The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-05

tion and health contained in natures
own diet, such as grasshoppers, bugs,
worms, and the various insects and their
egg deposits, the seeds of grass and
weeds, and sundry other particles of food
the mother finds by scratching. Grits
and green grasses are essential and
woodland range that affords the most
abundant supply of live bugs and insects
The poultry journals are full of ar
ticles telling how to cure sapes, cholera,
roup, and all other diseases, but if you
will try this plan thoroughly these dis
eases will never appear among your
fowls, and you will have no use for such
remedies.
Nature endows the mother bird with
the best instincts for the protection and
prosperity of her brood, and if you will
let her alone she will find both the prop
er quantity and quality of food for her
young, and there will be no dropping if
the eggs that Matched the brood were
laid by fowls reared on this hardy plan
for the two preceding generations
y lady said to me the other day she
knew chicks should be fed because they
came up to her door each day at certain
hours and cried for food, which they
never would have commenced if the lady
had never fed them and thus taught
them the habit of crying for food. You
must not make pets of young poultry.
Discard close novels, boxes, barrels, and
don't keep them up in the morning but
let them root hog or die" and YOU will
soon have thrifty and independent broods
roosting up trees with their mother at
thee weeks old and weaned at four or
five weeks old.
y flock of cartridges will sleep the
coolest winter night on Il bed of ice and
snow with the hail coming down upon
their little backs, and young wild turkeys
are roosting in the tallest pines mt -
weeks old, and can fly little at ten
days old
Millions of young poultry are murdered
by mismanagement and millions of eggs
fail to hatch from causes which | will
explain hereafter. Any housewife will
tell you that over Il chick to Il sitting is
mashed sduring Matching. In order to
carry out this plan, which abolishes
hree-fourths of all the trouble and pains,
Will tell in my next, first, how to yet
perfectly healthy eggs; secondly, how to
make. S tting nests so that no eggs are
broken during the sitting or chicks
mashed during the Matching, and third.
~, how the novels or open coops the
roost perches, and hcnhouses should be
constructed to protect young poultry
from vermin, rain. and the diseases and
'df''i-Nl9 10 lllt OlilllluIN lnttnOuS
employed by housewives.
| have successfully demonstrated nv
proposition as laid down in these pages.
and my chicks and little turkeys are roost-
ing up III the air on the pole with their
mother at three weeks old, and their
wings do not hang and they are as quick
and spry as a bird.
Healthy eggs make healthy chicks, and
healthy chicks make healthy, robust
hens The future stock depends almost
entirely upon the parent birds or their
ancestry. If valuable, well-selected birds
are used for breeding, their offspring will
be like them. The best are none too
good and are the cheapest If a dozen
hens were selected from the best of the
flock every year and used as breeders, Il
great improvement would he the result
The temptation to use eggs for incubation
from hens not so selected should he re-
sisted, and the entire lot of chicks should
| tie produced from the selected hens
After the hens the utmost care should he
exercised in selecting the male He
should he pure breed, compact, wide be
tween the legs, with perfect proportion
and symmetry, as to legs. body, neck
comb. etc. His shape must he faultlcss
| Prccocity is Il decided aduvantagc if we
are raising poultry for profit The habit
) I
factor influencing profits, and the above
guide VIII set the current toward the
! profits
The hereditary influence of such in
| iiucncc * of the greatest value The re
| pcated selection OF inferior birds for two
| generations makes this inferiortv heredi-
tary. For quick growth and exemption
| from all diseases, select wcll-shapcd cers
from the best formed and the most
| vigorous birds To breed from Immature
or poor specimens Is to violate one of the
| first laws of breeding. Selection Of the
best for generations has given Us the i'm.
proved and most profitable breeds of
| stock. Inbrecding and breeding from
| imperfect or immature stock are partly
! the cause of the great mortality amouo
| yong turkeys.
Three fourths of those who attempt to
raise turkeys use small or immature
| birds for breeders having killed their
earliest and best specimens to-" market;
| We know that men, animals and iuv Is
that are vigorous are able 30 ward on
! resist. Or entirely escape diseases to which
| feeble or degenerate individuals readily
| succulnb. The various diseases of fowls
| which work. Sncb havoc in the poultry
yards oi the country have lao ,crrors fn.
| the best pouitrym-u. who select their
breeders carefully ana MANAGE theii.
chicks and young turkeys as nearly as
possible on the line pursued hy wild
fowls Hardness ana Vigor are oc the
| first importance in rearing any stock tor
| profit, and if these hints are adopted
you Will soon have healthy eggs which
| will generate chicks strong enough to
| pip the shell vigorously, break through
| its crusty environments, and start out on
the Journey of life as active and indie.
| pendent as the young partridge or wild