St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-17
ARTIFICIAL POULTRY,

Its Processes Considered by Harry
Stewart in the New York Times.
1t is matter of history that where
the population has been the most num-
erous, in those countries the artificial
rearing of poultry has existed for many
years, for time immemorial," in fact.
The Chinese have practlced it for ages,
and so have the Egyptians and Arabs.
Ard as our population is increasing
with great rapidity, we may perceive
how the natural law Of supply and de-
mand is tending to develop this me
industry, and how public attention is
drawn, one can hardly tell how, to it,
and enterprise in this new direction is
awakened. Perhaps it may be because
the profit of poultry rearing is apparent,
and persons of both sexes in search of
profitable industry turn to this as
promising venture, and perceiving the
partial failure of natural methods. adopt
artificial aids as means of avoiding it.
However how it may be, it is true that
the artificial rearing of poultry is be-
| coming successful and established IN
duStry.
Artificial incubation. depending upon
constant regular amount of heat, has
been simplified and made more easy by
the application of the delicate sensitive
ness of electric apparatus by which the
fluctuations of temperature may be con-
trolled. A large variety of incubators
are now in use that have been adapted
for their purpose by several years of ex-
pertinent and Improvement. and when
adequate attention Is given to them with
sufficient skill. that may be gained by
little experience, at least 80 per cent of
all the fertile eggs will produce chicks.
all of which may be reared by means of
| a br0oder skillfully used and with due
| regard to proper food in healthful guam
tty and to perfect cleanliness. This is
quite double what may be done when
| hens are used.
The production of eggs becomes. then,
the main point. and the choice of The
| breed most suitable for this purpose the
| main element Of profit. The Leghorns
| and other so-called non-setters are
eggs are concerned, but these fowls are
| light-bodied. and not the best market
| fowls. The large breeds, as the Asiatics,
| Of which the Brahmas are type, are
too much given to brooding, and
| suspend laying eggs for too
frequent periods to be profit
| able. Some of the newer breeds
which have been reared during the past
few years are better than either of
| these, and of this class the Wyandottes
| have perhaps the best points in regard
to size. quality of flesh, and egg produc-
! ton. his breed has large proportion
of the blood of the Hamburg fowl in it,
and this is one of the most prolific,of
eggs, and has high quality of flesh.
| On all accounts it is perhaps the best
| for the poultry farmer who depends on
| artificial devices for his product, and in
addition to its other valuable qualities
| it is healthy and vigorous in censtitu-
| ton and precocious in its growth.
The management of an egg farm, as
| it might be called. for the supply of a
| Matching establishments, requires even
| more skill and good Judgment than the
| latter does. The maintenance of large
| fiocks of hens in health and productive
ness has been found no easy task hith-
| erto. when undertaken practically,
| although in theory it may be supposed
to be very simple TO keep large num-
| Der of fowls as easily, in proportion. as
small flock. But experience with all
| sorts of animals. even human beings,
goes to prove beyond question that
! when crowded in large numbers disease
| is encouraged and is most difficult
| to evade. 1t is so in every case,
and as fowls are highly fed and as IN
| cleanly in their habits as swine, they
| are particularly subject to various dis
| orders which become contagious and
| make disastrous inrOadS upon the stock.
But as in all cases due attention to
| avoid all unwbniesome conditions pre-
| vents these outbreaks, SO with poultry,
! the right management is always found