Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-03-22


| gently warming il on the stove. These
are little things that are some trouble,
but they will paw you well for the
trouble II you use hens for brooders,
your coops should be made roomy and
comfortable, and the lath on the front
side should run up and down and be as
far apart as possible, so that it keeps
the old hen in. While she is brooding
the little chicks, il is good plan 10
keep her OLD crop full of whole corn, SO
that she will not be quite so apt to eat
all the dainties you place there from
time TO time for her brood. As the
weather warns up in the spring, the
coops should be moved in or near the
garden where the little fellows can have
free access TO the insects that infest
growing plants. They will keep them
pretty well picked off and will not dls-
turb any of the plants until they get to
be pretty good sized fowls. About the
| time the cockerels begin TO crow, they
should be separated from the pullets.
They will grow much faster. and the
pullets do much better and begin laying
earlier.
In regard to the ACCESSIBILITY of keep
| ing male birds with hens where eggs for
Matching are not cared for. the New
York experiment station gives some
good points in recent bulletin. A Sc
ries of experiments have been carried
on the past season determine wheih her
the idea that the mae birds are neces-
sary to the production Of fresh eggs is
true. The idea is quite prevalent
among farmers and often gets into the
farm journals, that prompt the inquiry.
| How many ROSTERS will need with
my flock of hens TO insure plenty OF
fresh eggsp always answer not any.
At the station, the pullets that were sep
arated from the males long before they
reached maturity commenced laying
one or two mouths earlier than those
mated with male birds. and laid about
% per cent. more eggs during the sea-
son. Taking this 10 be the average ex-
perience what damage and bill of ex-
pense the many cockerels are during
the fall Better shut them up aud feed
them for two or three weeks and sell
them, even il they are not full-grown.
rather than have them harrass and in
jure the pullets. They are an abomina-
ton 10 any poultry-yard or any farm
/
part of the income. When the pullets
are by themselves, give them qua ters
tnat are absolutely clean with q good
range or supplied with plenty of green
| food and an occasional fe ID of lean
meat. IL is good plan 10 feed rye.
Five years ago this winter / made an
experiment with eight varieties Of chick.
ems | had pen eighty feet lonr.
divided inc eight ten-foot rooms My
object was 10 determine: 1st--Whicn
was the best wintsr-layer3 2nd--CouId
the & Brown Leghorn be classed
among the winter-lsyers? As SAID be-
fore the pens were al ten feet wide. but
the first one was longer. t al the others.
Il ran back eight feet further under a
hay.mow. In that pm put % Leg
horn pulets. in the next Que IL Barred
Plymouth Rock pnliets, 10 the n xt 10
Langshans-hens aud pulle,s. IN the
next II Silver-Faced Wyandottss, in the !
next 10 Houdan pullets, in the next 5 /
American Dominiques. in the next 10
Light Brs hma hens. and in the last pen
/ put IL Silver Spang led Hamburgs. /
When | fed one flock, passed ight
along through and fed ali the others. |
The same as TO cleaning the pens, water |
ing the fowls, etc. In fact they MI |
tarel exactly the same. The results /
were very satisfactory in a financial /
way, as | had a contract for twenty !
GEMS per dozen for tie eggs, and most I
of the hens did nohiy. fhe egg-record /
have lost. but what started out to de |
ttrmine is one of the fixed things in my /
memory. The Light Brshmas and Lang
shans were about equal. Plymouth Rocks /
third. Wyandottes fourth. floudans fifth /
ami Dominiques sixth. The Hamburgs I
Were not in 1t, but the little ). G. Brown
Leght ra puiletS were away ahead and
out OF sight. ] remember distiu city
that in three cold days in January these
t~en y-two pulsts laid fifty-six eggs.
You must bear in mind these rooms /
we're warm, water seldom freezing over
night La my opinion 1t teaches one
thug plainly The hen is SIMPLY an /
egg machine, and il 10 proper condition, |
fed the right kind OF I, ed, water, light /
and warmth supplied, Gone thing right I
here in regard o lens laying) she must /
either lay or die. ar most OF them pre- /
fer toly. Ordinarily eggs cut gu t. a /
figure in the poultry business on the /
farm, and there is no trouble in getting
good prices from November u tue first |
of March; but 10 get twenty cents per
dsz-n from March ia November. lie /
gHlres Little more thought. Since /
earned that an intgrliie egg keeps /
much better than fertile ON. have +
mad o trouble ia z I Wg e Oh prices
tor The eggs nat are iayed daling the /
SUNNI season. My plan IS lhis As /
sooa a the breeding season Is over. XII |
or remove every male h,rd on the place |
I Esther Nour eggs fresh every day. and /
I take them directly Ia he cellar. wbt re !.
YOU have previously Fl esd boxes aud
/ barrels md btrrel Of salt Co,er the
/ mott ,m nt one OF Your empty barrels
ab mt an inch dep with ,at. Now
take your eggs, one al - lme. and
! gently press t1em heg end down iitA the
salt. Waen You have covered the sur
face with eggs touching eaeh other.