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December 15, 1906 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
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man should not be in a hurry to start 
poultry-keeping on too large a scale, es- 
pecially when he has only a limited 
amount of space. 
Be enterprising. 
Name the farm. 
Buy summer bargains. 
A good dust bath is in order. 
Don’t do others—do for others. 
Don’t be full of fads and fancies. 
Tt is backbone you want, not wishbone. 
Rolled up sleeves are better than luck. 
Energy is the hinge to the door of suc- 
Cot rid of all the surplus old stock at 
once. ‘ 
Now is the time to make arrangements 
_ for next year. — 
Keep your eye on the early moulters 
this year. 
Tt REG: hurt to buy a few good breed- 
ing hens cheap for new blood year after 
t. y 
ee This is the best method of introducing 
it, and the cheapest plan of buying it. 
tf you don’t like whitewash, try cold 
water paint. It is easily applied, and 
very effective. 
We are giving our chickens six acres 
to roam over, and don’t they appreciate 
fact. 
baa please take those cockerells away 
from the pullets: I think we told you be- 
Not a bad plan to put all the reserved 
old hens in one pen and plant the others 
the pens, not the hens—down to some 
groenstuff. Why not lucerne? 
* his is not a bad plan for fresh yards 
and buildings. These cong days one gets 
a fair amount of spare time. 
neglect the growing chickens. 
Reports on current season’s trade are 
‘from the fancier’s- 
not too encouraging 
side, but eggs and poultry are bringing 
~ gooil prices right along, That is a good 
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Tees you too much milk? Put it be- 
fore the hensand watch it is disappear. 
And you couldn’é put it to better juse. 
~ It goes right into eggs. 
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Prevention of Disease. 
al Poultry on the farm is apt to find and 
eat dead animals, for chickens are not 
‘choice about their food. It is much 
easiers to prevent disease than to cure it 
in the flock, but when it does appear it is 
usually caused by. onc of these three con- 
“ditions; Improve the food, unwholesome 
surroundings, and neglect. Domestic 
fowls are not, asa ule, disposed to sicken, 
and the strict application of the old adage 
« An ounceof prevention is worth a pound 
‘of cure,? is worth all the remedies ever 
| printed. 
‘Doctoring poultry is a losing business _ 
unless the bird bea valuable one. You 
ye ‘inust take into consideretion not only the 
“actual expenses of the medicines, but the 
time it tukes to care for sick fowls, the 
But don’t | 
2 special preparation of feed, and the 
‘ground, but on 
trouble caused by having the sick and 
convalescent birds aeparated from the 
rest of the flock, 
A chicken that has had some serious 
organic trouble should never be used as a 
breeder, for experience teaches that al- 
though the bird may recover and be 
apparently sound and in breeding trim, 
the germs of the disease are transmitted » 
to the offspring, and will, in the course of 
time appear in the next genera ion and 
cause trouble. * : 
Absolute cleanliness is imperative. an 
as necessary for the well-being of the 
chickens as air, sun, and food, especially if 
they are confined. 
where the chickens can get them, and see 
that all animals that die on the farm are 
buried or burned. Hawks are a great 
blessing at large, but ona well-regulated 
farm they nd little to eat and the sight 
of one sailing about, or perched on a fence 
reminds the farmer there is carcase that 
demands burial, The chicken house 
should be kept clean, and from time to 
time receive a thorough cleaning with 
white-wash and kerosine. lice are the 
greatest pests and every means should be 
taken to keep the premises clear of them. 
A fowl teaming with lice cannot be in a 
healthy condition. An ample dust-box is 
ameaus by which the chickens can keep 
lice in abeyance. The drinking water 
should at all times be fresh and pure, and 
food should never be thrown on muddy 
dry, clean boards or 
troughs, ’ staat 
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Worth of Laying Tests. 
From “ The Australian Hen.” 
Down in Australia the laying compe- 
titions are running full blast, the feed 
being jturned in one end and the eggs 
coming from the othar. Australia is de- 
veloping some heavy laying birds and 
strains of birds and we can well begin to— 
imitate her at this We haye our poultry 
industry built on a sand foundation of 
beautiful feathers, and these are uxuries 
to the great class of fanciers who ouy, who 
drop the hobby at the first signs of Pros- © 
perity’s wane. Australia seems to be 
building her foundation solidly. Egg lay- 
ing hens, anti-eggless hens, will always 
be worth hard cash andcan lay eggs and 
lots of them in close times as well as good 
They will always be worth money as 
breeding birds, because like the heavy 
-buttermaking cow, they will be able to — 
pay a handsome profit as well as something 
for their keep Going on down 1n Aus- 
tralia at this writing are something like a 
dozen laying competitions, and pedigree 
br-eding is at its zenith Read live, two 
hundred-egg hens are plenty and the 
value of each hen is increasing as au egg 
producer. There are fifty breeders 1n— 
Australia who are receiving as much for 
their eggs per setting from their heavy 
Jayers as our best American breeders do 
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Pl ie 
Never throw dead rats © 
racked at the end of the “winter. 
for their birds’ form and feathers. The 
point sticks out like a sore thumb and if 
you like you may hang your hat on it. 
Mr Vogel, of Longwood, S. A. says on 
cider making for home use;—‘He had 
made thousands of gallons of {cider in the 
old country butnotin this State, Hx- 
pensive appliances were not necessary to 
make good cider. Cleanliness in all 
stages of the operation of cider making’ 
was essential to success. Good, ripe clean 
fruit: should be pulped with a wooden 
stamper in a wooden trough, then placed 
in the press and the juice expressed. 
The juice should then be placed in a 
clean barrel to ferment. The burrel — 
should be kept quite full, a little juice 
being put aside in another receptacie to 
replenish the barrell from time to time 
while fermentation is going on. The bar- 
rel should be kept in a cool place. and as 
soon as fermentation is over should be — 
bunged down. If the cider is to be kept 
for more than a year it will require to be 
Mixed 
sort of apples, so long as they are sound 
and ripe, give better cider than a single 
variety, though the Bestover is usually 
considered she best cider apple. To fumi- 
gate the casks before use, inelé some sul- 
phur and dip a strip of linen in it, put 
about one square inch of ‘inen on the end — 
of a wire, set'it alight, and hold it in the 
cask until it burns out.’ ‘ 
The Dairy. 
Never breed a ‘kicky’ cow. Your herd 
needs cows, not mules. ; 
Never put a fine cow in the care ofa 
poor milker. The milker makes or un- 
makes the cow, 
Scoured milkaffects the cream injur- 
iously. Get the cream off in time. 
The cows should be thoroughly acquain- 
ted with the milkers. 
Dry salt cannot be worked into dry aide 
butter successfully. 
glowmilking frets the cow. Hasten — 
tlio, performance as much as possible. 
‘Themanure coated cow is good proof 
thet her owner 1s in the wrong business. 
He should chenge occupations. — 
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