Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1904-04-09
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Hens lay best when Kept In rather
small nUckB Thoy should have pltn.
ty ot room Co roam about AMI hunt
Tor food in most natural way ana
buildings and sheds should always
Hg kept clean and fresh.
a temperature OF about SIXTY Do
best Tor keeping oggs intended Tor
Matching Thoy should bo gathered
often during cold days to avoid
rh'UuE aud should .o turned every
day while waiting Co bo put under
thu ben 0r luto the incubator
Tho high price oi turkeys tH.s
winter has started "a boom Boo the our
Apy business and every egg avail
able throughout the country Ul uo
sDf lu many places enc breeding
stock is rather limited on account OF
tbo temptation TO cell, which uas
prevailed throughout the season.
a uruudyr Iof young chicks should
initiate the natural hen Eo lar aa
possible The heat should bo applied
principally from above and Worm,
1ft wooden cloths should bo arranged
100 such "a manner mat tho little
chicks cam put their backs up against
them quite firmly .Ao Same aa under
q HJooduug hen.
Capuua are in most demand alter
fH, holiday season aud until wen
along into tho lato spring ami carly
summer a capUn does NOT reach
'Iu prime until nearly maured.
witch requires from nine t0 twelve
months A youus Immature cap0n
.s u1 h0UDr than cOCHoroI and Will
HHf HruE amy more money
wild or Canada geese arc very
nny f0l the table 8 good pair Will
Weigh from fifteen 90 twenty-five
pounds according Go age. Ihcy may
bo confined with a woven wire fence
wherever a small pond can bo 90.
closed boo that they cannot escape
After two or three generations have
been bred upon a ranch they viii
stay within a four or five loot fence
when properly pinIonyd
HHWa. H.U. I..r HIWE.H fE|. u..Ir.f.u
than butter but are cheaper now.
Tho difference has been consluora.
.bly greater between those two pro.
ducts than % year ago. when eggs
were high two years ago % was pre-.
iictod that 30 many would go into
egg prOiuCIng that a great slump
was sure tO follow We have been
paying forty cents an winter Tor
eggs and some OF them cane out OF
cold storage 70 looks as if the tins
had come for some OF our New Mex
.oD people 90 begin growing hen
fruit ana let a lot OF other fool
things alone. u pays % keep good
layers ana they ought 20 De Kept lay.
.ug
To make q success OF tho poultry
business ono must study and under
stand every detail OF management
+ t cannot be- done Dy trusting 90 care.
less hands 90 look after the wants
OF the fowls and attend 90 their feed
a very important p0ih, which most
hired help are sure 20 overlook is
that OF cleanliness about the coopa
and sleeping quarters. . regular
system OF cleaning. Watering and
feeling must be practlcod. the feed
should Dee varied somewhat and the
individual birds need looking after
100 regard 90 lice and other yormIn
a woman of our acquaintance who
has considerable experience in run.
ming lncubators ana growing chicks
. Tor the early markets. gave ua those
/ pointers the other day Light Brah
/ anna are the most rapidly grow
Ing fowls and The best TOR quick &C.
turns when The oggr are Matched
under hens but the birds seem "a
delicate and OF too quick growth "a
leo woIl when handled Boy modern iu
cuhator and brooder methods Ths
J chicks hatch out before they have
. fully absorbed The entire yolk OF the
. eggs and are therefore woaIy and un
no 90 raise either with brooder OF
hon mother Tho white logh0r1
comes much the same way and many
, high.brod fowls have this failing
barred Plymouth rocks are most
hardy aud seem 20 hatch best In an
Incubator and TO most easily grow
under conditions existing IN this arid
, climate Incubator chicks are a
, good Do they hatch good and strong
, Hut ~ weakly they are not good
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