Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-05-15
Useful Points About Poultry,

Experience has taught me that clean,
warm houses and good healthful feed is
the best medicine for chickens. When
l commenced the business 1 used every
remedy that l | heard Of and fed red pep
per lavishly. My bills for remedies were
large. Red pepper and a little sulphur
fed once a week is good for fowls, es-
pecially during the moulting process.
Corn meal and wheat bran made damp
but not wet, and we'll mixed, is better
than sloppy feed. It is better dry than
too wet. Plenty of warm drinking
water in very cold, and cold in warm
weather is Indispensable.
Another question with most persons
is, Where a I get the cheapest stock:
| would respond, where you get the best,
regardless of price. l would explain
that l do not mean that it is necessary to
pay the high prices asked by the prize
winners for their stock in order to get
good stock for the farm, but it is neces-
sary that we who advertise our stock get
from such breeders and ':eep our stock
up high in the standard. In order to do
this we must pay very high prices, and
in turn cannot afford to sell stock for the
low prices we often see advertised-such
rs cockerels of the very best at one dol
dar each. A moments reflection will
show that no breeder Of first class stock
can sell at such prices. In one commu-
nifty any farmers wife who keeps pure
stock can sell cockerels at her door for
one dollar each. All breeders know that
when we have got the very best stock
possible, when shipping time comes we
find we have many culls, and these we
of course afford to sell at reduced
rates.
Very few persons engage in any bust
ness enterprise for pleasure alone. The
American people especially are a people
who ask the questi~n, before embarking
in any business ship, Will it pay? So
with regard to cheap poultry. can say
cheap stock never pays for an adver-
tiser, and there is certainly no pleasure
in anything that does not give satisfac-
tory results. One thing in making in
quiries is better to be stated: whether
you breed for market or shipping to
other breeders. Often you can get Just
what you want much cheaper by so
doing. For instance, one raising Plym-
outh Rocks for market alone need not
be sc particular about the penciling of
the plumage, the set Of the comb, ETC.,
but if he gets a good bone, good style
and shape, he will have just as fine and
as early chickens for market as if he
had paid a much higher price for his
cockerel. What is true of one in this
particular is true of all the breeds.
Another question often asked is: Can
you furnish stock in pairs not akin, and
how can l do this if I commence the
business? Yes, 1 can. Get the stock
and get some one who is anxious to go
into the business to raise ON shares, and
when he or she gets a start pay them a
good price for this stock and you will
have any trouble in furnishing
stock in pairs and trios not akin. Breed
ers should make it a point to do this, as
we all advise this in breeding. Another
way I manage is to buy eggs and mark
my fowls, booking the marks, and this
will often be as satisfactory as any way.
Mrs. B. G.. Mackey in Journal of Ag-
riculture.