AMONG THE POULTRY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3553, 29 July 1905, Page 4

AMONG THE POULTRY.

' i Keep one cook for ten to fifteen favm. , , Let the fowls fast a faw hours before killing. Hem lay best at tha «l oa# to two years. [■ Always give lewis plkly <4 in*. -pure water. Sitting hems must have a dally fiui to injure them good health.

There is no danger of the poultry , business being overdone becaum the demand is rapidly increasing. If a scratching place is provided where you can bury corn, your liowl* 1 will receive much benefit from the «x- ---; ereiae.

A quick way to fatten geese is to put a few in a darkened pen and feed a pound of oats per day to each one. They fatten la two weeks.-—fanners’ , Voice.

Proper Hon Alias of Boss.

ft If you know how to handle bee* yon , eas earn good pay overhauling the apiaries of farmers who are too busyda iprio; and fall to put their colonies in ■shape for the, season. Many swarms are worthies® now that, might bring , good prod’s to the owner if cleaned up and perhaps combined with another. Woru.y hives and hives with old brood .might ns well be burned or thrown in the sea as to be kept in their present emu!ition. Let a man get a reputation 'for knowing how to h-anclle bee* and biing w iliing to do it lor others, and he would not find time to fill his orders. Ke would soon carry a large stock of bees and bee goods as well as honey to ; sell, and s hould make it all turn in good profits.— M id la ml Farmer. Varied Hatloui for Hors. ' T feed my hogs corn and oats principally. Bulk of the feed, corn. Make is swill using corn and oats ground tofMlhrr one-third corn and two-thirde uats, and add to that a little wheat shorts. Hogs have run of pasture, HaVe access to salt at all times; plenty of water. Pumpkins are fed in the ifftll, also small potatoes and waste apples' and such stuff from the garden no; '■ -.iblc iu the house. In fact any and all things raised on the farm that will tempt their appetite and be conducive to their health.-—S’. G. Barfoot, Be view.