Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-06-23

sung by nine-tenths of the poultry
writer's, Early chickens are desirable
and proper and every breeder should
have as many as possible.
However, all chickens cannot be ear
ly chickens else the crop would iun
short. We must have 'atc slring
chickens, summer chickens and au-
tumn chickens, Indeed, the raising of
chickens, to be successful and profit
able, must be like continuous chain.
Some chickens all the time. Too many
chickens and overcrowdlng ct no time.
We favor the summer brood. Don't
say that summer chickens are no good
and won't thrive. They nre desirable,
and they will thrive, Hatch them
where you will, and as you will Sum
mer eggs Will hatch most anywhere.
Use kerosene about the nests and
coops to prevent lice and mites. when
they hatch make a movable shed coop
1--WE feet long, four feet wide and four
feet high. Roof It with oiled canvass.
Cover the back and one end with the
same material. Make the front AID
one end of lath, with a door of the
same material In the open end. Two
persons can carry such u shed caop
anywhere, Place 1t in the shade where
the chickens can have free rpnge. in
and out. around and about at win
Keep the hen in the enclosure, and
feed and water her and her chickens
therein. Such a coop will protect the
chickens, and yet not connre them.
With 1t the summer brood can be
raised successfully and without any
trouble to speak of.
Ten such ooops should enable n
breeder to raise hundred summer
chickens. Ten dollars wluld cover
cost of the coops. The chickens, II
purebred, would be worth 500 or more.
The coops, mind. II painted once a
year, would last several years.
Isn't II worth our while 10 try the
summer brood?-H. B. Geear in Rural
World.
Occasionally we see the record of n
Devon herd as butter-makers. In
earlier days the Devons had not a
bad record as butter-makers. This
state, says the Mirror and Farmer of
NSW Hampshire, boasts of q good
milking herd of this breed. In those
early days, when great butter records
were not heard Of, the earl of Lei
cester claimed 200 pounds per COW, a
yield that mlddle-aged dairymen once
regarded a fine herd average. A, b.
Allen, great admirer of the Devons,
asserted that his herd OF thirty-flye
COWS often contained animals that gave
eighteen quarts per day.
MIR. Coleman, well-known English
writer, some years ago stated that Tie
best COW that he saw on a trip through
England was Devon. The COW re-
terred to gave twenty-one pounds of
butter in week. a Delaware dairy
man received nineteen and a half
pounds of butter In a week from a
Devon. Ward Parker of this state
claimed to have made pound of butter
from 1--WE pounds of Devon milk. A
recent report Of a herd in this country
claims for twelve Devon cows a Yield cf
butter OF 2i2 pounds per year for zach
cow. This is very good for these little
cows.
No more vigorous cows are to be
found and we doubt whether any If the
pure breeds will show animals SO little
affected by tuberculosis. on the noun
tains of Utah they proved very hardy
and wei adapted to climbing and to
short picking and were fair dairy c,ws,
We have no thought of specially COM
mending them to dairy men, and drun
INTO these remarks as the outcome OF
the record referred to that has come to
hand. 1t would seem that these anil
mai are to the cattle kind what The
Souhdowns are to the sheep breeds
compact, hardy, neatly turned, hand
some and adapted to hard conditions.
while not without merit, the day OF
larger things seems to nave excluded
this, at one time. exceedingly popular
breed from public attention,