Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-02-23
More Poultry Points.
~ ". H. ROSE

Remember that your fowls enjoy and |
need good clean dry house, with
plenty Of clean straw or leaves to scratch /
IT., this &C Id weather
The accumulation Of manure in the
hen house is a fruitful source of many OF
the diseases we are having this winter
and can very easily be avoided.
Bright sunshine and pure air are two
very cheap medicines, and your birds
will take them with greater degree of
eagerness and with more benefit than
they will any OF the highly advertised
poultry powders.
They will need less food to keep them
in good condition. if good sanitary
measures are adopted, and yoar house
is good and comfortable during the cold
winter months.
There is no money in poor scrawny
fowls. They eat their heads off and
they are never 1T for the table or market.
1t costs just as much per pound to dress
and ship poor stock as it does to ship
good stock and your commission man
would much rather sell nice plums
| fowls than the miserable blue looking
fowls one often sees offered for sale.
To-day good fat hens are worth in
Chicago, y "a y! cts per ID; spring
chickens $3.50 to 5000 per doz. capons
II to 10 cts per ID. Any one can get
these prices if they have good stock and
there always wilt be good demand for
early chicks and good fat stock.
Make the scrub cockerels and old
hens fat, and let them go to market as
soon as possible. They will earn you
no more money and it costs something
to feed them.
If you make a business of raising
poultry for market, use the breeds that
are the best flesh formers. There is a
difference as you will discover if you
take pains to investigate.
Ii you use sire that is not at least as
good as the average of your flock, you
are bound to reduce the standard value
of the progeny, and the effect will be
far reaching and your loss will be
cumulative for years to come.
DO not keep Improbable stock of any
kind, better fit it for market at once.
The common stock of our predecessors
is goiug out of date, and the better bred
birds are taking their place on the
farms.
1t is the early Matched pullet that
makes the winter layer, and the winter
laying habit is the thing to cultivate. 1t
beats fancy feathers and all such nom
sense all to pieces,
Keep and old box in the house, in
which dump some dry dirt and ashes
for the fowls to dust in. 1t will add
wonderfully TO the destruction of lice
which is such an unseen hinderance to
the supply of eggs.
! In the summer season when the
weather is warm it is very necessary to
provide shade for the fowls. Grape
vines and the various kinds of shrubs
make good shade, but where there is
none of these, perhaps the quickest and
best way to grow shade is to plant
the MAMMOTH Rusean sun
| flower which grows very quick and not
only furnishes ample shade, but at the
same time will yield an abundant crop
of seed which makes the best of poultry
| feed. Too much can not be sail in re-
gard to this sunflower seed. Its adap-
liability to all kinds of soil. 1t will even
grow a good crop of seed if it is planted
in the fence corners, along side of barns
ETC., any place where the seed will ger
inmate. and the plant is helped along a
little until its head is above the weeds.
1t will soon take care of itself, and will
Weld as much suitable feed for flock
of fowls as any other kind of grain re-
curing twice as much care and cultiva-
ton.
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