The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-17
POULTRY NOTES.

Never ship poultry to market later than
Wednesday.
II gill of crude carboiic acid is added
to the whitewash used In the hen house
II will prevent lice.
II fowls have free range and are fed little
but what they pick up, they are not liable
to suffer from disease.
An egg will remain fresh only a few
days II left in the nest. to be warmed oc-
casionally by the hens as they 20 on the
nest to lay Eggs should not be used as
nest eggs at any season Of the year.
Don't doctor fowls unless you know
both what ails them and what treatment
is best. and as you hardly ever know these
things hardly ever doctor, for II YOU 90
SO you are more apt to do harm than
good.
Farmers can, and consequently do. raise
poultry at less cost than any other people
The reason Is they have abundant rSnge
raise all the feed and much Of 1. is stuff
that would otherwise be wasted. Hence
farmers and not special poultry raisers
supply our markets with fowls and feathers
and eggs. The farmer. he feeds the world,
no matter what the world eats.
Roup is an infectious and CONTAGIOUS
Inflammation of the mucous membrane
of the air passages. and often takes on
~ diphtheritic character, poisoning the
blood and producing pustules on the face.
and sometimes other parts Of the body.
The first case should be promptly destroy
ed and II practicable the run should be
changed, but whether this Is done or not a
thorough disinfection should be made OF
house, rcDsts, nests and feeding places.
using one pound OF sulphuric acid to forty
gallons CT water applied with sprinkler
and the cases as they appear should be de-
stroyed, burned or buried,
Ducks. 1t is claimed. never have cholera,
Group or gapes. but VIC have known them
to die all the same. the disease usually
being apparently, paralysis. Ducklings
should be carefully watched for a week or
two after Matching. as they are liable TO
get on their backs and so remain wrong
side up. This unnatural position and the
efforts made to overcome it are debilitat-
ing. to say the least OF 1t. P is also a
habit which once INDUCED Is apt to be
repeated, for a duckling that has spent an
hour or two in the hot sun tryi0y to regain
its feet, will find 1t more difficult to 40
so next time. unless that time lis postponed
until strength is recuperated.
The Rural New Yorker has an article
beginning, Whether pullet will be In
jured by forcing her to lay. Should
depend upon two conditions" etc. We
don't think the pullet will be at all In
jured, but the man who undertakes the
Job will; he will suffer serious moral and
mental injury; his temper and disposition
Will not be as placid as before. We have
some pullets upon which we would like to
force the laying habit. We have tried
persuasion, with no effect; we have tried
threats to no purpose. Don't believe we
could make them lay before the apparatus
concerned in egg production becomes sur
fciently developed. even II we should ter
rorlze them with dog, frighten them
with scare-crows, or intimdate them with
cods. We shall go right on feeding wheat.
bran and corn and able our time. satisfied
that the pullets viii lay when they get
ready. and not before.
sheen Notes.