The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-01-04
POULTRY NOTES.

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life. Sick hens NOPE.
Use plenty of dry earth in the hen
house and coops. 1t is a purifier.
Vermin cause the hens to pick theil
feathers and otherwise be restless.
Vermin are tie outgrowth of filthy
surroundings. Cleanliness is the proper
preventive.
The way some people refuse to use
whitewash in the poultry house would
indicate that it was expensive.
Don't think it's luck that brings sue
cess, it's proper feed and management
that determine the profit with poultry
a farmer of South Gray, Maine, says
he has a hen that is % years old SFhC
can yet scratch a good living and care
for a brood of chickens.
Wheat straw or grass hay, run
through a feed cutter, makes the very
best hens nests. A barrel of it ought
to be kept handy for renewing the
nests often.
Don't think bantams are too small to
be of any account. give them proper
care and they will lay more eggs in
proportion to their size than a good
many of the large breeds.
Air-slaked lime is cheap and will
serve to make damp poultry house
dry and destroy the germs of roup.
The floor. walls, rOosts, nests and
yards may be freely busted with it,
An egg is composed of Ga parts of
water, Is parts of dry albumen. II
parts oil and salts and 10 parts shell
and mineral matter. The shell con-
ssts of carbonate and phosphate of
lime.
I have said repeatedly that no fowl
in existence would equal the Leghorns
Low III
to change my opinion. For broilers
give me the Plymouth Rock or give me
the Wyandot.-O. P. Greer.
In building a pigeon loft the same
precautions are necessary that you
would use in building a house; it
should be we'll ventilated. so that a
continual current of air passes through
it, but don't let there be any draughts
as there is such a thing as pigeons
taking cold.
1t is only here and there that the
guinea fowl is to be found nowadays.
They are getting to be as scarce as the
traditional hens teeth And yet they
are a fowl well worthy the best farm
er's attention. According to our taste
they are the superior to any domestic
fowl for table use. Their flesh is palat-
able having just enough 'gameness'
about it to give it a peculiar relish.
They are fairly good layers, and as
burglar alarms and scarecrows they
are hard to beat. Try a few next sea-
son if you can get them.-Farmer'
Magazine.
Every henhouse should have
pen. The writer's plan has
been to enclose the space under roots
with a ten-inch- wide board and keep
the floor covered with chaff or straw
This keeps droppings from getting
scratched over the floor, and when the
house is cleaned the droppings are
easily removed by forking out the
straw. Where houses are small or
crowded the litter should be removed
twice a week. It makes work. but
when fowls are closely confined it is a
necessity.
The most essential substance for pro-
noting egg production is nitrogen.
This is best fed to hens in the shape of
lean meat. If meat could be supplied
daily in the proportion of one pound to
y hens, there would be such an in
crease in the production of eggs as to
really lessen the cost of feeding. That
is. there would he sufficient eggs Sc
cured, over and above the number that
would be obtained without the use of
meat, to not only pay for the meat.
but to increase the profits. And this
gain would easily come; two extra eggs
a week from each hen would pay the
bill, as the cheapest kind of meat may
be used.
The ration for fowls intended for
winter layers should consist largely of
pats and it would be wise at this sea-
son to provide a liberal supply of the
grain. We have had good results from
feeding the grain whole, after being