The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-06-14

II will do no harm to give the poul-
try some powdered charcoal, which is
a thing very easy to obtain on farms
where wood is burned almost exclu-
sively.
Diseased stock should be got rid of
as it seldom pays to keep birds that
have been sick. AS layers they are
of little value, and as breeders they
are worse tlln nothing. Keep only
healthy fowls, and be sure that only
such are used for breeding purposes.
II is q pity that so much OF the
waste material at butcher shops is per-
mitted to be lost. All the bones and
scraps should be made into poultry
feed, and the local poultry raisers
should appreciate II enough to ensure
the disposal in that way of all the
by-proudcts mentioned.
Some poultrymen that have a fancy
trade, consisting of well-to-do private
customers. get into the habit OF buy
ing eggs from other producers to keep
the supply equal to the demand. The
ultimate outcome of this is the loss
of the fancy trade through the dete-
rioration of stock sold, the bad eggs
Of neighbors getting into the lots
labelled strictly fresh"
The attempt to export eggs in large
numbers has been about given up. A
year ago considerable quantities were
being sent across the Atlantic in the
hope of a large profit from English
buyers. But the consignments failed
to draw the prices anticipated, and
the exporters are said to have lost
money, comparing prices received in
England to the prices that might have
been obtained in the United States for
the same eggs. 1t is the same with the
egg trade as II is with the trade in
butter-the home market eclipses the
foreign market, and as long as this is
the case the results Of expectations will
be always the same. This spring few
eggs have been exported.
The American consul at Berlin says
that the Germans are nation of geese
eaters and that the goose is the stand
ard luxury of that people. They APP
pear on the tables during nine months
of the year. These birds are extern
sively bred, but yet 1t is difficult to
meet the demand. To meet this sur
plus demand immense quantities of
geese are imported from Russia, and
at one station on the frontier about
$1,000 geese arrived daily. A special
goose train comes from Russia daily
and haa III 1t Is cars of geese. On Mon
days this train consists of 30 or more
cars.
Reports from England say that the
growth of the poultry industry there
is hampered by the government pro-
lection of foxes A report issued by
the secretary of the National Poultry
organization says: "a question which
has pressed itself forward the past
year is I'll it of fox hunting, so
far as it affects poultry keep
ing. That the preservation of
foxes is repressive is acknowledged.
Too long this question has been ig-
nored, and, as a result, the growth
Of this industry is CHECKED in certain
districts. Loud complaints are made
by the farmers as to their losses, and
by hunters as to unfair claims on the
hunt funds. But the difficulty is ca
pable Of solution, provided that to the
houses out in the open, small runs are
attached, in which the birds can be fed
at night and enclosed, without the la
Dor entailed by second visit to close
them up. The cost Is small, and were
this system universally adopted, the
loss of birds would be reduced to a
minimum, whilst the hunts could rea-
sonab,y be asked to pay a fair value
for such birds as are killed by foxes.
This is a most astonishing condition
Of affairs, nearly as bad as In some of
our own states where worthless ours
are kept in numbers sufficient to make
sheep raising impossible.