Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-04-10
Among the Poultry.
II. Louis Republican.

Dohe Iieai HllXeu WITH 1eed Is good
for growing ducks.
Keep the poultry house clean, espe.
cially toward spring.
Select only the best and most prom
ising fowls for breeding.
In using brooder take care that
the chicks do not crowd too much.
Crude carbolic acid is one of the
cheapest and best disinfectants.
In ordering the supply OF seeds put
i'll a few sunilowers. They are good
for poultry.
Keep sharp lookout for rats about
the poultry building. They are very
destructive of young fowls.
Set the plum trees close around the
poultry house. Both the fowls and
the fruit will be benfitted. The comb
and wattles of a really healthful fowl
should always be bright scarlet color.
Delays are always dangerous with
sick fowls. They should be taken in
hand at the first indication.
Keep pure stock not olly in the
barn, but in the poultry house. Prop
erly cared for they will return the
best profit.
Being able to sell poultry to a good
advantage is as important as to be
successful in breeding and raising
them. The fowl market is greatly in
fluenced by appearances. For this
reason it is important to send to
market in good condition.
In breeding to improve the poultry
1T is very necessary that the male
used should be rs good as can be OBJ
tanned.
With nearly or quite all breeds of
poultry those OF the same color should
be used so that the progeny will be
uniform in size and color. As a rule
there is but little gain in attempting
to help the chickens out OF the shells
the better plan is to let them alone.
Broken rice can often be bought
cheap, and makes a good feed for
young poultry. 1t should be soaked
until it is soft.
Always plan to have tight roof to
the chicken cools. In many cases it
will save considerable loss in sudden
showers.
1t is very important iHl in managing
incubator chickens not to get the
brooders too warm. 1t will keep the
chickens weakly.
A good hen properly managed ought
to pay for herself and her feed four
times over in one season. This is a
better profit than anything else will
pay.
BOOSTERS eat fully as much if not
more than hens and lay no eggs. Keep
only such as are needed for breeding.
The easiest, quickest and best way
to get a start of some good breed of
fowls is to secure a good trio of fowls
before spring. With these good
start can be secured in one season.
Raising poultry with an incubator
cannot be made profitable unless YOU
are willing to give good care and at
tention both during incubation and
until the fowls are well started to
feathering.
Begin keeping an account with your
poultry so as to find out whether they
are profitable under your system of
management.
If you do not care to bother with
poultry, turn them over to your wife
and children and let them have what
they can make out of them.
A nice, fat peafowl makes an extra
good table fowl. The meat is tender,
juicy and we'll favored, although not
very generally used.
If you can arrange to have your
poultry ready for market little earlier
than the great majority of your neigh
bors, you can generally realize much
better prices.
On the farm, if well managed, poul-
try ought to be bred, fed and made
ready for market at as low a cost as
hogs, and will generally sell for more.