Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-10-16
The Poultry Dellitment.

Probably there il 10 line of live
stock raising HAT pays as great an
interest on the amount invested and
with the same output of lal or rs
raising chickens. Both chickens
and eggs command iair price here
the year rnund. and il would he diff
ficult to fnd place better adapted
to chickens than this valley, or Ore
gon in general. The summers are
not too warm and the winters are
not very cold, aud reed is as cheap
rs could he asked. Yet with all
these advantages there are few who
make the raising of chickens bus
iness. J. NJ. Garrison, of Forest
Grove, probably is doing the largest
business of any man in the valley
in that line. The following about
chicken raising has been gathered
by him from various sources:
Never use poles for roosts. No, il
won't Kill the fowls to roost on them,
but it will bend the breast bone out
Jf shape; narrow boards four inches
wide are better.
Every family in this broad land of
ours who has Il yard, garden or spare
spot should have some chicken pets
for the children.
Now is the time to purchase
young stock, as breeders who have
few earlyhatched birds will be
dispusing OF them through this and
next month. It pays to ge; them,
even ii they do cost more, because
they are always harder and mature
better, and are superior birds for
either exhibiting in the pit or III the
breeding yard.
. Beginners Ill poultry raising
shuult have care about undertake
! Ing 100 much at the outset.
y good dust bath for hens is
made for he Inside of the house, by
! constructing Il common open frame
box, say eight or ten inches deep
and four by six feet long. Fill this
with clean, fine loan, or pulveriZed
clay, if lOam couuot be obtained and
when the mass is dry all through
threw into it couple OF pounds
each of carbolic powder and sui
phur. Mix The whole together thor
uughly and leave for the fowls to
roll in at their leisure. This is for
the Interior of the fowl house
when your stock il in great part
confined.
Keeping too many fowls in one
place, ia one yard or in one house
together, is quite AS often the cause
of nOn-returns from the flock as in
any reason that can be given why
hens don't lay, why they get sick
or "duu't pay for their Keeping
as careless person sOmetluIes assert.
( Gravel, sand or some other similar
substance j. almost ~ essential to
/ the fowls well-being us is food, aud,
ii fowls are kept IN confinement
and not supplied with tDiz, no
matter how much grain you may
supply, they will not thrive or even
:eep healthy for any length of time.
lu deciding whether We are To
Keep pure or crUss-bieeds, We are TO
keep in view our particular aims.
If the view is to obtain eggs, it is
generally better to Use the pure
produced by those species which, no
doubt sit, and tlis trait il very apl
to disappear III Crossing; AT least il
is not regularly preserved. a sit
ting and uou--itting breed produce
cross that sits IN almost every case,
Two non-sitting breeds produce
cross of which by far the greatest
part are stlers.
a canvasback duck IL said to be
able To fly eighty miles an hour.
Young chicks may be put on
cracked wheat diet after about three |
weeks old.
Give soft food mornings.
Exposure 10 cold wind, especially |
to Il draft at night, causes colds and
catarrh affection in the Most robust
fowls
FOR THE FARMER,