Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

JOHN W, CAUOHKY, PITTSBURG, PA. CAN WOMEN MAKE POULTRY RAISING PROFITABLE? We quote from writings of Miss H. M. Williams a lady wbohas demonstrated that poultry will pay handsomely if handled properly. “It is a brave step on the part of a wo man to do something for her own support and the first question which arises is. What shall I do? Teaching, copying, clerking, sewing.—True all these industries are open to women, but with what returns ? Upon reviewing these various means of livelihood, I am satisfied that the raising of poultry, if properly engaged in, can be made much more profitable than any busi ness wherein the same amount of money is invested. The raising of chickens means labor and patience—they cannot wait tor their morning teed until the sun streaming into your window warns you it is late. The chief pleasure consists in rising at six o’clock on a winter morning and plodding through a deep snow to the brooding house, vwith a pail of steaming food lor the chick’s breakfast. One is amply repaid by the piping voices and outstretched bills eager to seize the tempting meal. We have done it and know from experience. For producing rapidly growing and healthy broilers, the chicks, when taken from the incubator should be placed in a warm room with the thermometer of the brooder at ninety degrees. Lukewarm water, and dry pin head oatmeal should be placed within their reach. They will feed as soon as they require it. The second day. feed stale bakers bread slightly moistened with hot water and dusted with black pepper. This food may be continued for one week, in addition giving chopped cabbage, mashed potatoes and ground meal, always keeping the pin head oatmeal before them. Give fresh water every morning and never allow the vessels to get empty. There should be enough vessels to admit of the chicks drinking without crowding and wetting one another, as they will do in their eagerness to drink, especially in the morning. At the end of ten days they should be removed to the brooding house and given the following feed three times a day. Five quarts of corn, oats and wheat ground together; one quart of bran, one quart of ground meat, and one pint of bone meal—the'-wHoT-: mass scalded and allowed to stand one hour to swell. A . small box ot ground meat and oyster shells should be constantly before them. We have discar ded hard boiled eggs entirely, substituting raw eggs slightly beaten, into which we crumble stale bread enough to soak it all up. Four eggs to every hundred chickens may be given to advantage daily. Raw eggs in moderation serve to correct bowel trouble. Whole wh**at may also be given with benefit. The chicks can be taught to eat it by mixing the wholegrains with some that have passed through a coffee or a bone mill and been slightly crushed. Chickens cared for in this way, can be sent from in cubator to market in seven weeks, weigh ing one pound dressed. The importance of strict cleanliness must also be impressed upon the poultry raiser; likewise that of proper ventilation and fresh air, but drafts must be avoided as a pestilence. The theory that young chick ens require as much air as a calf, is explod ed. They do far better in tight warm hous es, especially at night, and all the pure air they need can be given them during the day. In short, common sense and judg ment are the secrets of success in poultry keeping. We receive numerous letters from poultry men asking why so many chickens die during the first ten days. Our reply is. too little heat—too mnch cold air and sloppy food. Any of these evils will cause great loss at any period, but especially during the first ten days. We have operated four incubators of 300 eggscapacity,attending to otirow.n market ing, shipping and a large business corres pondence without any assistance from the sterner sex. In addition to this we attend to our household duties and to the numer ous visitors who thiong our establishment during the hatching season. We have realized from 50 to 85 cents per pound and if the feed can be raised or bought at a fair price a handsome profit can be made. The average price of teed for one chick en is 20 cents and if each nets 75 cents, there is a profit of 55 cents. Your readers can see what it is possible to do with a good incubator and brooder. There is a wide field in the raising of poultry for wo men as well as men, and the time is not far distant when some of the must profitable and largest poultry establishments will be owned and conducted by women.” Unless one is breeding entirely for feathers it will pay to keep the pullets for winter and early spring layers. If breed ing for show and for sale alone, then let the defective pullets go with the cockerels. If poultry cares become drudgery, better j give them up at once, for as soon as it be i comes distasteful, just as soon you will be gin to neglect them, and your fowls suffer accordingly. A poultry keeper must take an interest in what he is doing if he wants to make it a profitable and pleasant occupa tion. ——— Where fowls have an extended run and food and drink in constant supply, the mat ’ ter is not so serious, but even then each will take their own runaway’s. It is worse j than useless to undertake to keep fowls without feed. When allowed to shift for themselves they degenerate and become : worthless. Preserving eggs for better prices is something we all have a right to do. It can be done. Here is a simple and very good plan. Get some boxes and fine dry salt, cover the bottom of the box or boxes with the salt, then place your eggs, small end down in rows, no two touching, then fill in with salt-and so on, layer after layer until the box is full. Set the box in some cool place and let it alone until you wish to remove the eggs. No turning the box up side down every other day. The salt will enter the pores of the shell which is all the better for the egg, while on the other band if you preserve them with lime, linseed oil, flax seed, etc., they will enter through the pores of the shell and can be easilv detect ed. In small runs fowls do not like to scratch. There they stand moping., dull and in active, knowing full well that it is of no use to expend force in scratching in the hard soil, fetid with their own excrement which contaminates every morsel of food given them, in which a bug or worm has not been seen Tor months, and thus depriv- 1 ed of the most natural food they like. It would do them much good if they had a chance to roam at will and scratch for these tid bits at leisure. Out of doors re- i creation serves a double purpose. . The ' fowls find much food of a desirable nature, and get enough of pure air and agreeable ex ercise to make them healthy, cheerful and contented. Do not let the drinking fountain beconje foul. Keep them well supplied with clear cool water. Feed on light grain, oats and wheat, and keep the weeds well under control about the premises. Count the flock daily and if any are missing find out what became of them. It requires consid erable work and attention, but it pays to j be active in the poultry yard at this season j of the year. The neglectful poultry fan cier will always have something go wrong and he cannot expect success unless he throws off his bad habits and attends to his flock properly. For Woman’s Work. AN UNFORTUNATE MOTHER. I saw this question in a leading paper, from a mother : “ an you tell me how to command the respect and obedience of my daughters? I let them have everything they want, and indulge them in every way I can think of, and yet they do not seem to care anything for me.” A his Spoor mother 1 How littleyou seem to understand the requirements of your po sition 1 We would like to question you on a few points. Do you treat your daughters as friends and companions? Do you know what they are mostly thinking about from day to day ? Does your mind and your heart hold daily communion with their minds and their hearts? These may seem curious questions to ask a Mother] and yet how many who now know no pleasure in the company of • Mother,” will tell you that it is from a lack of this knowledge of their daily thoughts and feelings, on the part of her who indulged them in every selfish whim, —carefully attended to their clothes food and arink, and then thought her duty done, — that they are not this hour her joy and pride. Mothers should i ever be content with knowing a daughter’s outward life. They | should hold a firm rein of discipline over their daughters, and at the same time be so ■ companionable with them, and so win their confidence, that there will be nothing which the daughters are a'raid"or unwilling to tell them. There is something wrong in the relation when a mother is so uncompanionable that a daughter, at her approach, timidly closes the doors of her inmost soul. Little Mother. ‘Change is a great help to the sick,” remarked Dr. Pellet, while visiting a patient. ‘ Yes, doctor,” returned the latter, ‘‘and as my stock of it at present is limited, I shall have to ask you to wait awhile for your tee.” L Him, Jr, 1 Mrs. J. S. K Thomson, POULTRY BREEDERS. SPARTANBURG, - SOUTH CAROLINA. (Peidmont Air Line R. R.) Heavy Laced Wyandottes Eggs, per 13, 83.00 Black-and White Minorcas Eggs, pei 13 3.00 Pekin Bantams, per 13, 2.00 Eggs in Season, 1889. This stock was bought of Breeders, taking high est prizes at the Poultry Shows of 1888. TO THE LITTLE READERS OF WOMAN’S WORK. To every one of you who will get us one sub scriber to YOUNG FOLKS at 50 cents a year, and enclose with it a short letter for the “ Letter Box,” (upon any subject,) we will send you fkee a year’s subscription of our magazine. Address YOUNG FOLKS, McPherson, Kansas. EPEC To introduce ourstandard publications ■ HCEi into new homes and secure agents at once. We will send catalogue aud price list, and 5 complete novels by popular authors, upon receipt of 10 cents to pay postage. A, E. HOVEY & CO., Essex, Conn. HOME SCHOOL, ATHENS, GA. MADAM SOSNOWSKI, 1 Associate MISS C. SOSNOWSKI. f Principals. Best educational advantages offered to young ladies. Health, manners and morals carefully guarded. Low rates. Send for Catalogue. OZ>ADI ETTA Colorsredon <9 VZ Am rC La KL I I cotton, does not fade or wash out. 10 cents a package for one pounds goods CRESCENT LIVER PILLS SR cents per bottle of 3 dozen. Sugar coated. Your druggist or mailed free ou receipt of price. C. S. BURROU6HS, Chemist, CLINTON, MICH, book for every woman lIIKIILIIKY b - STOCKHAM, M. D. ■ WiBWfeWW I Sample pages FREE. The most popular work for * 99,000 stee lAGENTS ALICE B. STOCKHAM & CO., - 161 LaSalle St,, - CHICAGO. 60 YEARS IN USE. A Physician says, a sovereign remedy for worms. Having used the original “B. A. Fahnestock” vermifuge in my practice for many years, I have no hesitancy in reenmmending it as a remedy which is safe, reliable and efficient in all cases where a Vermifuge is needed. Thob. H. Handy, M. D., Camdridge, Md. Observe particularly that the initials are B. A. thus avoiding immitations. SPECIALLY FOR THE HOUSEHOLD. The AMERICAN ANALYST For the Family and Consumer. A Semi-Monthly Journal of Pure Food and the Suppression,of Adulteration. SI.OO a Year. Sample copies free. Office, 19 Park Place, New York. ENORMOUS PROFITS SAVED TAVARA HERBS, prepared for Fanjily Vue. Selected from Pure. Unadulterated Native and Foreign Herbs, recommended for Asthma, Malaria, Dyspepsia, Loss of Appetite, Coughs and Colds, and a Blood I’nrilier. Try sample package, 25 cents. B. S. QUIMBY, 30 Vesey St., N. Y. CHINESE LAUNDRY SHIRT POLISH. LADIES—For twenty-five cents you can learn how to do up shirts, giving them the real laundry polish. Address AUNT MILLIE, care Woman's Work. LAGRANGE * FEMALE * COLLEGE, LaCRANCE, GEORGIA. The Forty-Third Annual Session will begin Sept. 19th. 1888. The Literary Curriculum is full- Instruction thorough and practical, including Normal methods, Teacher's course, Book-keeping sight Singing daily, Calisthenics, School Management, etc., at ONE CHARGE. Best advantages in Music—Vocal Music and Voice Culture a Specialty. Health and economy among the best. RUFUS W. SMITH, President. . . > . EULER B. SMITH, Secretary. fATHE GREAT AMERICAN STORY PAPER, . . — THE — S. , O -“YANKEE BLADE- flv 18 •2 (This wonderful family story paper is read every / S 3 IstAiX H '-•j * week l ’Y «»,000 people. It is a large, eight-page / t1 f IWa. K C f? ®paper, every page filled solid full of interesting read- / I 4 AYAvX R S iivVT “'Kt ®torlesof thrilling interest.adventure,love, till / * 1 It* weX ? Am 5 sea, detective tales, fireside stories, etc. Special arti- Ln, 3 '4 M /H'j3 Ss‘ es ? n t ’ ie Household Department, Ladies’ Work '.L'PVWI Jsdz'x’Un. ¥ Boys and Girls’ Departments. The Famous 'iL’tA Tunny Columns of The Yankee Blape are JI At X.VA edited by Sam Walter Foss, the celebrated H , .. ~ . . humorist. The circulation Is rapid.y increasing. L Endorsed by the best people as suitable for everybody to read. Its reading fek mat er is pure, and devoid of the slightest tinge of vulgarlt . Don’t fail to try The Yankee Bi.vde. You will be delighted with it. Comes every .•v weea. Our regular subscription price is $2 00 per year. We offer U to new subscribers for only SI.OO a year, or (/ » Oc fn9» Tarsia months. We will send it three WwTIFaZ' On. mo ptbsfor25cents. I fyon will enclose 0 ets. g ** x^ Hn<i mention till* paper, iv® will f * Snbtrrlptlon send you FIIEE a Half llozen Japanese Khlfn HaiMlkerebleft C1 f •** ,or K " rT •lThu\ d s O obeo7the b JwMe k l n «r rly bU,f as ' ar ' l »'iuare, in handsome designs, assorted. JOTTER & POTTER, Pubs. Yankee Blade, Boston, Mass. *« a paper and Japan fee handkerchiefi. and find them te M a remarMle bargain. We can recommend them le all oar readerer-kditer. A SKIN OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER. DR. T. FELIX GOURAUD’S Oriental Cream or Magical Beautifier Furifios as veil as Beautifies the Skin. No other cosmetic will do it. Removes Tan, pimples, frec kies, Motb- Patches, rash " yW. an d skin dis- 'Tj?-zXMI eases, and ev er y blemish ■k on beauty.and (sHr defies detec- tion. It has stood the test fr] ot 37 years, Jx K / and is so harmless we m \ taste it to be '■jkiSfejSfertW/y* T .\ sure the prep s ■' * 1 arati on 1 s J pr’p’rly m’de. accept no counterfeit of & similar name. The distin guished Dr. L. A. Sayer said to a lady of thehautton (a patient): “Ah you ladies will use them, I recom mend Gouraud’s Cream as the least harmful of all the skin preparations.” One .bottle will last six months, using it every day. Also Poudre Subtile re moves superfluous hair without injury to the skin. FERD T. HOPKINS, Proprietor, 48 Bond St., run ning through to Main Office, 37 Great Jones St., N.Y. For sale by all Druggists and Fancy Goods Dealers throughout the U. S., Canadas aud Europe. Be ware of base imitations. SI,OOO reward for arrest and proof of any one selling the same. X."l< FLOWER SEEDS «vSB&.FREE! An Unparalleled Offer by an Ol<l>EMtabllalied mid Reliable Publishing Hou*e! The Ladies 7 World is a mammoth 16-page, 64 col umn illustrated paper for ladier and the family circle. It is de voted tc stories poems, ladies’ fancy work .artistic needle-work, home decoration, housekeeping, fashions, hygiene, juvenile read ing, etiquette, etc. We want 100,000 ladies to give this elegant ir a trial, because we know that ry large proportion of them will ley will become permanent sub object in view we liow make the following colossal offer: Upon receipt of only Ten Cents in silver or stamps, we will send The Undies’ World for T hree Months, and to each subscriber we will also send, Free and post-paid, a large and magnificent Collection of Choice Flower Seeds, two hundred varieties, including Pansies, Verbenas. Chrysanthemums, Asters, Phlox Drummondii. Balsam, Cypress Vine, Digitalis, etc., etc. Remember, ten cents pays for the paper three months and this entire magnificent collection of Choice Flower Seeds, put up by a first-class Seed House and warranted fresh and reliable. No lady can afford to miss this wonderful opportunity. We guarantee every subscriber many times the value of money sent, and will refund your make you a present of both seeds and paper if yon are not en tirely satisfied. O’Ys is an old established and reliable publish ing hqnse, endorsed by leading newspapers throughout the U. S. Do not confound this offer with the catchpenny schemes of unscrupulous persons. WVife to-day —don’t put it off ! Sfx sub scription* and six seed collections sent for 60 cents. Address, 8. H. MOORE A CO., ST Park Place, New York. li/fsniz For All. BIG PROFITS. Easy and W VZ rC IV Pleasant. Send 7c. in stamps fora Sample Portrait nnd full terms. Portrait worth $2.50. Sizeßxlo. Nonpariel Copying Co., Cincinnati, 0. WANTED FOR CASH I POSTAGE STAMPS M stamps will bring fine prices IF LEFT I’PO.V THE ORIGINAL ENVELOPE and in («OOI> condition. Some stamps bring as mnch as $25.00 each. Send stamps for circulars describing kinds wanted. Best references fur nished if desired. Address G. M. BISTABLE, Catlett, Ya. At*) RH SAMPLE of our “Nonpareil Por ipZiDU trait” for 7 cents. Terms free. More good speeudliecl than any house in the U. S. Just Photo Copping Co,, Cin. 0. BONDS. W.«TSM. Have loaned gi,.>00,000 without loss. • HARTFORD, CONN. Reference: CHARTER OAK NATIONAL BANK. Please send for circular.