Show DAIRY A AND NJ POUL POULTRY TRY interesting CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS liow how successful farmers operate this department ot of tho the barnt A rew feir as an to tho the cure caro of live lite stock and poultry Docto doctoring fowl vr V r N TUB THE A B D C of 0 poultry culture J 11 davis the author says doctoring fowls is time and money wasted t it if I 1 ever cured a fowl of 0 any affliction I 1 do not know it of course a few got well but they might have got well nad I 1 left them alone and I 1 believe that 1 I have killed scores ot of good birds by doctoring them by attempting to do something I 1 was entirely ignorant of as far as the cause or the proper remedy to bo be employed Is concerned it if there are any genuine remedies which I 1 doubt beware ot of drugs and condition powders in the poultry yard nature does not demand such things when you use them you violate nature and practically weaken debilitate bili bill tate and finally destroy entirely the the vitality of 0 your birds it took me years to learn this and it if others will profit by my experience they will save money time and much worry A fowl that has to be pampered with drugs to keep it on its feet is worthless it a fowl be very sick drugs will not save it but hasten its demise it if only slightly ailing the bird will 9 get ettwell well v without medicine decapitate roupy fowls and cremate their bodies it if the fowls have cholera remove the well ones to a clean location and thoroughly deodorize and clean up the old house and yards remove the sick and ailing bird to distant quarters feed them on boiled rice and give them scalded milk to drink for a few days and they may recover it they get worse under this treatment kill them and cremate their bodies and so treat all the afflictions to which fowls are subject this is the common sense way of managing them finally I 1 have no faith whatever in medicines for sick fowls and furthermore I 1 believe thousands of fowls are killed every year by drugs one trouble Is that the doctori doctoring rg of 0 fowls is merely guess work such a thing as a correct diagnosis is impossible but when a fowl is sick we are inclined to doctor it more especially it if the bird be valuable we think the fowl will die if something Is not done for it and so we take the risk and give it some medicine hit or miss if the fowl survives the dose ot of medicine ind and the affliction we give ourselves the credit tor for the cure and are thus e encouraged neou raged to repeat the dosing process whenever opportunity offers our experience Is that nine sick fowls out of every ten die it if they are badly sick there is only one affliction that I 1 ever have cured or can cure or enen cen now try to cure and that Is gapes in chicks I 1 happen to be very intimate with a man that happens to pose as a fancier although he has had but a year or two of experience with a few fowls in a closet at home he ha had a hundred pounds ot of quacks condition powders or egg tood food warranted to make hens lay and keep them healthy on the shelves were bottles of castor oil douglas mixture tincture of iron sulphur quinine calomel salts pain killer several preparations tor for roup cholera gapes etc it was a miniature dr drug ug store and all tor for tho fowls I 1 saw him kill hill several of his best birds by dosing them with castor oil at night for they were dead in the morning since then lie he has sold off all his fowls and quit breeding and declares there Is no profit to him in the business flavored As layers they they the best averaging front anion thirteen dozen twelve to 5 a year and 0 layers they are to lie be as aa esy winter the chicks are hardy and recommended nature mature langehans Lang Laug shans are good sitters bitters and early era being of gentle disposition moth th ahr are easily kept in confinement y free range being or on excellent fora ewasen they are ideal gerl owls fowls for or the tarm farm it will gather during the and ana year a canz conald crable proportion of their food La nushan is a stylish medium tie the bird not almi overgrown or i bearance pe arance of active nature and v lavely i disposition many confound the black with the black cochin this need not be as the following compari son between the two varieties show the black cochin la Is square la in shape shalie with heavy looking neck and legs plen j i ty of fluff and leg feathera fe feathering atherl aig cushion K rising from middle of back to teli tail tall tail short small and almost a concealed in by cushion neck breast cushion a and tal tai f all represented by convex 1 lines ines lang lan shan head small tor for size of 0 body comb 4 medium sized well up in front anil and arch shaped cochin hea head d larger than that of the and not so arch ed over the eye comb smaller low jg in J front and almost straight on top of ser eer i rations back short anil and conclave that of the cochin nie median illum in length slightly convex and large oln con vex cushion fluff moderate and close that of hie cochin extremely full and loose wings wine sonis what large and inclined d downward Own ward quite prominent at shoulders the 0 co o eban wings smaller ani and almost hidden by the fluffy plumage of cushion end luff fluff breast full deep and carried well forward cochin breast not so full and deep but broader legs medium in length small bone long t tapering toes color of shank bluish blade black showing pink between scales aca le which are elearly nearly black cochin legs shorter stouter larger bone toes boea shorter and stouter color of banks black or yellowish black there are two varieties of langehans Lang shans the 33 black lack and the white the black in plumage of neck back saddle sickles les a gloat glo y av 1 n PAIR OF BLACK LANIG SHANS metallic black blach with greenish sheen breast primaries tall fluff shank and toe feathers black the Is black of dark slate the white is pure white throughout the standard weight of 0 cocks for or both varieties is 10 pounds hens 7 pounds cockerels cockerell cocker els 8 pounds and pullets 6 pounds |