The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-07-10
Poultry.

Indigestion is frequent cause of
disease with fowls, and this comes
from over eating. 1t can in great
measure be avoided by giving them
proper variety Of food, and COM
polling exercise in procuring it. Do
not shut them away from a sup
ply of gritty material, for this helps
them to grind their food properly,
and prevents cloying.
Cleanliness and attention to food
and water will keep the cholera
away from any place. When once
it has fixed itself upon the victim
there is no remedy but to kill the
fowl and burn or deeply bury it.
Let the house be sprinkled with a
solution of corrosive sublimate, or,
which is safer, solution of sulphate
of copper.
While inbreeding has its purposes,
it cannot be recommended to the
practical poultry raiser. New blood
should be constantly introduced in
to the flock if profit is to be the aim.
The chickens which we most desire
must show activity, strength and
vitality. Every move should in
dictate alertness and power.
In order to have plenty of fresh
eggs, new blood must be introduced
into the flock every year. Even a
mongrel bird will benefit high
bred flock better than no change at
all, for it may bring hardness and
endurance, which can not be obtain
ed from one which has been so care
fully reared for generations past.
If the cocks show attention to the
hens, counting them in every pos
sible way and giving them choice
bits, it is well with that flock, and
vitality has not died out; but if the
cock is dullard and a laggard, not
following in the chase after insects
and worms, and the hens disinclined
to exercise much, it is about time
there was a breaking up in that
family.
BY preventing the air from pene-
trating the shell by some substance
which will not kill the germ and
prevent its Matching, an egg can be
preserved longer than in any other
way. The French have thus var
nished eggs and Matched chickens
from them after two years. Alcohol
removes the glaze at any time.
Turkey raising is becoming more
profitable and popular. Like sheep,
they grow and fatten in the fields on
what would be otherwise lost; be-
side, their eating of insects by the
million is benefit to the crops. A
good crop of turkeys brings find
income for little expense. Their
long legs enable them to move easily
anywhere.
About one-tbird of all the poultry
raised in this country is owned by
those who live in the cities, towns
and villages, and the town people
nearly always keep the pure breds
and know more about raising chick
ems than do the farmers; in fact, a
small flock will pay better in the
city than in the country.
City poulterers have the advant-
age of being convenient to a con-
slant supply of green bone, in the
shops. In small yards great
secret is in giving plenty of grit and
water, and in Keeping the hens a
!. work. If necessary, starve them tC
it. No work, no eggs; plenty o
exercise makes healthy fowls and &
full basket.
From five geese can be picked {
: pound of feathers every six weeks
These will sell for 40 cents. From
800 geese upon a farm 100 pounds
could be picked, at the same rate, in
; a year, amounting to $3.50 pounds and
over, and worth $946. So much fol
l the fipures. and ffpures never lie.