The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1895-08-20
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

Sunshine in the chicken ward is
medicine for the little chirpers.
Tho best and strongest chicks come
from two-ycar hens mated with
good, strong cockercl
Lack of clean, sharp grit has some.
thing to do with bowel complaint of
young chicks. Feed their soft feed
gu boards, strewn with sharp, clean
sand.
Watch the least sign or Indication
of dropping. The young chick in
good health is pert and alert. The
dropping ones are generally troubled
with vermin.
Where large numbers of chickens
are compelled to range on limited en-
closures, nirslaked lime should be
used literally. Scatter it late in the
evening, after all the chickens have
gone to roost.
1t is economy if one has good roomy
coops to give largo broods to good
mother hens. When the chickens
have become large enough to be lit.
tie crowded the mother hen will be
ready to lay again.
Place the nests now in the coolest
and darkest places in tue hen house.
Gather the eggs two or thee times a
day if the flock is large This will
save trouble, as an egg broken in the
nest may introduce egg enting by the
hens II difficult thing to cure.
The scours, or bowel diseases. may
he caused by an excess of sloppy food,
by drinking water that has been stand
ing too long in the sun, and vermin.
Avoid the causes and prevent the trou-
bics. Where it exists wash around the
vent with warm water, drying care
fully with soft cloth.
Regularity in fee ling is what causes
rapid growth in chicks. They can be
given more of the same kind of food
ut long and irregular intervals, but
they will not attain the vigor or size
that regular feeding-tine methods Sc.
cure. See that their craws give cvi.
lencc Of feed at night after the last
ccling.
When flock has got in the habit of
egg eating, if they have never been
used to them, china eggs will break it
up. Pit them in all the nests and scatter
some around on the floor The hens
will have II picnic trying to eat the
china eggs. They Will, however, soon
give it up and will not then try on
good egg.
Keep the broods after the hen has
weaned them in the coops Mt night.
Let them mako 1T their home until
cold weather makes 1t necessary To
take them to permanent winter quar-
ters. It they should outgrow their
ioops, furnish them % larger one i'm
he same place. The coops should 10
cleaned md aired every day, also
lined % little occasionally.
Why is it two hens set at tho same
time, ON nests precisely alike. and
from eggs from the Same yard. all
laid the same day, vary $50 i'm thcir
bntchings? One hen will come of
with about twelve ont of thirteen coy..
and the other will hatch three or four
and have % lot of dead chicks I'm the
shell. These troubles exist i'm the best
regulated chicken farming.
Many hen has been uuiustly cen
surcd, il not roughly handled. for
breaking eggs i'm the most whilo set.
ting Often tho nests are made So
lcep md with sides 80 steep that the
eggs roll to the centre aud tho hen
cannot spread out as sho should for in.
rubation. Tho eggs nro easily broken
under such circumstances, aud the hen
is blamed for the Observation-Disclosures of
her keeper
The enemies of young chicks as.
pccially in remote country places. nrc
humorous Rats, mink, woascls.
skunks and tho pet cat must be barred
against ut night. Tho cat, no matter
if she would not touch chicken. is
as dangerous as the gun that is mover
known TO be loaded Hawke and
crows viii also cndeavor TO get taste
of spring chicken. The crows ara
only troublesome while they have
Oh cir young in the nest,