Fepruary 19, 1906 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
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Separate Pens for Fattening. 
Farrentnc pens can he easily made out of 
ordinary packing cases, from which the top and 
one side have been taken, or from ordinary hen 
coops. They should be put on logs not less than 
2feet high, and the bottoms of the coops or 
boxes should be made of one and a half inch 
slats (slating laths do excellently) nailed across 
so as to allow about two inches between the 
slats. The front of the pen will be similar to 
that of an ordinary hen coop, and should have a 
hinged door or sliding] opening so that birds 
may be easily put inor taken out. Not more 
than six birds should be put into one coop, and 
there should be only just room forthem to feed 
comfortably. 
The birds should be placed in the coop at 
night, being first given a fair meal and some 
drinking water. They should not be fed again 
1¢ it is well to allow their crops to 
for 36 hours, as 1 ¢ i 
become quite empty before they be fed in their 
new quarters. Unless so starved the birds, es- 
pecially if taken from a large flock, are apt to 
pine and lose condition seriously. For the first 
day or two they may be given just a little green 
food, but this must soon be discontinued. Uniess 
the coop can be placed in a shed, a sack should 
be hung in front of it at night to prevent the 
birds catching cold; this should also be done 
between meals, as exclusion of light induces 
sleep, and the birds consequently lay on flesh 
more quickly. 
The space underneath the coop should be 
thickly covered with ashes, and all droppings 
should be raked out and taken away twice a day. 
The utmost cleanliness must be observed, or 
birds will lose rather than gain in condition and 
weight. ; 
Two pieces of wood should be nailed to the 
outside of the bottom of the coop to project up- 
wards, On these a wooden trough may be placed 
at meal times, but it should be taken away 
directly after the birds have finished feeding, 
and after removing any food which may have 
been left, it should besrinsed ont with cold 
water, Twice a week this trough should be 
thoroughly scoured oat with boiling water and 
a hard brush. 
The food given to birds while undergoing the 
process of fattening should be fed in a liquid 
state, like thick soup, and a little grit may be 
added with advantage. If the birds appear to 
dislike their food give them a change, for on 
no account must they be permitted to go off 
their food. _ ’ ; 
Bantams are Useful. 
Wuere one has only a small yard bantams are 
. very useful. They are sprightly little fellows 
which bear confinement, and a dozen hens may 
be kept continuously in a yard not more than 
ten feet square. 
They are very small feeders, and that number 
of hens will keep in healthy condition with 
only the scraps from the table. 
Their eggsare almost as large as some of the 
leghorns, and they will lay about a 100 a year. 
Of course they are too small for table fowls, 
put they certainly wake themselves useful in 
. furnishing fr-sh eggs for those who have no « 
yards large enough for other breeds. 
There are several good kinds, but ‘the most 
opular are the black-breusted games, which are 
poth handsome avd profitable, 
Asmall dry goods }ox will serve for their 
house and they will pay their way at all times. 
‘Office: Gender’s 
Sheep in the Orchard, 
000 
A-correspondent says—“ The greatest value 
of sheep in an orchard is found probably in 
their being used as « means of fertilising 
orchards that are bearing. If put in the same 
somewhat early in the spring and fed a suitable 
supplementary food with the grass which the 
orchard may furnish, it will be found that the 
sheep will thus convey fertility tothe land, and 
they will do so ina marked deg. if fed on right 
kinds of food. Such foods may consist largely of 
wheat bran, which is in itself a valuable ferti- 
liser. It may be wise to encourage the sheep to 
eatit freely, to add a Little grain in the form of 
oats. A little oil cake will also improve the 
food. ‘The droppings thus left in the orchard 
will tend very much to its enrichment. The 
outcome will be that where this system is per- 
severed in during considerable portions of the 
season, the orchard will thus be provided with a 
liberal application of fertility. This statement 
is based on the supposition that there is some 
proper relation between the number of sheep 
grazed and the area of the orchard.” 
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