Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-01-26
POULTRY NOTES.

Chickens should be given warm, but
never hot food.
In winter noon is the best time to
| feed green fooC.
Meat is apt 70 cause bowel trouble
if given too freely.
A stinted fowl will never make a
good market chicken.
The earlier the pullets are Matched
the sooner they will lay.
The eggs from a pullet are usually
smaller than those of hen.
The newly-hatched chick needs al
most as much care as baby.
Barley is an excellent poultry food.
1t is largely used in England and Can
ada
1t is said that eggs will keep for
long time if kept cool and turned every
other day.
Russia's crop Of -.ye, wheat, oats and
barley is $50, 900, coo bushels larger
than last year.
White leSnorns a-e q trife heavier
than the brown, and their eggs are
ldL SC1.
Six or seven weeks must elapse after
the hen has begun 10 lay before she
can be expected to ST.
If red pepper is gwen too constantly
the birds become accustomed to its use,
and it then does harm instead of good.
1t is estimated thai six tons of bak-
ing powder are daily used in this coun-
try in the manufacture of the staff OF
life.
Pussley, lambs quarter, beet-root,
weed, watercress and plantain and
dandelion are all excellent food for
fowls.
Give your hens food that will pro-
mote the appetite and assist digestion
if you wish them to repay you with
eggs.
AS artificial incubation becomes
simplified and the results m IRE GER
tain, it will be more generally
adopted.
It is the small holes that cause roup
in flock. A pot Of paste and lot of
old newspapers are the best preventive
Of this disease.
A difference of ten degrees in the
temperature of the poultry house may
be the turning point between laying
and nonlaying.
The longest artificial water course in
the world is the Bengal Canal, 900
miles the next is Erie, 1858. Each cost
nearly so, 700.
Liberal feeding is necessary in cool
weather, but liberal feeding does not
meaa giving the fowls all the corn they
will eat twice day.
If you keep food constantly before
the hens they will grow too fat and
cease laying. Exercise and egg pro-
duction go hand in hand.
The laying hen is always A working
hen. The farmer who understands his
business and wants eggs will see that
she gets the needed exercise.
Yellowstone Park is sixty five miles
north and south, fifty-fve miles east
and west, contains 1915 square miles
and is 5000 feet above sea level.
Thirty thousand frogs are brought
into the Buffalo IN. " market each
week, and large proportion of them
are exported to New York City.
Antiquarians generally consider the
Mentz Psalter, printed on vellum in
1850 by Peter Schoeffer, to be the
first book with a printed date.
Two counties in California have
over so, 900 beehives and export g.
600, 900 pounds of honey, besides
800, 900 pounds of combs and 10000
pounds of wax.
The best way to get choice flock is
to hatch only first class eggs and select
the best pullets for keeping. After
ward select only the best cocks for
mating and Gull out all the Indifferent
layers, poor sitters and careless
mothers.
At Birmingham, England, in 1888,
goose was exhibited which weighed
thirty-three pounds, and at the Am
sterdam Exposition the same farmer
exhibited a gander weighing thirty
four pounds and goose of thirty-two
pounds.
In England young duckl1ngs are very
carefully and artifcially fed, first on
hard boiled eggs cut mp fine and mixed
with rice and finely chopped bullock's
liver, and afterwards with barley meal
and tallow greaves and little horse
flesh. Their life extends over eight or
nine weeks, and they never experience
the joys of pond or river. New York
World.
One of the curious laws fthe Koran
fOrbids the faithful to road romancas.