The Columbus journal., 1895-07-03

badly from bloat. My cows do better
in giving milk on account Of the feet
they get in the stable. 1t is also econ
omy, l think, for, with land worth from
$50 to 500 an acre, pasture is dearel
feed than feeding in the stable.
II one has young cattle he does no
want to take out of the pasture and pu
in the stable to feed. a good way to d.
is to have a stack of clover hay In thu
field where they car have free access
to it. One will be surprised to e thu
cattle leave the rank green clover twl
or three times day and eat greedil!
a few minutes ffOm the stack. /Cattl'
know. something. frequently mucl
more than wsIEive them creditfor. and
will take care of Themselves pretty wei
If given a/ehance. =.
Even a straw stack Fhere they 9fI
come from the green over and get a
it, will help some. Irthe pasture hal
a variety of grasses. such as timothy
blue grass. wild grass. ETC., aside from
the clover. and these in abundance
there will rarely be any trouble from
blOat.
1 wish to say again that a sure pre-
ventive Of bloat lit may OF may not b<
the only sure one) is TO put the cattle
in the stable twice a day and fee(
them all the good dry hay-preferabl!
clover hay-they will eat. Do this ant
you can turn them into clover at any
time at any stage with perfect safety
shipping Coops for Fancy Poultry.
H. B. L.. writing In Tennessee Fan.
cier, very sensibly says: This is a very
important item in shipping fancy poul'
try, as there is a great deal Of kicking
on express charges. You can very
easily make a nice. neat and substan.
tial coop Of pine boxes picked up about
stores. by splitting Stats say about
IL inch wide, half inch thick, tackled
to good bottom. then owe with cheap
leaving top open and lacking
on enough Stats after putting your
fowls in to keep them from Jumping
to hold a trio of fowls would not weigh
over three or four pounds net. l re-
ceived a trio of S. L. Wyand0ttes a few
days ago from a point in Georgia: they
arrived in a coop large and stout
enough to ship three. good sized hogs
in; it was about 2k feet square, made
of green oak and green plank 3 inches
wide by q of an inch thick, covered
with coffee sacking, and weighed net
22h pounds. The express charges on
coop alone would have been $50: the
charges on coop and the three birds
was $3.50 or nearly as much as I paid
for the trio. This kind of shipping Is
out Of the question and is enough to
keep any n from ordering fancy
poultry any distance of. They can, In
most cases, pay for the fowls. but TO
think Of paying from $3.50 to SO per
hundred pounds on old gum planks
knocks them out.
Express rates are high enough at
best. and would advise shippers TO
make coops as light as possible. but
stout and securely nailed. Express
messengers. as a rule. try to handle
such class of freight as roughly as pos
sible, when it would be very little more
work and trouble for them to handle
care.
l am an express agent myself. and
know Just how they do; they will throw
coop of fowls or basket of eggs at
you rather than hand it out to you.
Be careful to make light coOps, but at
the same time substantial; it will pay
you in the long run.
Does 1t Fay to Exhibit Fowls:
It is very evident that 1t pays our
best and largest breeders. or we would
not see them at SO many shows in a
year; but do they derive the
greatest benefits? No. The person who
has only a few birds. non of them ever
been scored. is sure Of getting
more benefit than any m else. Why?
It is worth more to them than the cost
Of entry to know what their birds will
score, and did they win a prize. it is
hard to estimate what the benefits will
be. 1t will depend somewhat on the
number of birds they have for sale, as
they will be able to realize nearly
double the amount they could have
lone had they not shown any birds. I
might say they will be able to do this,
although they did not win any prize.
[ have in my mind an old gentleman
who bought one sitting of eggs last
year because his wife was bound to
raise some chickens.
He entered nine of these birds, four
,ockerels and five pullets. from this
hatch in the Chattanooga Poultry show
the cost of $3.50 for entry fee. They
being about seven months old, and in
strong competition, of course he won
10 prizes. However, he has since sold
.wo of these cockerels for enough more
han he asked for them before the show
O pay for entry, and has disposed of
.wo more at a very good price, giving
him a nice profit on his investment.
He not being in the chicken business.
his neighbOrs were inclined to laugh
It him for presuming that he had any
inc, chickens, consequently, he gives
he credit for sales to the poultry show.
Big Poultry Farms.-Dr. Green, on
L-ong Island. Lake Winnepiseogee, New
Hampshire, has $1,000 O invested in the
business, and $115,O 900 of it represents
he accumulated returns from an origi-
lal investment of about S., 1000. He has
{. 900 laying hens. 1000 laying ducks
md thirty i%ncubators Of 6OO-egg capac-
ty each. The annual product of chick
ms and ducks is from $12O, 900 to $780,
700, and the buildings and yards are
cry extensive. Gov. Morton of New
fork has 10000 invested in the poul-
nv business, and Havemeyer-the
ugar kings another large producer
Il poultry. They both find it a profit
bile as well as an interesting business.
there are dozens of other large plants
catered through the East. The bust
less has been reduced to a fine system,
md has been rid of the unpleasant fea-
ures that characterize the ordinary
lipshod methods in vogue among far
ners and others who have not studied
I up thoroughly.-Ex.
San Francisco Egg Supply.-Poultry
md eggs to the value Of 2 800, 900 are
onsumed by the people of San Fran
isco each year. Strange as 1t may
Gem, two-thirds of this consumption, |
s to quantity. is supplied from the
asst. chiefly from Kansas, Nebraska
nd Missouri. Think of it! A million !
ollars going out Of the state annually
or what might and should be profit
bly produced at home! And San Fran
isco is by no means the only place
n California consuming eastern eggs |
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