POULTRY NOTES.

Lake County Press, Issue 976, 22 August 1901, Page 5

POULTRY NOTES.

[Bv an Expert.] If you have not mated your hens, it is quite time you did so. All heavy breeds should now be hatched, Langshans, Wyandot tea, Orpingtons, and Plymouth Rocks should all be out by the end of this month. 51inorcas, Leghorns, and other light breeds are best hatched in September and October. All chicks should be out before the end of November. Fowls running at large, enjoying sunshine ana shade, are seldom troubled with roup. Poulty breeding as carried on in England and still more in America, offers many lucrative positions to experts and others, who by study and experience iiave become proficient on all matters connected with tlie industry Several County Councils iu England have now paid lecturers going through the various districts advocating the more general cultivation of the hen, and more up-to-date methods with a view to better profits. America isstiil further ahead. Considerably over 400 writers, reporters, etc., are constantly employed on the 35 or 45 journals devoted to the poultry question in that country, and quite a number of willpaid teachers are employed at tlie experimental stations of the various States, while tlie numerous large poultry plants have each well recompensed managers, and it is stated that over 30 commercial travellers are on the American roads whose business is looking for and booking orders for the various incubator firms which they represent. Ou the upper reaches of the Thames the visitor is often regaled by a very app tising dish locally known as “ sudden death.” It is very popular, and having tested it ourselves, we can speak from exp 'i’ieiiC3. It obtains its name because it is usual to go and catch your chickt n and chop its head off, letting it bleed while you boil up a pot of water. You dip it in the boiliiu: water, which enables you to pull of!the skin with the feathers and all. Then draw, split and broil it, with pepper an I salt to taste, basting with butter, and putting more butter on the hot bird when served. Chickens weighing from I Alb to -I, Hi are the most suitable fur this treatment.