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tato. 
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allowed, among: the verbena beds, the flowers 
will not be destroyed by the cut-worm so 
troublesome in the mouth of June. Every 
family that cuu do so, should keep a pair of 
Bantams for the children, but never wound 
their feelings by serving up their pets for din¬ 
ner. Sooner keep them until they die of old 
age. We never find it difficult to get good 
homes for our surplus Bantams. 
There has seldom been a case of sickness 
among our chickens, owing probably to the 
regular care they receive, feeding, etc. The 
poultry-house is so constructed that, it is ven¬ 
tilated all the time, without the currents of air 
reaching the fowls directly. Chickens are not 
apt to suffer from disease uuless uegieeted. 
Oue of the many results of neglect is parasites 
on the legs. If remedies are uot used in time, 
the fowl becomes unable to stand. The cure is 
turpentine and sweet oil, equal parts, applied 
to the scales of the Legs. For this trouble tur¬ 
pentine alone is often recommended, but it is 
loo strong, and no more effectual than when 
mixed with olive oil. 8o much has been writ¬ 
ten on poultry that it would seem as if nothing 
new could be said on the subject to enlighten 
any one. However, those who engage in poul¬ 
try-raising naturally like to know something 
of each other's experience. 
Clinton Co., Iowa. 
W E are sometimes asked why the prices of our 
goods are apparendy higher than some others 
of inferior make, and vve avail ourselves of this op¬ 
portunity to place the matter in its trite light. 
O UR " Vibrator” Threshers and Portable 
Engines embody the best results of our experi¬ 
ence and study during Our long business career. 
Whatever would add to their durability,efficiency, 
and solid excellence, in any particular, has been 
and utilized without regard 
MYERS’ Improved Wind-Mill. 
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OUR CHICKENS. 
MKS. M. G. BAND. 
We do not keep poultry for piofit, as out- 
home is ou ground purchased by the foot—not 
by the acre. It is a habit with us to keep chick¬ 
ens, aud one we would give up reluctantly, for 
it is a pleasure to see them about aud to attend 
to their wants. 
The poultry-house is twelve feet square, aud 
is never occupied by more thau eight or ten 
fowls at oue time. It fronts east, and that side 
of the coop is nearly all glass. The chickens 
look very comfortable in their pleasant quar¬ 
ters, aud when on the perches they always 
face the window, which proves that they like a 
cheerful outlook. 
Our chickens are regularly fed, principally 
ou wheat aud corn, and pure water is always 
before them. The drinking dish is scrubbed 
with suds and a stiff brush two or three times 
every week. A common flower-pot saucer, 
holding a quart or more, makes a good drink¬ 
ing vessel for ehickcus. Invert a small flower¬ 
pot in the saucer, which will leave room at the 
edge for the chickens to drink with case. Such 
an arrangement prevents the fowls from run¬ 
ning through the water. Shallow boxes of air- 
slaked lime, ashes and gravel, are kept in the 
coop and renewed often. The perches are 
washed occasionally with alum-water, aud the 
cuds rubbed with coal oil. 
When wishing to set a hen, we take a box of 
suitable size for the nest which is made of 
clean straw, and spriukled with sulphur. Dur¬ 
ing the time of iucubaliou, we avoid disturb¬ 
ing the lieu, in order to indulge her natural in¬ 
clination to privacy. Her lood while sitting 
consists of wheat aud eoru-mcal wet with water. 
The little chickens are not fed until twenty- 
four hours old, and then on coarse corn-meal. 
If they arc kept iu a small coop on the ground, 
it is moved along a few inches every day or 
two. to give them a eleau place. It is well to 
open the coop entirely, late each aleruoou, to 
allow the hen to roam at large for an hour, to 
scratch for the chicks. Food ought uot to be 
left near the coop over-night, lest rats be at¬ 
tracted to it. 
Fowls that have to be confined in summer, 
on account of the garden, should have a yard 
attached to the coop to run iu, and a daily sup¬ 
ply of green food and raw meat. A spadeful 
of earth and a green sod now aud theu, will 
give them something to do. 
If the poultry-keeper does uot wish the hens 
to sit. they should be put in a small, hut uom- 
fortable coop for the day, and back ou the roost 
at night. Persevere in this plau patimllij until 
the hen is over the ” notion.” There is no ne¬ 
cessity for the cruel practices of some, persons 
iu regard to sitting hens. Another luck of hu¬ 
manity is often shown in allowing poultry to 
go without watm iu winter, because there may 
be snow ou the ground. The man who is guilty 
of such neglect, might try snow as a substitute 
for tea aud coffee. At all seasons pure water 
and plenty of it, should be kept within reach 
of the poultry. 
During the molting process fowls need the 
best of care, as it is a great tax upon their 
strength to got new plumage. Give raw beef 
as often as they will eat it, and keep a rusty 
nail, or any bit of iron, in their water-dish. 
We have kept several varieties of fowls, hut 
our preference thus far is for the Light Brahma. 
We arc never without a trio of White Bantams; 
the dainty little creatures look so pretty ou the 
lawu aud are so useful among the (lowers, that 
we could not consent to give thorn up. It is 
said that a “sentimental idea prevails that 
Bantams do no harm.” Our experience satis¬ 
fies us that a few do more good than harm. If 
Why is the interest in raising geese so small? 
How cau a poultry yard he complete without 
them ? I raised three broods of goslings from 
oue goose last year. The same goose bas laid 
33 eggs this year. Her time for hatching 
the second setting is up now. The first setting 
was destroyed by a new man on my farm, who 
shook the eggs, thinking they were addled, not 
knowing that they need four days longer thau 
usual in December aud January. Goslings 
raised last July are hatching now. Every 
batch of four geese should have one gander 
with them. I find that when there is only one 
gander to six geese there are too many infer¬ 
tile eggs. I’ve had only two eggs of that sort 
that failed to be detected by testing, siucelbegan 
keepiug geese. My geese are of a pure breed— 
grayish-brown, knuckle-billed Chinese birds, 
with large bodies. I consider them a profit¬ 
able addition to the poultry yard. Unlike the 
Toulouse and white geese, they are not roaru- 
fii-fi E. J. F. B. 
RAISING GEESE. 
