The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1898-05-12
Hatch Winter Layers.

Hatch Winter Layers.
Many of our farms are so poorly
equipped for poultry raising that most
of the eggs are produced in the spring
and summer months, the fall and win
ter eggs being very few in number.
The latter are always high in price.
which, of course, would not be the case
II all farmers went into poultry cul-
ture so successfully that winter eggs
were turned out in large numbers. But
that state of affairs is not likely to be
for generations, and meanwhile it is
possible for progressive readers OF
farm papers to secure better profit
by better methods. One poultry raiser
saws that he raises all the early pull
lets he can. so as to get good lot OF
winter eggs, which he considers clear
profit. There is one great advantage
in having a good share OF the eggs
come in the fall and winter, and that
is one avoids having to sell their pro-
duct on a congested market. To get
winter eggs one must have spring pull
lets, and to get spring pullets the hens
should be started to work in April. II
one has an incubator this is a good
month in which to have it in operation.
One advantage in using the incubator
at this time of year is that the chicks
will come during the first part Of May.
and the question of a brooder and its
running will not be such momentous
one as early in the season, when the
weather is colder. A brooder will be
indeed needed. but the air will be so
warm that the chicks may be out of It
a great deal Of time getting the sun
and exercise.
Old fowls are said to be sluggish as
winter layers. To what extent this
is q fact, more than an incidental
one, is not easy to determine. The
pullets lay in the early winter not be-
cause they are younger than the other
hens, but because they arrive at matur-
ity at the beginning Of winter, and
one Of the laws Of their maturity is
that they begin the production Of eggs.
II they are therefore born at the right
month and are SO fed that they will
arrive at maturity at the right time.
the eggs may be depended on. Another
reason why the pullets will lay better
is perhaps because they grow too fast
to permit them to put on fat and SO are
in q condition to lay, for it has been
noticed that fat seems to stop egg pro-
duction entirely II 1t be present in
large quantities. The older the hen
the more likely she Is to lay on fat.
To Be Taken with Salt.-Here IL
what one man says about curing black
leg.-I cannot tell how I happened to
hit upon common salt, but took q
peck of salt and put 1t on the kitchen
stove and burned 1t until all moisture
was gone and nearly red hot. Dissolv-
ing a pint Of this hot salt in SUFFICIENT
water, drenched the next one with it.
and tapped the jugular vein, taking out
three or four quarts, as I judged, of
very black. thick blood. That salt
found a way through. and that steer
got we'll. as well as i've or six more
steers. taken in the same way and
treated just the same. and none died
that were SO treated. never published
this treatment for black leg. and never
again had occasion to use it, but should
I need a remedy for that disease would
use the same treatment and expect a
cure. At all events the treatment Is
harmless. not very expensive and Is
not patented.-Correspondent Of st
Paul Dispatch.
Brood Sows.-Brood sows should
have large. roomy lots to exercise in
and good. warm houses to sleep in, and
not too many In house. Do not feed
them too much corn. but give them
more slop. Just before farrowing time