Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1901-12-12
Dont's For Poultry Keepers.

fOul and 1ll-Smell1ug ana expect
chicks to thrive therein. Don't
place coops under trees and shrub
cry, as plenty of sunlight and air
are necessary to their we'll being.
Don't allow the mother hen to
drag her brood around all day, as
many chicks suffer from exhaustion.
Don't keep the mother hen coop
ed all day, but allow a run of a
couple of hours at least on fine
days.
Don't let the hungry, growing
chicks clamor for their breakfast
while you wait to "get your orn
ing's work out of the way" feed
chicks before breakfast if possible,
ifnot, immediately after.
Don't gorge them one day and
starve them the next.
Don't feed all the table scraps to a
worthless canine; give a portion to
the chicks and you will be pleased
with their appreciation of the same.
Don't imagine that a chicken does
not need a change of diet because it
is a chicken; they appreciate a
change of food quite as much as you
do.
Don't let lice ''get away" with your
chicks, while you wonder what ails
them
Don't forget that wet and leaky
coops do not tend to produce
healthy chickens, but do produce
early deaths.
Don't allow chicks to squeeze
through Slated coops until their
bodies are deformed.
Don't forget that coops with
screen fronts, closed at night, are
the best and healthiest that can be
used for the hen and her brood.
Don't require biddy to pick all
her own living because there is
plenty of grass and grass -hoppers;
add a little grain by way of variety.
Finally-don't forget that poultry
keeping requires are and thought,
the same as other branches Of work,
and although poultry can be kept
after a fashion with little attention,
yet it will be found a very poor
fashion and not worth the following.
Exchanging Eggs.
The person who says you are a
fool for buying eggs of pure-bred
stock, will come along next spring
and ask you to 'swap aigs' with
him. He is mean enough to dis
courage your attempt to improve,
and also mean enough to impose on
you after you make the attempt.
When a man buys eggs he is buying
stock. Eggs can be had at market
price, but pure bred stock is not SO
easily procured. A man might as
well ask you to exchange a Berkshire
pig for a long-nosed hand-spike, as
ask you to exchange eggs from pure
bred fowls for those from monde
scripts. When he asks you to ex-
change eggs, he really does not want
the eggs; what he wants is better
stock. Let him pay for his share as
you did
Stray Shots.
You set the hen, but she sits.
The scrub hen for the scrub man.
A $40 bird would be out of place
in the yard of a 1O-cent man.
Pure fresh air, and lots of it, is
as necessary as food for poultry.
IF you tell the man you bought
eggs from, that there were ten eggs
that "didn't hatch, that we're rotten
it is further evidence that you are
not posted "Rotten" eggs r di
rect evidence that they were fertile
when set, and that from some caus'
incubation had been. lnterfered will
and caused the embryo to die. Egg
that are inferti;e remain perfectl.
clear. eveu if they remain under tn
hen the whole Il days of her sitting
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