Morris tribune., 1899-06-10
POULTRY NOTES.

Don't feed too much. Fat hens are
inactive.
Let the hen work for all she gets
and you will soon have her laying eggs.
Millions of lice are being bred every
day, and how many of them do you
breed?
If the ducks are losing their feath-
ers, pick them, and you will be well
paid Do not let them waste their
feathers.
Lime, either dry or as whitewash
is the most excellent dlsinfectant that
can be used in the poultry house. Daub
every single thing with it.
Why farmers do not establish reg
ular trade with the consumers in their
towns is a puzzle which can only be
answered by the fact that they do not
realize the great benefit to arise from
such schemes.
The city consumer is more than anX-
ious to have eggs that he can depend
upon as being fresh, and is willing TO
for such eggs. Why don't you fill this
want and reap the reward?
The profitable egg fowl, according
to the Farm Journal, has a small head,
slender neck, narrow body, deep in
front, rather long shanks, not too
heavy, and is active and sprightly.
It is a fact that /, 900 pounds of good
business hen is about the most prof.
table half ton of live weight that
farmer can have on his farm, says the
Rural New Yorker.
Rats will eat poison hidden in the
flesh of a newly killed little chick af-
ter persistently avoiding all other
methods of poisoning or traps. The
bird must be newly killed
In embarking in fhe poultry BUSH
ness, plan for a regular income every
week, instead of trying to make it all
at some particular season. 1t is the
regular laying by that shows up profits
in the end.
Do not be tempted by price lit
tie more than the usual figure and sell
the best cockerels and pullets, for they
are the ones that should always be re-
tanned to perpetuate the practical Or
utility points of the flock.
There is one field the farmer has
that is only stumpy new ground, full
OF weeds, briers and thistles 1t is
the poultry field. What great chances
there are for willing hands and willing
heads, if they will but only go to work
in it in earnest.
Wood ashes should not be thrown
in the poultry yard. The alkali which
comes from them destroys the color
of the legs, and often makes them sore,
and also Injuries the luster of the
plumage Statements to the contrary
are misleading.
The French claim that the Houdan
will dress proportionately one-fiftn
heavier than any other fowl, says Cole
mans Rural World. Like the Dorking,
they are very light in bone, and the
breast is heavily meated with fine
grained white flesh.
There is a little danger of hen
laying on fat, when she is producing
eggs in good number, says the Far
mer's Review, any more than there is
of the Jersey COW laying on fat when
she is in full flow of milk
There is a great difference between a
mongrel and scrub fowl, says a poul-
try writer. The mongrel may be
large composite fowl OF pure blood
that is, may be made by cross of
pure bloods upon common stock. In
either case it is removed from a scrub,
which is measley, little, common
fowl, without trace of good blood in
its composition.
If broody hens are properly treated
nine out of ten will begin to lay again
within two weeks after being removed
from the nest. But if they are half
drowned, starved week, or bruised
and abused it is more than likely
they will get even with their owners
by declining to lay single egg until
they have fully recovered from their
ill-treatment and acquired their GUS
tomary tranquility.