November, 1908 



THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



253 



POULTRY DEPT. 



Conducted br S. Short, Ottawa 



It is most beneficial for fowls, especially 

 those that have been kept in confined quar- 

 ters all summer, to have the run of the 

 garden and lawn now that garden work is 

 practically over. All late vegetables, such 

 as celery, cabbage, and the various root 

 crops, should now "be harvested and the 

 fowls allowed to scratch without restriction. 

 Should there be a likelihood of the tulips or 

 other bulbs recently planted "being disturb- 

 ed by the fowls, have a load of fresh manure 

 dumped in the garden at a convenient dis- 

 tance from the forbidden ground and that 

 will usually absorb the attention of the in- 

 dustrious hen. Provision should now be 

 made to supply the flock with green food 

 during the winter. Cabbage, mangels, berts, 

 turnips, small potatoes or unmarketable 

 apples are all excellent and can be obtained 

 more easily and cheaper now than later in 

 the season. 



In the October issue, it was recommended 

 that an early and severe weeding out of the 

 flock should now take place if winter eggs 

 were to be obtained. With the removal of 

 all old hens and late chickens should be in- 

 cluded the very fat hens, no matter what 

 age they may be. Very little handling will 

 soon indicate these birds and hens that are 

 very fat now will remain so and, in fact, are 

 likely to increase in that respect when they 

 are confined in more or less cramped winter 

 pens. Fat hens are usually lazy and greedy. 

 They are, as a rule poor winter layers. They 

 lay in spring and early summer, but lay 



much below the average during the season. 

 Their eggs usually will not hatch. In most 

 cases, the eggs have very thin shells and 

 are sometimes broken by the other hens that 

 lay in the same nest. Fat hens frequently 

 drop their eggs during tlie night on the roost 

 boards and the egg is broken and eaten by 

 the hens. The egg-eating haDit is thus 

 formed. Weed them out. 



Properly-prepared fat hens make an ex- 

 cellent dish, either steamed until tender and 

 then browned over in a hot oven, or stewed 

 and made into a pot pie. On a cold Nov- 

 ember day, neither of these dishes is to be 

 despised. 



A common trouble among fowls at all sea- 

 sons is indigestion or crop-binding. If taken 

 before the "bird is too weak, this may easily 

 cured. The first symptom is the refusal 

 of the bird to eat. If this should be no- 

 ticed early in the morning, the fowl should 

 be caught and if the crop is hard and dis- 

 tended, indigestion is the trouble. The pa- 

 tient should be given water at once. This 

 is done by holding the bird" under your left 

 arm, holding open the bill with the left 

 hand and pouring down the water from a 

 spoon with the right. After giving about a 

 third of an ordinary teacup of water, knead 

 the crop until it is soft and pen up the bird 

 where it cannot get food till given water. 

 Repeat the treatment for two days, morning 

 and evening, and if after that period the 

 crop has not become empty, a surgical oper- 

 ation is necessary. This is done by cutting 

 a slit about an inch long in the crop, a Ittle 

 to the right of the feather line on the left 

 hand side. Remove the contents of the 

 crop, wash it out with warm water and then 

 sew up with white thread, first the inner 

 skin of the crop and then the outer skin of 

 the iT^a^t. Put the bird in a warm place 

 and tt^ '^rst day give a light meal of soft 



' food and, should the bird on the second day, 

 show normal condition, let it run with the 

 others. In summer time, this operation is 

 rarely unsuccessful. In winter, 50 per cent, 

 succumt) but they would have died in any 

 eevnt and many a fine bird has been saved 

 by the foregoing treatment. 



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HOOD SQUARE, with carved legs and lyre, 

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.lOHN C. FOX, carved legged square piano, 

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R. S, WILLIAMS SQUARE PIANO, with 

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