The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-12-27

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He also takes many chances of fail
ing utterly. Like many other kinds
of business there is no reason why any
man should not attempt it if he has
time and facilities for giving it a fair
trial.
Grit is a good thing for the poul-
try and it is good for the poultryman.
The man that lacks grit will never
amount to much as a poultry raiser.
We have nev heard of any success
full poultry producer that did not in
his early experience sustain losses
that would discourage a weak-minded
man.
Our poultry industry is stftl in a
crude state, when compared with that
of the older countries in the world. We
have tried to civiliZe our birds too
much as to the class of food they shall
eat. In a state Of nature the diet OF
the fowl is exceedingly varied, and con-
sists very largely of grass and insects.
10 get the best results from them we
must be guided by the instincts of the
fowls for these very things.
A poultryman that is in the habit of
whitewashing his poultry house says
that the whitewash should be ap-
Piled as hot as it is possible to have
1t. 1t should also be thick, so that it
Will fill up the cracks and crevices.
IhG WhifpWaCh that Sc &h;r I1o1
little good. Whitewash is valuable not
only as an insecticide, but also as a
germicide.
one poultryman says that he keeps
lice out OF the nests by sprinkling in
them coal ashes that have had some
crude carbolic acid on them. He says
that to saturate the ashes he puts about
a bushel of them in a tight box and
puts in two or three ~spoonfuls of crude
carbolic acid. This box he keeps shut
for some days, when the ashes are
thoroughly permeated with the smell
OF the acid. We have never tried this
but it will do to test.
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a that solved the question of meat
food for his poultry by feeding them
on rabbit meat. He trapped the rab-
bits, killed and skinned them, and
hung them up where the hens could
get at them. The result was that he
supplied eggs to the market in winter
time when they brought SO cents per
dozen This roioh+ MT ~ L.5 49,
in localities where rabbits are super
abundant, and bring little or nothing
for human food.
Once in awhile we find people that
complain about their non-success with
incubators. The answer is always
ready: they have tried to raise chicks
by means of an incubator without I'M
Outstanding the principles on which
they are working. Let no person SUD-
pose that they can succeed in any
branch of farming without a certain
amount of knowledge acquired by ex.
perience. A man that takes to rails
ing chicks in %incubators and with the
assistance of brooders should expect
~ SuSIdln SoHle losses III learning now.
We notice in an exchange a model
poultry house with yards. From the
Illustration we judge that the yards
are about four times as large as the
room devoted to each flock in the
poultry house. The criticism we would
offer is that the yards are altogether
too small, and a few hens would soon
make the ground as bare as a paved
street. Yards do not cost much, and
in most places where poultry is raised
ground is not S valuable that the
yards have to be restricted in size. 1t
is a fault with most such establish
ments that the house and the yard are
out of proportion.