SAAfl-TROl'IC CALIFORNIA 
I’oaltrs* 
! lack of green food, with which free bird* 
| can eaaiiv supply themselves, through warm 
__ | weather. Grain or vegetables steamed or| 
ESTABLISHED^ ETOES J08 SUCCESSFUL ^torapiyldUxt™ ! 
POULTRY KAIelSO. (oa t, So matter whether your poultry is i 
7 N raiemg poultry c<r stock 4 should 1" ,>t for fancy sales, nr to furnish egg!* and 
I lh« aim of everyone to keep it.he»lt , “' 1 ’ 
:«l fu 
i plan. 
i Morning may be the most convenient 
I time for serving this ••banquet," and whole 
| grain comes in order for the evening* which | 
'the fowls can easily digest through the 
j night, liright, healthy birds are the only 
I one* that it will pay one to keep, and this 
: method of feeding helps to bring about this 
result .—Cafamdu Furw'r. 
I CmuroAt. kuk Fowl*.— 1 There is one 
j tiling which nuturn doc* not supply, and 
i which civilisation renders quite necessary 
to fowl*. It if. uhurooal. Charcoal made 
I of wood dues not answer tbs pwrpiwt 
| lias no ta*t«* of food, it is not altrncliv 
fowls, and i* seldom eaten. Hut if any one j who do an 
ear of ripe corn into the* Rr «' representing a li 
...ii i_l _« .1_ i k.- 
trkel) don't fail to follow up this 
and improve it. You nan do it very sastiy 
bv adopting some systematic rule*. These 
may be *u mined up a« follows: 
J. Construct yom chicken house good, 
mud protect from vermin. 
2. Provide a dusting and scratching 
place, where you can bury wheat or corn, 
and thus induce the fowls to take needful 
esercise, 
3. Provide yourselves with soma good 
healthy chickens, none to be over three or 
four year* old, giving one cock to every 
twelve hens. 
4. Give plenty uf fresh air at all time* 
of the year, especially in summer. 
5. Give plenty of fresh water daily, and 
never allow fowls to go thirsty 
*5. Feed them .sy*letn«ti««lly, two nr 
three times a day. and scatter the food, so will put mi 
that they can’t em ton fn*t or without proper until the gi 
exercise. Do not feed more than they w ill j shell oil if 
egt op clean, or they will get tired of tlul j bn will sc 
leind of food. j bcnllliy con 
7. Give them a variety of both dry and j will make 
cooked food. A mixture of conked men! i pale numbs 
and vegetables is an " " 1 ‘ 
their morning meal. 
H. Give soft feed in the morning, and 
the wh-‘le grain at night, except a little 
wheat or cracked corn placed in tfie scratch 
mg place to give them exercise during the 
day. 
9. Above all things keep the hendiuijse 
dean and well ventilated. 
10. Do nut crowd ton many in one 
house. If you do, look out for diseaur 
31. Use-carbolic puwdi r in the dusting 
bins occasionally to destroy lice. 
12. Wash your roo.ta and button,* of 
laying nests with whitewash once g week in 
•uminer and once a mouth in winter. 
13. Let the old and young have a* largo . - . 
a range u* p-»»ib!e -the larger the heller. !"! m bvo U ' wx ‘ ln,, - v 
14. Don't breed too many kinds of fow l , lllMl ,l "' uan of this atii 
at the same time, unlit* you an going , a,lt "‘ ,l 0,1 bicreav* the dumber of 
ibe buair*— ■oi—- * e 1 ‘ ' 
tSi' - 
The above represents the doorway and 
*t | office, in the Cosmopolitan Hotel, of the* r 
iBfDrising firr '| " 
trdman .V Jones, 
live insurance business, 
. _.»_of fird-class companies. 
unis an: well • hatred, and then 1 They also do a general real estate bnsl- 
e enru and throw it to tin: flock, ness, buying arid selling properly. They 
an eagfmm-* developed and a publish a cirQUitr paper, that in circulated 
stilnlion brought about, which (,y the Skwi-Tjuh’Ii' throughout thu East. 
* decided improvement. All |f it’,- insurance you want, or property 
'V bi-uoum a bright ml, the . to buy or sell, wc recommend the above- 
6 'V'" excellent thing for i busy song winch precedes laying will bo nBW ed firm to your consideration, 
tueul. heard, and the average yield of ogg* greatly J ' _ __ 
| "OPENING OF A CHESTNUT BUBR." 
, , “Any chestnuts’ round here?'’asked ono 
A »»»<•«. r c mi, wlnlt .... . „[ ll.rto city boy. wilt, mil .mil, bmtv. 
", t ,c f "l' h» wu.ur|.nw,I olunMnoklug farmer out In f£„ C.luM, 
b, .. .I tilt, nun.bru ..I .-BitJ br tl.ily oh Tl.t nbl itmr. I.esltnt.ul, 
U„I,.||. II,. bail but .l.ti’ril br.„, ,„J ,|,, | Jo „., , y, b k , 
p^rr, rrr*- w *n» w,«»j.i.t >«!««.* 
1 . " ll '" '••n.* of iiivii.jj, un rvury ‘‘Well, fliiwii'. a few tri'iw buck (hire bill 
, l Xru! wliT'lTwl wl ‘ ‘f ' Ib.'iiybi iv.iilcd In .t.a, tli.'.n I 
I’” ||" “IIW‘1 ‘."I .till (.I. woildti'l l.«»o Ullj .you .fur llm imo or i, not 
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PW 
'fi h'ltulmm gonrliirss. 
Hur correspond,.,u | HWher. will the owner be back? 1 * 
"Y\ elf, not before Hark, I reckon.” 
Tbrrnrf.,,,, JS I !?* »»* «« '•« «RS ! 
Itictl, and it was found that ilia The bo** hl„.l IA .i f 
unibr r of rgg-. was reduced each trial to ! J.L „J . . ,lh U,fl ,M " lc of ' 
vwur Itaitda full. . 8 ;«hickona ar« subject. *v "*"vi | “p«'i iiuiiy, waiteij till he got out of sight, 
■ is. I uti uiiu y now bbfuil intu your slutk - or.rlta ftno. .fo. 
r. ii:..,.. V:,i I .^rhu^' ! ih^'ew;:^.!i r ;;rp.::"^j 
S h "“fT. ... 'y. ... te* 
stake. Y 
for bird* hut you can dejind <,« what you 
F 1 ’^- * u ‘4 arf- not cheap at any price. 
I.. Have tire heat binla fur next year * 
.rwd.ng, and send the others to market. 
k dfcwod* 8 U “ CJr P °“ ,try Uj m4rket «ond 
i _ ltMKt, 4-^31 ,:j,%,U3o, 
rirnl in In?.), (uiOM,005,344 
Why dr 
Irw:'!' A 
000K THE FOOD. j culture lor 
'■ , Lh *,* u %™ : I ready Ml 
L ytrar fowl* should be furnished jrmwid JTc. 
. . , ■ .- nr iurni*m 
w«» #1 least cw»c full meal of cooked food 1 . 
dndy. The pract** helps to make up tin- j m int, ar’cThl wnm. 
•"•ling Ovlober, J . to IW- don't tak.^aLy '^moro’^roublli,” 
for the »»n„i i Mid the henvvnlct „|d who atoo.l by 
I the lone,, beaming kindly on tlm startle I 
I moalqaileaa strong a * | 
[dam the P e0iII 1 ,T’ * nd ‘ fcar \ ' ^ ••' ‘bn. dog much 
eau be found 0 J r lf r ‘hongh, I guest 1 can 
»«« ia worth ( tract. D'ntn/Ii th!*" 1 ^ rHilr " 1,lJ 
'v-.-.oiidalwavlVm] irr,^rr ,,,C back fru ' n l*"’ ruil- 
l'«dy, beautiful, j ure »f " t0 U '? ** ft0 P*"K <'g 
1 ha.* few encuties, (Jat! 
* -itk a small boy atUyfc- 
'• of the old nmn scooping lhe rich, hVo 
l**ti,uts into b twohiiaha? bag, 
Kubscrilre f»r the 8H|H-Taqpi.. 
