Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-10-16
Poultry Notes.

Poultry Notes.
Use carbolic acid occasionally to de-
stroy lice.
Give poultry variety Of both dry
and cooked food.
Scatter the food so that the fowls
will not eat too fast.
Filth, the accumulation Of dropping,
is a prolific cause of disease.
Glover helps to keep the hens in good
laying condition.
Mix all soft foods given fowls with
milk instead of water.
When hens lay thin shelled eggs it
shows they need lime.
Ground bone is one Of the best ways
Of supplying lime to poultry.
Secure good ventilation without ex-
posture to drafts Immediately upon the
fowls.
A table fowl should be fat, as a
preponderance of fat indicates excel
lent condition and health.
One advantage with ducks is that
they grow so rapidly that money car
be made quickly.
The object Of caponizing is to in.
prove the quality and increase ths
weight of the fowls.
Old newspapers can often be used
try house warm.
Sifted coal ashes and dry wood dust
makes one of the best mixtures for
the dust baths.
Lice do not attack fowls that are in
a good condition as soon as they do
those in an impoverished state.
Farm Notes.
Hard coal ashes make good mulch
for current bushes.
Strong I've made Of hardwood ashes
will cure ivy poisoning. Better if put
on hot.
+ Keep the colts growing. If the pas
ture gets poor, give them bran and
oats in the field.
Those who contemplate putting out
an orchard next spring should manure
the ground this fall.
All wire fences are made visible to
stock by attaching scrap tin to the
ton wire. A good use for. waste pro-
duct.
Pack the grapes for keeping in we'll
baked sawdust To keep them a
short time lay them on a shelf in a
dry, cool place.
Keep down the raspberry canes; four
or five good canes to every four feet
of row will give better quality OF
fruit than If thicker.
Try dropping powdered caustlc
potash in the mole runs and see II
# does not drive the rooters away
TO more agreeable forage grounds.
Some townsfolk slur people by call
ino them "old farmer" or "hayseed."
This infers ignorance when farmers
are not ignorant nor uniformed. 1t
takes the smartest kind Of people now
a-davs to become farmers. The farm
or not being accustomed to town ways
sometimes appears green when IN
town. but the city man is far more
| yerdant when he is in the country
In digging potatoes known to be
n,re seed and of the same variety ire
ouent variations may often be noticed
| Some Of these are due only to differ
ences of soil, but others are true
"sports," and will reproduce their
kind if planted another year. If these
snorts are unusually productive ano
valuable they should be carefully
saved for planting. In this way some
of the best varieties Of potatoes have
been originated, one or two kinds OF
| Late Rose being prominent instances
Better butter can be made on the
form than at the creamery II the same
ooro is piyen. The managers Oh
oroameries secure the best assistance
70 he had. and they aim to put gooo
b,t+ar on the market. The advantages
nossessed by the farmer who makes
dairy butter are that he can Ieeo us
cows ON the best foods, use more care
and work with cleaner surroundings
large proportion of creamery Duttel
- not uniform, as the milk comes
from many sources, but dairy ouItel
"a injured In the churning ana manipu
Iation of the product by inexperienced