and with sewing ma.
chine oil can force few drops eft melted
lard down to the skin.
Warm food, such as boiled turn!ps,
beets, potatoes, cabbage and carrots
mixed with corn meal, bran and linseed
meal given hot will prove very profitable
in producing winter eggs. The hens
must have some bracing, warm food to
build up the rapid waste in cold weather
when exercise is largely done away
with.
The most successful breeder OF tlack
Spanish fowls has for thirty years past
kept no other variety on his farm. His
success has been wonderful, and during
this period he has not spent two hundred
dollars IN buildings for them. He
owned the choicest fowls money could
obtain, believing this the first thing of
! Importance.