ting has comp, each will go to her accustomed 
nest without much changing or confusion: but 
where the accommodations are more limited, 
more attention must be given to the nests. 
If several varieties are kept and it is intended 
to maintain pure breeds, each variety must be 
kept strictly separate. Should any hens have 
begun to lay before such separation, then the 
first ten eggs laid afterwards should uot be set; 
but when the fowls have been separated three 
weeks without laying, it is safe to save all 
subsequent eggs for their purity. 
If fowls have liberty, they need not now 
have warm, soft food. When the snow has 
disappeared, they will find gravel, seed, a little 
green food, etc.; but should they bo confined, 
the winter’s care must, of course, be continued. 
A lot of oyster-shells, thrown down on a road 
or yard over which horses travel, is very good 
for poultry on a farm. Pure water is essential, 
and should there be any stagnant pools of dirty 
water about the barn-yard, fill them up imme¬ 
diately. Drinking impure water is a sourceof 
disease that should never be tolerated. Animal 
food should be given until earth-worms make 
'their appearance. Feed liberally with grain 
and your hens will generously reward your 
liberality. “ h. h. 
POULTRY CONVENIENCE. 
I fiud the coop shown at Figure 170 a great 
improvement over the one shown in a recent 
Rural.. It is made of wire netting, two feet 
wide, Frames, 2x0 feet, are made of any 
Fig. 170. 
light scantling. The wire netting is tacked 
to them. To give a slope to the roof a board 
10 inches wide, is cut diagonally, as sbowu in 
the picture, aud placed at each side. The 
back is just the plain wire fence. The front 
is two feet and 10 inches high, with slats be¬ 
low the wire so that the little chickens can run 
in and ,out. The roof can bo made of any old 
boards or other lumber. Mine is made of a 
piece of an old tin roof. The frames are simply 
placed together and tied with strings or wires. 
In winter they can be taken apart and stored 
under shelter without taking up much space. 
I keep a 10-inch board lying in front of the 
slats. When I want to catch a chicken, I 
raise this board and have my prisoner where 
I can catch him. 
Another convenient tool is that shown at 
Figure 171. It is a catching-net. I would 
K.A/-Y 
Fig. 171. 
not think of doing without it, if I had but a 
dozen liens. All know how difficult, it is to 
catch chicks, old or young. When we go 
grabbing for them they dodge about anti often 
meet, their death uuder our feet. I make my 
net of hard brass wire, the size of an ordinary 
lead pencil. This will hold the largest hen. 
A net 15 inches in diameter and 2d or 28 inches 
deep, is large enough. I like a net of 1)inch 
mesh. I find it cheapest to knit, them myself I 
but they can be bought ut the fishing tackle 
stores. The wire is fastened to an old rake 
handle, as shown in the cut. With a little 
practice you can easily catch a bird on the 
wing or on the ground. 1 never thiuk of 
trying to catch a bird without my net. Thei'e 
will be no llutteriug or squalling. A large 
net is used for youug pigs, which are the hard¬ 
est things on the farm to catch, except rabbits* 
aud I have caught them, too. In New-York 
City, the dog-catchers use these nets very 
successfully. n. H. 
Creed moor, N. Y. 
-- M l 
Keeping Eggs. —Last July we went on a 
yacht voyage. We took eggs that were pack¬ 
ed in February and March. They were per¬ 
fect September 1. We are now packing 
about a dozen a day to take with us this sum¬ 
mer. We take the eggs fresh' from the nest 
and pack them in fine table salt. Place t hem 
so that they will not touch each other, or 
touch the box or pail, and cover them well 
with the salt, and they will keep for a year. 
We have tried this for years and never failed. 
New-York. N. w. R. 
MY FIRST EFFORT WITH SMALL 
FRUITS. 
Competition; an unfavorable, beginning; 
profiting by ill-success; preparation; vari¬ 
eties; cultivation; heroic treatment of run¬ 
ners; mulching; satisfactory results. 
The mau who engages in any pursuit at the 
present time with a view of making money, 
must expect to come into sharp competition, 
with other men engaged in the same or similar 
occupations. Hence in order to succeed, one 
must study the best methods of conducting his 
business so as to obtain the largest returns 
with the least expenditure of time and money. 
The small-fruit business is no exception to the 
general rule: in fact so many have gone into 
it of late and the competition has become so 
close that only those who have the courage to 
hold on and the energy and brains to grow 
large crops from small areas are likely to re¬ 
alize much profit for the time and money in¬ 
vested. 
I have picked berries but two seasons and 
am therefore young in the business. Then, I 
violated the advice given by life-long horti¬ 
culturists whose wisdom ought to be heeded, 
for J rushed in quite largely, putting out 6,000 
rasplwry roots aud one acre of strawberry 
plants the first season. I lost about one-third 
of each from improper setting and other 
causes. From what remained of the strawber¬ 
ries I picked the next season 4,000 quarts of 
fine berries, and proceeded to profit by my ex¬ 
perience and partial failure by setting out 
more raspberry roots and strawberry plants, 
with much better success. 
In the spring of 1885 I prepared an acre of 
ground with great care, haviug plowed it the 
previous fall as deep as I could with a Syra¬ 
cuse plow without the w-heel, leaving it ex¬ 
posed to the action of frost duriug the winter. 
Iu the spring I made an application of about 
12 wagon-loads of stable manure; theu I 
plowed lightly and harrowed several times. 
Next I gave a dressing of ashes—leached and 
unleached—a quantity of hen manure and sev¬ 
eral loads of well composted yard manure.and 
harrowed thoroughly aud rolled with a heavy 
roller. This treatment was given to a loamy 
soil with sufficient mixture of clay for a first- 
class strawberry ground as the sequel proved. 
When the rolling was completed the ground 
was ready to receive the plants. Varieties 
selected: three-quarters, Wilson; the remain¬ 
der, one-third each, Crescent, Manchester and 
Sharpless; time of setting, about May 25th; 
rows, three feet apart; plants, oue foot apart 
iu the rows. Six rows were set four feet by 
18 inches for new plants. Nearly every plant 
lived, although the weather was very dry aud 
hot. 
In about one week I started the cultivator and 
kept it going until October 1st. At first I 
thought to keep all runners off and adopt the 
hill system, and, in fact, l did go over the 
patch two or three times; but other farm 
work demanded attention, and the hill system 
was abandoned. As the season advanced the 
plants began to throw out runners in great 
profusion, threatening to take possession of 
the entire space between the rows, or to set 
plants in the matted rows so as to render the 
fruit worthless; therefore, in August I deter¬ 
mined to adopt heroic treatment, and with 
a pair of shears, always at hand when weed¬ 
ing, I slashed right through the mass of ma¬ 
nors, destroying them by thousands. Enough, 
however, had taken root to make the stand 
about right, and each one rapidly developed 
into a strong and vigorous plant. Iu Septem¬ 
ber a finer acre of strawberries would be hard 
to find. Every row was perfectly filled up, 
and there was not the least sign of disease, 
while thei'e was just room to pass between the 
rows. 
In January I mulched heavily with clean 
straw, which was removed from the plants 
the following May to the space betweeu the 
rows. Everything worked well; blossoms ap¬ 
peared iu great profusion, then the ripened 
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