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WHOLE No. 1205. i 
NEW YORK, AND ROCHESTER, N. Y, MARCH. I, 1873 
PRICE SIX CENTS, 
82.50 PER YEAR, 
[EntereO aoaordlng to Act of Congress, In the 
>ear 1873, by D. D. T. Mooke, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.] 
made in sections, it can be easily taken to 
pieces for packing in a small space. 
POULTRY BREVITIES, 
Do Unimpreynnted Eygx Keep Best f—This 
question is suggested by a recent writer, and 
it is asked if ever anyone lias tried the ex¬ 
periment of producing eggs for market with¬ 
out allowing the male to run with the hens ; 
if so, what is the relative keeping quality of 
PORTABLE OCTAGON AVIARY 
POULTRY STATEMENT FOR 1872 
In an English paper we find the accompany¬ 
ing illustration of a portable aviary. The 
editor says of it:—We know of one that is 
As the Poultry Department in your paper 
is very interesting to me, and hoping to call 
out more items n pon the subject, I send my 
poultry account for 1872 : 
Da. 
January 1.—To 80 lions on hand, at 75o.* fiO 00 
„ , ‘ ‘1 turkeys. 9 50 
March “ K chicks, bought at 75c. 31 50 
* 5 turkuys, “ “. ts ,59 
April “ “ 73 Chicks, " “. 55 95 
Dec. “ “ 8 turkeys, “ “. 24 33 
feed, 1-i.T.HT bushels corn. IOC 92 
r 900 His. incnl. 11 55 
“ wheat and buckwheat,. 11 42 
meat... 1 in 
Eggs set.. 4 90 
from four to six or eight weeks old, under 
similar circumstances, if I judge rightly from 
E. A. S.’s letter to the Rural. Mine would 
get very fat and choke up for lack of room 
for breathing ; and whciuleath relieved them 
their lungs had the appearance of those of 
the pigs of E. A. S. My theory, from obser¬ 
vation and experience is, that the pigs in such 
eases become very fat; the difficulty of 
breathing arises from want of room for the 
play of the lungs, also the windpipe is so com¬ 
pressed by the accumulation of fat, Unit the 
lungs are literally burned up by excessive 
heat, caused by being so closely compressed 
and the difficulty of breathing, and death is 
caused thereby. 
The remedy I have found effectual is plenty 
of exercise while young, and less feed given 
to tin: sow till the pigs arc six or eight weeks 
old ; after that age, with plenty of exercise, 
there is little danger of overfeeding if the pig 
is designed for the pork barrel the lirat sea¬ 
son, which is the best place for them, in the 
opinion of the writer, ff they are to be kept 
for breeding stock, 1 would not feed so highly, 
but give a good range to develop their form ; 
also not to impair their usefulness as breeders 
by too much fat in their youth. This caution 
is perhaps not needed by the masses, as more 
pigs are hurt by too little feed than by over¬ 
feeding while young. I judge E. A. S.’s sow 
was a good one, and well fed, hence the re¬ 
sult. 1 have given my experience and hope, 
it may benefit someone in like circumstances. 
Give, plenty of exercise to the pigs, and less 
feed to the sow for the first eight weeks, in 
like cases, and note the result. 
Will D. A. M. tell when the three pigs he 
speaks Of were one year old ? ( Ruha r.of Feb. 
8 , page 00,) evidently not on the day they 
were slaughtered ; also their mamierof keep, 
etc. Same page aud date of Rural, “ A Sub¬ 
scriber ” has given the weight,and ago of five 
pigs; if he had told how they were fed, I 
should consider it a model paper ; when will 
farmers give particulars, soil, culture, etc., 
of the. crops, seeds, etc., also the exact age, 
breed, and manner of feeding their animals, as 
well as result; then a pretty correct estimate 
could be reached by the readers of the Rural 
of the experiments reported. 
Rome, N. Y. Jonathan Talcott. 
Cr. 
By 731 11-12 dozen (in(w .*253 82 
<51 chicks sold. 123 15 
chickens, dressed.. 90 70 
“ 42 turkeys, “ 121 30 
" premiums on White Leghorns. 15 00 
78 Rons on hand, at 80c. 02 40 
turkeys on liuud. 15 00 
Dr. Acc’t... 822 88 
8304 03 
My plan is to breed nothing but pure White 
Leghorns ; but iu the Spring I buy about a 
hundred hens, as layers; feed them high ; 
get itll the eggs from them that I can, and 
kill them off before they commence to molt, 
as I find that most of the profit on common 
fowls is in eggs from March to July. By that 
timo I have a nice large flock of White Leg¬ 
horn chicks that are about ready to sell for 
somewhat higher prices than they would 
bring dressed, as may be seen in my account 
—«1 for *123.15. 
I give my fowls their liberty, and they 
have all the run they want, except my breed¬ 
ing stock of Leghorns, which are kept in 
yards, by themselves, from December until 
al tor the season for setting eggs Is over; then 
all run together ; and 1 assure you a flock of 
from 100 to 200 pure white fovvis looks very 
handsome in the Fall after I have killed oil' 
all the common kinds and have nothing but 
white ones left. 
I have a building 15 by 30, with roosting, 
laying and sitting rooms. Under the roosts I 
have several inches of dry dirt ; all of the 
droppings I rake off about every morning 
and take them out of the room, for I am fully 
satisfied that, there is no surer way to bring 
disease, lice and death among fowls, than to 
allow the droppings to accumulate and re¬ 
main under the roosts. I have the buildilig 
well ventilated, whitewashed all over inside, 
the roosts well covered with kerosene oil 
often. I give the fowls a nice, sunny place, 
with plenty of dry dirt aud wood ashes, 
mixed, for a dust bath ; keep all the rooms 
clean and sweet, give plenty of feed, pure 
water always before them, and they cannot 
help but well pay for oue’s trouble, and 
leave a good margin as profit. 
E. J. Crawford. 
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sometimes on the lawn and sometimes in the 
plantations, and, although always ornamen¬ 
tal, it is never so much so as when within a 
group of three Firs. 
The wires are half an inch apart, therefore 
suitable for the smallest or any other sized 
cage birds. It is made of metal, galvanized 
or japanned in any colors, is quite portable, 
and, being made in sections, is readily packed 
or removed. It has a seed-pan and sanitary 
drinking fountain. 
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such eggs compared with impregnated ones ? 
Perhaps some of our readers are posted. 
“ Do Brown Leghorns have White Earn ? ” 
So asks M. R. F. There are some breeders 
who claim that a Brown Leghorn that lias 
not got white ears is defective; and vice 
verm. We go for white oar lobes. We don’t 
know that those that have red ears are de¬ 
fective, but, we think so. 
A Remedy for Staggers such as P. P. C, 
describes, where the fowls’ necks arc twisted 
MOVABLE POULTRY HOUSE 
RHEUMATISM IN HOGS 
Those who have tried movable poultry 
houses, regard them as exceedingly profitable 
arrangements and very desirable. We give, 
as a suggestion to our readers, an illustration 
of one in use iu England, which is mounted 
on wheels, with a floor raised high above 
giound to form a dry run, has a set of movn- 
In answer to a correspondent, the Prairie 
Farmer says :—Keep the hogs in a dry, warm, 
well-littered place, and feed soft food, such 
as cooked potatoes, mashes, etc. Give once 
a week a vomitive, such as the following, 
mixed and thrown dry on the root of the 
hog's tongue :—Ten grain* of the powdered 
root of white hellebore, and ten grains of tar¬ 
tar emetic. The back and loins should be 
rubbed twice daily with a mixture of oil of 
turpentine and spirits of camphor, equal 
parts. If costive, give warm linseed tea. 
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