USEFUL GLEANINGS.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2200, 15 March 1881, Page 4

USEFUL GLEANINGS.

High Perohes. Heavy fowls sometimes receive severe injuries in trying to fly down from high perohes. To Cure a Broody Hen.—A "broody hen " •hut up three days without food or water, will, it is said, emerge so "run mad hungry " as to banish all thought of her former intentions. Controlling the Sex of Fowls.—Poultry fanciers have experimented considerably for the purpose of establishing some method by whioh to oontrol the sex of their pets. In a late number of "Oassell's Magazine" a writer earns up the results of the experience of 'British breeders as follows:—1. A cookerel mated with not more than three adult hens will give almost always a larger number of - male than female chicks—especially will this bo the case with the earlier broods. Later broods will be more uncertain. 2. Mating an '< adult cock with nob more than three pullets - will be uncertain in its - results ; one sex as likely as tbe other to predominate. 3. Mating an adult cook with five or more pullets will give an excess of pullets; but, as in the first - instance, there will be most male birds from the earlier eggs. 4. Young birds or adult birds mated .together will give uncertain results, but the fewer the hens and the more vigorous the cook the greater will be the proportion of males, and they will be the most numerous from the early eggs. Hints on Feeding Poultry.—The following remarks upon this subject are-taken from the •"Poultry Monthly," an American journal:— "" It is not such an easy matter for the uninitiated in poultry culture to feed 'fowls in a jndioious manner; and, after all, there is not a '.beardless youth in the country but who thinks he can do it in a becoming way. Feeding is one thing, and feeding that will produce the most eggs, flesh, and fat, on the least possible expense, is another thing to be thought of. It. is a very easy matter, where a large number of fowls are kept, to'incur expense . and serious less, without muoh benefit, by injudicious feeding. The lazy man either wholly, negleots them or gives them provender enough at a time to last them a couple of days. He seldom puts himself out of the way to get a variety, but gives the first at hand, and that usually is corn on the ear. The ignorant keeper, full of self-conceit, makes a "pot pourri" of worthless stuff, in whioh cold water seems to submerge all other ingredients —this, with • flourish, he pronounces good—- • great saving of trituration in the gizzard. Now we have done with these, and turn to tho*o_ who know something about feeding well. All kinds of fowls should have sufficient food Siven them regularly two or three times a ay. If confined they should bo fed oftener than when at liberty. Full grows fowls should have just as much as they will readily eat, and no more. The food should consist of oats, ground and unground, barley meal and . corn, middlings, bran and buckwheat, pieces of bread and vegetables of all kinds, scraps of meat chopped fine, bone meal, and milk, either fresh or thick, will fatten or make hens lay if there is any fattening or laying dn