Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1896-03-05

II & HSNL)I in any way liable
SNTu to be damp during
any part of the year
should be thoroughly drained and be
provided with a raised floor of boards
and upon top of all few inches OF
any earth or coal ashes. Dampncss
brings about lot of disabilities.
Exercise is of the greatest Importance
to fowls at all times. OF course while
they are ranging and foraging about
they get plenty. but when in winter
quarters, the case is very different and
every inducement must be given the
birds to work. For one thing have two
OF three inches of litter, leaves, etc,
scattered over the floor Of the house,
and give feed of wheat daily, mixing
1t up with this same litter. The fowls
must scratch in a lively manner to get
the coveted morsels. Another device is
to hang up cabbage, turnip. or beet,
just high enough so the fowl can get
bit by taking a good jump in the
air Happy, contented, laying hens are
always active birds.
AS to winter layers any good breed
will lay in winter if they are well
housed and cared for. Leghorns and
lightly feathered breeds will do as well
or better than Brahmas and Cochlns,
although the latter are a bundle OF
downy feathers. the only condition be-
ing that they be kept warm.
Lice are not as troublesome no" as
they were in hot weather, but they are
still here to be reckoned with. and poul-
try keepers must not slack their
vigilance. Give lice no quarter, for just
as sure as you allow them an inch they
| will take yard. Apply kerosene OIL
often to the roOsts and their bearings,
adding to the oil little crude carbolic
acid to render it still more effective as
a slayer of parasites. Be not sparing
of lime, but whitewash as often as you
get chance.
The more hens won can keep laying
we'll on the present cheap grain the
| better. 1t does not take many eggs
now to equal in value bushel of grain,
so this is the golden opportunity to
make hens pay. Do not feed nothing
but corn because corn is so cheap.
Rather feed g variety. using wheat,
| oats and bran as we'll as corn. No
one feed will permit hens to do their
very best
| Get up reputation for quality in
eggs and dressed poultry. Use business
methods to present your products to
| the markets. Other business men find
| it pays to have a distinctive brand to
place upon their goods. Why shouldn't
poultry-men follow the same example ?
Stamp your fresh eggs attractively,
calling attention to the fact that they
are really fresh, guaranteed to be such,
and that your name is so and so. AS
soon as customers find your integrity
to be unimpeachable. you will find the
business will make steady, healthy
! growth.
Hen houses must be warm in winter
to have the hens lay. TO this end bank
up with sods the cold north and west
sides of the poultry house. Put on each
window an extra outside sash and have
tightly-fitting shutters to cover over all
the windows. Paper is a remarkable
cold eXcluder, so tack 1t up over all
cracks. and even cover the walls
w. p. Perkins in Farmers Review.
Some Wisconsin Dairy Laws.
IA. Filled cheese. (Sec. /, CHI. 80
1880 No person, by himself or by his
agents or servants, shall manufacture
or shall buy, sell, offer, ship, consign
expose or have in his possession for
sale and cheese manufactured from OF
by the use of skinned milk to which
there has been added any fat which Is
foreign to such milk.
Is. Size of skimmed-milk cheese
(Sec. 2, ch. 30, 1880 No person, by
himself or by his agents or servants
shall manufacture. or shall buy, sell
offer, ship, cOnsign, expose or have In
his possession for sale. within this
state, any skinned milk cheese, OF
cheese manufactured from milk from
which any of the fat originally con-
tanned therein has been removed, except
such cheese is ten inches in diameter
and nine inches in height.
1G. Imitation butter. (Sec. 3, oh.
80, 1889 No person, by himself or by
his agents or servants, shall render OF
manufacture, SELL ship, consign, Offer
for sale. expose for sale, or have il
his possession with intent to sell, an!
article, product or compound mad,
wholly or partly out of any fat, oil oil
oleaginOus substance or COMPOUND
thereof, not produced from unadulter
ated milk or cream from the same, ant
without the admiXture or addition o
any fat foreign to said milk or cream
which shall be in imitation of yellow
butter produced from pure unadulterat
ell milk or cream of the same, with Of
without coloring matter: provided. tina
nothing in this act shall be construed
to prohibit the manufacture or sale o
oleomargarine in separate and dis
tinct form and in such manner as vii
advise the consumer of its real char
.acter, free from coloration or ingredien
that causes 1t to look like butter.
Fraud in Dairy Factories.
80. Penalty. (Sec. 1494a, r. S.