Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1889-10-09
AMONG THE POULTRY.
Practical Suggestions for Professlo nails ~
Wen as Amateurs. Hf

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Practical Suggestions for Professionals ~
Well as Amateurs. -
Old hens moult later than the
younger ones.
A half dozen good Pelxin ducks are
more profitable than twice that num-
her OF puddle ducks.
Eggs In autumn can hardly be con-
adered fresh when they have been laid
ever a week.
Late turkeys are rarely profitable.
IL costs too much to feed them before
ehey are ready for market.
One of the most important items in
eaildlng the poultry-houss is to make
snre that it is perfectly dry.
Have tho duok-house separate from
THAT for the other poultry. and arrange
60 save the manure. 1t is valuable in
tho garden.
Poultry will eat fruit of all kinds,
and save much THAT wouls otherwise
90 to waste.
1t is only in exceptional cases that
sate-hatched chickens can be made
profitable. They require special care
II order to secure a good growth.
CUT straw makes a good litter. espe-
slally during tao winter, when it is an
item to feed the poultry in such way
as to afford them exercise
Save up the sorghum seed. It makes
splendid poultry food for the winter,
and Is too often allowed to go to waste,
1t con be used to good advantage in
making up q variety.
Caro- should be taken to train the
young turkey to roost in the poultry
house. If some pains are taken when
they are young they can be readily
taught to do this.
One of the best absorbents to use in
the poultry-house is dry earth. 1t
will be good plan to gather up and
store supply now while it can be
sasily done.
Select out a sufficient number of the
best hens and keep for breeding. They
should not all be young pullets or all
old hens. but rather the very best of
beth.
II is far easier to keep the flock
healthy than to cure af or diseased.
Hence the Importance OF keeping the
quarters clean. feeding wholesome
seod. and as far as possible, supplying
ether conditions essential to good
health.
Outside Of what is wanted to keep
Ter breeding and to furnish neces-
cary supply for the table, it is best not
70 attempt to winter too much poultry,
especially if there is lack OF sufficient
accommodations. Properly managed,
the poultry can be allowed a good
range on the farm with little trouble
. other stock Or damage 10 the grow
nag crops, while & good per cent. of
what they pick up would otherwise 20
to waste.
Whom raised for market it is often
tho case that cro5s-bred fowl will
prove the most profitable, using good
breeds OF course; but these mongrel
fowl are not the ones TO keep for breed
ing.
One needs to be on the watch all the
time. Rats may in single night do
great damage among the young poul-
try, while a weasel. skunk, fox or 9TH
o. varmint may play sad havoc among
the older fowls.
Keeping close accounts with each
slass of poultry is the only correct
means of uscertaining just how profit
able poultry can be made. Guess work
is, to say the least. very uncertain.
Be sure that your home market is
fully supplied before attempting to ship
away. Th re is class in every town
willing to pay a little moro than the
marSet price if they can be sure OF a
regular supply of fresh eggs and good
fat poultry for the table.-St. Louis
Republic.