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FARMERS’ DAUGHTERS AND POULTRY-RAISING.—The following state- 
ment of profitable poultry-raising by a Delaware farmer’s daughter is 
reported: 
In Concord, a farmer’s danghter, during the past year, had the care-of his poultry- - 
yard. In the spring she commenced with about 60 fowls, of the common breeds, in- 
eluding one Dominique rooster and several hens of that stock. She also had two 
roosters of the Partridge-Cochin breed. From these she raised 350 chickens. When 
young she fed on cracked corn, but when fattening them, gave whole corn and Indian 
meal. During the season she sold eggs to the amount of $90, and from September 20 
to January 17, she got ready for market 150 pairs of chickens, which she sold for $260. 
She thinks the Dominique much the best for market, but they are not hardy when 
young. She has some hens of the Partridge-Cochin breed which weigh 6, 7, and 8 
pounds each. It will be seen from this statement what may be done by proper atten- 
tion to poultry, the profits being perhaps larger than any branch of farming. It also 
shows that the business is one in which females may engage with syccess. The time 
occupied in caring for 60 to 100 hens doesn’t average more than an hour or two a day. 
The exercise is light and pleasant, and the change from household duties rather agree- 
able than otherwise. Indeed, we consider the poultry business, as an occupation, both 
profitable and interesting. Gathering eggs, setting the hens, watching the hatching, 
and tending to the young, havea charm, which, in connection with the profit, is caleu- 
lated to please every lover of nature’s great working world. 
FULTZ WHEAT.—In Yates County, New York, a careful experiment 
was made by a correspondent of the Department with Fultz and Tread- 
well wheats, with reference to testing their respective merits. During 
the summer of 1872, an eight-acre field of gravelly loam, which had 
been cultivated the previous year in fodder-corn, was summer-fallowed. 
The field was manured in 1871 and 1872, in the latter year the manure 
plowed under at first plowing. Upon aplot of one-eighth of an acre of 
this ground, five quarts of Fultz were sown broadcast, September 10, 
1872. Treadwell was drilled upon the remaining part of the field, 
September 18, at the rate of two bushels per acre. The former was 
harvested July 7, and yielded four and a quarter bushels, or thirty-fold 
upon its seed; the latter was harvested Jily 25, and yielded twenty ° 
bushels per acre, or tenfold upon its seed. 
H0G-DISEASE.—A correspondent in Jefferson County, West Virginia, 
Says: 
A disease among the hogs is prevailing in the county. It is called “ cholera,” as-that 
is the name given generally to all diseases to which hog-flesh is heir. A very large num- 
ber have fallen victims within a few days. As yet, no effectual remedy has been found. 
Some of the hogs are affected with a stiffness of the jaws and loss of appetite. The 
first is not usual in cases of cholera, I think. I have seen some hogs quite sick with 
cholera eat very greedily, and others, apparently with a similar affection, entirely re 
fuse food. 
DRILLING WHEAT.—A farmer of Scott County, Illinois, urges the prac- 
tice of early planting with the drill, if wheat is to be made a profitable 
crop in that section. Where this is done from twenty to thirty bushels 
per acre are raised; whereas late and broadcast sowing usually yields 
a return of from four to eight bushels per acre, and not of the best qual- 
ity at that. ; 
CLUB-FOOT IN CABBAGE.—A farmer of Cambria County, Pennsylvania, 
suggests, concerning the remedy of “club-foot” in cabbage, the fol- 
lowing : 
T mention the circumstance of a German market-gardener, who, in putting out his 
cabbage, followed the German custom of ‘‘ puddling” the roots of a part of his plants in 
a thin mixture of cow-manure and water. Five rows thus treated entirely escaped 
disease, and are, at this writing, growing prosperously, while the remaining portion of 
the crop, 1,400 plants, is all dead. 
IMPROVIDENT CREDIT SYSTEM IN THE SOUTH.—A Georgia corre- 
spondent states that the farmers in his section will find it impossible to 
