Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1869 — Farm and Household. [ARTICLE]

Farm and Household.

PouJtry iR Large Members. Tmi /x>«foA JdUM lately had in article on the foiluresthat seemed to have universally occurred fa attempts to keep fowls in large numbers. In conclusion it are two reasons for this inevitable result; ote is, that when a large number of f iwls are crowded together or kept in one p'ace, the ground becomes tainted with manure, snd disease invariably breaks out. This is more particularly true of chickens, for in every attempt to rear a large number in a confined space, the mortality is excessive. The employment of an incabator in this climate will always be found a failure, for thia simple reason that it is impossible to rear the chickens when they have been hatched. Tbe hatching process is sufficiently easy ; but chickens are of no value whatever without you have hers to brood them. The only mahner fa which an incubator can be usefully employed is by hatching an extra number of eggs so as to give each hen a full brood of chickens. Used in this way we have known small incubators very serviceable; but when employed to hatch chickens that are to be reared by artificial mothers, we have never veen them used with advantage.