The Globe-republican., 1900-11-15
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmers Operate This
Departments OF the Farm - = Few
Hints Care OF Esss Stock
and Poultry.


packing concerns that annually han
dies hundreds OF thousands Of fowls
says that the Plymouth Rock Is the
most popular fowl among packers and
even among retail merchants They
sell at some seasons or the year at
to cents over the market price for
other fOw4S-
All OF our readers have heard OF
picking live geese. but who ever heard
Of picking live hens? Yet one poul-
tryman practices it IN the hot season
and claims much foE it He says that
he selects birds that are beginning to
show signs OF moulung- He picks on
the feathers, which, he says. come
easy then His object is to both save
the feathers in good condition for use
and also to help the bird mouft- By
this early m0ulting the new feathers
are induced to grow in time for the
birds to start laying in October. The
story is given for what Il may be
worth
We see q report 10 the effect that
poultry fanciers IN the east have be-
gun to pedigree their birds 1t Is
step that must be taken and without
which the best progress cannot be
made II carried eat on the same lines
As our pedigreeiHg OF cattle. horses and
sheep. it is bound to be OF inestimable
value. It viii lead to breeding by in
Will lead to wide experiments to dis
cover the best laying strains and % de-
Veiop them after they are discovered
A man that runs a sixty-aere farm
in Croton. N. Y, claims he is selling
$500 worth OF poultry and eggs from
the farm every year and $500 worth
OF other kinds OF produce. He says
that in two years he has cleared S2.Soo
on poultry alone. There is no reason
why there should not be many such
records The man that has a poultry
establishment of that size is sure to
have a large supply or frSt-claf5S ma
nure for use on abe land and SO can
grow vegetables to advantage. The
poultry business and small gardening
work together beautifully and should
be success wherever fntelligent1y
managed.
The business OF slaughtering and
packing poultry Is steadily concentrat-
ing and the evidences are that it Will
rapidly pass from the hands OF the
small men INTO the hands OF the great
packers OF beef and other meats. Al
ready at Chicago, Kansas City and 9th
er packing centers. plants have been
put into operation for the handling
OF poultry On large scale At KAN
sas City one OF the buildings devoted
to this business is over 200 feet long
and more than so feet wide In it $50
men are daily engaged in s1auEhteriog.
! packing and handling $4,000 fow-s-
! These fowls are purchased In carload
quantities and are sold the same way.
One OF the cold storage houses in con-
nection with this plant has a capacity
of about 1900. 900 fowls.
We notice that a contemporary is
much alarmed at the formation of a
society for the Importation OF all kinds
OF foreign birds. Whether It is meant
"a
or simply birds for ornament the re-
port does not say The papsr in Ques-
ton recites tine injury that has come
to US from the importation of the
English sparrow, and CT Les a 50 the i'm
portation of the gypsy moth into
Massachusetts,. It tells about the i'm
portations OF rabbits into Australia,
which have since over-run that con-
tinent. and also of the mongoose into
Jamaica. But we must not be too
easily alarmed. It should not be for
gotten that while few mistakes have
been made, the importation into this
country OF domestic fowls has added
immensely to the wealth of our rural
communities Suppose that we still
had to depend on the old-fashioned
barnyard fowl? Would the annual re-
ceipts be within MILLIONS Of what they
now are? As to the English sparrows,
the argument Is not all on side.
It may be that the society to which
SSASEeACo 10 nAQ may 90 I3f more ROo0
than injury. and 1t Is not likely that
It will lose sight OF the past occur
rences- We cannot stop the car OF
progress just because a few unfortu-
uate things have happened in the past.
Dairy Notes
We are pleased to note that soIae
6airymen are beginning to raise rape
for the fall soiling OF their dairy
cows We believe this plant to be OF
great value to the farmer when used
In this way. Some have eound the
same fault with il that they have
with turnips, saying that 1t taints the
milk. But this objection Is easily re-
moved 1t should not be fed in large
quantities at first. and should not be
made basic ration AS to tainting
the milk, one of the experiment. sta
tons fed as high as forty pounds per
/ day per COW without any faint being
noticed.
Every once In awhile we see re-