HOW TO RAISE FOWLS.

Bruce Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 1207, 28 May 1880, Page 5

HOW TO RAISE FOWLS.

George S. Frank, in the Indiana Farmer, gives his plan for raising chickens. It is as follows: —Take a box say twelve inches square, put in diy sawdust till about half full, then take some fine litter or straw, and make a good nest on this, not too deep, or the eggs will pile up in the nest too much. This is the way to keep the hen from breaking her eggs.

Some say those large hens break their eggs. I don't believe it. It is jumping down on them in tKe nest when the nest is at the bottom of a barrel or deep box. It is of great importance to have clean fresh eggs. As all depends on this gather your eggs as soon as laid ; then keep them from chilling and dampness. Put from six* teen to twenty-four under each hen, according to size and season. When hatched let the chick stay in the nest as short a time as possible. Take them out and put them into a box about twenty-four inches square, with a coop attached, so that it can be moved about from place to place with ease. Don't give too much feed while young. Give cooked feed, soaked in sour milk for 24 hours. Feed them three times a day, and give plenty of cold water. Occasionally give pepper, ginger, iron-rust, plenty of gravel and keep the chicks inside until the dew is all gone. Bo this and keep them out of all lain, and I will insui'e that you will have no gapes nor cholera nor death by any disease. "We raised four hundred last year with this treatment without gapes or cholera. Don't dispute with me but try the plan and then say what is the result. Do not let small and large run together. The large will trample on and starve the small one.s to death. Pat al>out thirty chicks with each hen in the hen box and coop until weaned, then put one hundred all of the same size together in a good, dry, warm roosting place. lam a farmer and have six small houses or pens for my fowls to roost. The houses are six by eight feet square, with roosts up from the ground. When large enough to get on they go upon them; if not they sit upon the dry ground. I have a picket fence round each house, about twenty-four feet square, to keep all in their om n places when fed. This is my own plan — my own device. We farmers dou't build like the city fanciers. We canuot afford the expense. All ray pens and coops would not cost 50dol.