Middletown transcript., 1895-05-04
Agritultural.
OF Interest
ITO Farmers
THE POULTRY YARD.

THE POULTRY YARD.
The great secret of success witt
poultry is loving them SO that it is
pleasure to care for them.
The cheapest cholera medicine is tt
build portable houses, SO that they ma.
be frequently moved to clean places,
When shipping dressed fowls b
sure that all the animal heat is driver
from the carcasses before they art
packed.
Poultry that is to be used on the table
if confined and fed on corn and clean
water few days it will be found that
the flesh becomes sweet, juicy and ten
der.
To procure eggs avoid overfeeding
and feed plenty of ground bones,
scalded bran, oat and barley meal and
milk mornings and change of whole
grain at night.
Chopped onions are the best green
food that can be fed to fowls, both old
and young. Onions are not only invig-
Grating, but excellent when the fowls
are subject to colds.
For roup dissolve a teaspoonful of
chloride of lime in pint of water
and give the bird teaspoonful of the
solution. Burn tar and turpentine in
the hen house after the poultry has
gone to roost at night.
Geese are more distinctively grazers
than any other kind of poultry, and
will keep the grass as close as will
sheep. Besides the value of their flesh
as food, the feathers are an item of con-
siderable profit, and should pay all
keeping expenses.
A beginner in poultry raising should
start with few fowls, and gradually
enlarge as he learns the requirements
of the business. If one begins with
large number he is liable to bring lice,
roup, cholera and other undesirable
things into his yards.
Even when heLs are kept in large
numbers, cost Of about ST. each per
annum must be counted upon, besides
cost for labor. To obtain any profit
large average production must be kept
up. 1t will pay best to try for both
eggs and young broilers.
Make hens lay when eggs are highest,
and breed stock when they are lowest.
The pullets should be wol th So each as
prospective winter layers. Kill all the
heis over three years of age. Breed
as many chicks as possible, for they all
represent so much money.
A few hens in single enclosure will |
pay profit invariably, if properly
caled for, but lot of neglected,
crowded fowls will seldom return the
food they consume. 1t does not follow
that you can ge. 5000 net profit from
100 hens just because 10 brought you
$40.
1t is especially true Of the poultry
yard that whatever is worth doing at
all is worth doing well. An intimate
every day and every hour acquaintance
with the flock is what leads up to the
profits. Do not become disgusted with
their appearance at moulting time, but
give them all the more care.
Geese may be grown profitably where
they have a good range, and where
there is good supply of waste vege-
table products. They are pretty large
caters, but get most of their snbsis-
tence, if permitted, from compara-
lively worthless articles. They need
1 little grain to give variety.
There is sad lack of profit, asa gen.
eral thing, in handling chickens, just
because there is sorry lack of man
agement somewhere. The essentials
ire the countless little things which
10 one can teach another, and
hese have more to do with the general
'ules. The blood, the care, the warm !
helter, the proper food are all on the ,
ist, but only the practical man learns '
hose that are not written. q
You sell your scrub chickens at your
'rocer's for So dozen; your neighbor ..
axes in bis Plymouth Rocks of the \
anne age, and gets twice the price
nd that twice as readily. Are you t
till going to continue raising scrubs? b
What stronger hint to prosperity can G
ou demandP Do not even follow your
Id plan of exchanging roosters with a :,
or trading settings of eggs, q
ut adopt some good breed out and out, G.
nd then you will love your work. b
The refuse screenings from the c
7heat bin or the corn crib will not do P
0 depend upob; might as well expect !
cow to do we'll and make good butter :,
ihen fed on mouldy hay. The chickens 4
hould have good meal now and then
+ ground wheat, barley meal or other Of
ariety that We know will supply sus- N
,nance and materials they need for q
DING good work. =
The Alabama experiment station ::
as been making some tests of egg p
roducers and general-purpose fowls. &C.