Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-01-13
THE POULTRY YARD.

IHE PUULTRY YARD.
The IMPROVED PoULTRY.-It is now pref
ty generally admitted by most western farm
ers that the improved poultry pays as well
in proportion as the improved breeds of hogs
or sheep that is on general principles. OF
course the great mass of poultry is raised
and sold by the farmers. The car loads Of
poultry and eggs shipped from all over the
West come from the farmers, and since the
introduction of the improved breeds the sup
ply is rapidly increasing. No farmer can
longer afford to raise the common chickens.
If you can't have all full b1oods, get a
thoroughbred rooster, either a Cochin or a
Brahma, and you will be so well pleased
with the cross that you will soon work into
full bloods. They mature quicker, grow
larger, sell for more money lay more eggs,
but require a little more care, with warm,
clean, comfortable quarters, a variety offeed,
not too much corn, eggs may be had all win
ter as well as all summer.
Enterprising farmers who have not already
got the improved breed of poultry on their
farms, should now prepare suitable quarters
for a few of these popular and profitable pets,
for you will be sure to get the poltrv fever
if you attend the fall fairs; but when you get
the improved breeds, don'ttr to get fancy
prices unless you propose going regularly
into it, and take five or ten years to learn
how to breed them successfully, and get a
reputation as an experienced breeder. twill
pay better to leave that alone to the profess
sional breeders, but as farmers to raise poultry
and eggs to sell. But you don't like to kill
these fine chickens only keep out the best
Of them for breeding, and sell them just as
you did the Others and YOU will find it will
pay you one hundred per cent. better to raise
the improved breeds Of poultry for market
than the old barn-yard variety Western
Ag,acultuaist.
CHANGES IN EGGs.-Dr. John Dairy says:
"The albnmen Of the egg Of the common
fowl, newly laid, has properties differing III
some particulars from those of the albumen
of the stale egg. That the difference is ow-
ing to the exposure to, and the action Of
atmospheric air and if atmospheric air be
excluded, its absorption prevented, as by
lubricating the shell with oil or any oleagi-
nous matter, the albumen retains for a con
siderable time the qualities Of the newly
laid egg.
The exact time required for the change to
take place, owing to the absorption of air, |
cannot exactly say. 1t varies, | believe, in
some measure with the season-a shorter
time in winter being required than in sum-
mer the egg In the former season, owing
to the lower atmospheric temperature, con-
tracing more in bulk, as regards its sub
stance, than in the latter. A very few days,
as from five to six at filrthest, seems to be
sufficient. In April | have observed a milk
mess in the albumen Oh the fourth day, but
no later. On the contrary, if the air be ex-
Guided, | do not know how long the quality
of the newly laid egg may not be preserved.
have found an egg laid in the month Of
April, and then smeared with butter, hardly
appreciably changed ct the end Of six
months.o
Leisure for men of business, and business
for men of %leasure, would cure many COM
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