Poultry Seratchings.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 317, 17 November 1888, Page 6

Poultry Seratchings.

This Cjßß^iiJTvlNCiy^^TQit. — A Masi,orbon cortespoiident desire^, us ,to take -note of what he calls Anlretell's. Improved Certainty Incubator. .A. Mr.'Elkins claims to hove had grca> success in chicken hatching with thjg inpubaboiv- It- is paid that tlie machine having been set at. a' gauge- of 101 degrees has never wirieclipr. s ;}V,'ieks ; }V,'ieks night or day one dofcreo in 4 tempei;at.ure. „ In a ne\yspaper notice of* fcltis'.inct^babov i« sfcaLod that 6hipkcns are hatched by it in 19 days, and ducks, in' 25 day»A v \ If by> this state-", menb,,\\je ai^o. intended r t'o underatand chat htaltijy (jJlfi-kqns were actually , out ot the , shell in 19/ days .after* incubation began, we must x bay,,,wo ,dou'b 'believe it.' A "certain period in npcos^ai'jf th,e incubation of a chicken, anc^ no maphine in the woild can anake that period shorter, 1 although ' deyelopmeijl^ and .consequently dato of halcl)- ' ing may, be delayed by many, causes, during inqubation. , , r „ \\ v...«-, • ...«-,

,4- Dust Batjk. — An American poultryjournal gives the following, plain, and simplo, jdivec^ipns'fou, making augoodvcltisb. fyatih,:-* Take a box of any convenient si^qr—lB by ,24. by 12 in, depth .will pm&wcy — fill it nearly ful,l with .road, .dust, Band. eoa^aKhcs, r) wood ashes, or plain sini pip dirt-rrrtnyjOne of ,\vill ,an^wer K ar\^j th r en^t)ixj |.hrpt»gh it lour or fivo .Dqu.p^of/su.lnhui'v , -!.T,tic,^addition* ;of a^uapti^cf jc^rbplic/gciditg tjie, sulphur will^do", np *hai' ( in>, TfidSiawJs^ vjji.o .roll; in ,tliis,_ bath,. mixing ils,conteut.s^hroug]b their, feather.3. atiVJ, tliey..,willi very .shorlly be;freesrqm > lice.' f „ Surih ,a (k\^t, babhi 4 is t-ho cheapest, easiest, aiid;mpE,t oflective; j way^p.^ric^djn^ „fo)ylg jpf lica i bat is .known. , Tbo, L beau l^of ijb.,ip'i that .the'fojtvls both take,, and^ad'mxuisliersthpir^own .medicine. \ , (