THE COUNTRY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 101, 29 April 1910, Page 9

THE COUNTRY.

2. GOOD PO__,___"_■ HOUSE ON Keep fine grit and charcoal where the THE ______ chicks can have access to it at ail times. They must have the grit, and while they To house poultry successfully a good can'get alon - without tbe charcoal, they house ; s necesea-v. What is a good will do a great deal better if they have house?' With some "good" means it. It aids digestion and promotes "warm," wish others it means "expen- j health. give" and so on, but a good poultry house ; A pint of crude carbolic acid mixed need be neither warm nor expensive. j with a gallon of kerosene makes an exA good poultry house should have cellent spray for poultry houses, and it several qualities, and the lack of these is cheap.

COLOX- POULTRY HOUSE SUITABLE FOR THE FARM FLOCK. The hou=e as illustrated, and which is described in the adjoining article, is well adapted for use on the average farm.

will make a most expensive house un-' suitable- Tne house should form a shelter —where hens will be fairly comfortable both in winter and in summer, not too cold in the cold weather, and not too hot in the warm weather. It should have plenty of light. The sun is the best disinfectant we have, and windows should be put in up and down, not from side to side, so that the sun in passing over during the day can shine on the greatest portion oi the floor. We must not have so much window that the day and nieht temperature will be too varied. _—rally one-third of the front wall may foe allowed for the window.

It should have good ven_——ion. A house without ventilation is always damp. To have healthy hens we must' have a good circulation of air throughout the day. Good ventiiation carries off the dampness which is the worst condition in the poultry house. The house should be free from draught-. A small _o_se having window and door at one side is the simplest house to keep free -•irosa drangbt, and is a house in which poulfery can he kept comparatively free from d_jeas—.

The advantages of the colony house is that we can combine all these good

Have you ever tried hen manure about your flowers? Fine. And for garden purposes nothing can beat it. It is free from weed seeds. For the floor of the hen houses next winter nothing is better than dry leaves. Have a lot of them stored away against that time of need. How does whitewash help the hen house? It buries the mites and their eges and keeps them from ever coming into that quarter again. If your hens are laying strong, as they should be, keep up the daily supply of green food and see that they have plenty of crushed shells, gravel and sand. Have your doubts about some of those old hens going through winter, have you? Then don't risk it. Let them go right off as soon as they are in good flesh. Maybe those old hens will go through a_.ot_Ter winter all right, but you will not get much out of them. Let them go. It is the young hen that does the business.

Do you know what makes chicks "crop-bound?" Concentrated food with little grit will do it. Give some bran with your ration, and never fail to have grit where they can get it.

qualities at a very low cast. The _o_>e can be moved out in the spring-to the orchard, or the pa_t_re, later to the root field or the stubble, and if the hopper is filled with small grain- the hena require very little attention, except to -gather the eggs. If i__ning water is available, it -does away with the trouble of watering. When the frost comes it can he hauled up to the barn, where it will be sheltered and he more convenient to feed the hens. If more, than 25 'hens are desired, two bouses such as shown might be built Daring the s___ner or after the chicks axe hat—led the hens can he put into one house and the other ho—-c used as an outdoor brooder house for the chicks. The pullets can be left in this house for winter, and the hens can be culled out to ggf—ei__t; nu_—ter for the other house. Tans one house can he kept for pullets and the other for year olds. The" -l-Stration is 8 x _— t floor, and can be built as high or as low as de6_—L It is single 'boarded except at the roost end. The runners can be made of two poles from six inches square up. It requires ■ about- I_QO - feet of timber to build this house. The roof can be made of lapping or rough timber covered with, felt." The attic should be floored with poles- s__—tent to hold straw aboye, whichhelps to keep the house dry in winter and "cooT in stumner. If shade is Sot _v____le 'the noose may be set up on Hocks.

Those who have used this style of _o_se on the ordinary farm speak very highly of it. I prefer it to any continuous stationary house I have used. The eta-ding for movable house need not — an high as- is necessary for a station-—y-structure; four feet will he sufficient and Trill make it much cheaper though it gill not be so convenient to work in. —Ie ceSing may be put up higher than — shown —Ahe lllnstratio-. — By F. C. Elfcrd, in "Farm and Baity/

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Lice will eat the profit right off your ducks. Keep the laying hens- busy in scratehfcg a good part of the day. A broiler should weigh at least two Pounds. Stewers may run up to three. That old rooster is a tyrant now. Get tor fat and let him go to the market, better off without him. .Hot water is good to settle with mites. *t Mils both the eggs and the mites thai ■re already doing business. Scrape up an acquaintance with your The tame hen is the happiest, ted happy hens bring in the dollars. . As the nights get colder, drive the Joung birds out of the trees and get them in the habit of roosting in the house.: g Little chicks will not do a bit of harm ■W-Sift garden. They pick np lots of bags «nd tJangg that axe no good to the yegc- - <

HEALING IiOTTO-f FOB, HOBSES

A correspondent gives the following receipt for making a remarkable healing lotion for cuts and wounds &n horses. It is made entirely from blue gumleaves, and, he says, has proved a wonderful remedy. Boil 2ilb= of good, bright, full-blown bine gum-leaves toya gallon of water for four hours. It is then fit for use if required immediately. If blotted it would ferment. Therefore to obviate this, add directly the liquor is taken off the fire a-quarter of an ounce of salicylic acid to a gallon of the decoction, and it wfll keep good for years. It is a good plan to add one part of colonill glycerine to 20 parts of the liquid; but this is not absolutely necessary, though it cer__ttly improves it by giving it a more oily nature. Colonial glycerine is much cheaper than the ordinary, but equally efficacious. The glycerine, if adtied, must not be put in till the liquid is cooL 1 To give it a better appearance, allow \ it to s_—d for' a few days, then strain I through flannel, but this also is not i really necessary. Even with the glycerine! the miswire will not cost more than threepence per bottle, providing 'a fabsupply is made at a time; and what a saving this will be every one knows, who has had to purch-sa veterinary remedies or employ a vet. F__C_— _■ ON TYPE _—' SHOBTHORNS. / It is well for the young breeder to thoroughly decide in the first place wnat i type of cattle he intends to breed, whe- | ther for beef, or milk, or, what is better. | for both, and then to buy stock bred on i these lines, and'possessing as ne.ir as he; can get them the same type and style. I It is" as well tc start economically by i bnying females worth the money. Fancy i and extravagant prices are only for mil-1 lionaires. Jt good judgment is used very ' excellent foundation-, stock can be bought j in without going into hundreds, and hay- I ing bought in t_« female portioi of trie j herd with ecohany. it is quite adrriU-1 sihle to launch out in the purchase of a good sire. A really good sire ha- never • >et been boughs in too dear. a.n.l never j will be. By the purchase of gO"d. well-' bred work—i_ fe.cales." and —iat-ini th^ai j v.-ith a first "class sire, a good herd can j soon be built <;p. and money is not i thrown away in attending sales, hewever far apart they may be, if the rigiit j __.WTi—l is to be found there. There is no mors pleasant w-av of combining; business with pleasure. and Stockbreeder."