Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1897-12-04

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w 80 will bleach them
- ~ white. Use sulphur
sparingiy or II VIII
kin more chicks
than il cures. yet It can be used lu-
dicially on old fowls. II lice have ac-
cumulated during incubation they Will
easily be seen on the heads OF the
chicks. When you take the mother hen
OF with her brood rub her we'll under
her wings and body with grease. When
she broods her chicks their heads come
In contact with the grease. which the
lice can not long endure. Give her
good place to dust herself in and she
will soon rid herself and chicks OF the
| pests. Keep the chicks from budding
In heaps at night after the hen leaves
them. lest some get too warm. after
\ wards taking cold. which ends In roup.
I the dreaded disease. / fear II more
than cholera, although / never had the
latter In my flock. and by keeping
everything strictly clean you need
4 never fear 1t.
/ often read In the poultry journals
that II Is not much work TO take care
OF poultry. l have always found II
just the reverse. Stili, like II for the
outdoor exercise and natural love |
have for pets. | also found II very re-
muneratlye. but find there Is as grea.
demand for that article called com
mon sense in poultry raising as In
everything else. Tho third year gave
poultry my attention | kept strict
HpPnmnf with ha ktIaFa4 1 kaA fhtr-
ty-two Light Brahma hens and forty
half-bloods for sittess. In the early
spring sold ninety-two sittings Of
eggs. twenty-five half-bloods for Sit
ters. and raised near 100 chicks sold
some for broilsrs ard some for breed
Ing purposes. and packed over $50
dozen eggs during the summer. | cold
all the culls Thanksgiving. and at tbs
end OF the year tina books showed a
balance in my favor OF s79i3i Since
that time | have kept no accurate &C
count. but am satisfied TO continue IN
I'll | find something better Most p
the farmers have their poultry yards
oyerstocked. hence 1t costs Laore tc
feed them. and they are not so remun.
erative. Gull your hocks in early fall
and the remainder will do better and
be more profitable. The cost OF feeding
varies with the price OF grain. Farm
ers do not ieel this As we who have 4
to buy. IL the fowls have ths.r lib
erty, the cost OF feeding Is u mere TITLE
Il Is estimated that one and a hal
, bushels OF corn will keep a her, on,
year. Our estimate OF the cost a. on
, hen ons year. In confinement, VA
eIghty-seven cents. but sne had a yart
ETY. OF food. Where they are comfort
ably housed II costs less 70 feed them
and they will lay more eggs.
, few timely hints in regard 10 treat
ment as the weather grows warmer
and / have done. During the heats,
, term, all kinds OF yermtn propagat
rapidly, and. II allowed. will prove 1
be the pest whose name Is legion
Examine your fowls frequently 10 max
sure they have no lice upon them. an
!. watch with a jealous eye for the al
pearance Of the tiny. but abomInabl
!, pests-the poultry parasite. Tn
ounce Of prevention" should \
brought into requtsition now. IL eve
II hens are kept sitting for late uhick,
? have special care to provide : coo
: quiet place on the ground for them
little hollow made In the earth. with
lining OF clean, fresh grass. In sufF
q Gent. II the eggs get foul. wash ther
= clean in tepid water. line the nest wit
s fresh grass and replace the eggs. Car,
2 fully study the habits OF your hens wit
% chicks. They will be found to vary
much az other folks In disposition an
habits. Such as prove quiet sitter
careful and successful mothers. an
traetable when their keepers approac
u should be spared for another years se
~ vice. have one tOld Brownlel aeye
!, years old. and she now has seyentct
ar hearty chicks. The great value Of mi
10 = food for poultry seema to be owe
- looked by farmers and those who ha,
Of plenty. It Ii good for them in d
" shapes. 1t Is eagerly eaten BY ther
ut and they will thrive on 1t AZ they W
10 on nothing else The above is large
n my own experience, and hence | kno
ne whereof | speak, and | find that
80 proper devotion TO the demands OF i
&c nature of our fowls. one will have b
OF little use for the study OF diseases u
k there ID work about 1t, and there
about anything we undertake il we
II successfully. Constant vigilance
We the price Of success in almost eve
in undertaking, and in none other II
,tt more applicable than In the breedl
d. and management OF poultry, wheth
tn pure bred or not. II profit Is the des
/, ed result.
an
op Outlook for tho Cow.
n We do not know 81 greater busin,