AMONG THE POULTRY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3558, 10 August 1905, Page 4

AMONG THE POULTRY.

Keep one cock for ten to fifteen’he®*. Let the fowls fast & few hours before killing. Hens lay buwt at the age of one to two years. Always give fowl* pteriy o# freafe, pure water. Sitting bens mu»t have «. daily run to insure them good health. There is no danger of the poultry business being overdone because ‘th* demand is rapidly increasing. If a scratching place ia provided vfhere you can bury corn, your fowl# will receive much benefit from the exercise. A quick way to fatten geese ia to put a few in a darkened pen and feed a ppund of oat* per day to each one. They fatten in two week*.— Farmew* Voice, Proper HaatUlog of Bee*. If you know how to handle bee* you can earn good pay overhauling the apiaries of farmers who are too busyun. spring and fall to put their colonies in chape for the season. Many swarms are worthies® now that might bring good profits to the owner if cleaned up and perhaps combined with another. Wormy hives and hives with old brood might as well be burned or thrown i» i the sea as to be kept in their present condition. Let a man get a reputation ■for knowing how to handle bee* and being willing to do it for others, and h* would not find time to fill his order*. He would soon carry a large stock of bee# and beo goods as well a« honey to sell, and should make it all turn ingoed profits.—Midland Farmer. Varied Hattons for I feed my hogs corn and oats prlnci--1 pally. Hulk of the feed, corn. Make i swill using corn and oat* ground together one-third corn and two-third* ants, 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 fall, diso small potatoes and waste apples i«d such stir.lV from the. garden not usable iu the house. In fact any and all things raised on the farm that will tempt their appetite and be conducive to their health,—F. 0. Barfoot, in Farmers’ JBoview,