POULTRY & BEES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3530, 3 June 1905, Page 4

POULTRY & BEES

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IBtry Yard Device That Is *o 81«* ■e and Inexpensive That Every- ■ : body Can Have It. E. tight barrel makes an excellent Dp for chickens, ns it is almost ady for use as it is. Throw a lot |py iokm into the bottom, when

I; V GOOD BARREL COOP, tiigned on its side, to make a level jftoor, and nail two strips at the fromt, tis shown, kfake a front of laths as shown in the cut and place against the strips. A nail at either side will hold it in place. During the day let the slatted part be at the bottom, so the chicks can run in and out. At i: night simply turn the front around % in i.ts place, so, that the more solid > part'may come at the bottom to keep *' out prowling enemies and to keep the ' chicks in.—Orange Judd Farmer.

|> PRESERVING EGGS.

< Formula Used by Speculators and Dealers Engiißt'il In the UtilßHt on u i,a e Sente. ' Numerous methods of preserving i eggs are in i. -c. The idea of all of them is to kti;p <.jr out of the eggs, as by a such abse-nee of oxygen decay can be f arrested for a considerable length of - time,.especially if the eggs are perfect- ,, ly fresh at the start and are kept in J a cool: dark place. The s; andard meth--1 od most used by speculators and deal* era is to put eggs in lime mater. The process is us follows, Oil* mo pi saving been widely soul at live UM.ftr.-- under gc of -ccrtcy; Take two gallons of ; water, 12 pounds ol uns-la-ked lime and four pounds of salt, or in that proportion according to the quantity of eggs to be preserved. Stir several times daily and tlreh let stand until the liquid has settled and is perfectly clear. Draw or carefully dip off the clear liquid, leaving (he sediment at the bottom. Take for the above amount of liquid five ounces each of baking soda, cream of tartar, saltpeter and borax and an ‘ounce of alum. Pulverize and mix these and dissolve in one gallon of boiling water and add to she mixture about 20 gaJlons of pure lime water. This will about fill a cider barrel. Put the eggs - in carefully so as not to crack any of the shells, letting the water alwaye stand an inch above the eggs, which can be done by placing a barrel head a little smaller upon them and weighing it. This amount of liquid will preserve 150 dozen of eggs. It is not necessary to wait, to get a full barrel or smaller'' package of eggs, but they can be put la at any time that they can be obtained fresh. The same liquid should be used only once. —Michigan Tradssman. Shipment ot Dreanei! Fetrli. } It is a common saying that the market is never over-stocked with the beat, '" and this is probably correct. Whenever the market is over-stocked it begins at the poorest quality to reject. If the market does not reject the low quality, it at once reduces the price to a point below cost of production and um.keting. Therefore the only people that •tend a chance of making money are those that send to market good products in good shape. In a way mark eta are always over-stocked, except in times of special scarcity. But the market is never over-stocked with choice fowl*. Great loss to the producer* results from the manner in which fowls are dressed and shipped to market. One man says that the quantity of fowls daily dressed and sent to market in an unsalable condition ii enormous. —Farmers’ Review. Poultry Home DUlafeotaaU. It is well to keep the fact in mind that pure air ami sunshine are thabeai of disinfectants. They discount everything in keeping the nursery coop* in condition. Turn these coop* over frequently so when the heme and their broods- are out on the rang® th« *un may shine on them all day. If this i» regularly at tended to and their location charged so as to occupy a freeh spot of ground once a week you can relieve your mind of any fear of foulness which wiil be injurious to the chick*. This kind of disinfecting cost*nothing in the way of labor, and is one of the cheap things which is- thoroughly good. —Farmers’ Voice. . Sen the SurplQ* M*lm. • Every rooster not in tended especially for breeding should be .killed'or sold a* soon as large enough to eat. Not over one g*DO(f'roo.vter should he kept on any farm, and that one cooped and mated with not to exceed ten hens, the egg.v from *h ese hens to be kept expressly for h,. Using. The other hens should be kept especially for eggs for market or table use, and no rooster should be allowed among ’u-n. On Ihe ordinary farms, about .*■• •> > the fowls are roosters-, which-is about nine times &» many as are necessary.—F»rjo m i Fimida. • ...\ &

MAN WITH THE HOI.

B* Hti Disappeared lro» i»i* A-rer-■•i Aiicrless >'»r* (<'• ( t* Va~ Jastlttable Exlasl. The man with the hoe is largely a memory. There 1» nothing’ that the average farmer so much dislikes as the hoe. Hoeing he regards as too bard work, and besides it is slow work. We have become so accu>- .•.••erl *o rapid working and ridj- • that we have no patience hoe. We do not desire to be understood ns trying to the idea that handling the hoe is altogether n ple» t We are not parfh.'. ..> • K • V- work, hut th» .» w.ii a farm that is. no. r o..u lariy -.ng. Writers, a.... - ly the editors of the city ■ pa pet*, may talk eloquent;: t-* beauty of the flowers on I‘.' 'arm, the frsonnrxe of new-inc-the d 'd shs'ly r«< in gvi.iinr that sweet, m w 1 ‘S into the barn—even with modern tools and machinery—or should spend a day in carting out manure, or even riding on a ei. '.or, to say i walking / ;.-r one., they v. • • elude that urere n ere •--i.htv s ; cite’ on the truei besides the of new-mown hay and roses, and that the shady retreats were a mockery to a man who must spend 12 hours in the scorching heat. Farming is not fun by a long .u-ys. It is hr.v • md some oif the work is very ■. a ole. The farmer’s consolation, h>n .er. is that there is hard work in any calling. No, the hoe is not a fascinating tool. It is about on the level in that'respect with\ the obsolete flail, but while it has been discarded to an unjustifiable extent it i* an excedingly useful tqol. We keen the hoe going somewhere on the ■ ’ most constant I*- - end are satis l ' >t is the nn cble tool we use. It can be profitsh'v used by chran help, which canuo. ot- '.aid of most implements. A boy can boe as well as e man, if ne will, and some bov* " vv ■" >">ve a boy who we are saf :• .he hoc The nnv ‘ " r>’ hectn bad si*. a t;r.eka.r .mr.dblis. cull and heavy tool. Tfie modir.- hoe is light and graceful and should be sharp. It is easily handled and efficient. Let us use it mors.— Agricultural Epitomist.

ADJUSTABLE COVER.

' i- -my Parpose*. R»»t Mov* ■■piui.tUy tor tki PratMtiM ot Hay nad Can Fodd*». The illustration chows a novelty in the shape of an adjustable covering- for hay.comfodder,etc., which any farmer can consytruct by the use of few tool* and little labor. Set four good, sound firmly in the ground, about 14 feet apart. The posts tuny* be about IS to 16 feet in length. Next make a rafter frame of proper dimensions U>

ADJUSTABLE COVELi.W. St ia*i(-e of posts. and pu; . ■ -■alters and shir-ifli :%tbe, making joba- [ pleteri a pyramidal-shaped r::.i it illustraicd. Now have the binoksenlth make (our iron devices after the style . of figure 2, leaving them like A for i square posts, or bending is the form ■ shown by B for round posts. IN It ons . of these irons on each corner »-f roof I frame sc as to allow the root to slide * .upan ' ’n the posts. But >« in i the potrts. and insert an iron ;>iu or i heavy be;: under each iron to hold roof m point f'mred. This completes the adjust ‘o >■ shelter, and no doubt many uses to which it may be put will sug- . ( gest themselves to the up-to-date farmer. Any amount of the feed may I be removed, and the roof lowered, keep* t iug the remainder as well as before,—J. j G. Allshouse, in Ohio Farmer. j . i The Vslvsnslitr o( Ovus. ) Next in importance to the dlsiaa 1 profusion of water, light and atr, those three great physical fasts which render existence possible, may be reckoned the universal beneficence of grass. Exaggerated by tropical heats ' and vapors to the gigantic cans congested with its saccharine secretion, or dwarfed by polar rigors to the fibrous hair of northern solitudes, sin* ' bracing between these extremes the maize with its resolute pennons, ths rice plant of southern swamps, the wheat, rye, barley, oats and other cereals, no less than the humbler ver- , dure of hillside, pasture and prairie in the temperate zone, grow# ie the most widely distributed of all vegetable beings—J. J. Ingalls. ■ Wild Onion in Pastas**. The wild onion is the bane of ths 1 pastures, but it can be eradicated entirely if attention is given it. Ob* of the remedies suggested for the wild onion odor in milk ia to stable the cows about three o'clock and give J hay, allowing their regular food as usual. The odor will pass off in the secretions in three or four hours. Every season, however, the wild ouion regularly appears and increases, yst the pests are easily destroyed by pulling them up or keeping them cut down. .This may be tedious far