Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1892 — Poultry Cackles. [ARTICLE]

Poultry Cackles.

Never fight a contrary setting hen. She win always get the of you. Poultry manure Is being more generally used every year by farmers. Don't throw the onion and radish tops In the swill. Chop them ’>p for the chickens. The Langshan chicks feather sooner than any other breed in the Asiatic family. A little salt in chicken feed is good for the appetite and health of the fowls. They newl salt just as much as cattle do. As a rule hens do not lay If too fat. They should be fed on a variety of food and should have bone and oyster shells to pick at to help digest their food. Huff is Just now the fad in poultry. Sifted coal ashes make a good material for a dust bath. An enterprising farmer In Pennsylvania .keeps fowls solely for the manure. Let the young chicks run In your garden; they will do It good, but keep the old fowls out. Try the experiment of letting the ducklings have the run of the potato patch. It Is said they will keep the bugs down. . Fourteen h«is and one male makes a desirable breeding pen of any breed excepting the Asiatics. In this latter Aass eight hens and a male do best. One of the largest duck raisers in England agrees with the American idea regarding bathing. He says: “It Is far better to rear ducks independently of water to swiip in at all, when they are only required for table." Chicken gapes can be prevented by keeping the young chicks out of the wet grass until about three weeks old.