The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1896-07-15
POULTRY YARD POINTERS.

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Watch the young chicks. If any Of
them appear sleepy or drowsy, look
for vermin. Use insect powder on the
mother hen, and put it on in the even
ing after the hen goes in the coop with
the brood.
The ideal floor for poultry house
is a cement one. Keep two to three
inches of clean, dry sand on it. and
replenish as conditions may make
necessary.
Every man or woman who is making
specially of one breed Individually
considers theirs the best breed. Spec!
ial attention to any breed will gener!
ally bring out its merits.
Furnishing the poultry with good
dusting bed of fine, clean earth-road
dust is excellent-under cover, is one
of the best mediums to keep away
vermin pests. When you see the hens
eagerly trying to scratch hole in the
ground to dust in, it's a reflection on
your method of caring for your flock.
Under such conditions do not blame
the hens if they seem to think there
is no place on earth so enjoyable as
the onion beds or melon hills In the
garden.
Lime in the poultry yard should be
considered an indispensable accessory.
Its use in the summer time will keep
away deleterious odors, and is means
of keeping down insect pests. 1t is
cheap. Scatter it freely and frequent
ly.
A practical poultry woman recently
said 81 always take peep into the
chicken houses the last thing before
retiring, to see that all is right. By
doing this am enabled to discover il
any of the flock is ailing, and if I find
they are l attend to them at once.
EARLY attention in the case of sick
fowls find is about the only way to
cure them. A delay of even day OF
two will often cause diseases to become
too firmly established to effect speedy
cure. Fowls that are sick long time
are never worth much afterward, and
should never be bred FROM" The
above is sound sense.
Too long continuance of one diet
will produce indigestion, and bad
bowels results. Many cases of thil
kind are termed cholera.
Fowls confined to yards need to be
watched closely to prevent their get
ting in the habit of feather pulling
and egg eating. Furnish employment
for them; spade up occasionally q
portion of ground; keep litter to scat.
ter grain feed in; give them sods and
weeds: have their nests in as dark
places as possible.
Do not roughly treat the broody
hens. They are but carrying out the
laws of nature and are following the
natural instinct. They need the rest.
1t is cr1el and inhuman to resort to
rough measures to "break them up"
In the early age of turkeys it is i'm
portant to keep them from the rain,
to have the coops in sunny and dry
locations, give clean food and watch
for bugs. Cleanliness must be OBJ
served.
Kill off all deformed chicks as soon
as they are old enough for the frying
pan. DO not keep them around-they
are unsightly.
Kerosene emulsion is recommended
for spraying poultry-house interiors.
Water strongly impregnated with car
bolic acid is also good.
The man who keeps loaded shot
gun handy may have occasion to use
it and save O valuable chicken or two.
Every farmer should have feeding
pens made of wire netting for the
chicks of different ages. These
things are exceedingly useful where
chickens OF various ages are obliged
to be kept in the same runs.-Balti-
more Sun.