1851. 



THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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^I)e Jpoultnj llarb. 



SONNEEAT'S JUNGLE FOWL. 



Soni^erat's Jungle Fowl is found wild in the Jun- 

 gles of India. It is contended by some that to this 

 species alone are our breeds of domestic fowls to be 

 traced. They are represented as being very easily 

 tamed, and in their habits much resembling the 

 domestic fowl. They are rather below the medium 

 eize. 



POULTRY - HOUSE AND YARD. 



Messrs. Editors : — The following is a plan of my 

 poultry yard and hen-house, which, if you consider 

 worthy, you can give a place in the Farmer. I am 

 induced to give this to the public, from the fact that 

 fio many are expressing a desire for information upon 

 this subject. I think they will find it a very conve- 

 nient form, and attended with but little e.xpense. 

 The hen-house can be made of rough boards, if cheap- 

 ness is desired, and the size can be varied according 

 to the number of fowls kept. I have 70 in mine, at 

 present, and think three or four times as many more 

 could be kept in it without difficulty. The park is 

 surrounded with a picket fence five feet and four in- 

 ches in height, a sixteen foot board cutting three 

 lengths of pickets. I find this abundantly high, by 

 clipping one wing of each fowl : thereby they are 

 prevented from flying, in the least, as one wing being 

 of full length, gathers air, and the other, from its 

 shortness, cannot ; so upon every attempt at flying 

 they will be turned completely over. It is set out with 

 standard fruit trees of various kinds, and seeded down 

 with clover. 



8 Rods. 



I was induced to make this division, as seen above, 

 on account of the difliculty of sitting my hens, while 

 among tho.?e that were laying. When a hen attempt- 

 ed to sit, every hen in the yard appeared determined 

 to lay in no other nest, thus preventing them from 

 having that quiet so necessary during incubation. 

 When I attempted to force them to sit upon a nest, 

 which I would make in some conrenient place, by 

 confining them upon it, I found them like other bi- 

 peds, determined to have their own way, and would 

 stand up for days as though thoy feared a particle of 

 the warmth of their bodies should be imparted to the 

 eggs beneath them. As one of my neighbor's boys 

 said, " they wcrf> bound to stand vp and sit.^' I 

 now, when I discover a hen inclined to sit, make a 

 nest in the breeding-room and shut her in permitting 

 her to take the nest of her own accord, which she 

 will generally do in a very short time. After the 

 chickens are hatched, I put them, with the parents, 

 into the small park, thus making it much less trouble 

 to feed and attend them. S. M. — Cameron Mills, 

 JV. Y., Feb., 1851. 



DISEASES OF POULTRY. 



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 Park 



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Hen ParR 



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1, Laying room. 2, Roosting room. 3, Breedino: or sittinj; room. 4, Bins for 

 grain. .5, I'.oxes foi laying and sitting. 6, Doors. 7, Poles lor roosting. 8, Little 

 sheds for chickens. 



Messrs, Editors : — Having witnessed much valua- 

 ble in.formation from your pen, in answer to questions 

 from farmers and others, in different parts of the 

 country, I have been induced by the request of seve- 

 ral of your friends here, to take the liberty of asking 

 you a few questions respecting a disease in poultry 

 which has prevailed here this fall and winter to a 

 considerable extent among dung-hill fowls. In the 

 first place they appear stupid, their eyes heavy and 

 almost entirely blind. In the next place there is a 

 swelling of the neck and head, succeeded by a 

 cough peculiar to hens, and making a noise as if 

 partially choked. In this way they linger along 

 two or three weeks, and either die or become very 

 poor. During this time they discharge at the nose 

 a viscid matter, in some few instances quite offen- 

 sive to the smell. If you can tell us what the dis- 

 ease is, or what will cure it, you will oblige many 

 of your friends. R. II. Foster. — Lyons, JW Y. 



The disease with which your fowls are affected, 

 we should judge to be the roup, though a very dif- 

 ferent disease is sometimes called by this name. 

 Fowls thus affected should be kept warm and have 

 plenty of water and light food, such as scalded bran, 

 Indian meal, &c. The English authors say give 

 calomel in grain doses, made into a pill with bread, 

 but we never had ranch success in "physicking" 

 fowls. Washing the head in 

 warm milk and water some- 

 times gives great relief, and 

 if it does not effect, hastens 

 the cure. 



A farmer in tl^is county who 

 has had much experience in 

 rearing poultry, informed us 

 that he had discovered an ef- 

 fectual remedy for the rotip, 

 which he promised to furnish 

 us in season for this number. 

 If not received in time, we 

 will give it in our next. It 

 )s represented as being a 

 ceitain cure in the worst 

 cases. 



