The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1897-09-22

DO not set eggs from the small breed
under large hens, because they are
likely to break them.
To purchase eggs is the least expen-
sive way to get start of fine poultry,
but it takes longer.
Expensive poultry houses are for the
rich and should hinder no one from
going into the business.
Select the breed you like best, take
the proper care of them and depend
upon 1t, they will take care OF you.
Chickens, turkeys, ducks and guineas
kept in the same yard will be almost
certain to end in failure and disap-
pointment.
Where one breed is wanted and that
for general use choose the Plymouth
Rock or Wyandottes and you will be
safe.
Where hens are moved from one
place = another during the laying sea-
son, they will diminish laying, or per-
haps stop for while.
Farmers who have patch of wet
land, marshy and almost useless, could
get little return from it by keeping
geese. A few would get most of their
summer food from such spot and will
pay better in proportion to their cost
than any other stock on the farm.
Fowls in confinement il not kept
busy with scattered small grains or a
yard to scratch in, will soon neglect
their food, especially ii fed corn, and
get into the habit OF pulling feathers
from one another. Feed less corn and
for week do not give any food in the
morning. At night feed lean meat
chopped fine, and every other day as
much green stuff as they will eat.
As rule, little grain should be
given fowls during summer, and If
possible avoid feeding corn. Fowls
need heterogeneous foods largely in warm
weather, such as cut clover, cut bone.
meat, cabbage, potatoes, skim milk
and the like. Corn in the winter sun
plies needed warmth and fat, but
poultry would be much better off if it
was dropped entirely from summer
rations.
The surplus stock that has ceased
laying and that will not be profitable
to take into winter quarters should be
put on the market in good condition.
Confine them in yard of limited
dimensions, by themselves, for two
or three weeks and feed wheat and
corn morning and night, with mixed
ration at noon. They will gain pound
or two in weight, which will pay tor
the extra care and food and 90 to
market plump gnd in good condition.
The acknowledgement cross gives
good fowl for winter egg production.
The eggs are large, there are lots OF
them and the hens are as bright.
lively and vigorous as one could wish
for. A cross which gives a smaller
but richer colored egg and better fowl
for market is the White Leghorn.
White Wyandotte. This latter cross
may some day be bred and selected
until it is made perfect breed for
laying what is wanted, Leghorn with
a dark-shelled egg.
1t is good plan in summer, when
the roads are dry, to scrape up few
barrels of dry dust from the roads and
put it in barrels in the hen house. 1t
makes excellent dust baths for hens
in winter, and little sprinkled over
the hen droppings will prevent waste.
The road dust itself has considerable
fertility, as it is largely made up OF
excrement of granted horses mixed
with fine earth. But the most i'm.
portant fact about road dust is that the
chickens will rid themselves of lice nv
wailowing In the dust ii they have a
chance. The dust kills the lice by
stopping mp their breathing places.