HOW TO RAISE FOWLS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 945, 28 May 1880, Page 3

HOW TO RAISE FOWLS.

George S. Frank, in the Indiana Farmer, gives his plan for raising chickens. It is as follows Take a box say twelve inches square, put in dry sawdust till about half full, then take some fine litter or straw, and make a good nest on this, not too deep, or the eggs will pile up in the nest two much. This is the Way to keep the hen from breaking her eggs. Some say that large hens break their eggs. I don’t believe it. It is jumping down on them in the nest when the nest is at the bottom of a barrel or deep box. It is of great importance to have clean fresh eggs. As all depends on this gather your eggs as soon as laid { then keep them from chilling and dampness. Fat from sixteen to twentyfour Under each hen, according to size and season. When hatched, let the chick stay in the nest as short a time as possible. Take them out ami put them into a box about twenty-four inches square, with a coop attached, so that it can be moved about from place to place with ease. Don’t give too much feed while young. Give cooked feed, soaked in sour milk, for twen-ty-four hours. Feed them three times a day, and give plenty cold water. Occasionally give pepper, ginger, iron-rust, plenty of gravel and keep the chicks inside until the dew is all gone. Do this, and keep them out of all rain, and I will insure that you will have no gapes ror cholera nor d°ath by any disease. We raised four hundred last year by this treatment without gapes 01 cholera. Don't dispute with me, but try the plan and then say what is the result. Do not let small and large run together. The large will trample on and starve the small ones to death. Put about thirty chicks with each ben in the hen box and coop until weaned, then put one hundred all of the size altogether in a good, dry, warm roosting place. I am a farmer and have six small houses or pens for ray fowls to roost. The houses are six by eight feet square, with roosts up from the ground. When they are large enough they go upon them ; if not, they sit upon the dry ground. I have a picket fence around each house, about twenty-five feet square, to keep all in their own places when fed. This is my own plan -my own device. We farmeis don’t build like the city fanciers. We cannot afford the expense. All my pens and coops would not cost oOdol.