St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1894-11-29
What One Hen Can Do.

A hen can't pillow corn, hoe cotton or
split wood, but she can get there just
the same She doesn't cost more than a
drink of whisky and plug of tobacco,
but she can pay 8 per cent interest on
$50 in a year and pay her board be-
sides. The fellow who thinks a hen
can't make money doesn't know much
about hen, says a well known south
ern authority in the Texas Farm and
Ranch. He says: Take an old speckled
hen, for instance, that has had no rails
ing at all, one that's been thrown out
of the corncrib, knocked off the porch
with broom and chased out of the
garden by worthless pup. Just take
that sort of an old fashioned hen, and
let's see.
She lays at least 25 eggs on a stretch
and then goes to sitting on 13 of her
eggs. The other dozen pay her keep
while she turns eggs into chickens and
while she is scratching for them after
they are Matched and before being wean-
ed. That sort of hen generally hatch
es 10 out of the 13 eggs and raises eight
of them, that sell for So. But we must
knock off 81 for their raising and put
only 81 dollar aside to the credit of old
Speck, who loafs about awhile, and then
she lays another two dozen eggs and
sits again and raises another lot of
eight chickens, that sell for So more,
and SO we pay off again and put another
dollar to the credit of our old hen.
Well, then it's long toward midsum-
mer, and she loafs awhile, and then she
takes another laying spell, and lays an
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brings on a fall brood that sell as be-
fore, and we credit her with another
dollar, the half of the produce of an
other hatch of eight chickens, which
makes So to her credit over and above
all expenses.
Then she lays little more and sheds
her feathers and knocks about and
scratches for living until toward the
holidays, when she takes another spell
of laying and lays a good lot of eggs
by Christmas and quits, but doesn't sit
because it is too cold. But along about
February she sets in again and lays
right sharply for month or more until
she is around to the time where she
started in last year, and in footing up
we find she has paid all expenses and
showing for 25 cent hen.
wintering Bees In the Ground.
Attention is called in The Experiment
Station Record to experiments on shell
tering bees from the cold of winter by
burying the hives in the earth. Holes
were dug, the hives, stocked with hon
ely, placed in them and the soil packed
around them. In the first experiment,
1901, the bees died from insufficient
food.
In the subSequnt trials in 1923 and
1894 more honey was supplied, and
the result proved successful, much
smaller proportion of the bees being
dead, after three months interment,
than in the hives that had wintered
above ground. There appeared TO be no
loss from suffocation.
The Live Stock Sanitary Association.
A permanent organization has been
formed at Washington under the name of
National Live Stock Sanitary associa-
ton, of the stock sanitary commission
ers and their secretaries, the state vet
erinarians of the several states and 9th
er state and national officials having
supervision of the diseases of live stock
J. A. Potts of Wisconsin was elected
president; DR.. Robert Ward of Mary
land is vice president, and A. NJ.
Brownlee of Illinois is the secretary.