Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-21

LILY AiouS III tle IRE, usually results
IN failure through neglect of care and
proper attention.
III would be much better if every
Foultryman raised only what he could
tenu 10 properly, and to Gull closely
early IN the season, so that the re-,
birds can have more room
ana more attention given 10 their
wants. Fifty, seventy or 100 promis-
ing BIRDS are more valuable than twice
the number of low standard ones The
cost of food and appliances is as mneh
for one class Of chickens as for the
other; mortality is proportionatelv
greater among large fiocks. and thew
never thrive so we'll as when they
nave pure air, cleanliness in and aho1t
Their coops, perching places and runs.
ana agreeable exercise Scra itching and
forag1ng over new places, with plenty
or shade when the sun is hot. One
never gives the same choice food, the
same careful attention to succeeding
oroodS that he had given the first of
the season. With each brood comes
more labor, time and planning how to
secure for each ample room without
one trespaSSing on the other or mixing
up; the larger birds snatchipg AWAY
the food intended for the newly
Matched chicks. and pecl1ing them
whenever they come in their way: and
as each brood, according to age moods
somewhat different treatment some
will be neglected in spite of our best
intentions.
; This is no imaginary tale of woe or
losses IN chicken raising. for long ex-
perience teaches us that it is not in
the number of chicks Matched out
wherein lies the profits, but the num-
Der of healthy, standard birds brought
to a marketable condition and bearing
a face value" to tempt the lover of
fine fowls to bid high for them. Guam
tity is readily achieved by the ordi-
nary breeder; good, bad and indiffer-
ent are always found in large fiocks.
but prime birds must come from select
breeders and from skillful care and
proper attention.
There is little time for relaxation in
June, as the work of incubation goes
on, also culling and preparing the cuIls
for market, and many other Jobs of no
less Importance, if we give our stock
needed care and deServedly assume to
DE high class breeders. We have so
long practiced economy and what we
thought good management in raising
fowls, though under adverse circum-
stances, that we made the business
pay handsomely, even in bad times.
We wonder at the present time, when
fancy poultry has become so popular
and such close competition in selling
and in exhibiting. that our fanciers do
not show more brain work in the man
aSement of their stock. Why do they
persist in keeping faulty chickens and
hens over until fall or winter, when it
is more profitable to sell them early in
the season and save three or four
months feeding and losses? There is
some excuse for the farmer who lives
far from market and allows his fowls
to hunt for their living, and annually
carries his surplus to market; but the
fancier is generally near a market
place and can dispose of his faulty
stock at most any line.
q AS the warm days are now at hand.
and one knows that lice multiply rap
idly, that sickness is more prevalent,
and the need of sanitary measures
more urgent than at other seasons. the
duty Of restricting the former by strict
observance Of the latter, will ward off
many of the troubles and ills of the
poultry yard. Without thorough cleans
ing of the chickens and mother hens.
without thorough cleansing of the
adult fowls and their perching places,
without thorough cleansing and dis
injecting the yards. lice and sickness
Will ruin y0ur prospects of profits &ni
pleasure. rs sure as two and two
make four. We are too eXacting with
orr fowls and expect them to lay e@"S.
put on flesh. grow and develop finely,
while we allow the lice to riot on thoir
bodies, and filth to generate disease
If we wish to make our fowls profit
able, comfortable and contented. We
must aid them. Nothing is more cor
ducive than freedom. pure air. agree
abb exercise, cleanliness, pure food
and water, and shade during the warm
days of summer-Joseph Wallace, in
Poultry Monthly.
L. british Daily Farmer has ii t last
found the right word with which to
describe oleOmargarine and other
fraud compounds that are sold for but
ter. 1t dubs them continents resem-
bling butter" People that wish to