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makes no difference -whether the tobacco is ripe or not 

 before pull Ing. Hemp-seed will be found useful for 

 young and valuable chickens, but the sunflower is a 

 go d substitute, and much more cheaply raised. Pep- 

 pers are a most useful condiment during the winter 

 months, helping greatly in the production of eggs 

 through the cold weather. A small number of plants 

 of the long red \ariety will produce a plentiful supply, 

 much cheaper and purer than the ordinary ground 

 cayenne of the stores. Use them in connection with 

 potatoes and meal. Set the potatoes on the s'.ove after 

 supper, and boil them until soft. Set them on again 

 when the fire is started in the morning, and bring to a 

 boil ; pour off the water, add in one or two chopped 

 pepper-pods, and then add meal, meal and bran, or corn 

 and oats ground together. Mash all together, and make 

 a firm, almost crumbly, mass. This is suitable for a 

 morning meal, but not for night. Beans well cooked, 

 either whole or ground, will help fill up the list of foods. 

 Rape-seed is easily raised, and would be useful for 

 choice young chickens. Seeds of the common millet, 

 golden millet, sorghum, and broom-corn will make 

 a variety in the list of good cheap foods. Egyptian 

 corn, a kind of sorghum, is valuable for young or 

 old fowls. It is raised as easily as corn, and will pro- 

 duce bountifully. Barley, rye, and oats are well known 

 to be acceptable to the inhabitants of the poultry-yard. 



WIKTEBING FOWLS IN COLD LATITUDES. 



Extreme care with poultry is necessary in cold lati- 

 tudes to prevent many frozen feet, and even great loss of 

 life during the cold weather, and it not unfrequ entry 

 happens that entire flocks are frozen to death. Hence, 



