The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-05-26
ESSENTIALS 10 SUCCESS.


ESSENTIALS TO SUCCESS.
am thoroughly convinced, says A.
E. s. Lyons III Poultry Monthly, Of
two essentials to make poultry raising
and Keeping a success. One is to keep
the fowls free from lice and vermin,
and the other is to have dry, we'll
ventilated building, Lice and damp
ness cause nine tenths Of all the trouble
in raising poultry, either for meat or
eggs. Can you at all times have a dry
house with loan bottom3 I say mo"
from experience. In moist weather it
will ather dampness, even though not
drop of water can enter at sides or
roof The same with sand or gravel,
and the same with boards if they are
covered with dirt. Put on the driest
dirt possible to get, and if not properly
ventilated, it soon becomes damp, and
dampness causes no end of trouble.
Better have few cracks and fresh air
than warm, poorly ventilated rooms.
believe the tight building idea is be-
ing carried too far, and ia already
showing itself in many of our focks,
with poor, sickly, unproductive, un-
profitable fowls.
For a feed room, scratching and
roosting room, thoroughly believe g.
board floor, covered about one inch
deep with dry pine sawdust, is the best
possible to have. Nothing equals saw
dust as an absorbent, and the pine odor
is pleasant and health giving. II you
ever by accident have an ir ca Of water
settle on a floor las havc), you bail
out what you can and then put on the
| dry gawdust, and in q few mil utes you
remove the sawdust, water and all, and
you again have dry fl )or. Just such
an occurrence as above led me to adopt
it as a permanent and nothing
that have seen from it's use for the
past five years will induce me to aban-
don il With this l use dry leaves,
s)metimes straw and sometimes hay.
It is not a good idea to use the latter,
SO they will eat it, and must in c0nse-
quence consume more or less fifth.
For bath I have used boxes in the
same room, but have discarded them
and have studied natures plan. If In
| the same room, dust is ell over every
| thiug; without il, room is at all times
neat and clean. Ny dust box or dirt
baths are small sheGs, built on south of
houee and Oh the natural earth; they
are three feet high, roof covered with
! boards and paper, have windows IN
| front, and are raised 90 th8t no water
| can get in No ashes nor art fetal dust.
Nothing pleases the mems better than
Mother E srth, and believe nothing is
it's equal for a bath. Access to dust
house is by e gmau door only, ten by
twelve inches.
Now we come to the feeding I say,
feed no egg foods for any kind cold as
sucb, either in liquid or powdered
form. 1t is money for the seller of
gu h, aEd Eo5 for you. Use a little
common sense; study the nature OF the
hen's wants and her natural habits IN
| summer, when favored with unlimited
range. and you can furnish feed suitable
to produce eggs, at less coat and IL
larger quantities than in any other
way. You have no use fer the patent
hen-food man; you are OF benefit TO
him, and Of course he has lots OF advice
for you-free! D-n't think because I
| do not advocate such foods that have
! never used them, 8s | have, and know
| the trout bic they cause. Does 1t ben, fl
| a person to live on st'mulants, be what
they may? Can stimulants beLeft your
poultry in the long run increase your
egg yield2 They can be obtained IN q
safer and more healthful way ard in
larger quantities, which, in my judg-
ment, IS hest Some advise bIll Of
fare equal to DeImonicos 1 should
want 1t IN print, for fear Of making a
mistake, which might cause a compi-
| Gated case of indigestion, and then, OF
course, the expense of the pen doctor,
to say nothing about the loss Of sleep
or neglect Of other business.