The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1898-01-01
Poultry Notes,

The importance OF dry quarters at
night is very essential. Damp poultry
houses invite various diseases.
An occasional feed of charcoal, corn
charred on the cob, will be relished by
the flock, and it is good health pro-
motor. Try it.
It is the little things seasonably oh.
served that bring success in poultry
raising. One neglect may start
dozen troubles.
Overlooking is easily done, where
the fowls are not compelled to work,
scratch among litter for their food.
Variety in feeding is always safer than
diet of one kind.
Pure bred poultry will not stand
scrub treatment and yield the average
pure bred results. If they get scrub
treatment they will return scrub re-
suits; but the man who thus treats
them is more than cruel.
If poultrymen knew the real value
of buckwheat as an alternate food
there would be greater demand for
it than there now is. Boiled and fed
once or twice week to hens it is sure
to increase the egg yield.
How much of your poultry success
depends upon what the wife or daugh-
ters have done to help? On many
farms were it not for the women the
hens would have a sorry existence in
| deed, and the farmer would have to
raise money to pay grocery bill.
It is wiser, cheaper and in every
way better to avoid the causes that
bring disease among poultry than to
lose valuable time doctoring them.
The main causes are draughty poultry
houses, unclean and unsanitary sur
roundings, damaged food, crowding too
many into small houses, and breeding
from runty specimens.
There are some poultry papers that
advise Cleaning the b ,nhouse once a
week." This leaves six days of each
week to chance, or invite disease and
vermin to get foothold Cleaned
every morning is the only true way.
The price If success is cleanliness, and
the lack of it has often been the main
cause for failure in poultry raising.
! Are you making preparations tc
have an abundant supply of greer
food for winter feeding? Eggs il
winter is where the greatest profit
comes from. Green food is an i'm
portant element in egg production
Turnip, beets, cabbages, ETC., that ar
inferior in size answer we'll. 1t vii
pay to keep them for the hens fo'
winter feeding.
(which is the best breed?" An,
one who makes speciality Of on
breed will answer the one he has Sc
lected is the best. They honestl,
think so, too. The result the special
list generally secures is good enough
to make him think his breed is tn
best. Feed, care and continuous sc
lection of the best for breeders vii
build up any flock.
Try feeding boiled oats as morn
ing feed. Boiled for two or thre
hours, then the water poured off an
the oats allowed to steam off little {
the surplus moisture, they make q
!, excellent ration for eggs. The grow
. ing stock relish them also. The
! form food that furnishes about til
right proportion of bulk. Too COZ
centrated foods, like solid grain, nee
+. to be balanced up with something (
, the kind.
Roosts in henhouse one above al
other are relics of a barbarous az
There is always wrangling for IL
. topmost place. Fowls are knocke
). off and injured. They cause bumb
foot. Low roosts not over two fe
from the floor and all on level is Il
{ humane method. They should
y made on supports that are notfasten'
= to the floor, so they can be readily s
: aside in cleaning the house, or
y taken out and occasionally swabb'
:. with coal oil. -