How to get Winter Egg.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 121, 11 January 1909, Page 3

How to get Winter Egg.

Early hatched pallets. Strong healthy yearling bens. Roomy, comfortable, and wellventilated houses. Regular feeding of rich food in nitrogenous qualities. Scratching sheds and the fowls made to bunt for the grain among the litter. Each year breeding from the strongest and best layers, and never inbreeding. Using trap nests by which the drones can be detected, so as to give the room and feed to the workers.

Never over-feeding, but given just as much as they will readily eat up clean and not waste or allow to sour.

Never exciting the hens, but rather keeping them tame, so that they have confidence in the feeder, and do not become scary.

Keeping the houses perfectly clean and cheery, so that good health may be maintained and that lice may be discouraged in making their headquarters about the premises.

Never exposing the fowls to blustery, snowy . weather, remembering that a cold uncomfortable hen cannot be expected to be profitable. Therefore the houses must be of generous size.

Never over-crowding the hens, for small families will do more work. It is better to keep fifteen bens in a bouse built for twenty-five than to crowd twenty-five in a space only large enough for fifteen. If these warnings are carefully heeded there will be no difficulty in securing winter eggs. Hens have no particular laying season; they usually lay best in warm weather, because conditions are better.

It's a wise farmer who takes his wife into partnership in his business, as well as his heart affairs.

Under the influence of lime, plants develop morp powerful root growth, more solid structure, and greater capacity to stand disease. The best milking machine to have on the farm is a good man w °o takes an interest in the cows, and who thoroughly enjoys caring for them. The tax upon upon a sow suckling a litter of pigs is so great that it is poor economy to practise anything but a liberal and judicious system of feeding.

Keep the dog away from the dairy herd. A cow of nervous disposition will be so unstrung by the sight of a dog, that she will not give down her milk.

Buy a pure-bred sire, even if you cannot afford to buy pure-bred cows. Keep all the good heifer calves for breeding, and in time you will have a good herd. Practical experience in farming is of great advantage, for nothing so impress** the farmer with knowledge as observation and experience on his farm; but theory should not be ignored. Theory leads to new discoveries, the testing of breeds, plants, and flowers, and increases the knowledge derived from practice. The well-bred youngster that is improperly fed will at maturity be but little better than a scrub animal. But if the dam is properly nourished during the nursing period, and the young animal subsequently fed liberally, it will attain the normal size of its ancestors and display all the leading characteristics of the breed to which it belongs.