The Globe-republican., 1897-06-17
Poultry Notes.

Poultry Notes.
We have noticed that no business /.
without its troubles, and that the poul-
try business is no exception to the rule.
Disease and disaster hover around this
as well as other occupations. It is
therefore best for the poultry raiser
to take everything philosophically.
However, it is just a little hard for
him to look with equanimity on the
taking off of bird after bird that haa
cost him either much work or much
money.
The time Of the year has come when
both road-dust and lice are near to US.
The dust may be good thing to bring
into close contact with the lice, and
may result in their determination. It
is easy now to get the road-dust and
hard to exterminate the lice if you at
tempt to do it otherwise than by use
of dust. Using the dust makes the
hen do the work. She will be only too
glad to take a dust bath, which is her
way Of getting clean.
Immense quantities Of eggs and poul.
try are used by the hotels. One writ.
er has been trying to find out how
many eggs the large hotels of Boston
use, and he puts the number at LAO
per day for an average of the three
largest hotels, the largest user takins
ITS dozen per day. Thus each of these
hotels uses more than half a million
the vast number of hotels in the coun.
try it is not hard to realize that the
number of eggs used in these places il
enormous.
There are many connections urged
for the various poultry troubles. II
in doubtful if any of them are cure-alls,
and it is more than probable that some
of them are of no value IN reality. Good
care is of more value than anythin,
else. But diseases will sometime.
creep in despite the best of care.
Manipulating Breeds.-It Is the his
tory of all breeds that improving lands
is accompanied with lurking pro-
pensity to fatten. l am an admirer of
all the breeds; each is fitted for its
pasture, and American pastures vary
from the rich prairie that grows more
grass than average acres elsewhere, to
the scant herbage of the mountain
side. The best cow at the Royal Ag.
ricultural Society of England in 1897
was an Angus; the next best three
were SSorthorns. The best butte,
yields at the Chicago fat stock show
in 1891 were from the Brown Swiss.
The worlds great private record OF
butter is from a Holstein; and the
next highest is from a Jersey. These
things will teach US that we can make
a breed what We will Tompkins. who
developed such fine beef cattle in the
Herefords, said he could as easily have
developed fine mixers, and every stu
dent of the COW believed him.-Prof.
Wilson.
Relative Profits.-There have been
many ways to estimate profits in farm
irg. So long as the soil retained its
original fertility. the number of acres
that could be planted or sown was tie
test of success. 1t is common even yet
in the south to estimate by the team
help that the planter can command.
which ranges from one mule upward.
But in the northern, and especially in
the eastern states, success in farming
depends not on number Of acres. or the
team help, but on how much manure
can be had to use. Many a market
gardener on less than ten acres makes
greater profits than the farmer Of a
hundred acres who has not manure. to
grow anything except the standard
farm crops. But the market gardener
must be near . god market. or the
cost OF marketing win destroy its pro-
its.-Ex.