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.<e. —Ed.]
Filing. —Very young chickens
: have to be fed regularly until
t are able to run about in quest
1 ’ 0 In their ca§e most persons
in is section use corn-meal slightly
but experience has taught
to believe that corn “grits,” giv-
• ( hy is best suited to* their wants,
o-ed my young chickens regularly
l ' ll! times each day. [ln regions
* u ‘ther North and less favored for
lt'y growing, it is usual to feed
>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. Break in halves when eaten,
and spread with butter —a nice rel
ish for breakfast, lunch or tea.
To Glaze Shirts.—To every
quart of made starch add a teaspoon
ful of starch and one of white soap,
scraped fine. Boil the starch, after
adding hot water, until you have it
as thick as you wish.
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in like asking me how I like one of nay children.
In foot if you were to aak the children I’m afraid
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of his justly celebrated Fianoe. Tours truly,
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