The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1900-03-15
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farmers Operate This
Department of the Farm-A Few
Hints as to the Care of Live Stock
and Poultry.
Poultry Notes.

tnaC the Dlrd is protected against col0.
But in the fairly warm weather in fall,
winter n spring, when drafts are
allowed to pass over the fowls, colds
are most likely to occur.
Very frequently men that have a
little capital, but no experience in
poultry raising, write to ask il it will
pay them to go into the poultry busi-
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 it will not be
safe for them to go into the business
till they have learned more about it.
When a man knows enough o rails
ing poultry and producing eggs to
make it 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
who 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 a 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 a man that feeds an unbalanced
ration is wasting a large part of his
food in either case. If a food contains
40 per CEN more fat-forming parts
than heterogeneous parJs then there is
bound to be a large waste. II the tat
is laid on, it is wasted, and worse,
than wasted, for egg production; n
if it is not laid on it is as certainly
wasted. Most of our people feed an
excess of fat formers rather thar 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 a balanced ration, and he will
be the man that will get a good yield
of eggs through the coming months.
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Reports from the chief poultry mar
kets of the country show that the holt
day trade in poultry was not what it
was expected to be, and the kind of
poultry that seemed to suffer the most
from over supply was turkeys. There
were too few primes and too many of
the cold storage kind. The anne was
said to be the case with hens. A large
part of the receipts had to be sold to
packers at a great loss. The moral OF
this is that it does not pay to raise
poultry unless it is to be got to mar
ket in good condition. In the Chicago
market prime turkeys sold at II cents,
but some of the poor stock had to go
at S and 6 cents. Imagine the disap-
pointment Of the shippers of such
birds when they get their returns!
However, it is to a considerable ex-
tent their own blame, but that will
not make the loss any easier to bear.
The lesson to be got from this ex-
p%erience is that we must pay more
attention to the condition of the poul-
try when it m into market.
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A speaker at a Nebraska farmers
institute said: Geographically speak
ing, the poultry industry is circum-
scribed and bounded as follows: on the
north, by roup and blood sucking YER
min; on the south, . by Weasels, cats,
badgers, and hawks; on the east, by
dishonest and unreliable poultry breed
ers; and on the west, by rainbow-chas-
ing incubator advertisements and ex-
a~ggerated, overdrawn statements in
poultry journals" We know nothing of
the man that made the above remarks,
but we would not suppose him to be
a practical poultryman. 1t is only the
novice in poultry science that cares
very much about most of the above
pests. The experienced poultryman
has learned to avoid them. Roup and
blood sucking vermin are things that
once got rid of, need never be REIN
ported. Good wire netting screens
keep out the weasels, cats, badgers
and hawks. Experience tell US how tc
deal with dishonest breeders and what
weight to put on misunderstanding
advertisements.
Some people make a great fuss abou
breaking up sitting hens, when it is
not desired to have them sit. We have
known birds doused with water severa