POULTRY NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11059, 10 May 1899, Page 3

POULTRY NOTES.

Crooked breasts nro r;ut?ec! through narrow roosts. Breed from healthy slock, never use any ' others in tho breeding wey*. Wild fowls, or, rather, fowls with a wild ' nature, very seldom pay for more than their food. i J Liino-wnsh the roosting house and keep | it oloan and thoroughly ventilated if you ! wish lo have healthy stock anil good res'ilts i for the egg basket. i It in (!o.i:i\i.lj|e lo give food milk-warm i and the motto of the poultry-fatiener should be, "Little and often." KeguJwil'.y in f ■;]- ing is an important matter, and lood should no!, in any circumstance;!, be permitted to stand ovor from one meal to the 1 next. Roup results from cold and neglect. Vigorous, hardy stock well managed will give no trouble from sickness. Alany kinds of trouble come from overfeeding, causing tho fowls to got sluggish. Green food will keep them in health. Tho winter food consists of a hot middling mash seasoned with salt and red popper; this is the morning feed, and a feed of wheat and corn is scattered in the rooms ill the evening. Hanj a head of cabbage or a turnip in each room, high enough so Wia liens can just reach it. They aro also provided I with green.bone and plenty of oyster shells. In cold weather nests should be lined with soft paper. Then look sharp after the eggs when laid, and as soon as tho animal heat is partially gone, wrap thorn in dry paper and pack them in a dry box in a dry cellar; then if you wish to ship to a dis- . tnnco, wrap in many thicknesses of cotton 1 and foathors and paper (before (hoy leave tho cellar), and pack in paper wings in a tight box. and you may ship successfully when the thermometer marks low, provided tho routo is nob very long and tho cold protracted. A man who keeps hens for eggs alone, says an American poultry keeper, if very successful, will probably clear from 2do!s. : to 2.75d015. oil each Inn in largo flocks. To I do so be must spend all his time with his 1 fowls. The old lions arn disposed of avery | 1 summer and replaced by April hatched pul- I lets, which begin to lay in Ortobnr and con-

tinuo through December, January, and February, tho period of best demand and highest price.". To obtain the above results one would need to get from 15 to 40 cauts a dozen {or eggs, according to eoason. Setae of the May 'hatched pullets will begin to lay beforo cold weather. You aro fortunate to get labia wasto enough for all your fowls. Many settlors givo their scraps to the pigs, which do not pay so well as carefully attended poultry. No diet will produce more grain in the litter each day, however, to teen gizzards in good working order, and provide an oxouso for scratching. Do not overfeed. Givo thorn a little, lass than they seem to want, and occasionally examine some of the hoaviost appearing ones to tee they are not laying on too much fat. Provide sand or grit where they can help thomsolves, and warm water. If there is much salt moat in the scraps, removo it. A correspondent asks for a receipt for some ointment with which to anoint tho young ohiokens for lice ? It won't do to smear the chickens too liberally with any oily stuff. The head is the only placo that 'should bo anointed, and a little sweet oil with from two to throe drops of cresnto (oil of tar) in it and appliod with a feather to the top of tho head will kill the lice that gather there. Many peoplo declaro that tho lico that collect on the heads of tho chickens aro larger and more like ticks than tho others; but this is a mistake, though thoi'O may be one or two of the larger mites among tho smaller ones. I have noticed that on overy fowl one can find the two varieties, and am inclined to think that, liko ants and other