. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. p where the fowls can eatalJ they want. No danger of their eating toomuch green food when it is kept by them all thetime. If you cannot get Oabbages, chop upApples, Turnips, Carrots, etc. jf they donttake kindly to the chopped raw vegetables,sprinkle the vegetables with corn meal. Some-times cut some rowen tine, steam it by pouringboilmg water over it, and covering the pail for atime. This is the next best thing 10 green the sweepings from the barn floor, chafl:, etc.,would go
. Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches. p where the fowls can eatalJ they want. No danger of their eating toomuch green food when it is kept by them all thetime. If you cannot get Oabbages, chop upApples, Turnips, Carrots, etc. jf they donttake kindly to the chopped raw vegetables,sprinkle the vegetables with corn meal. Some-times cut some rowen tine, steam it by pouringboilmg water over it, and covering the pail for atime. This is the next best thing 10 green the sweepings from the barn floor, chafl:, etc.,would go into the poultry bouse for the hens topick over. Keep hung against the side of thebouse, within easy reach ot the fowls, a box con-taining gravel and crushed oyster shells (makethe box long and rather narrow, with a partitionin the middle, putting the shells in one side, thegravel on otherj, and that box should be filled upregularly every week. Then fowls should havedrink by them all the time if possible; if notgive them drink regularly twice a dav.— Farmer- lOO POPULAR GARDENING. February,. He that queslioneth much shall learn much.—BACON. Correapondents are urged to anticipate the eeanort in prrtenting queetione. To aak, for instance, on April 15 or 20what Feaa had beat be noion, oould brino no anexcer inthe May iaaue, and none be/ore June, when the answerwould be unseasonable. Questions reccivedbefore the \ithof any month stand a good chance of being answered in thenext paper. Sot more than three questions should be sentat one time. Answers to questions bearing on the com-parative value of implements, etc., offered by differentdealers must not be expected. Neither can we promise tocomply with the request sometimes made to please answerby mail. Inquiries appearing tcithout name belong to thename next following. Replies to Inquiries are earmestly requested from ourreaders. In answering such give Che number, yourlooallty and name, the latter not for publication,
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