Show Y POULTRY AND GARDENING the avi rit ill Tog ther like nuat lot and ail sauce Si lilt along with the poultry raising every ono one should run A garden ardon for two reasons first half of the teed feed for or the chickens in 11 1 1 sui summer niner comes froin the garden and second the poultry m aluie ought to be fertilizer for such a garden on ordinary soil these thesa are two items generally overlooked in duill try raising raisin it is cheaper to raise the lood in your own garden than to buy abny it and over and above all of tins this ou oil NN will 11 i have beai ly enough to supply your ox i table with fresh vegetables all tin oils 1 the whole suni summer nier the poultry n needs green leaves areen food roots berno and seeds seed ind it gi eat amount of all of those these can call be fathered Kl iA for them in the gardon garden where poultry is 13 not kelt keit there is 13 a 1 great deal of waste in the gaiden gaidel tor for tile alie green tops of vegetable half grown roots and pods ire arc always useless leas for the table tile tho time lime spent in iii cultivating tile tha garden inight legitimately be put down own as conscientious wol k for the poultry at the end of the year there would be ba so much saving 11 the cost of food then the outlay for the garden would simply be for seeds tools labor and in on the land the poultry manure we fire are going to make supply all the fertilizing til izing material tor for the soil the poultry droppings should bo be gathered at leat least weekly from the hen roost or the yard and sprinkled over with line dust the best plan is to take every barrel of tins this mixture an and 1 it into a quantity of muck gathered front from some pond near by mix tho the two up lip thoroughly and a good fertilizer is prepared pie pi pared both for spreading over the ground and for dropping in the tha hills and i ow tho the poultry manure furnishes plenty of mineral and heating elements while the muck is rich i in n n nitrogenous i tro genous material decayed roots and plants the tha dan danger gerin in using poultry manure in ill the chilli und and hills hill is that too much will be hi put in so that the seeds will be burned up tip but when it is thoroughly mixed with muck this danger is partly removed after tile the garden crops have all been gathered in the autumn tire the chick chickens tris should lie turned into it fur for a range T they iley will dig 1119 down into ito all the sott soft mellow ground and root out till nil the worms and grubs that may inay lie be preparing for a i N winter va n s heibei nation they will also snatch up tile seeds of weeds and foreign bodies and prepare pr epiro the ground for ul ne n e the alie next spring these chuse items are seldom taker into consideration b by it those oo writing about poultry but lit in the long run th they 0 furni no very small mail pr profits olits annie U C W webster eh in american cultivator |