Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1901-03-14
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How Successful Farners Operate This
Department Of the FARM - A Few
Hints ~ to the Care Of Live Stock
and Poultry.

s1Aots ~ 20 the care OF Live STOCK
end Poultry.
Poultry Briefs.
At this time the farmer should be
looking forward to the time when the
hens are to be put to work raising
chickens. Every farmer can improve
his flock by making selection Of
fowls that are to lay eggs for hatch
ing purposes. These should at once be
picked out and penned by themselves
with suitable cock. There are in
most focks birds that have shown
themselves superior to the others in
laying or in markings of plumage. BY
selecting the best birds, a few years
will show flock that will be both
satisfaction and a profit.
One commission man gives the ad-
vice not to wash eggs. He says that
when the eggs are washed the gelatin
Gus substance that usually fills the
pores of the shell is taken OF and the
air works through. The result is that
the egg spoils very quickly. How
much truth there is in the theory we
leave to the readers, for we do not
know OF any experiment to determine
1t a washed or unwashed egg will keep
the longest. OF course, this advice
does not apply to eggs that are to be
used in the family, but to those that
are to be shipped some distance to
market.
The floor of the poultry-house is a
factor that requires a good deal of con-
sideration, especially if a new one is
to be constructed. Every kind of floor
has Its good points and it's objection
able ones. The board floor is probably
most In favor. but it makes harbor
Tor rats and mice and absorbs the
droppings of the fowls. The dirt floor
is very hard to keep clean and can be
dug into from the outside by prowling
animals The cement floor is cold, if
not covered with dirt or straw, but it
seems to be the coming floor for the
poultry-house of the man that is will
ing to invest money in the poultry
BUSINESS.
Reports from New York indicate
that broilers are scarce there this year.
This is said to be due to the fact that
the big storage companies of the west
have been buying them up with other
poultry. A large part of the broiler
trade is said to be supplied by broilers
that are not sent to market as such
The dealers hunt through each crate
OF lights" and take out the smaller
birds, which often weigh under two
pounds each. This year, however, it
looks as if the broilers would all have
to be purchased Of men that make a
business of raising them and have to
ne paid for at good price.
The way poultry is packed for mar
ket regulates to a considerable extent
the price at which it sells. Mixed lots
generally sell at disadvantage. We
neard recently of lot of dressed tur-
Keys being sent to market. They were
mostly young ones and of good ap-
pearance. But the farmer that shipped
them had three old birds that he want
ed to get rid of so he sent them along
with the lot. When they got to mar
ket they were Immediately designated
as mixed and sold at prices that mixed
lots generally bring. The lot of good
turkeys would probably have sold for
more without the three old birds than
they did with them. This is a poor
policy for any poultry raiser tn follow.
BY this time all that supply poultry to
the city markets should have learned
that 1t pays to sort and send each kind
and quality in lot by itself.