The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-02-15

the farmer or packer should be sure
that the packing is sufficiently firm to
hold the eggs in place. Poor packing
means large percentage of breakage.
The cases should be held firmly in
place by shavings of the kind common
ly used for packing, and there should
be enough of them to keep the mass
rigid. The broken eggs besmear the
whole eggs and make them entirely I'm
salable except they be first cleaned.
This costs money in the market, where
they are not likely to receive attention
without full pay for all time expended
and sometimes a little more.
Every poultryman should learn to
candle his eggs, and should never ship
ar.y but candled eggs to market. What
applies to the poultryman applies
equally as well to the farmer. The
cost of sending rotten eggs to market
all comes out of the pocket of the
producer of the eggs ultimately. Not
only that, but the presence of a sin
gle rotten egg in a lot brings the
whole lot under suspicion. Suppose a
man goes into a commission house to
buy a case Of eggs and a bad one is
found at the top CT the case, will he be-
lleve that that egg is the only rotten
one there? and If the commission man
candles the eggs will he be likely to
remember that there was but one bad
egg in the lot? Will he not use that
as an argument why he should sell
that case at less than the market
pr1ceS The man that wants to estab-
fish a good reputation must use great
care. To illustrate: A man that sends
only first quality eggs to market, that
sells them fresh every day, went out
into his poultry yard and picked up an
egg that may have been there for a
day or a month. He took it into the
house and placed it by itself, intending
to tell his wife hat it was probably
bad. He forgot it and it was sold with
some others. The report came back
at once: I'VE found a rotten egg in the
lot you sent us the other day." This
looked bad for a man that was selling
strictly fresh eggs. Such accidents are
likely to happen at any time.
Late chickens is a topic that some
people never write on with an eye to
more than n side of it. Here is a
clipping from the Dakota Farmer:
Very late chickens are nothing more
or less than a nuisance. They are
hard to raise and liable to die during
the winter, and above all, it is cruel
to permit poor chickens to knock
around a cold barn all winter Just be-
cause n has o nerve enough to
knock them in the head, or are labor
Ing under a sort of daZed hope that
some day the poor little sufferers will
prove to be profitable hens. If a hen
comes off a stolen nest early or late In
the fall, it will be better all around if
the chickens lives are ended at once"
We wonder If the above was written
by some man that is really engaged in
raising poultry or whether it is written
by some writer who feels that he has
got to say something on the subject,
but really knows nothing about it. We
are inclined to think that he really
knows nothing about raising poultry.
For it is an absurdity to say that late
chickens, If properly taken care of, are
not as valuable as other chickens. We
remember a brood of five Plymouth
Rock chicks that were born in Sep
TENDER. They were free from the lice
hat usually so bother in the warmer
weather, and grew rapidly right
through the fall and winter. By Jan
uary they developed red combs, and,
to the surprise of their owner, began
to lay in February, about five months
from the shell. These chicks had no
particular feeding above that of the
other fowls. At present the writer OF
this has a brood of six Light Brahmas
that were born in September. They
are a good deal more than half grown
and are plump and growing now at a
wonderful rate. But they are being
pushed forward with the most stimu-
lating feed that can be given them.
They will probably begin to lay in
February. If fall chickens do not do
well it is because they DO not have the
care they should have. For some rea-
sons it is much easier to raise chickens
in the fall than in the spring, especially
those that are naturally heavy feath-
cred.