The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-05

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The Southern Poultry Yard.
No. l.
Whatever may be the staple crops of a
saction there Is always some one or more
side CROPS or ventures that it will pay the
farmer to give attention to. Accepting it
asa feet that the staple crops Of the farmer
in the South Atlantic region are cotton corn
and small grain there may be enumerated
anv where from half dozen to a score of
little industries that he can combine to a
greater or less extent with his chief work.
Ii is enough to say that poultry keeping is
or can be made one of the most satisfactory
side crops of the farm-the small farm
especially.
There ore very few farms that do not
give some attention to poultry. On some
it may be very careless sort of attention
where the returns amount to very little, and
then again there are cases where the keep
ing of poultry is just what it ought to be-
very helpful adjunct, supplying, to a
great extent, all the strong food that is cons
sumed on the farm. The meat and eggs
that is made from a well-managed poultry
yard on an average southern farm can be
made to supply much more than the meat
needed by an average family. When it is
not all consumed at home it can be ex-
changed for other foods that are not raised.
farmer, as well as anybody else, may get
heartily tired of chicken and eggs and crave
nrn hanOn aa a
far as one may relish it. there is no food
more wholesome and strengthening than
chicken and eggs. A farmer should feel
that he had fallen below the level Of his
duty and opportunity when hefailed to sup
ply all or nearly all such food as his family
could consume-of course, barring acct
dents or fatalities that he could not provide
against.
The climate of the southern states is in the
highest degree favorable to poultry farm
ing. Certainly as much SO as France, which
is perhaps the greatest poultry country in
the world -.......-
All we need is to give the subject fair at
,tention and the state of Georgia alone can
do what France has done-raise more
chickens and eggs than she can conveniently
consume.
ANY reader of these lines that has en-
gagged in poultry raising with a faithful OBJ
seryance of certain fundamental rules in
refereuce to the subject knows that poultry
raising is a simple aud remnnerative ven
ture-uhat it will pay as large dividend on
the investment as any other feature OF farm
ing. The money returns are not great, 60
be sure, because the investment is small, but
iuproportiou to the amount invested a well
I managed hen does undoubtedly make
Il liberal return for the little food that is given
s her.
While the few essential truths on which
q successful poultry keeping IS based may be
q amplifed into books and books without
n number, yet the sum and substance of
81 these truths may be C ndensed into single
page aim ST.
AZ good variety of fowl must be kept.
81 The fowls must be kept in healthy condi-
ton by proper supplies of food and good
water; they must be protected from all adj
verse influences i'll the nature of insects or
animals.
Take any county in this state or any state
contiguous thereto and there is not one
where the egg product Tor chickens raised
could not be Increased te0-fold by simply
Increasing the care two-fold.
All agree that the condition of the mass
4 Of southern farmers is far from satisfac
tory. 1t certainly has been bad for many
Years 1t is very bad now. 1t may be
more or less bad for long time to come
Legislation will not be able TO do very
much for the farmer even if all the pet
measures that are now being advocated
Should be enacted in the course Of few
years
Pretty much ali that will be done tor tn Q
FARMERS interest will have to be done by tie
farmers himself He has got to work
out his own salvation, through the means of
diversified production. One of the rounds
In the ladder Of self-sustenance will be in
creased attention to poultry; another will
Debut we defer mention of other rounds
until another time.
Our object is to discuss poultry this month,
and our readers are going to help US get at
all The facts relating to successful poultry
management.
How many breeds of poultry there are at
this time, we shall not attempt to enumerate.
FOR practical purposes there is no need to
name more than half dozen. II NAV be
the case that time will develop new breeds
obtained by crossing breeds that we now
have, but doubt if any new iutroductions
VIII be in any way superior to the best breeds
that is now to be had.
Without reference to the common stock OF
the country for the present let us name the
Dest MALT dozen of the pure breeds that are
most popular now in this country.
And these are
The Leghorns
Minorcas
Ply mouth Rocks.
Games
Partridge Cochins.
langshans.
40 which way be added a second hall
aen' some of which may be priced by
S1Hay above any breed in the frst-named
Dozen Such as:
Inc Black Spanish.
Bahamas.
Myandottes
SSAck Hamburgs.
houdans
1orkings.
AS a., Two OF the dozen named are OF
rS" S'e a origin, and those are the Ply
NJ, rocks and the Wyandottes.
WIN E- We hops our readers will favor us