HINTS AND ITEMS.
Keep aeoount!'. Cull your fowl flocks. Keep the best pullets for tlayers next season. A Richmond, 111., man made in one year from 100 hens 130 dollars net profit, besides supplying «ggs and poultry ffor house consumption. "Whitewash the poultry houses. liaise your feather beds. A New Jersey woman has caught in .steel traps during the past seven years eightyseven hawks. Wish she would gather up her traps, come out here and stay a few , months ; she would be handy to have in the , family. j There is more in the feed than in the! breed—the fowl that has been well fell and ! well cared for from the shell to slaughtering time, will make the best table meat ; if you want chickens that will be good eating after they are dead, see that they eat well during their lives. The Langshan fowlii are raising quite a commotion in English poultry circles. Being a new breed, of course they possess a few more good qualities than any other breed in chickendom. The English "Agricultural Gazette" is responsible for the statement that a Game cock was recently sold for 502 dollars, Who ■aya poultry dqp r t pay ? '
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Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1783, 7 November 1879, Page 4
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