The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1898-01-13

uicidlly on old lows. III lice nave ac-
cumulated during incubation they will
easily be seen on the heads of the
chicks. When you take the mother hen
OIL 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 a
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,
the dreaded disease. l fear it more
than cholera, although l never had the
latter in my flock, and by keeping
everything strictly clean you need
never fear it.
often read in the poultry journals
that 1t is not much work to take care
OF poultry. l have always found it
just the reverse. Still, I like it for the
outdoor exercise and natural love I
have for pets. 1 also found it very re-
munerative, but l find there is as grea.
a demand for that article called COM
mon sense in poultry raising as in
everything else. The third year l gave
poultry my attention l kept a strict
account with the biddies. | had thir-
ty-tWo Light Brahma hens and forty
half-bloods for ~sitters. In the early
spring l sold ninety-two sittings If
eggs, twenty-five half-bloods for sit
tiers, and raised near 700 chicks. l sold
some for broilers and some for breed
ing purposes, and packed over $50
dozen eggs during the summer. l sold
all the culls Thanksgiving, and at the
end of the year the books showed a
balance il my favor of $791.34. Since
that time l have kept no accurate ac-
count, but am satisfied to continue I'M
til l find something better. Most of
the farmers have their poultry yards
overstocked; hence it costs more to
feed them, and they are not so remun-
erative. Gull your locks in early fail.
and the remainder will do better and
be more profitable. The cost of feeding
varies with the price of grain. Farm
ers do not 1eel this as we who have it
to buy. If the fowls have their lib
erty, the cost of feeding is a mere trife.
1t is estimated that one and a half
bushels of corr will keep a hen one
year. Our estimate of the cost of one
hen one year, in confinement, was
eighty-seven cents, but she had a yari-
ETY. of food. Where they are comfort
ably housed it costs less to feed them.
and they will lay more eggs.
A few timely hints in regard to treat
ment as the weather grows warmer.
and l have done. During the heated
term, all kinds of vermin propagate
rapidly, and, if allowed, will prove to
be the pest whose name is legion"
Examine your fowls frequently to make
sure they have NJ lice upon them, n
watch with a jealous eye for the an
pearance of tie tiny, but a%bominable
pests-the poultry parasite. The
ounce of prevention" should be
brought into requisition now, if ever
If hens are kept sitting for late chicks.
have special care to provide a cool
quiet place on the ground for them. A
little hollow made in the earth. with a
lining of clean, fresh grass, is suffi-
cient. If the eggs get foul, wash them
clean in tepid water, line the nest with
fresh grass and replace the eggs. Care
fully study the habits of your hens with
chicks. They will lie found to vary as
much as other folks in disposition and
habits. Such as prove quiet sitters,
careful and successful mothers. and
tractable when their keepers approach,
should be spared for another years SER
vice. | have II (Old Brownie) seven
years old, and she now has seventeen
hearty chicks. The great value of milk
as a food for poultry seems to be over
looked by farmers and those who have
plenty. 1t is good. for them in all
shapes. 1t is eagerly eaten by them,
and they will thrive on it as they will
ON nothing else. The above is largely
my own experience, and hence l know
whereof l speak. and l find that by
proper devotion to the demands of the
nature of our fowls, one will have but
little use for the study Of diseases. But
there is work about it, and there is
about anything We undertake if we do
it successfully. Constant vigilance is
the price of success in almost every
more applicable than in the breeding
and management Of poultry, whether
pure bred or not, if profit Is the desir-
ed result.
Outlook for the Cow.