American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . drills, dropping the kernels so that theywill average about two to the running foot. This will be an allowance of fully one-third forworms, etc., which leaves enough, and ordina-rily too much, to stand. It must be thinned outas soon as danger from the cut-worm and grubhas passed. Summer cultivation comes in June,and until then we will defer its consideration. Pure Water for Hens and Chickens. Pure water is essential to the health of chick-ens. It should be changed frequently, and nodirt allowed to contaminate their vessel. Wehave bee
American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . drills, dropping the kernels so that theywill average about two to the running foot. This will be an allowance of fully one-third forworms, etc., which leaves enough, and ordina-rily too much, to stand. It must be thinned outas soon as danger from the cut-worm and grubhas passed. Summer cultivation comes in June,and until then we will defer its consideration. Pure Water for Hens and Chickens. Pure water is essential to the health of chick-ens. It should be changed frequently, and nodirt allowed to contaminate their vessel. Wehave been annoyed not to be able to set a shal-low vessel of water close to the coop, so thatthe old hen can drink and not have it filledwith dirt from the floor of the coop, thrown intoit by her scratching. This is supposed to con-tain the eggs of the gap-worms, which are takeninto the throats of the chickens with the water,either before or just after hatching. Whetherthis view is true or not, pure water is scarcelythe less a great desideratum, and it has been an. PDRE WATER COOP. important problem how to secure it. If we arenot mistaken, this question has been somewhereproposed to our readers, but the method exhib-ited in the accompanying engraving has sug-gested itself to us, and has been carried into ef-fect thus far with so great satisfaction that wedescribe it to our readers. The water dish isset at the side of the coop, and a hole is cut sothat the hen may put her head through con-veniently and drink. If she scratches hardenough to throw dirt through the hole, in allprobability it will overshoot the water. Wemay find it necessary after the hen learns whereto go to drink, to tack a light curtain of clothpartly over the hole. We think this plan willprove effectively useful in preventing the gapes. Varieties and Variation. That animals and plants vary, i. e., the childis not always in all respects like its parent, mustbe admitted by all. That the peculiarities whichmark this variat
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