Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1900-11-22

~ = 70 the Care Oh "
J Poultry.
Poultry Briefs.
,.p connected with one OF the DIE
Ing concerns that annually han
|n1pSreds of thousands OF fowls
RAT the Plymouth Rock Is the
nouuIar fowl among packers ana
among retail merchants, They
N some seasons of the year at
4 eeuts over the market price for
fowIs.
n our readers have heard OF
M live geese, but who ever heard
Ieking I'VE hens? Yet one poui-
|sp uractices it in the hot season
el,ims much for 1t. He SAYS tnat
IIects birds that are beginning to
4 signs, of moulting. fHsspsfks on
feathers, which, he says, come
then. His object is to both save
|sathers in good condition for use
|also to help the bird rnoult. BY
| early moulting the new feathers
Induced to grow in time for the
! 10 start laying in October. The
1 is given for what y may be
b.
! see a report to the effect that
Try fanciers in the east have be-
Ito pedigree their birds. 1t is Q
THAT must be taken and without
b the best progress cannot be
!. II carried out on the same lines
j pedigreeing Of cattle. horses and
), II is bound to be of inestimabie
!. 1t will lead to breeding by in
)ual birds instead of by focks. 1t
lead to wide experiments TO dis
! the best laying strains and 20 de-
D them after they are discovered.
imam that runs a sixty-acre farm
foton. N. Y, claims he Is selling
y worth Of poultry and eggs from
Farm every year and $500 worth
ther kinds of produce. He says
lin two years he has cleared $2,S00
|oaltry alone. There is no reason
there should not be many such
IDS. The man that has o poultry
blishment of that size is sure to
q large supply Of first-class ma
for use on the land and so can
vegetables to advantage. The
Pry business and small gardening
together beautifully and should
success wherever intelligently
hged.
Pe business or slaughtering and
Fng poultry is steadily concentrat-
hAd the evidences are that it, will
Elyo pass from the hands OF the
men into the hands Of the great
|es Of beef and other meats. Al
\ at Chicago, Kansas City and 9TH
Rcking cen.ers, plants have been
|lnto operation for the handling
Pultry on q large scale. AZ Kan
E!y one Of the buildings devoted
Pls business is over 200 feet long
more than so feet wide. In It $50
|afe daily engaged in slaughtering.
Png and handling $1,000 fowls.
\ dowls are purchased In carload
|lines and are sold the same way.
n NE cold storage houses In con-
(0axlth this plant has q capacity.
Pout 100000 fowls. a
y % q ~ es.. s.ts,
notice that a contemporary is
aArmed at the formation OF "a
" ior the Importation OF all kinds
Esisn birds. Whether 1t Is meant
'ue olrds are to be domestic fowls
|aply birds for ornament the re-
ives not say. The paper in ques-
'e.ltes the injury that has come
alom the Importation of the
w. ~ sparrow, and cites also the i'm
uoh Of the gypsy moth into
(ausetts. II tells about the i'm
Luvns OF rabbits into Australia,
Asie since over-run that con-
n l,a ana also OF the mongoose into
1 BUT we must not be too
a,armed. 1t should not be for
mat whilea few mistakes have
MADE the Importation into this
-. - domestic fowls has added
Inn,., 70 the wealth OF our rural
II i,ies. Suppose that we still
uspend on the old-fashioned
~ - M lowi! Would the annual re-
~, ~,tnin millions of what they
(rsu, 40 10 the English sparrows,
I, Iment y is not all on one side.
H. : tnat the society to which
in;,. Z nad may do far more good
N H., ana 1t is not likely that
n s w sight of the past occur
|ess ,as. %s cannot stop the car of
him ,as' because a few unfortu-
|4ss nave happened in the past.
Dairy Notes. ).
hep .pS p.eased to note that some
b. ~, s oesinning to raise rape ]
\ Va soiling of their dairy