The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1892-01-15

Guild, SOUND, perfect material to buIld
with, and the skill and knoaledge ueees-
saTy 10 work that material 10 the best pos
sible advantage.
50 must the person who expects to make
poultry raising profitable have good,
sound, healthy stock, suitable buildings
and yards, and, most important OF all, they
must have a knowledge Of The attention
poultry must have if made profitable.
Good stock is Absolutely necessary. The
once popular notion that one hen was as
good as another, and Honld do to keep as
long as she could eaekle, is popular no
more.
We are living IN q progressive age.
Modern thought has infused new life in
every industry has quiekened every view
Oh agriculture and stock breeding, and the
same spirit Of improvement and enterprise
that has given US the steel binder ia place
Of the eld-time sickle, that has substituted
tie steam thresher for the old lever pow
or, has given us improved breeds OF fowls
that are much more profitable than the
dung hills kept by our forefathers. 1t costs
more to keep a poor Old hen than a good
gonng enc, while the profits from the latter
viii Dc three times as great. Secure, then,
to start with, good, young, well-bred hens;
efoss them with vigorous Young cocks of
the same breed, but of distinctly different
blood. Il matters not whether YOU pur-
Chase your rooster. drake. gander Or COB
bier from a distant county or state, or oil
your next door n%eighbor, providing the
breed is the same and tie blood different.
But infuse new blood you must or all
efforts Of care in other directions are worse
than wasted. The man who refuses to
pay a reliable BREEDER, who has spared
neither time or expense to raise good, clean
stock, one dollar for q good Thoroughbred
bird, but buys q mongrel at ten cents per
pound, thinking he is thereby saving fifty
cents, IS p~eoDy-8ise and pound foolish.
Watch that man and next year this time
be viii be one Of tie first to how about
hard times and swear that poultry raising
is unprtitable. Many do worse still aud
select the incest OF their own raising to
keep ever, or worse yet, If the old cock
mas one sound eye and a single spur lie is
again put upon the walk to do duty. The
theory that ike begets Ike is demonstrate
ed more clearly in the poultry yard than
aog other place on the farm.
# you haze secured good stock. give
tbefn good quarters. Keep not more than
forty hen together IN a clean, comfortably
warm, well ventilated house, pen or roost.
Keep Your hens and heit houses free
from lice by vhitesashing twice a year
with the best lime You may be able to pro-
cure. Put it on thick and hot, well mixed
8ith kerosene oil anf. fine salt. Give every
laying bex and r~oosting perch a thorough
coat 81 this mixture inside. outside and
behind, and sprinkle -four sulphur and
cafbolio acid literally inside nests and
whereYer fowls are kept. Fo!loA these
simple rules explicitly and lice will Le to
Qn,p 4RgsRffru- G4poay 41nkra-, N-s,Iaai
item and lice will run rampant and YOU
chickens droop and die. Feed your adult
fowls literally and regularly three times :
daY. The old theory that hens only neec
feed in winter, aud then once a day, ha'
long since been exploded. It is just as i'm
possible for a hen to lay seven eggs a weel
with nothing to cat but grass and nothing
to drink but water, as It is for a Ran to
sa1 wood . week without bread or meat.
Change the food every day as often as
they are fed, feeding very little whole grain
except heat and cats.
The varieties of fowls to keep aud the
kinds of feed TO be given can only be de-
termined when we know what we are aim
ing at. II you desire to raise chickens for
market, (and they can be more proftably
raised for twelve cents per pound than
beef at seven or pork at six, you should
I procure the kinds sa2t are short and yell
low legged, solid. compact bodies, and
have quick maturing properties. Hatch
your chicks as early in the winteror spring
as your facilities for handling them when
hatehcd will permit. Feed often and lib-
eral, and sell them as soon as marketable.
Not only does the threa pound chick ia
June bring more thar the five pound chick
IN December, but by selling at the former
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which tue bird is liable if held for more
complete maturity. Ii you desire to raise
and keep fowls for eggs, select those kinds
that brood little and lay much. While
eggs are sold by the piece and not by the
pound. the seven small eggs produced by
the small non setting ben viii bring more
THAI twiea as much as the three larger
eggs, which will be about the weekly pre-
duct of the large broody hen.
The man who seeks TO grow grain and
increase the fertility of his soil without
first determining the nature and compost
ton of such soil, and what elements of
plant food it is most deficient of, and what
fertilizing agents Will best supply such de-
fieiency with the least labor ard at the
most economical expense, is going it blind,
as is also the man who attempts to raise
eggs without knowing OF what they are
composed, and hat varieties Of food will
furnish the most egg material at the least
expense. Meet the majority of farmers
coming from mill and put this question:
whats that feed fot?'i and you will get
this answer: "Ehy, for the horses. COWS
and pigs. of course We are slightly in
quisitiye AMI venture another question:
What about your poaitry?n The an
swer invariably is "0h, l throw them a
little shelled corn. They don't lay a bit
and | hardly think they pay to bother
with No, | suppose they dou't. II we
want eggs we should feed our hens a
scaIded ness three hundred and sixty.fye
mornings ia each year. What composed
Ct? We will tell you. Half wheat bran
aud half cracked corn, or better yet, cob
neal; mix enough cayenne pepper, sui
phur ard ground charcoal to season well,
adding q pinch OF salt. Chickens have
palates as well as men and can as well ap-
p~reclate a good meal. \ pint each of pork
scraps. green cabbage and turnips chopped
fire, to each eight quarts of feed makes a
valuable addition and gives them 4 morn
ing meal that will be thankfully received,
eaten with relish and paid Tor before noon.
Give laying hens all the milk they will
consume. 1t would take longer than
an ordinary lifetime to make some
men believe that soar milk converted
eggs is worth as much per pound as
sweet new milk will bring per pound at
the creamery, yet such a statement We be-