Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-01-20
farn1 aud firesiae.
POIJLTRY IN The SOUTH.

interest. 1t grows with the growth
of civilization and the thickening Of
population. Poultry utilizes material
that but for it would not only 60 to
waste, but would also in 80 doing
often be the seed bed of disease.
Poultry in general does this sort of
work-it takes material that, as it ex-
lists, is not available for mans service,
remannfacturiag it, makes it again
available what is known as the
chicken part of poultry does this more
than any other.
1t is on the chicken part of poultry
that we would at this time make some
comment, and that more especially
in relation to the south, where steadily
more and more attention is being given
to the matter, and where the natural
conditions are calculated to an unusual
degree to secure the best results.
Home and Farm recognizes the fact
that the place and power of this peo.
pie may finally turn on the combined
effect of small things, as it does in
France to day.
Great natural advantages often lead
to carelessness, and so far many of the
troubles of the southern chicken raiser
are from this carelessness for it is the
fact that profit and pleasure and care
lessness in this business do not 60 to-
gether.
Chickens everywhere need housing
they need dry and clean quarters; and
they need this whether their range be
great or small. The smaller the range
the more, of course, the need of
cleanliness. Damp, filthy quarters
invite disease; and if the house is
damp from any cause, cleanliness is
hardly possible. Such condition as
that of leaky roof is not allowable /;
and with this all right there is nothing
better for flooring than dry earth.
This keeps down bad smells, being a
first class absorbent of such.
A depth of couple of feet of dry
earth kept stirred and turned over
will be good for half. a season. The
earth thus affected makes great fer.
tilizer and and so can be taken out and
used on the garden and from this
garden some fresh soil can, during a
dry spell, be taken an put in its place.
Thus the refreshing and renewing
round can be kept up indefinitely.
Under this kind of handling the
range of chicken raising can be made
extensive. Chicken raising can in
this way be carried on successfully in
the heart of great city, and certainly
more successfully still in every country
and by almost every village home.
There is great deal in the way in
which poultry is fed; there is great
deal in the kind of food fed. To the
person really interested in the busi-
ness, the details to be mastered will be
but pleasant occupation. To one not
so interested, the details will prove
overwhelming.
Food has to be considered in the
light of purpose; the food provided
for egg production is not the same as
that provided when to fatten is the
purpose.
1t is fundamental in the case of
chickens limited as to range that no
more is fed at time than is eaten
up clean. A neglect of this plain,
economic precaution entails serious
consequences. Even in the case of
the kitchen scraps and odds and ends,
there should not be indiscriminate CIV
ing to fowls in confinement. Make
the food serve the purpose of an ap-
petizer preliminary to the regular sub
stantials.
Twice day is often enough to feed
chickens of restricted range. Such
chickens should always have water
accessible, and about once a week
there should be put into this water
some copperas-a piece of about the
size of marble to the gallon of water.
Copperas in like proportion should
be put into cooked food. A good way
is to get about thrice week nickel's
worth of dog meat. Chop this fine and
boil and add corn meal so as to make
substance of the consistence of ordi-
nary porridge when cooked; making
the quantity of this answer to the num-
ber of fowls and to the amount they
can consume in day.
Under the arrangement, and which
is descriptive of an actual city prac-
tice extending over IA years, and with
never fowl with an infectious or con-
tagious diseases, no food is thrown on
the ground except grain, and that never
unless on clean ground.
All the food except grain should be
fed in boxes, which are kept clean
from the fact that no more is given
than is Immediately consumed. Better
underfeed than overfeed poultry.
1t was poultry, it was the small
economics and savings that enabled
the people of France to pay out of
their own pockets the immense Ger
man war debt. In this is a great
lesson which we of the south are more
and more appreciating.
We want more homegrown poultry
and less OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES pig.
The effect of our getting this will be in
creased healthfulness and much saving.
There is just as much difference be-
tween the homegrown fresh eggs or
fowl and the bought product as there
is between the fruit in the store with
the bloom still all on.
And that which is best is not hard to
secure. Teaching is what is principal
ly needed here; and it is in recognition
of this that these thoughts, product
of actual contact with the realities of
| the hnsiness are eYnressed