THE LANCASTER FARMER. 



[May, 1879. 



Treatment.— The best and cheapest remedy and 

 preventive for roup is invariably the German Roup 

 Pills, which sliould be immeiMately administered 

 according to directions, also give twice a day if your 

 fowl has the roup badly, if not once a day will be 

 found sufficient, a pill made by melting some fresh 

 lard in a vessel over a fire, and adding enough red 

 pepper to thicken. When it gets cool it may be 

 made up into pills and administered by pushing it 

 down the throat. Red pepper should be given in 

 their drink. Also, wash the head and neck in a 

 solution of chlorate of potash in water. Feed the 

 German Roup Pills exclusively, and your fowl will, 

 nine times out of ten, get well. Always keep sick 

 fowls warm and dry. If you think this worthy of 

 notice please publish it in your excellent paper, the 

 Poultry Yard.— 0. A. L., in Poultry Yard. 



" Brown Leghorns." 



Mr. Henry Lively furnishes us with an account of 

 the eggs laid by his Brown Leghorn chickens during 

 the month of March. His fifteen pullets laid liSi 

 eggs in 31 days, being an average of 9 5-31 per day. 

 In February these same fowls laid ^53 eggs in 28 

 days, being an average of 9 l-2s per day. The lowest 

 number laid being 4, the highest 13. These fowls 

 are confined in a coop 6 feet wide by 10 feet long, 

 with yard attached 11 feet by l^H feet, including a 

 few moments' run occasionally on a small grass 

 patch. These fowls are pure bred Brown Leghorns 

 bred from 3 pullets and from a cock brought direct 

 from Bonney by J. B. Long, and sold bj#iim to Mr. 

 Lively. 



The number of eggs laid day after day was as 

 follows : 



-Examiner and Express. 



Poultry Profits. 



I have kept a strict account from March 5, 1878, 

 to March 5, 1879, and with good success. First,.! 

 purchased seventy-two choice hens for laying pur- 

 poses, and with good care, such as feeding and 

 watering, I have had the following income free from 

 all expenses : 



; 72 hens, 50 cents each 



3 cocks. $1.00 '• 



23 doz. eggs, 10 0, " 



11 hens, 40 c. " 



3P.B.heu9,$1.06 " 



1 P. R. cock, 



Grain, meat and vegetables. 



Total 



.$102 20 



Sold 72 hens, 50 cents each 



" 11 P. R. pullets, $1.00 each 



" 3 " heiiB, " •' 



1 " cock, 



" 5 " cockerels, 76 cts. each 



" 11 Light Brahma hens, 60 ct 8. each 5 60 



144 chickens used and sold 60 66 



3 75 



I bushels of pure i 

 Total.... 



Fowls in Orchards. 



Last fall we visited an orchard in which fowls 

 were kept, the owner of whifh told us that before 

 the fowls were confined in it the trees made little or 

 no growth, and only a corresponding amount of 

 fruit was obtained. But what a change was evident 

 now 1 The grass was kept down, the weeds killed, 

 and the trees presented an appearance of thrift 

 which the most enthusiastic horticulturist could not 

 but admire and envy. The growth of the trees was 

 most vigorous and the foliage remarkably luxuriant ; 

 the fruit was abundant, of large size, and free from 

 worms and other imperfections. The excellence was 

 accounted for by the proprietor, who remarked that 

 the " hens ate all the worms and curculio in their 

 reach, even the canker-worm." He found less trouble 

 with their roosting in trees than he expected, and 

 that a picket fence six feet high kept them within 

 bounds. His orchard was divided into three sections, 

 and the fowls were changed from one to another, as 

 the condition of the fowls or the orchard-sections 

 seemed to require. — Poultry World. 



Facts Worth Remembering. 



An enthusiastic breeder of poultry says : " Farmers 

 will feed a bushel of corn to produce six pounds of 

 pork, while the same amount of corn will keep a 

 good laymg hen one year, and she will produce at 



least twelve dozen eggs, averaging eighteen cents 

 per dozen, which would equal ^2.16. In addition, 

 she would rear a brood of chickens worth as much 

 more, -making a total of nearly five dollars, against 

 six pounds of pork at ten cents, equaling sixty cents ; 

 or, in other words, the hen will yield seven times as 

 much as the pig fed on the same quantity of food." 

 Aside from the profit, which is an important con- 

 sideration in the keeping of poultry, it aflbrds a 

 healthful recreation and enjoyment to all classes. 

 Those who daily toil in the counting house, factory 

 or mill, each and all meed some light, attractive, 

 health-producing employment. 



Threshing Ducks. 



In a recent conversation with an eminent poultry 

 fancier, of West Goshen, the subject of raising ducks 

 was brought up and reference made to their propen- 

 sity for straying,when an efl'ective cure for this habit 

 was imparted which should be made public, so that 

 all may be able to reap its benefits. 



Our informant states that when his ducks are part- 

 ly grown he allows them to wander off and stay 

 away from the parental- duckfold one night, when he, 

 the next morning, sets out in pursuit and brings the 

 truants home at the end of a piece of brush, which 

 he applies to the ducks without mercy, and as they 

 tumble along over obstacles and each other, they 

 soon realize that the way of the transgressor is hard 

 and thereafter confine their trips entirely to one day, 

 returning punctually home at the fall of night.— 

 West Chester liepuhlican. 



Home Advice as to Poultry. 



J. A. Roberts, of Malvern, Chester county, who 

 takes much pride in breeding light Brahmas, thus 

 writes to the Farm Journal: "In making new 

 houses see that they are freely ventilated, for with- 

 out it you will have sick fowls. Keep their quarters 

 clean; whitewash occasionally. In winter and when 

 the ground is frozen and covered with snow, give a 

 variety of food, not all whole corn, but wheat, buck- 

 wheat, boiled potatoes, scraps of meat, etc., a head 

 of cabbage for them to pick at when kept from the 

 grass by snow ; hens thus treated will repay you in 

 eggs. Always keep the fowls with an appetite, not 

 cram one time and starve the next ; feed morning 

 and evening ; if milk is plenty let the chickens have 

 all they can drink ; it goes toward producing eggs 

 and flesh. 



A FLOCK of hens will pay for themselves before 

 they are one year old, if they are rightly cared for. 

 Youthen can sell them, if you choose, for a good 

 price and raise another lot, but it is not advisable to 

 do so, as the second year is the most profitable, but 

 do not keep them after they are two years old, for 

 after that age they do not pay so well.— £x. 



Literary and Personal. 



A MESSAGE from the President of the United 

 States. Communicating, in answer to a Senate reso- 

 lution of June 8, ls78, information on the subject of 

 sheep husbandry. Read January 14, 1879, and re- 

 ferred to the Committee on Agriculture, and ordered 

 to be printed. An octavo of 130 pages, with three 

 full-page plates, illustrating choice specimens of the 

 Merino, Hampshire Down, ani improved Kentucky 

 sheep, containing a vast amount of statistical and 

 local information on a very useful subject, including 

 the origin and history of the growth of sheep in the 

 United States. This work ought to fall into the 

 hands of all who are practically interested in sheep 

 husbandry at least ; for in it they will find much 

 that is of great commercial value, in that the in- 

 formation is practical and local, containing practical 

 information on one of, or greatest and most prolific 

 industries that the country has. It is fit that the 

 United States Senate should make such an inquiry, 

 and it is also fit that the President of the United 

 States should be the medium through which it 

 should be communicated to the public ; it shows that 

 the highest functions of the government have mani- 

 fested, at least a quasi recognition of an interest in 

 the realm of husbandry that involves their own food 

 and raiment ; htU, where did they go to obtain the 

 necessary information? Where, but to the half- 

 starved Department of Agriculture. Had it not been 

 for the laborious gleanings of that poorly-paid and 

 much-abused department, it is not likely that a re- 

 port could have been made at all. The pamphlet we 

 are discussing is an interesting and useful one ; t«(, 

 (it is natural that in discussing the subject of sheep, 

 there should be some "buts") will it get into thi 

 hands of those most interested in it, and who most 

 need it? There is an immense amount of this k' 

 of literature to be found in second-hand book stores, 

 street book stands, post-oflices, and other nooks and 

 corners, but little, comparatively, among the people, 

 which seems to imply that some received these docu 

 ments who did not want them, and that others were 

 deprived of them. 



Pre-emption of Kansas Pacific R 

 Lands.— A demi-folio containinfi the " Decision of 



the Secretary of the Interior," and the " Opinion of 

 the Hon. Jeremiah S. Black," being the full text of 

 those decisions and opinions in the celebrated Dudy- 

 mott land case, as well as other information relating 

 to the Pacific Railroads and their lands. It appears 

 that an attempt had been made to reclaim the lands 

 granted to this company by the National Congress, 

 on the ground, if we recollect rightly, that the com- 

 pany had not fulfilled its part of the contract. Perhaps 

 it had been discovered that Congress had given the 

 company too much (we are inclined to think it has), 

 but that was the fault of Congress and not that of 

 the company. But that is " neither here nor there " 

 now ; the deed has been done ; a test question was 

 made, and the company has been secured in its 

 possession. Right or wrong, had it been otherwise, 

 great injustice might have resulted to many hard 

 working and self-sacrificing pre-emplioners. One 

 thing seems inevitable, and that is, if this company 

 acts honestly and faithfully, it must ultimately be- 

 come immensely wealthy. If it respects the rights 

 of the belts of sturdy yeoman, that time will locate 

 on either side of the road, it will be a great benefac- 

 tor. We wish we were thirty-five years younger, we 

 would pre-empt a respectable slice of those lands in 

 a "jiflTy," and work them up to A, No. 1. The 

 country needs now willing, thiifty and economical 

 workers more than it needs capital. Capital is the 

 result of efl'ective working, and will soon accumulate 

 and make itself manifest, if the aperture through 

 which it goes out is not larger than that through 

 which it comes in. It is a simple matter, but unfor- 

 tunately many never make this discovery until they 

 get too old to avail themselves of its advantages. 



Colorado Rural Life.— This is to be a 16 page 

 quarto weekly (No. 1, Vol. 1, now before us, merely 

 exhibiting the general style and scope of the paper, 

 has but 8 pages), costing only the low price of ?2.00 

 a year. Edited by N. A. Baker, and published by 

 Baker & Hill, No. 250 Fifteenth street, near the 

 corner of Larimer, Denver, Colorado. The present 

 number, containing not only the prose of life, but 

 also much of its poetry, is a remarkably clever 

 eflfort for a beginning, and it ought to be, and doubt- 

 less will be, amply sustained. Devoted to farm and 

 garden operations ; live stock growing ; dairying in 

 its branches ; the latest markets ; rural life in all its 

 phases ; horticulture and floriculture ; tree-growing; 

 landscapes; grain growing ; poultry and bee-keep- 

 ing ; sporting and fishing ; the care of pet stock ; 

 notes on fish culture ; latest Colorado news ; general 

 topics and news; domestic sketches and stories; 

 household economy ; the ladies, our youth, &c., &c. 

 Presenting a literary banquet that must be relished 

 by the citizens of that far-ofl' region, as well as those 

 in the East and elsewhere, who have friends in that 

 young state. The typographical execution and the 

 general make-up of the'paper will compare with the 

 best in the country. 



California and its Offerings for Coloniza- 

 tion.— An octavo pamphlet of 50 pages, by J. P. 

 Whitney, No. 14 West Swan street, Bufi'alo, N. T., 

 May 1st, 1879, containing a fuH-page map of Cali- 

 fornia, specially illustrating its railroad sjstem ; 

 also, one representing a plan of the "Town of 

 Covell," and the " Central California," and " Wash- 

 ington Irrigated Colonies," with a portion of the 

 "Southern Pacific Railroad," &e., &c. Those of our 

 readers who may contemplate emigration to Cali- 

 fornia should by all means send to the above address 

 and obtain a copy of this pamphlet before they make 

 a move in that direction, because it contains informa- 

 tion on climate, productions, quality of soils, laws, 

 culture, irrigation, fruits— especially orange and 

 grape culture— trees, nuts, wines, &c., &c., and an 

 immense amount of general information on subjects 

 relating to the cultivation of the soil and marketing 

 its products ; and showing what may be done in 

 California with a small capital ; truly an appropri- 

 ate halm for the present " hard times." 



Special Notice.— All who desire to have their 

 names entered as subscribers for one copy (or more) 

 of our contemplated Treatise on Noxious and 

 Beneficial Insects— and remedies for their de- 

 struction—will please send their names at once to 

 the editor of this journal. Price p2r copy, $3.00, 

 fully illustrated, good paper, clear print, and sub- 

 stantially bound ; pp. 500, 8vo. 



Everett Brothers' circular and price list of 

 apiarian supplies— honey extractors a specialty. 

 Toledo, Ohio, 1879. A neat little 16mo. pamphlet of 

 16 pages, with 14 illustrations, containing explana- 

 tions, statistics and testimonials, with a list of all 

 the bee publications of the country. Truly multum. 

 in parvo in its character. 



Quarterlt Report of the Pennsylvania 

 Board of Agriculture for December, 1878, and 

 January, and February, 1879 ; 48 pp. 8vo. of most 

 interesting and valuable matter relating to the agri- 

 cultural interests of the commonwealth, and of 

 which we shall have occasion to speak more fully 

 hereafter. 



Book Exchange, No. 55 Beekman street, 

 New York, March, 1879 ; a 16mo. catalogue of 32 

 pages, including list of EcONOMr Club. Prices to 

 suit the times. 



