Kansas Fancier from Winfield, Kansas • 10

9 The Kansas Fane ler. TIMELY HINTS. Avoid feeding much is too fattening for laying hens; oats are better. Chilled eggs will not hatch. Forty degrees above it is said, will kill the germ.

Gather the eggs as soon as possible this time of year after being laid or they will become frozen. Parched corn fed occasionally to poultry will act on the liver and restore many a fowl to health. Wheat is fine for poultry but should be fed quite moderately Dysentery takes off many fowls. Though not so fatal as cholera it is vastly more common. A fowl may linger a week or ten days with with chicken cholera it is different.

That disease rarely lasts over thirty-six hours and is usually fatal. Many chickens die of it when taken, within 12 to 24 hours. We recommend for the treatment of chicken cholera, effectual isolation ftom other fowls when the case is first discovered. Tieat the diseased bird with ordinary cholera medicine there are many kinds and all highly recommended and used by mkind. Do not disturb the sick bird only when giving the medicine, but keep it as quiet as possible.

The disease is highly contageous and birds dying must be buried at once. For dysentery the following mixture is highly commended: Three tablespoonfuls each of strong camphor water corn, oats and sorghum seed; cooked food as small potatoes, slightly salted; also cook wheat, oats and rye and season the 4 same. Don't feed any raw slop of any kind, such as wheat, bran, corn chop, wheat chop or anything else wet up with cold water. Jf you do you will be liable to get dysentery among your poultry. Don't feed your birds in filth, such as droppings or stagnant pools of stinking water, or you will be liable to get cholera among your birds.

Therefore be cleanly in your care of poultry; feed in troughs, pans and other vessels free from filth. KeCp pure, fresh water before them (you will be astonished at the amount they will drink) and keep them reasonably free from lice and you will have no occasion to deal in nostrums for your hens that are humbugs cholera cures for poultry that don't cure cholera, roup cures that don't cure roup, and dysentery reliefs that don't relieve dysentery. We are running a fancier's paper in the interests of fanciers. We expect to look after the interests of poultry, pigeon and pet stock breeders. We shall raise our voice against all catch or your hens will become too fat to lay.

1 1 1 11 1 nens win lay just as wen auu the eggs will keep Letter with the males separated from them than with them. The morning and evening feed' for poultry should be at day-break in the morning, and -At nicrhf and whiskey and six tablespoonfuls of water; keep tightly corked. For a dose administer four or five teaspoonfuls. One Milk is food and drink for poultry and a liberal supply in ii i i i or two doses twelve hours apart should cure. It looks reason able, try it.

But the surest way to escape the ravages of cholera wiiuci win iicuiy icwdiu yuu in a plentiful supply of eggs. Hens are omnivorous, and if grass and cabbage are not accessible, will eat hay in large and dysentery is to take care of your birds when they are well. Keep the roosting quarters clean. When the runs get foul with droppings, spade them up. qumtities if cut rather fine.

Cabbage hung in the poultry house almost beyond reach of the fowls, furnishes them a delicious food and exercise to penny nostrums that we believe to be humbugs. We will try and judge fairly in all matters affecting the real interests of our patrons, and when we are certain we have corralled a humbug, we intend to spot it. In selecting a male for breeding, take a two-year-old cock that is bold and lively in disposition, glossy in well developed, broad full breast, muscular thighs, and legs set well apart. get it. Wash out the water receptacles every time you water the birds and give them fresh water at least once a day.

Keep plenty of coarse creek sand and fine gravel constantly before them, remembering that grit, as sand and gravel, are the teeth of the fowls with which they grind their food. Feed mostly solid food, such as wheat, a little At this time of the year when poultry is largely confined within doors from necessity, it is an important item to see that the fod and water are kept clean filth..