POULTRY YARD.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9254, 2 December 1891, Page 1 (Supplement)

POULTRY YARD.

HINTS TO POULTRY-KEEPERS. Dry earth is said to be one of the best deodorisers. Many contagious diseases originate in damp houses and yards. Fowls are sold in the markets of France by the pound, and one can buy a leg or wing or as much or little as be wants. Keep track of your fowls. Many people that keep a " mixed company" of hens keep some of their fowls till they have far outlived their usefulness. Do not keep them beyond the third year. The farmer should always give his fowls a large run, because it is doubtful if any crop could be planted on the ground required by the hens that would pay us well. The rules that apply to beef cattle apply, to some extent, to poultry raised for their flesh. A fowl to be profia'ule for this purpobe muet be " near the around." That is, the le^s sl.ould be Rhort and thick. Long legged fowls are not desirable. There is no doubt that the present number of fowls in this countiy would bring twice the revenue that they now do if all the poultry yards were carried on on business principles. A hen is Buppoaad to pay a profit of 5s per year, but there are multitudes of bens that do not pay half of that, merely because the owner does not take pains to inquire which fowls are profitable and which are not. | It will pay nearly all farmerß to keep two kinds of fowls, one for the pro Inction of eggs, and the other for the production of flesh. It is not generally wise to at tempt the combination of the two.

It is better to keep the duefcs in their yards till aher the eggs for the day are deposited, as they do not take much care aa to the place in which they deposit them when they are engaged in hunting for a meal. It is scarcely needful to say that a person who considers fowls as something beretth his notice, and the care of thorn as unbecoming and lowering to the dignity of a man, would not be th-a proper one to ran a poultry farm, even if he could be induced to do 60. Let such thinkers alone; they can't be taught, and time is wasted spent with them.