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FANCIERS’ JOURNAL AND POULTRY EXCHANGE. 

All such works are calculated to do more harm than good. 
Far better encourage them to turn their minds to the beau- 
ties of nature and the handiwork of their Creator ; encourage 
them in their fancies; a few pairs of pigeons or rabbits, some 
good work on the same, will be of far more benefit than 
reading the hobgoblin stuff such as the country is flooded 
with at the present time. 
THomas 8. ARMSTRONG. 
TRENTON, N. J. 

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HOW I MANAGE MY POULTRY. 
I witt tell you how I manage my hens, and they always 
lay the year round, in winter'as well as in summer. The 
first of April I had two broods of chickens hatched. As 
soon as they were large enough, I killed all the old hens. 
When one wanted to set, I had her killed. I think young 
hens lay better than old ones. The chickens are a cross be- 
tween Brahma hens and Leghorn crower. My coop is on 
the north side of the barn, but the south side is much better, 
if one can have it so. I give them warm water two or three 
times a day, and keep corn by them all the time, and also 
give them afew oats occasionally, and what crumbs are left 
from the table. I throw old bones to them to pick, as they 
are fond of them. Three of the pullets commenced to lay 
the first of September; the other four the last of September. 
These have laid three, four, and five eggs a day ever since. 
They haven’t been outdoors once since snow came. I think 
hens won’t lay unless they have bones, meat, sun, and a 
little salt .n their food.—Mrs. Rk. G. BENNETT, in Maine 
Farmer. 

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BREEDING TURKEYS FOR PROFIT. 
Tue Land and Water says: No kind of poultry will yield 
a profit unless they are attended to with some degree of 
common sense and in a business-like manner. The absolute 
rule has hitherto been for farmers to consider poultry as the 
least remunerative part of their farm stock. Most of them 
know no reason for saying so, but ‘they say so,’’ conse- 
quently they receive little or no attention. We were lately 
at a large farm where this was most truly exemplified. The 
pigs, 160 in number, were well housed, well littered down, 
and well fed; the cows 87 in number, the same; and even 
the punkahs, worked by steam power, were continually fan- 
ning the poor beasts to keep them cool and drive the flies 
off; but the poor fowls, and especially the turkeys, had not 
where to lay their heads. Definitely, the poor creatures in- 
- variably roosted upon the iron hurdles near the back of the 
steam engine-room, and the owner said, in reply to some 
questions as to how many he had reared, ‘‘Oh, drat the 
things! They are no use to any one; I wish the foxes had 
the lot.’”? The common-sense way to have turned the tur- 
keys to a good account would be ‘first to make a proper 
roosting and set of laying compartments in a large, perfectly 
dry, and airy building; and on the premises alluded to a 
good cart-shed abutted on to the engine-room, which could 
have been converted, at a small cost, into a most excellent 
house, and, from its contiguity to the warm room in ques- 
tion, it would have been most invaluable for such a purpose, 
while the carts could have been far better provided for away 
from the warmth. If the soil is tolerably dry and the farm 
well drained, turkeys may be raised with considerable profit. 
The hens lay freely, and if properly attended to they lay 


early, which is one of the great secrets towards success, as 
the hens soon become broody and ready to take their nest of 
eggs. They are most exemplary sitters, and when once 
broody they may be kept on sitting for four months on any 
kind of eggs, and if they are made to take proper exercise 
to find their food and water twice a day, they do not take 
any harm from the continuous sitting; on the contrary, 
nearly always come off in better condition at the end of the 
time than when first set to hatch. The young are not more 
difficult to rear than other poultry. They must not be al- 
lowed to become saturated with rain too often while young 
(neither should any other poultry), and they must have an 
unlimited supply of fresh varied green food, specially lettuce, 
dandelion leaves, dock, young nettles, and onion tops; and 
they must be entirely fed on soft food for some weeks, very 
gradually introducing whole grain, in small portions for the 
first few months ; even when six months old they should not 
have an entire meal of hard grain, as their powers for grind- 
ing their food are very limited at first, and it is those per- 
sons who force on with the unground grain at too early an 
age, to save themselves a little trouble, that complain of the 
delicacy of turkeys. Look at the beautiful barley and maize 
meal, and the fine and coarse food the farmers lavish on 
their pigs; the same would rear turkeys well; and, by the 
time the corn is being carried, the young birds will be ready 
to subsist almost wholly upon what they glean from the 
fields; a small boy or girl should be trained to know them, 
and quietly drive them to the fields required to be cleared, 
and should remain among them to protect and watch them, 
and to drive them back to their properly sheltered quarters 
for the night. With this kind of management turkeys may 
be bred in large numbers on a mixed farm, with profit. 

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A CODE ON POULTRY-KEEPING. 

SHOWING HOW EVERY PULLET REARED MAY BE MADE TO 
RETURN A PROFIT OF £1 IN EIGHTEEN MONTHS. 
Tue French are pre-eminently celebrated for their poul- 
try, both as to the quality and quantity they produce. 
The principle adopted by them in their successful and 
economical rearing may be explained in a few words—early 
hatching, early killing, liberal feeding, stimulating food, both 
for fattening and egg-producing. They keep only the best 
breeds, celebrated either as egg-layers, or quick growth to 
maturity. They keep their stock always young, and by lib- 
eral feeding with stimulating food, both flesh and eggs are 
produced with the regularity of machinery; risk of disease 
being prevented by the rapidity with which they fatten and 
realize, keeping up a constant succession. 
The domestic fowl is admittedly of all birds the most gen- 
erally useful; but although so commonly kept, and highly 
appreciated, it is quite a rare exception to find any in this 
country who know how to rear, and keep them profitably, 
even at the exorbitant prices they at present command. 
The object in keeping poultry should be to produce their 
flesh and eggs as ewpeditiously as possible, and at the smallest 
cost; and it is only from want of proper knowledge of their 
management that eggs and poultry are the rich man’s deli- 
cacy, rather than what they should be—food for the million. 
I say want of knowledge alone, because no greater trouble, 
and far less expense, is involved in making them a source of 
profit than of loss. 
Fowls should be looked upon as mere machines for con- 
