AMONG THE POULTRY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3559, 12 August 1905, Page 4

AMONG THE POULTRY.

Keep one cock for ten to fifteen hen*. Let the. fowls fast a few hours before killing. Hens lay best at tha *g« of on* to two years. Always give fowls plenty of iiesti, pure water. Si tting hens must have a. daily run to insure them good health. There is no danger of the poultry business being overdone because th* - demand ia rapidly increasing. If a scratching place ia provided where you can bury corn, your fowl# will receive much benefit from the crcise. 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, in two weeks.— Farmers’ Voice. Proper Handling; of Beo*. If you know how- to handle bees you oan earn good pay overhauling the apiaries of farmers who are too busyan. spring and fall to put their colonies in shape for the season. Many swarms are worthies® now that might bring good profit* to the owner if cleaned up and perhaps combined with another. Wormy hive® and hives with old brood might as well be burned or thrown in the sea as to be kept in their present condition. Let a man get a reputation for knowing how to handle bees and being willing to do it for others, and h® would not find lime to fill his orders. Ue would soon carry a large stock of bee® and bee goods as well as honey to sell, and should make it. all turn in.good profits.—Midland Farmer. Varied Rations (or Hog). I feed my hogs corn and oat® principally. .Bulk of the feed. com. Make s, swill using corn and oats ground together one-third corn and two-thirds oats, and add to that a little wheat shorts. Hogs have run of pasture. Have access to salt a! all times; plenty of- water. I’anipkiu.S' arc fed in the fall, also small potatoes and waste apples and such stuff from the garden not usable in the house. In fact any and all things raised on the farm that will tempt their appetite and be conducive to their health,—F. G. Barfoot, in Farmers’ Review.