Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1882 — What I Feed My Hens. [ARTICLE]

What I Feed My Hens.

Germantown Telegram. I saw in a late local in your paper, that ybti wish me toinfortnyour readers how I feed my hens. I will gladly do so. L b aye twenty-fiye hens; they are a mixe'tf sidcV, ESf y-Bfefer white leghorns,'Wild the food thafcTfeed them is corn and' wheat, and Wro quarts of thick milk and black’peppy —about 1 cent’s worth of pepper to a quart twice a week; besides that, I give them the offal- from: the table and grass. In the Winter I warm the corn and give them water to drink. The lot that I keep there in.is fifteen feet square and a light warm pen* The number of eggs laid is as follows: January, 108; February, 258; March, 806; April, 864; Mai,4lo; <dmrfMS33; July, 308; August, 287; September, 280; total, 2,654. The first six months I had twenty-five hens, the next three months I had twentyfour. lam responsible for this stateWhich it strictly correot- .

A strange sea monster has been seen by a sea captain who recently arriVed at Galveston, Texas. The master mariner reports that while about half way between Maderla and St. Vegas, Canary Iblands, he passed One of the most remarkable fish tjhut he ever saw. This marine monster is described as beinv ahodt fqrfcr in length, with four largl fins or wings, arranged in a row down its baok. These fins varied in length, according to the reckoning of Captaui Larson, from eighteen to Iwenty-Vwo feet, and in width from six to nine feet.' At the time of its being sighted the fish was about a quarter of ,& mile $o wiiid,w«rd ,of the vessel, aud was t Uflung the water with its tail and wings, 'evidently iu combat with some other monstefi>"