Show P poultry t ry sty my boys have baro four fourtson teon plymouth month rook hook ballets pallets pul pal leto lets selected last las fe all 1 little flee birds an good us ua oan can be these theia they havu have kept in a small house made very warm with tarred paper not felt thoy they haire boon been oil ad every morning tho the past winter a warm feed of bran und cornmeal mush the same name itt at noon with scrape from tho the table fable in the afternoon gram grain wheat oats oata buckwheat and corn till hll they woul woula deat eat and not cot waste the iho entire feed for or the winter cost luaa leas than five tellers they have always cleno clean fresh water aua and throe times dally it has baa lioan been made quite anita warm tho the house lias as been kept warm baci but well roll a box of coal agbey and dust duat and another of hone bono dust anil broken mihella have boon been always lie ble the lie droppings havo have been removal rem ovail onus such each week sua and by using abing kerosene and lard the house line haa boon been 10 limpl it free rae irom from lioe lice now for or results in a oo 00 they gave us eggs november december De oember january Jn nry february and in twenty six bix days of 0 marob march making from october lot lat till to tonight night march 1203 1263 eggs aggei or 11 14 dozen at the moderate flies of twenty cents per par dozen these have been worth 2105 21 05 taking out tho the food alve dollars leaves 16 00 bothe as the not net front on fourteen pallets tor for leas thin than six biz mouths montha but bat eggs have been very tory high the past winter ranging from twenty fire to sixty cents cants per dozen and the boys boya uro ore now rolling belling all they kut got at ono one dollar per dozen for or hutching hatching verily poultry its u well an aa all other stock will pay for or warm quarters qu artera plenty of acl food und and good oare care will farmers generally Ren orally ever learn this fool act lut ull all who keep poultry ro re member that bat the ho early chickens those hatched in murch und april abtil are the ones that give abundant eggs tho the next winter lie he who consults ulta will see bee that ull all his hia chickens obio keNa are am secured Baca early in tho the season Bai aitra should bo be taken that tho tha brooding hens beni are not by others othera which my may desire to lay in the mimo bamo east ahem M 4 hen shows a desiro to sit lit it if sho she Is not in u piece whore where she ehn will bo be free irao from intrusion remove ler her to ruch an one on bastan her bar into the box or barrel where she sha is iii desired to sit for deity a dry then it if upon releasing her she ghe returns to the plod give gird her bar this eggs dont have any fear it if rho alia remains reina iBs from the neat for hours houra on warm adayr she abo knows her bar business tho the embryo chicks will bear no lie little cooling oft without dima dama ago a I 1 have placed eggs partly inon ma baled into an aa icebox for long without di 7 the embryo if I 1 there is tho the least danger that the boa ben 14 lousy place an ointment of 0 sulphur and kerosene under her wings however ho should be betoken betaken taken not to toge get any on ilia eggs or I 1 tho lie forming for minK chicks will be killed sprinkling ul chur or pyrethrum iu in the nests nesta will wiil surely kill the lice with no damage to the eggs for twenty such each day for throe days daja before hatching butoli tug place the rega eggs in vona water this renders tho the shells more bibily broken and makes maha it possible tor for tho the chicks to lib erato brats themselves it I 1 the ho neat is ia on dump soda nods of earth this thia precaution la after hatching BOB bee to it that the chickens obi do not get wot wet as thing is more fatal chickens should not be permitted to roam retain in the wet grass grasa early in tho the morning table ref rise and moal meal with bran wet in in warm water or milk is la good food for chickens do not toed lead whole grain for some moms wee boeka ke as aa it an uses the feathers to d drop top and bringa ill health it II hens benn trouble rouble by an insatiable determination to sit ait confine them in u small ran pen with u b cockerel und they will soon be oared of the longing lon gingI anew new york tribune |