Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar81911newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Portable poultry houses, two of which will accommodate twenty-five hens best that there should not be enough to satisfy the appetite of the fowls, or they will stand around for an hour or so. instead of scratching busily for grain. If there are enough bits of meat in the table scraps, it may not be necessary to purchase commercial beef scraps. The feeding of red pepper and other condiments is not to be recommended. If the pullets are backward about be- ginning to lay, they often can be stimulated by feeding a little raw meat or green bone. If there is a bone-cutter at hand, the latter will prove a cheap and satisfactory ration. When there is no bone-cutter, cheap pieces of meat may be ground in an ordinary meat-grinder, giving the fowls a little uncooked Hamburg steak, if you please. For the most part, however, the less cod- dling the flock receives the better the re- sults will be. Unless one is raising his own chicks, it will not be necessary to keep a male bird. Indeed, more eggs probably will be pro- duced when there is no rooster with the Hock, and it is wasteful to feed a bird which gives no return. Certainly it is not neighborly to allow a loud-crowing chan- ticleer to break in on a peaceful com- munity's slumbers at the appearance of the sun's first morning rays, when windows are open in the Summer time.
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The double house advocated by the Cornell University Agricultural An amateur's poultry "plant." The vines provide ample shade and the College, is nearly ideal hot-bed green food

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