Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1903-03-19
MARCH FARM T(NTES.

soon be here. Now is the time TO pre-
pare tor early April chicks. Do not
put this oil till spring work presses
ON all sides.
The incubator and brooder should
be made ready for work; the nest.
boxes in the Matching room should be
cleaned ana painted with either a
ice paint or lime wash. Kill the lice
in advance and save trouble.
Test some of your eggs either under
men or in the incubator, and see If
they snow sood fertility. If not, stir
up the fowls and make them dig, dig
arg all day long Ia deep litter OF some
kind for all their food; hard work
scratching helps fertility
1t is far better to test your own
/ ecgS in this way than 10 start your
incubators and ill them without
! knowing how your eggs are running.
1t is a saving both of time and eggs
! to test them, Ten or dozen in the
machine for week will tell the
story. If found to be all right, fill the
machines and go to work Matching, IL
not, apply the remedy.
| There is a continued clamor every
spring to know why eggs do not
hatch better, Eggs from fat hens.
inactive hens and idle lazy hens will
0ot hatch well If you hope to have
early chicks, you must make all your
fowls scratch and dig all day long for
small or broken grain. This active
exercise works off the fat, imparts
/ vigor to their organs and adds materi.
/ ally to the egg production and fertil-
lity.
J Plenty of straw for litter is worth
{ lot for egg production; it should be
at least foot deep all over the floor
of the hen house. better more than
less; small grain thrown into this
{ furnishes the inducement to dig; no
who're corn, all broken corn If S,y. so
as to have the small pieces to hunt
after. This is the value of small grain:
1t furnishes plenty of work to keen
the fowls busy to find enough to eat.
All they will hunt and dig for will not
hurt them, providing the litter Is decp
and the grains small like oats, wheat.
barley, millet and small broken corn.
Once more we say have new strong
blood for your turkeys. In week or
two it will be too late for this season,
and then when fall comes. you will
wonder why your turkeys did so Door
ly This can be avoided by assuring
vigor to the young turkeys as they
come from the shell To have by in
heritance a strong constitution means
much to the young turkey. This will
not come as the result of inbreeding
Most of the ailments of turkeys may
be traced to bad management and In.
breeding.
Seldom do we see so much interest
centered about a new breed of fowls
as was shown the past winter in the
| Orpingtons. This fowl is TO England
what our American breeds are to thiY
country. They are good egg produc-
ers and good for table poultry. but
no better than our Plymouth Rocks
and Wyandottes. Orpingtons are pro-
duced of buff, black, white and broken
colors much like our Notified Javss.
and with both single and double
combs; about all the difference be.
tween them and our American breeds
! is the color of shank and skin. In
Orpingtons the shanks and skin are
white, this color having most favor IL
; both England and France.
1t is said that fowls that have white
skin bring "a cents per pound more
per pair in the English market than
those with the yellow skin. Now
that we are sending so much poultry
abroad. the question of the color IT
the skin is being considered. This
/ makes convenient opening for the
! Orpington TO step in and attract al
tention to its value in this line. The
fact is the Orpingtons are a good
fowl in many ways, and fully deserve
all the favor granted them, but they
are not better than our own American
breeds. The selection of them through
preference for their special qualities
will not bring disappointment, but
they viii not lay any more eggs, nor
viii they grow any faster, or make
any better market poultry than will
other fowls. They have their good
Qualities as have other fowls but be-
gond this they cannot lay claim 10
any special or individual high quail
ties over and above our American
breeds.
| There might be more attention Civ
en- to the growing of ducks for fall Or
winter roasters. For these the
| Rouen or Indian Runner Ducks are
good; so are the pekin ducks when
farm raised. Considerable attention
has been given 10 the growing OF
Cayuga black ducks for roasting
ducks They and the Rouen have the
most gamey flavor of all our domestic
ducks and for this reason they are
highly valued by good liyers as roast
ing ducks.