Year: 1870

by insinuating the end Of . warm board
under their heels. By the time / was
twenty years old, I really suppose had
raised more poultry than any one individual
in all the section round about there. The
very chickens came to know nv talent, by
and by. The youth OF both sexes ceased
TO paw the earth for worms, and old roos-
ters that came to crow remained to pray.'
when l passed by.


have had so much experience in the
raising offowls that cannot but think that
few hints from me might be useful to the
Society. The two methods have already
touched upon are very simple, and are
only used Ia the raising OF the commonest
class OF fowls one is for summer, the 9TH
er Is for winter. In the one case, you
start out with friend along about eleven
O'Clock on summers night ,(not later,
because In some States especially in Cali
fornia and Oregon-chickens always rouse
up just as midnight and crow from ten to
thirty minutes, according to the ease or
difficulty they experience in getting the
public walked up), and your friend carries
with him sack. Arrived at the hen
roost (your neighbor's, not your own,)
you light a match and hold it under first
one and then another pullet's nose until
they are willing to go into that bag with
out making any trouble about it, You
then return home, either taking the bag
with you or leaving IL behind, according as
circumstances shall dictate. NB.I. hare
seen the time when It was eligible and ap-
propriate to leave the sack behind and
walk of with considerable velocity, with
out ever leaving any word where to send
il.


In the case of the other method men
toned Tor raising poultry, your friend
takes along covered vessel with q
charcoal fire in it, aud you carry a long
slender plank This is a frosty night.
understand. Arrived at the tree, or
ience, or other hen-roost, (vour own, if
you are an IDIOT warm the end of your
plank IN your friends fre-vessel and
then raise 1t aloft and case it up gently
against a slnmbering chickens foot.
Ii the subject of your attentions is true
bird, he will infallibIy return thanks
with sleepy cluck or two and step out
ana take up quarters on the plank, thus
becoming 80 conspicuouslY accessory
before the fact to his own murder as 10
make it a grave question in our minds,
As 1t once was in the mind of Black stone
whether he is not really and deliberately
committing sucicide in the second de-
gree. But you enter into a contem-
station OF these legal retincments subse-
quently-- not then.


When you wish to raise tine, large.
donkey-voiced Shanghai rooster, you do
Y with lasso, just rs you would bull
~ IS because he must be checked, and
choked etfectualy, too. 1t is the only
good, certain way, for whenever he men
lions matter which he is cordially inter-
c'ted in, the chances are ninety-nine In a
hundred that he secures somebody else's
immediate attention To ii, too, whether it
be day or night.


The Black Spanish is an exceedingly
hne bird and costly one, Thirty-tiye
dollars Is the usual figure, and tittv not
uncommon price for specimen Even
lar ana haff apiece, and vet are SO un-
Wholesome that the city physician sell
iOn Or never orders them for the work.
lou-e. Still have once OF twice pro-
tured as high as a dozen ut time for
nothing, III the dark OF the moon, The
best way To raise the Black Spanish
iowl, Is 10 90 in the evening and raise
soop and all. The reason | recommend
his method, is, that the birds being 20
ibsurdlv valuable, the owners do not
permit them To roost round promiscu-
pu,ly, bur put them in a coop as. strong
! flre-proof safe, and keep it in the
>itchcn at night. The method speak
u Is not Il bright and satisfying success.
and yet there are so MANY little articles
i rertu about a kitchen that if YOU fail
on the coop you can generally bring
away something else. brought away
! nice steel trap, one night, worth nine
ty cents.


But what is the nse of my pouring ont
my whole intellect on this subject: |
aave shown the Western New York
Poultry Society that they have taken TO
their bosom party who is not Spring
chickens BY any means, but man who
knows all about poultry, and is just as
high up in the most efficient methods of
raising it as the President of the institu-
ton himself. | thank these gentlemen
right pleasantly and heartily for the hon
orary membership they have conferred
upon me, and shall stand at all times
ready and willing to testify my good
feeling and my official zeal by deeds as
well as by hastily penned advice and
information. Whenever they are ready
70 go to raising poultry, let them cali
for me just any evening after eleven
O'Clock aud shall be on hand promptly.


MARK TWAIN.


7. S.-To the Recording Secretary:
| know two or three good places