AMONG THE POULTRY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3564, 24 August 1905, Page 4

AMONG THE POULTRY.

Keep one cock for ten to fifteen hen®. Lot the fowls fast a few hours before killing. Hens lay beat at tho of one to two years. Always give fowls plenty of fre*h, pure water. Sitting bens must ha vs a dally fun to insure them good health. There is no danger of the poultry business- being overdone because the demand is rapidly increasing. If a scratching place i* provided where you can bury corn, your fowls will receive much benefit from the exercise. A quick way to fatten gees-e 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. —'Farrows’ Voice, Trope? Ilnndliitß of Bees. If you know how to handle bees you' can earn good pay overhauling tire apiaries of farmers who are too busy-in *pri •»: and fall to put their colonies in shape for the season. Many 8-warm® are worthless 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 ;n 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 ho would not find time to fill his orders. He would soon carry a large stock of bees and bee goods as well as honey to sell, and »lumid make it all turn in good profits.—Midhuid Farmer. Varied Rations for Hog's. T feed my hogs corn and oats principally. Bulk of the te.-d, corn. Make i swill using corn and oats ground together one time con- and two-thirds oats, amt tutu to that a little wheat shorts. Hogs have run of pasture, Have access io salt ai all times; plenty of water. Bumpkins are fed in the fall, also smalt potatoes' aud waste apples and .-uch stun from the garden not usable it- the house. In fact any md all things raised on'the farm will temp; their appetite and be ■. ducive to their health. —F. 0. Bftrfort., in Farmers’ Keview.