go USE AND FARM. .Aboat Chicken*. Airs. Mary C. West gives the * derS of the Mobile Register some re r.,i hints on the treatment of use* 111 , • ffls drawn from her own expen se,and Professor 3tellc, the agri cultural editor makes comments bn gome points, which we produce; I have made up my mind to write u a chapter on chickens J but that does not imply that I am going to te ll you all about what manner of creatures chickens are, j and how t bev are produced, for lam writing editors who must understand gome thing about these things, and for farmer’s wives and daughters know a thing or two as well as Ido myself. I don’t want to write for any body else—don’t intend to do i t _l and therefore I may confine mvself to a few practical hints, which I consider new, and which I hope to make of service to that class 0 f readers for whom they are in tended. Setting.— l always find it best to set hens under shelter and on the ground. If the last is not practica ble I have a green sod taken up thin and placed under the nest. This is very important, for the earth con tains heat enough to keep the eggs in wood condition while the hen is off In quest of food, something which boards or mere litter under the nest, wo uld not be sure to do. I make ; mv nests of straw pounded or bruis ed finely with the poll of an axe, usually laying it on a smoothly-cut stump ot a tree to pound it. Testing Eggs.— On the evening ot the sixth day after setting the hen, I go to the nest with a lighted candle, and bolding the eggs up be tween it and my eyes, carefully ob serve their appearance. If they look clear and red I know they are sterile, and so take them from the nest; they will not yet have been spoiled by the hen’s sitting upon them. The fertile eggs containing birds, will appear dark; that is, they will show no light, through them. It is great folly to let a hen s t all through her term on sterile eggs, finally converting them into “rotten eggs,” when they may be so (/elected by this simple pro cess; Assisting Nature.— About a week before the time for hatching, in dry samraer weather, I go to the nest when the hen is off, and sprinkle the eggs pretty thoroughly with a little warm water. I find this a great aid b nature in the process of hatching, a« it has a tendency to soften the shells. It applies equally to all kinds of poultry. Roosting. —l find that young chickens should have a clean and well ventilated roosting-fplace. It is f->r them to sit on the bare ground. The ground of their house should he thoroughly cleaned at least once a week, by scraping it out to the depth of, say two inches and sup plying the. place with fresh, loose earth. The loose earth acts as an -ah'orbent, and keeps the house pure ■i!ml the chickens in a healthy condi gn. [And the loose earth removed once a week from a large flock of chicken* is worth almost as much as be poultry, for it is one of the most excellent fertilizers that could be applied to plants. It should be Wr 1 stirred together and carefully ■ "ised until the time for using it is a ‘ ; tiaiul. If convenient, to cover it 11 'fly in boxes or barrels, all the ' flier. We have tested quite a va r:t‘v ‘>f fertilizers this season, but with results better than those by thescrapings of our chick- •iiou.oung bi r j s regularly, but sparingly, at "'U every two hours throughout ( '-lay; that is, where persons Poultry-growing a business. ' n, t poultry is fed twice p day— and eveneng—and corn, ■ oats and barley, with various k ra iden vegetables, finely chopped, generally make up the feed. la oar experience we have found them to dp as well as could be desired on boiled sweet potatoes rhashed and mixed with a small proportion of corn* meal—about one part of the latter to four or five ot tqe former. - r Irish carrots, turnips, pumpkins, squashes, apples or peach es treated in the same way will be found to ansyrer every purpose, Ed.] Doctoring. —My chickens are nev er sick, consequently I have no doc toring to do. 1 think sickness among fowls is more the result of bad man agement than anything else; and that doctoriug does more harm than good. Remove the cause and the effect will remove itself. I have,,on several occasions, when chicken cholera was bad in my neighbor hood, given, mixed in the food ot my fowls, small proportions ot powd ered charcoal, oxide of iron and flour of sulphur. I never had a true case of cholera, but do not pre tend to hold that the drugs adminis tered should have credit for it. I rather think that keeping the houses clean and their floors well covered with fresh earth has been the, medi cine that saved my chickens. Manuring Corn, etc. Farmers mostly depend upon the decomposition of the grass stubble and roots, and upon lime, as a ma ture for the corn crop. We have no doubt that ranch valuable matter is thus rendered available to this crop; but we think every good farm er should provide himself with a portion of animal manure, to give the corn an early start. Composting in the hill supplies this want, and we are not sure but that those farmers who ; haul out their manure in the winter and spring, and thus apply it to the corn ground* are getting the worth of their money, better than those who allow their manure to waste away in an exposed place until fall. It has been proven in many in stances tlfot guano and super-phos phates, have increased largely the yield of corn. The following method of raising a corn and potato crop on the same I around, might be tried on a small tO ’ scale : A gentleman informed us, that one season when planting corn, he occasionally threw a few pieces of potatoes in the hills, which were covered with the corn. When he cut his corn he found a large hill of potatoes under the corn roots; though the corn where the potatoes as good as the other hills. The.corn crop is the most reliable and valuable of all others. Do not fail to plant a large quantity. Crowe, it is said, will not light upon a corn field, if a string be stretched around the field. Chickens can be rendered nearly harmless by giving them plenty of corn. Soiling for Dairy Stock.—The question of soiling dairy stock seems just now to be claiming more than usual attention. So far as our ob servation has extended we find those who are most successful adopt a plan which is in reality a compro mise between the old system and that of soiling. One great fault of the soiling system is a want of exer cise enough to promote health. We tried it last season upon our dairy cows, by having them out in pasture and feeding them as much green corn as they would eat, and we think this as good a plan as any, and will suit many of our dairymen, who can readily keep in pasture during the summer. This plan will enable them to keep the same amount of stock the whole year. Graham Dodoers, —Take one pint ot buttermilk; stir into it one quart of Graham flour, and add a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in wa ter ; add to this 1 well beaten egg and a pinch of salt, with bolted flour enough to make a very stiff batter. Butter flat tins, and take out the batter with a large spoon in small cakes. Bake for twenty min utes, or until 1 well‘browned, in a hot oven. 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