Mrs Basley's poultry book; tells you what to do and how to do it; the chicken business from first to last including 1001 questions and answers, relative to up-to-date poultry culture . ry spear of grass and shehas to hunt them. Her business is to keep them warm at nightand warm them in the daytime if they get chilled. Never allowgoslings to get to water to swim until they are fully feathered, andthen only let those go that you wish to keep for breeders. Many ofthem will do as well if they never go swimming. During thisperiod you must keep the old geese away, as they will fight the henand moles
Mrs Basley's poultry book; tells you what to do and how to do it; the chicken business from first to last including 1001 questions and answers, relative to up-to-date poultry culture . ry spear of grass and shehas to hunt them. Her business is to keep them warm at nightand warm them in the daytime if they get chilled. Never allowgoslings to get to water to swim until they are fully feathered, andthen only let those go that you wish to keep for breeders. Many ofthem will do as well if they never go swimming. During thisperiod you must keep the old geese away, as they will fight the henand molest the young. You cannot raise geese as you do chickens and ducks, on a citylot. They must have pasture. It is a wrong belief that geese ortheir droppings will kill grass or pasture. If you have a large flockof geese and a small pasture they will clean it up; that is, they willeat the grass as fast as it sprouts and give it no chance to grow,just as a cow on a city lot will soon have only bare ground and youwill have to tie her in the road. If you do the same with geese youwould find the grass growing again the same as before. Geese areeasier to raise than any other young Mrs. AVell Arranse«l Yards PART II. 1001 Questions andAnswers CAUSE AND CURE OF SICKNESS Apoplexy—What is the trouble withmy hens? Tihey seem healthy and allat once they begin to gasp and fallover dead. I out one open and it wasin fine condition, fat and nice. I can-not make out what it is.—Mrs. C. S. Answer—Your (hen had apoplexyfrom being over-ifat. The over-fatcondition weakens the muscles, andthe heart and brain give way. Givethe whole flock a little Epsom saltsin the water for a week, cut down theamount of grain, especially any cornor corn meal in their feed, and feedmore green food and more tinimalfood with, of course, charcoal andgrit. Air Puff—I have been a constantreader of your articles and find themvery good but, I have a case I neverremember readiuig about; it is aBarred Rock
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