The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-04-19
Dots About Poultry

rarely pays. Better kill and bury
them deeply or burn them, and spend
the time on the well ones, taking
pains to prevent disease.
The watchful poultryman cleans out
the drinking vessels thoroughly often.
A teaspoonful of washing soda dis
solved in a Quart of hot water is the
best cleanser.
An unlimited supply of sweet milk
can apparently be given to chickens
with advantage, but sour milk must
be fed with caution. Where sour milk
only is available it is best to coagulate
thoroughly by moderate heating and
use only the curd, straining out as
much of the whey as possible.
Destroy the nests of the sitting
hens when the chicks are taken out.
Well started is we'll ended applies
with much force in the management OF
young poultry.
Too much soft, slushy foods is often
the primary cause of gapes in young
chickens.
Whenever the chickens are weaned
they should be taught to roost along
with the other fouls.
savory nature and is more readily di.
gested than that of the goose.
At least after the trees commence
fruiting it will be an advantage to al
low poultry the run of the orchard
If you attempt to save expense by
putting as many fowls as possible in
one coop, you will lose much more
than you will gain in the saving on
the cost of the coop. Poultry should
be shipped in prime condition, but
this is impossible when they are
crowded. for the filth, loss of flesh
from liability to secure food and water
etc, will depreciate them in value.
If fountains are used they should be
large, so as to hold a great quantity of
water, and the fountains should be
kept il the shade. 1t is better to use
o trough, as it can be mare easily
emptied and filled than a fountain,
but trough should be well washed
out at least once week, or it will be-
come filthy and Shiny aud perhaps
breed disease in the flock.
Eggs will keep much better in cool
place. This is an advantage where it
is necessary to place the results of sew.
eral days collection in one crate. 1t
should not be overlooked that IN sums
mer there are occasions when the TEN.
perature of the atmosphere is as high
as 100 degrees, and if eggs are stored
in a close place they may be SUBJ
iected to two or three degrees
higher heat, which will cause tn
germs to grow Just as much as when
the eggs are under hens. If this hap.
pens the eggs will quickly spoil and a
loss result. Keep the eggs in cool
place where the air will circulate
around them, such as on a rack. If
they are turned over once in two days
it will be an advantage.
Use whitewash freely on the poultry
house, both inside and outside. By
using skim milk in the whitewash it will
not be so tablet to the action of the rains
Whitewash not only gives a clean APP
pearance to the house, but assists in
driving away lice and preventing dis
ease. 1t is cheap and easily applied.
Eggs of a young pullet are generally
longer and more pointed at the smaller
end than those laid by the same bird
either later in the season or next year.
These early pullet eggs will produce
on an average. about the proportion of
six cockerels to four pullets. Eggs
laid early in the season by older hens
are Also as a rule, perceptibly longer
and more pointed than those laid
later in the season. 1t is we'll known
that cockerels oftener predominant in
earlier broods, and pullets in later
ones.