FARMERS' REGISTER. 



841 



1. There is but one way to keep your roosters 

 eeparale, and that is to have separate yards for 

 them. A yard five feet by tea is large enough 

 for a rooster and twelve hens. 



2. 1 give my hens flesh raw or conked, just as 

 ia convenient. VVlien 1 could ohiaiu it, I gave 

 the liver, &c., of any animal, cut up iiiio small 

 pieces. One sheep pluck I Ibuiid suffirieiil lor 

 nineteen hens and two roosters tor seven days. 

 Fat pork, boiled or raw, always sets the hen a 

 singincr — a sure precursory of laying. 



3. A temperature of about temperate is best. 

 This is generally obtained by a tight room with 

 glass wmdows. 1 am satisfied, however, that a 

 small stove, in severe weather, would be of great 

 service. 1 am preparing a house thus furnished. 



4. Young chickens for the first week require a 

 temperature of from 75 to 80 deg. Far., and at 

 night always about 80 deg. This last may be ob- 

 tained after the chickens are over a week old, by 

 a tight box, with a hole in one end, at the bottom. 

 The heat of the bodies of the chickens will soon 

 raise the temperature to the right degree. I ob- 

 serve here, that I found my opinion as to the degree 

 requisite for young chickens, on actual experiment 

 with the thermometer and the old hen, Ibllowing 

 nature as my guide ; she is generally right. 



6, I raised one hundred and filly chickens in a 

 room twenty-five feet long and seven feet wide: 

 two feet high in front, and four feet high in rear. 

 The roof was covered tight lor the space of four 

 feet, the remaining three feet and the front of the 

 room was covered with stats just fiir enough apart 

 to keep the chickens from getting out. The 

 chickens were put into this, having a southern ex- 

 posure, after they were about two weeks old, 

 and kept there until they were well fledged. The 

 tight box of course placed m the oven for them to 

 sleep in. The three-leet slat covering I had made 

 80 that I could remove it, to get into the room if 

 necessary. A pan for water and for food, with the 

 sleeping box, fijrnishcs the room. 



6. If you put one old heu in, she will kill all the 

 chickens except her own. 



7. Answered in 5. 



8. You may take the young chickens as soon 

 as they are a day old from the hen. It is best, 

 however, to let them remain a day or two. 



9. Answered in 5. 



10. I gave my hens raw carrots. They would 

 not eat them. They are Ibnd of raw turnips cut 

 up; also of ruta baga. I suppose that any Ibod 

 they will eat is good for them. 



11. The moulting varies. Hens in good con- 

 dition moult in a shorter time than those which 

 are poorer. 



12. I have not been able to ascertain " the hab- 

 itat'" of the Creole. They are white with black 

 spots all over, except the neck, which is perfectly 

 white. Their tails are more fan- like or displayed 

 during laymg time, and their rumps present a liiller 

 or more elevated appearance than other chickens'. 

 The ends of the tail feathers are generally blackish. 

 They can be obtained about Philadelphia. The 

 purest kind can be obtained in Buckingham, Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania. My good Iriend, William 

 H. Johnson, of that place, will cheerlLilly duect to 

 such persons as have them. They are capital 

 layers — poor setters. 



13. Judge Burr, of Vincent Town, New Jersey, 

 has ihe Booby hen, and the finest coHectiou ol 



poultry I have seen any where. — The long Bucks 

 county hens weighing so much, are Malays. 

 They are not good layers,and their eggs are very 

 apt to have two yolks; of course do not hatch 

 well. With respect. 



Thos. p. Hu?jt. 



N. B. — You are wrongly informed as to my 

 leachiuir my children to believe me to be " the 

 handsomest man," &c. I was not under that ne- 

 cessity. They believed it by intuition — and I in- 

 sist upon it that that which is intuiiivefy true, 

 cannot be demonstratively false. Of course, I am 

 not content to admit, then, that your judgment is 

 infallibly correct. All that I can admit is, your 

 judgment is sincere; but my children say ihey 

 have never seen a man as handsome as I am, nor 

 do they believe that you have. 



REMARKS ON THE PROPRIETY OF USING 

 MARL IN SOUTH CAROLINA. 



[ From the Carolina Planter. 



Mr. Editor.— So far as I have seen or heard, 

 all those who are anxious lor a geological survey 

 of the state, seem really and practically to have but 

 one object, viz. the discovery of marl. Without in- 

 lending to discuss the propriety of calling this 

 hunt after marl, a geological survey, or whether it 

 would not be cheaper and every way more expe- 

 dient lor the slate— if she must do something— to 

 appoint some one skilled in the art of finding and 

 using marl, to search for that alone, or if you 

 please, for that and other calcareous manures, per- 

 mit me to ask a lew questions of you or some of 

 your correspondents acquainted wiih the subject, 

 I do not ask them idly. 1 happen to live in 

 the neighborhood of an exhaustible bed of shells, 

 and, as we suppose, marl also, with which at a 

 moderate expense I could cover my whole pos- 

 sessions. 1 wish, however, to know from some 

 authentic source, how I am to proceed, and xohat 

 lam to gain by it, belore 1 venture. Will you do 

 me the tavor to inlorm ine, then, vvliai marl is. 

 How many kinds there are I What are llie lests 

 ol'each 1 In what condition it is generally Ibund, 

 and to what condition il must be biougbl belore it 

 can be employed as a manure ? 'Ihe simplest 

 and cheai)est manner of preparing it ^ What 

 (juantiiy should be put on the ground per acre? 

 The best manner of doing n'i And, most ol all, 

 how much it will increase the produce per acre? 

 And how long it will last? Satislaciory answers 

 to these questions have probably been given 

 again and again, but they are unknown to me, 

 and to most ot your readers probably. I do not 

 lake Mr. Ruflin's work, il is too lar north lor me. 

 If the matter has been fully treated there, could 

 not you or some of your correspondents collect and 

 condense what he has said, and make an applica- 

 tion of it to our soil and to our staple ? My land 

 is in general light and sandy. Your excellent 

 remark, that linung such land, was like giving 

 " bitters without beefsteak," confiims an opinion 

 I have always entertained. And 1 am alraid 

 marl will act in the same waj'. Eelbre I try ihe 

 experiment I should be glad il' possible to know 

 something ccriain about il. 



JMiDDLE Country. 



[Wc are the tr.ore pleased to lean) from the 



