The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1898-05-20
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
if all farmers went into poultry Gull
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 a better profit
by better methods. One poultry raiser
says that he raises all the early pull
lets he can. so as to get a 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
hut al, uyil hn
warm that the chicks may be out of it
great deal Of time getting the sun
and exercise.
Old fowls are said to be sluggish as
winter layers. To what extent this
is 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
If 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 condition to lay, for it has been
noticed that fat seems to stop egg pro-
duction entirely If. it be present in
large quantities. The older the hen
the more likely she is to lay on fat.
To Be Taken with Salt.-Here Is
what one man says about curing black
leg.-I cannot tell how I happened to
hit upon common salt, but took a
peck of salt and put it on the kitchen
stove and burned it until all moisture
was gone and nearly red hot. Dissoly-
ing 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 q way through, and that steer
got we'll. as we'll as five or six more
steers. taken in the same way and
treated Just the sar,o "~a NV. diad
that were
this treat
again has,
I need a
use the
cure. AS
harmless
not patenfd.-correspondent Of St.
Paul Dispftch. y,
Brood 'sows.-Brood sows.. should
have large. roomy lots to exercise in
and good. warm houses to sleep in. and
not t3o many in ,a;house. Do not feed
st ~ TOP MUCK scst6. but give them
more sl6p Just,bsfore narrowing time
give them each : separate house and
lot. cut Of the corn feed. feed bran
mash and . little oil meal Nota ~