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makes no difference whether the tobacco is ripe or not 
before pullng. Hemp-seed will be found useful for 
young and valuable chickens, b:t the sunflower is a 
go d sbstiiute, and much more cheaply raised. Pep- 
pers are a most useful condiment during the winter 
months, helping greatly in the product.on of eggs 
through the cold weather. A smal number of plants 
of the long 1ed variety will produce a plentiful supply, 
much cheaper and purer than the ordinary ground 
cayenne of the stores. Use them in connection with 
potatoes and meal. Set the potato:s on the s'ove after 
suprer, and boil them until soft. Set them on again 
when the fire is staited in the morning, and bring toa 
boil; pour off the water, add iu one or two chopped 
pepper-pods, and then add meal, meal and bran, or corn 
and oats ground togeth: r. Mush all together, and make 
a firm, a'most crumbly, mass. This is suitable for a 
morning meal, but not for night. Beans well co ked, 
either whole or ground, will help fill up the list of foods, 
Rape-seed is easily raised, and would be useful for 
choice young chickens. Seeds of the common millet, 
golden millet, sorghum, and broom-coin will make 
a va‘iety in the list of good cheap foods. Egyptian 
corn, a kind of sorghum, is valuable for young or 
old fowls. Itis raised as easly as corn, and will pro- 
duce bountiful'y. Barley, rye, and oats are well known 
to be avcep‘able to the inhabitants of the poultry-yard. 
WIXTERING FOWLS IN COLD LATITUDES. 
Extreme care with poultry is necessary in cold lati- 
tudes to prevent many frozen fret, and even great loss of 
life during the cold weather, aud it not unfrequently 
happens that entire flocks are frozen to death. Hence, 
