Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1875-07-09
Care Of Young Chicks.

y it is best to take away the oldest, il
order that the hen may remain quiet
ly on the nest. Those taken away
!, should be covered up snugly III DO,
! or basket and put out Of hearing o
the hen in a warm place, until night
r when they should be returned to tn.
nest. BY the next morning al
ought to be ready to come off.
. Food as above mentioned SHOULD
be given for the first two or tire.
days, changing gradually to Indial
meal and cracked wheat, or what i.
known as wheat shorts or middlings.
Where oatmeal can be had it is per
haps preferable to any other as a sta
pie article of diet for growing chick
ems, but the difference in its favor
does not seem to justify any very ex
ira trouble or expense to obtain it.
For u number Of years we have
prepared our chicken feed rs follows
Shelled corn is ground in III old
farm mill and then sifted through a
seive of eight meshes to the inch.
The coarse part is reserved for feed
ing dry to the chicks when they are
Il couple of weeks old and for the
last feed at night. The finer meal
is mixed half and half with wheat
shorts or middlings. At feeding
time, to each pint of mixcd meal re-
quired should be added an even tea
81 oonful of fine salt, and occasionally
Il little cayenne pepper, the whole
well mixed together and then wetted
up stiff with clabbered milk. This
is the chief diet, but varied almost
daily with scraps from the table, or
by using at times wheat bran in the
place of corn meal, or by changing
the proportions of meal and short.
AS the chicks are kept OH grass
plats, no care is required to supply
them with green food. Where it is
necessary to keep them in close quar-
tiers fine-cut grass and lettuce and
other green food must be given them
daily. Good, clean water should, of
course, be at hand for them at all
times.
Chicks thus fed are sure to thrive;
other conditions Of success being at
tended. One of these, too frequently
lost sight OF, is to keep them free from
vermin.
Often brood will be infested with
lice when it is little suspected there is
any hindrance to their well-doing.-
They may get along very we'll for a
time, but after while they come to a
''stand-still," when the kindest care
and most tempting food seems to
be of no avail, and they finally either
droop and die, or continue a misera-
bic existence, puny, weak, and profit
less little encumbrances on our hands.
We venture the assertion that in nine
tenths of the cases where young
chicks are lost ver,nin figure largely
as the cause.
The safest and surcst method we
know of to kill lice and keep the
chicks free from them is to rub clean
lard on the head and throat of each
Of the chicks at the time of coping
them with the hen. Lard is sure
death to the lice, and there is no need
of using with it sulphur or anything
else. Sulphur would, in fact, be an
injury; because the very property by
which it would destroy the lice would
also affect seriously the chicks.
We have seen repeatedly within
the last few years the use of sulphur
highly recommended as cure for
and preventative of lice on poultry.
This we look upon rs one Of the
greatest mistakes poultry-raiscrs of
this enlightened day can make. In
the Eastern States, particularly, this
is favorite remedy, and there, too,
we observe that roup is most prevail
ent. AS the practice Of doctoring
fowls with sulphur becomes more
common in the West, here also it's
concomitant, roup, is becoming
more destructive.
Usually when chicks are in the con-
dition above indicated they will be
found if taken up to have half a doz-
en- or more large, gray lice on their
heads, and a much greater number OF
small, whitlsh ones sticking close
about the fore part of the head and
base Of the bill. The gray robbers
will be almost plainly seen after the
lard is applied. Sometimes chicks
head and upper part of the neck will
be almost black with them. The
chicks can be most conveniently han
died in the evening. Go to the
coop after they have gone under the
hen. Remove them gently to COW
cred box or basket at hand, and then
apply the lard as it is returned to the
hen. Some. Recommend to grease
the hen herself beneath the wings,
but the surest and best way is to put
the lard on the chicks, when we are
sure it is where it should be. 1t is
well to repeat the operation in q
week or ten days, and occasionally
afterwards rs the chicks grow older.
Treated thus they do not always
present the most clearly appearance,
the thrift and real comfort assured
them by this course is much better,
both for them and their owner, than
to have them suffer from being over
run with vcrmin.-Rruirie Farmer.
Never neglect a cough or cold, as
it is the NEST dangerous ailment you
are subject to, but get bottle Of
Vests Pulmonary Balsam and be
cured. This balsam has few equals
as pulmonic remedy. 1t has stood
the test for fifteen years, and to-day
stands at the head of balsams for the
cure Of coughs, colds, hoarseness,
whooping cough, or any throat or
lung diseases. Trial bottles 25 and
so cents. Large bottles one dollar.
Sold by all druggists.
10 PURIFY A SINK-It hot wealth
er it is almost impossible to prevent
the sink becoming foul, unless some
chemical nranaratiOn is uSo1 One