. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. 21 m\t f oultvn ^\ml PRACTICAL POULTRY KEEPING 'E find the following verj'practical article in the Russian River Flag. It is just such information as our readers will appreciate. Flag:—At your request I give some of my experience with poultry, to- gether with hints and items which may be of interest and possible benefit to a portion of your readers, as now-a-days nearly every that has the room keeps more o
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. 21 m\t f oultvn ^\ml PRACTICAL POULTRY KEEPING 'E find the following verj'practical article in the Russian River Flag. It is just such information as our readers will appreciate. Flag:—At your request I give some of my experience with poultry, to- gether with hints and items which may be of interest and possible benefit to a portion of your readers, as now-a-days nearly every that has the room keeps more or less fowls, if only to sup- ply their table with undoubtedly (resh eggs and occasionally a broiled or a roast chicken. LEGHOEN FOWLS. It is now well established that pure Leghorn fowls far exceed any other va- riety in laying qualities. They are har- dy, easy to raise, mature early, and when well cared for will lay at six mouths of age. I have frequently had March- hatched Leghorn pullets commence lay- ing in August, ami continue more or less regularly all through the following Win- ter. I have, first and last, bred twenty diflerent varieties of fowls, and my ex- perience proves the White Leghorn, in comparison to others, to mature earlier, lay earlier, produce more eggs, consume less food, and ,ire the most beautiful and profitable of all fowls. They lay a large white egg, and are docile and easily re- strained—seldom or never want to set. TO INCKEASE EGG PRODUCTION, And keep hens of any breed in good lay- ing condition, they require careful and constant attention. My manner of feed- ing to ensure the greatest amount of eggs is about as follows: At daybreak in win- ter, and five o'clock in summer, I give warm scalded ground food, either bran, shorts, cracked corn, ground wheat, or barley, and grain at night, a change oc- casionally being necessary. In this food once in ten days I mix -a teaspoonful of sulphur to a dozen fowls—and two or three times a week the same prop
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