The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-12-12
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OF INTEREST TO F.1RT2ES.
 Secrotary Morton proposes to pursue fraudulent cheese with the same energy as fraudulent butter. That at least, is the substance of the replies he has made to certain people who had com plained to him that ha was not com demnlng the sale of oAeomargarllv so sharply as he ought. The secretary indi- cates in his letter that he is opposed to the sale of any compound under false name, but is willing that any harmless and nutritious article should be sold under it's real name and description.
 On the subject of winter eggs, W. F. Brown writes ip The Country Gentle man: q divide my hens into colonies of fifty to sixty each; l have a warm house. ten by tWen Iy-four feet for each colony; these houses are lined with tarred paper, and have plenty of win dows at the south. have a small yard connected with each house, and about the time our first bad weather comes in November, assort my hens, clip one wing of eau,h, and shut them up. l put the old hens in one house and the pull lets in another, and l aim to sell off each year the oldest hens, So as to have only one and two-year-oh hens on the farm. These hens arc fed three times q day, just as regularly as ruy horses. l feed in long troughs nailed up against the sides of the house, just Mgh enough so that the hens can stand on the floor and eat out of them. It is easier to s,,
 "The morning feed is wheat, or when can buy that which suits me, wheat screenings, which I can usually buy enough cheaper than wheat so l think 1t pays. The noon feed is always a warm one, either potatoes cooked and mashed, or finely cut clover hay scald- ed and a little ship stuff mixed through it. I find that six quarts of potatoes, mashed fine, with water enough added to make thin slop of it, then a quart of middlngs added, and enough of bran to stiffen it, make a feed for 15O fowls or a half bushel of cut clover, with two quarts of middlings makes a full feed for them. The night feed is shelled corn one ounce to a fowl.
 'In addition to this I keep ground oyster shells and gravel in reach of them all the time, and a dust bath at the end opposite the door, under the sloping floor, which catches the chop ings. The main floor of the poultry house is kept covered with leaves, and every day some of the, corn and wheat that we feed is scattered here; this keeps the hens scratching, and the exercise not only keeps them warm but makes them lay better.
 ''We aim to keep water by them all the time when it is not so cold as to freeze it. and always in winter to give it to them warm, so it will not freeze up so soon, and in the coldest weather we water three times a day.
 q have laid in my feed for the com ing winter at lower prices than usual, and expect to winter 125 fowls at an average daily cost of less than 20 cents, T bought corn at 25 cents per bushel screenings at 40 cents per hundred pounds, bran at SIP per ton, and mid dlings at $1350. I have plenty of un- nerchantable potatoes and clover hay and the cost for these will be but or cents day. I shall feed about eight pounds of corn a day, and the same of bran and middlings, and occasional ly I will substitute oil meal for mid dings, and I shall feed about fifteeT pounds of screenings a day. l always expect to feed at loss in November and December, as we do not get egg! enough usually to pay for the feed, bu every other month in the year gives z goodp rofit, and good part of the timt it does not take half the eggs to pa! for the feed.''
 The sitting of coal ashes, while a yer! economical proceeding, is certainly disa greeable one. It can, however, b rendered less intolerable by inclosins the stroker in a very tight receptacl when the sitting is being done. Such device has been described in The Farn Journal. The receptacle has a cover tha shuts down perfectly tight, and tn shaker slides back and forth on smootl bits of wood nailed to the sides of tn box. Such a device can be fitted to tn top of a closed box or barrel 0 if there is a cellar or a sufficient fa1 elsewhere where the ashes are to be de posted d tunnel can extend dow through the floor or down to the hea from a back portch platform. An ol shovel handle makes good handle fo the shaker. Below the shaker is a draw CT with a handle that falls over insid the drawer. This can be pulled out an the sifted ashes carried away to tn heap, the sitting operations being thu accomplished with as little dirt as ther could possibly be.