Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-12-07
FARM AND GARDEN.
Suggestions Worthy of the
Farmers Consideration.
INTEREsTING POULTRY NOTES.
Don't Begin With Too Many Breeds
Keep ThOrOughbreds Only
About the Turkey.
tart out with good stock.

Start out with good stock.
Endeavor to have your focks uniform.
Keep everything clean; it will pay
you.
An extra dollar or two for a superior
breeding bird is money well spent.
A good supply OF road dust or dry
earth and fine gravel are worth good
many dollars TO poultry breeder dur
ing the winter.
One OF the best remedies for damp
poultry-house floors, also an excellent
deodorizer, is air-sacked lime. Gas
lime is also good.
Do not neglect the water fountains.
Keep them filled with fresh, sweet, clean
water. In rainy weather keep the yards
drained SO that no impure water will be
where the fowls may drink it.
Do not destroy eggs that have been
deserted by the hen, or in cases where
the incubator lamp has gone out and
they have become cold. They often
hatch good percentage OF strong chicks.
Don't begin with too many breeds.
Select the one that best suits your sur
roundings and stick to it. BY careful
selection you can then build up strain
that will be satisfactory to yourself and
patrons.
Although damp roosting place is an
abomination, fowls prefer a wet roost
free from vermin to dry one that is in
tested with them. This may explain
why some peoples chickens prefer to
Toost Oh trees.
1t may be taken as a very good rule
that short-legged Will fatten more rap
idly than fowls "well up on their pins"
This is important to the broiler raiser,
whose object it is to get nice, plump birds
as soon as possible.
Keep thoroughbred fowls only There
are enough breeds and enough sizes,
shapes and colors for any purpose. With
a mixed flock one cannot lay down any
set OF feeding rules or CLEAN any reliable
information from his statistics. In other
words, he never knows where he is at.
Always keep shells and grit before
your fowls, and for confined birds straw
or refuse bay, cut about one-third of an
inch in length, should be furnished
, them. Besides the much-needed exer-
else obtained by scratching in it for seeds
and grain, they will eat large portion
of it.
The turkey is an industrious forager,
and picks up the greater portion OF it's
food; therefore the difference in the
weight OF large and small bird is an
important matter, bringing the actual
cost of production down to low sum
when large and small weights are COM
pared.
There is one advantage of Matching
chicks during winter i'll California, and
1t Is freedom from vermin which does
not increase nearly SO rapidly as during
late sprlng and summer weather. This
is where the incubator proves of great
value to the poultry Raiser, as it is next
to impossible to get satisfactory supply
of setting hens before February and
often later.
LOOK AFTER THE MANURE.
1t is not necessary for experimental
stations to tell us that manues kept
continually exposed to ram and sun
: mast lose their essential elements and
that, too very rapidly. We see very oft, IL
streams OF dark, black liquid issuing
from fertilizer heaps, and perhaps run
nlng down some slope into pond or brook,
where the croDs are not liable to receive
much benefit from them. Whv are
these leaks permitted and how relneded
, are the questions. The first is hard 10
answer, but the second is oi no very diff
hcult solution. Nix manure liberaly
with absorbents, and keep undtr cover.
Many old-fashioned barns contain no
cellars Tor storage of manure; and, for
that matter, there aro very potent obiec-
tlons to putting manure right under
, STOCK, SO that poisonous gases will con-
tlnually arise to befoul the air above.
; why not build cheap "lean-to"
: against the barn to cover the manure
which Is cast out? This may be made
very rongh and inexpensive and provided
only with a roof (sides would be better),
lhe Idea, OF course, is to prevent the wa
ter from caves and sky from leaking
through the manure and removing the
! best and most available portions. Bed
. the stock well with straw and absorb
ents sufficient to retain all the LIQUID,
says writer in Practical Farmer. Land
plaster is excellent to fix the ammonia
that gas which is so easily lost and coal
t ashes, as they come perfectly dry from
the stove or furnace, are good for the
same purpose. 1t is well known that
t the ground beneath a manure pile be-
comes saturated with fertility; so it is
wise to remove this soil to depth OF six
to ten inches, cart it away and replace
with a quantity of new, dry soil, which
in turn should also be drawn out and
spread on a field or meadow. The mat
, ter of saving manure cannot be looked
into too closely. 1t is folly to depend
on commercial fertilizers when much of
our own manure goes to waste.
WATERING THE SEEDED.
American Gardening says: 1t is COM
mon among amateurs and some profess
sionals who SOW seeds OF various kinds,
either in or out OF doors, whether the
soil is moist or not, TO water it imme-
diately after sowing. From repeated
trials | have found the above practice to
be serious mistake. If the soil or COM
post in which the seeds are sown is moist
at the time OF sowing, do not water. as
the soil becomes stiff and forms a crust
on the surface, which prevents the seeds
from pushing through. After sowing
the seed in any soil, except an extremely
dry one, wait a day or two before
watering. until the soil dries up pretty
well. Then water gently with fine
sprinkler sufficiently TO moisten the soil
moderately throughout, which will suf-