Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1900-02-09
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmers Operate This
Department of the Farm-A Few
Hints to the Care Of Live stock
and Poultry.
Poultry Notes.

1t is not in the coolest weather that
the fowls are the most likely to take
cold. The cold causes the pores to
close up and the feathers to lie so close
that the bird is protected against cold.
But in the fairly warm weather in fall.
winter and spring, when drafts are
allowed to pass over the fowls, colds
are most likely to occur.
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Very frequently men that have
little capital, but no experience in
poultry raising, write to ask il 1t will
pay them to so into the poultry BUSH
ness-if there Is any money in poul-
try. The fact that they ask the ques- |
ton shows that they know so little |
about the business that 1t will not be |
safe for them to go into the business
till they have learned more about it.
When man knows enough about rails
Ing poultry and producing eggs to
make 1t safe for him to invest a good
sum in it, it will not be necessary for
him to write to any paper asking ad-
vice.
The man that expects to make
money out of poultry without a great
deal OF work will be disappointed. 1t
Is an impossible feat. The Great Gre
ator of the universe decreed that all
should labor; and that man succeeds
VINO does labor. When we read OF
poultrymen making Johnny cake for
their poultry we are inclined to re-
gard the affair as rather amusing, but
it is not so amusing when that poul-
tryman in December begins to sell us
eggs at high price just because our
hens do not seem to get down to lay
ing Intelligent labor will give us
good results in the poultry yard, in
Guiding eggs in the fall and winter
months.
The balanced ration is as necessary
In the poultry yard as in the cow yard,
and man that feeds an unbalanced
ration is wasting a large part of his
food in either case. If food contains
40 per cent more fat-forming parts
than heterogeneous parts then there Is
bound to be a large waste. II the fat
Is laid on, 1t is wasted, and worse
than wasted, for egg production; and
IL 1t is not laid on it is as certainly
wasted. Most Of our people feed an
excess of fat formers rather than an
excess of protein, the latter being the
more costly food. The man that got
eggs all through the fall was the man
that fed balanced ration, and he will
be the man that will get good yield
of eggs through the coming months
u Reports from the chief poultry mar
e kets Of the country show that the holi-
= day trade in poultry was not what II
/; was expected to be, and the kind OF
:. poultry that seemed to suffer the mosi
: from over supply was turkeys There
were too few primes and too many oil
the cold storage kind. The same was
said to be the case with hens A largf
!, part Of the receipts had to be sold &c
packers at great loss. The moral Of
J. this is that 1t does not pay to raise
h poultry unless 1t is to be got to mar.
/. ket In good condition. In the Chicago
:. market prime turkeys sold at IL cents
but some of the poor stock had to &c
at and 6 cents Imagine the disap
pointment of the shippers OF suct
birds when they get their returns
0 However, it is to a considerable ex
tent their own blame, but that viii
1 not make the loss any easier to bear
/. The lesson to be got from this ex
i perience is that we must pay NOR
attention to the condition of the poul
try when it comes into market.
d A speaker at a Nebraska farmers
] institute said: Geographically speak
ing. the poultry industry is circum
n seribed and bounded as follows on tn
II north, by roup and blood sucking yer
!. min; on the south, by weasels, cats
badgers, and hawks; on the east b,
i, dishonest and unreliable poultry breed
= ers; and on the west, by rainbow-chas
y ing incubator advertisements and ex
q aggerated, overdrawn statements II
D poultry journals" We know nothing o
e the man that made the above remarks
e but we would not suppose him to b
r practical poultryman. 1t Is only tn
!. novice in poultry science that care
: very much about most of the abov
2 pests. The experienced poultryma
: has learned to avoid them. Roup an
. blood sucking vermin are things tina
i once got rid Of need never be re-im
n ported. Good wire netting screen
!. keep out the Weasels, cats, badger
s and hawks. Experience tell us how t
o deal with dishonest breeders and wha
!. weight to put on "rainbow-c chasing
:. advertisements.
= Some people make great fuss abou
> breaking up sitting hens, when 1t
/ not desired to have them sit We hav
i known birds doused with water severe
d times day and other barbaritie
l. perpetrated; but VIC have never know
j any of these methods to succeed
Dousing with water does have the ell
feet of making the poor creatures i'm
comfortable, especially in winter timf
but the maternal instinct rises supe
y rior to cold or even ire water. It /
cruel to use such harsh measures. a
least when 1t is a well establishe
Q truth that they cannot succeed. It /