Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1900-11-08
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAE READERS.
How Successful Farmers Opsrass This
Department Of the Farm - fsw
Hints a. to the Care OF Live Stock
2 and Poultry. F@t5
Pouitry Briefs.

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season will be that held in Chicago
Jan. 81 to 26. 1t will be in the new
Coliseum building that has been
erected on the site Of the old LAbby
i Prison Museum. Doubtless the finest
birds from all. the other shows In the
surrounding states will meet at this
place, and It is expected that poultry
men will come from all parts OF the
country to gather what lessons they
can from the exhibition.
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Many deaths of chicks in incubatora
are caused by overcrowding, and often
1 the poultry man or woman does net
suspect the cause. On going to the
brooder In the morning the several
chicks are found dead. The chicks al
night, especially, IL the night Ii cold,
will crowd to the center for heat. anu
In 80 doing will lie on andSsmother
| those on the inside. The remedy is
10 give a little more than enough heat
and that will make the chicks spread
out and avoid croyding..
There is a VAST difference between
the man that makes a speciality OF
pouisry raising and the man that
/ raises few hens for family use only
as to the methods that each must en-
ploy.+ It may fairly be said that the
divergence Is at the beginning. The
specialist must first study his market
The market of the amateur is so near
that he does not need to study 1t. as
he is not afraid Of rivals. The spe-
cialist must be an accountant, but the
other cares little whether he makes
or loses he wants the products fresh.
For this reason the amateur may sue
ceed where the specialist would be
sure to fail. But for all Of that the
amateur poultry raiser Is the greatest
factor In the poultry world, both be-
cause he is the most numerous and be-
cause he is the most independent.
Some men have enthusiasm enough
to begin in the poultry business but not
enough to continue, in the face OF OBJ
! stacIes. We knew of one young man
with little money that started in the
poultry business as a side issue. He
built large poultry house. as we re-
member 1t, about 80 feet long by Is
wide. When the writer saw 1t 1t was
empty, the owner having tried his hun
dred hens In it and met with disaster.
On inquiry it was found that the ANA
teur poultry raiser had also tried an
Incubator, but he had given 1t up
after one attempt to hatch chickens
with It He said they hatched out well
enough, but as soon as born almost
they would start on a run and after
going few yards would fall over APP
parently in At and die. The trouble
with this young man was that he had
not the perseverance to keep at the
business till he had learned the les
sons necessary to make success pos
| sible.
We may expect to see the south some
day become the leader In the produc-
ton Of poultry. The rate Of progress
of that region in this direction will
depend to a great extent on the in
crease OF railroad facilities. The eli
mate Of the south is such that one OF
the great obstacles to poultry raising
| In the north does not exist there. The
mildness of the climate makes 1t pos
sible to obtain eggs during all the
year and to change the times OF egg
production so that the supply will be
greatest just when it is least In the
north. In fact, we may expect the
time to come when the north will pro-
duce the summer eggs and the south
the winter eggs. with an equalization
of prices In time the storage OF eggs
in the north will become thing OF
the past, the eggs from the southern
hen keeping prices at too low an aver
age during winter to make storage
profitable. or course this change will
take place only so fast as the south
ern farmers become educated and
grasp their opportunities.
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Grass as poultry feed Is, we be-
lieve, not fully appreciated. Where
the owner of fowls must keep them
yarded during the entire summer and
where it is not convenient for him to
raise special crops, such as rape. for
them, he should figure on the feeding
value of grass. All fowls consume a
great deal OF green material and often
consume 1t so close to the ground that
the roots of the grass are destroyed.
Pasturage for the fowls should be as
certainly provided as for any other
farm stock And II should be pro-
vided In sufficient area to give them
good feeding grounds at all times and
without being fed too close. To get
the best results from such area the
sod should be an artificial one de-
veloped on ground that has been previ-
ously cultivated and fertilized. The
plan Of enclosing only thin native sod
is not good one. as 1t does not pro-
duce enough herbage to pay for the
work OF enclosing It..
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