Show TO t vl iw CABBAGE fofol HENS binin I 1 t oil l in 10 ivi winter ter and annl jump vim tu to get ill at it we vo have it a nall stok of poultry but bat we hive have never suf fertA from chicken cholera ch or other diseases disc discuses ses that wo we often read of we feed ed whole corn evenings anti ami wheat screenings io from the null mill mornings wo havo hav 11 to buy nearly henrly all of our feed irom from W the 0 I 1 town grit mill we pay thatty live five centi a bushel for cenin and ninety cents a bushel for new corn or eighty cents for old we ha hao 0 it 11 comi common tion poultry house bouse 3 by 16 with plenty of glass aon south and west sides side we prefer the ground for i 1 ground round floor boor give tho the fowls arc fucali h wilier water every day till nil the oyster shells shell they can eat arid havea have a yard 30 by byj incao edwith with chicken wire I 1 planted some fruit trees so as to give partial shade in suii qui iner niner I 1 find my hock of heal will cata cat a good sizel bead of cab cabbage brigo per lay day I 1 hans hang alv cabbage up so they will have to cran their necks a little to get it I 1 hive have over cabbages aured in a trench on oil purpose for my iny poultry As soon as th tars 3 liens avis eo me with aith a they all come on a run and us its soon us its it is n hun hull lip they are hard nt lit work upon it wo we always hie eggs eggs halo havo been worth for a i lens imig time twenty five cents per dozen anil and upward our breed 13 plymouth rocks hocks and ami leghorn mixed nith ith it ii little lapushan splendid layers lanei a for or only one day in four years have wa teen been wit without houta a fresh egg feed lug ing whole whit some corn in real cold weather will plenty of green grass find abba abbago 0 o once in awhile I 1 spade up thi th i roost noor floor and also the inclosure mc losure nn gives them fresh car earth carth th to wallow in we also give them coil coal wies and some other things but the abigie treatment la is our general diet and liia has proved a great success lit in four years wo have lost three grown hens from broken agga within thein T 11 bip rn in mst st louis journal of agriculture |