Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-09-27
sea.onable poultry Hints.

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4 farmer can follow.
Seasonable poultry Hints.
Give the hens intended for breeders
sweet, nourishing food, and keep them
in motion, but do not overfeed with
corn in any form, for very fat fowls
are poor breeders and are more liable
to lay soft shelled eggs.
If you have not plenty of pine nee
dies on hand, do not fail to lay ina
stock this fall, for they make excellent
nests all the year round, and are par
ticularly good for the sitters In the
spring. They are clean, cool, and be-
ing free from anything green, are no
attraction for the hens to scratch In for
food.
The symmetry of the stock and the
size and color Of the eggs can be In
fluenced largely by care in selection
Of eggs for Matching using only those
which are large, dark, and from well
formed fowls.
Keep the houses clean, and when
space is limited and the fowls can not
get out much, be all the more particu-
lar, and do not overstock A flock OF
eight or ten is about right and can be
nicely managed and kept in good
thrift. Clean of under the roosts each
morning, and scatter dry sand on the
boards at each cleaning. Rake and
stir up the ground at every cleaning,
so that the bottom will be fine and dry
for the busting Of the fowls.
The tools hand;est for cleaning are
large sheet iron bucket of the capacity
Of two ordinary pals, piece of clap
board about two feet long for cleaning
off the roost board, and garden rake
for taking up the feathers and litter
from the bottom Of the house. With
the use Of these it is but little work
to keep house clean.
Using Fowl Manure in the Garden.
People often ask how to make use
of fowl manure in the garden. 1t is
one Of the most powerful manures that
we have, and if applied carefully, Gun
not fail to show good results. The
fact of it's being SO strong causes us
to use it with caution, and the way it
is found to answer best Is to mix it
with fresh loan. sifted so as to div.>le
it into fine particles, and apply it as a
top dressing; the roots will quickly find
it, and rain or watering will carry
the nutrilnent down to the lower :oots,
so that nothing will be wasted. Ma
nures of this kind ought to be kept In
a covered shed, as the rain soon carries
off the nutritive qualities. The Only
difficulty with it is that it is impossible
to get it in sufficiently large quantities,
as besides the flower garden, 1t Is
sometimes used for top dressing such
things as tomatoes, cucumbers or any
gross-feeding vegetables that are get
ting exhausted without cropping. 1t
has been applied extensively to such
crops as these, using clear, turf loan,
chopped up roughly, and a ba,rowful
of loan to about a gallon of fowls
manure, ramming it firm. 1t makes
fine, healthy and clean plants. In the
flower garden care must be taken not
to use this manure too freely, or the
plants will run to leaf instead of flow
er; this is the reason why it should be
applied as a top dressing, for then it
can be used more or less freely, accord
ing to the strength Of the plant.
Top Dressing Winter Wheat and
Rye.
Instead Of hauling the barnyard ma
nure to the field as made, many formers
pile it up in the yard, and after the
wheat or rye is sown top-dress the field
with the thoroughly decomposed mater
ial, which is usually spread directly
from the wagon, entailing less labor
and more even distribution than by
any other plan. There is, however, a
question about making this application
after sowing. Those who have tried
both plans in the same field and upon
the same crop, prefer to apply the
manure just previous to the last har-
rowing, or ut least before drilling, as
this insures not only more even dis
tribution but filming Of all Jumps
and the covering with soil of large
per cent of the manure, placing it near
er the growing plant, where the soil
will absorb the fertility, instead of al
lowing it to escape, as much of it does
when simply scattered over the sur
face. The more thorough the har.
rowing the better the effect Of the
manure.
Winter Feeding of Pigs.