1869. 



NEW ENGLAOT) FAEIVIER. 



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a commission to investigate fully the character 

 of the disease, on which the Chicago Tribune 

 remarks : — 



The recommendations to the State Legisla- 

 tures suggest regulations that, if generally 

 adopted by the States and fully enforced, will 

 make future outbreaks of the disease very im- 

 probable, while allowing the Texas cattle to 

 go forward to all markets during four months 

 of the year. They also would do much to pre- 

 vent the spread of any contagious disease 

 among domestic animals. They also contain 

 valuable suggestions as to legal enactments to 

 secure reform of the abuses in the transporta- 

 tion of animals for food, a matter of vast im- 

 portance in a sanitary point of view. These 

 recommendations will undoubtedly have a con- 

 siderable effect on the legislation on the sub- 

 ject in several States. They will have some 

 effect in allaying excitement in regions where 

 loss has resulted from the disease. 



A CONVENTEIfT POtriiTKY HOUSE. 



Eggs now fetch a good price in market, and 

 we can better afford to expend a little time 

 and money to furnish the hens which lay them 

 with warm and comfortable quarters, than we 

 eould when eggs were worth only ten to twelve 

 cents per dozen, — in "store-pay" or barter, 

 at that. 



The above cut represents a Poultry House 

 planned and built by the Senior Editor of the 

 Farmer, which may possibly afford sugges- 

 tions of practical value to those who are ar- 

 ranging the winter quarters for their poultry, 

 whether in a building by itself or in the bam, 

 ehed or some other building. A house or 

 room, say eight feet wide by twelve long, will 

 accommodate from twenty to thirty fowls, 

 about as many as can profitably be kept to- 

 gether, unless they have a wider range. The 



front should face the south, and the yard may 

 be on either side, as taste or convenience may 

 suggest ; but so long as the ground is bare the 

 fowls would enjoy a range on the south, and 

 be benefited by coming to the ground. 



Figure 1, is a perspective view, and beauti- 

 ful it is. Fig. 2, is the ground plan ; a, is the 

 doorway ; 6, the grain chests ; c, the feeding 

 boxes ; d, the stairway to the loft ; and e, a 

 small opening for the fowls to pass out and in. 

 The opening at the left of a, is the door-way, 

 from the entry into the main poultry room. 

 Directly over the feeding boxes there 6iay be 



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Fig. 2. 



placed another row for nests, 3 or 4 feet from 

 the floor, which may be examined through a 

 slide from the entry without entering the main 

 room. These boxes may be darkened and 

 made a little secret, by placing a shelf along 

 in front of them and nailing a board edgewise 

 against it ; and as Miss Biddy, like some oth- 

 ers of the gentle sex, is a little prudish, at 

 times, it is well enough to indulge her fancies. 

 On a floor under the window in the roof, the 

 fowls will find a warm place in which to con- 

 gregate in the winter. 



COWS LN" LONDOIf CITY. 

 Thinking that the readers of the Farmer, 

 who understand very well how to manage cows 

 on the farms of New England, might like to 

 know how they are kept in the great city of 

 London, we copy from the Journal of the 

 Royal Agricultural Society, the following 

 statement by Mr. J. C. Morton : — 



Having got your cows well purchased, the 

 point of next importance is to feed them prop- 

 erly. The invariable food in London cow- 

 sheds is grains (brewers' or distillers' grains, 

 the spent barley or other grain after being 

 well washed or "worked out" in the process 

 of brewing and distilling,) with mangolds and 

 hay in winter and grass in summer. When 

 first the cow is received into the shed, it is im- 

 portant that she be gradually accustomed to 

 her new food. She should therefore receive 

 during the first week little but green food, 

 grass or clover, or vetches in the summer, and 



