The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-07-28
Poultry Paragraphs.
From The Farmer and Breeder.

From The Farmer and Breeder.
For the larger chicks a ration Of
whole corn will be found beneficial now
out for the little fellows stick to whea
for a time yet.
Look well to the coops and clean
them out often. as filth breeds disease
ard death. A clean coop means a
healthy chick and a healthy chick is h
money getter.
Keep the grit boxes full and look well
after the water and see that the drink
ing vessels are clean and scalded often.
Here. as in many other places, will be-
found lurking disease.
Read the excellent article OF Mrs
Jones in this issue. Mrs. Jones not only
has the finest of turkeys. but knows
how to raise them and an article from
her pen is worth reading.
Shade is essential for the well being
Of the fowls and If there is no shade in
the runs a number of giant suntlowers
can be planted for shade and from the
seed good food a be procured.
Fresh water is a necessity in the poul-
try yards and care should be taken to
see that it is furnished. Happy Is the
fancier that has a stream of running
water in his possession or a good spring.
The time for the midsummer white
washing has come and don't neglect IT,
A good coating of lime at his time of
year will do much to cleanse as well as
purify ana destroy NeIIillll LII 6Clfl
diseases.
Look out for the %sitters. as they are
liable to steal their nests away and
either spoil the eggs or bring out a lot
of chickens to run their chances In the
heat and lice period or to be trampled
by the older chicks.
After allowing the old roosters to
crow for Independence day. sell or
shoot or eat them, and alloy the hens
a rest, as we'll as the chicks more room.
All will do better and no long feathered
yeaping chicks in the fall.
Feed the growing chickens wheat and
barley with as little corn as possible.
After September crowd the corn into
them. but in the hot months use i less
heating grain. Oatmeal or even whole
oats occasionally will be found help
full.
The time has come to part with the
old roosters. Sell, potpie, shoot or
roast them before the first OF July.
Their usefulness is over and they Will
only trample the young chicks and
fight the rest of the season. Civ the
hens a rest as we'll.
Don't depend too much on sand and
round gravel for the grit that the fowls
need, but give them sharp grit of some
kind. Broke dishes pounded fine is q.
good substitute for crushed rock, but
mica or limestone grit is best and not
very expensive when bought by the
hundred pounds.
No use to pay exorbitant prices for
prepared foods. as you can make them
as well yourself by mixing wheat,
ground corn, barley and rye and place
with the mixture of some fine limestone
or mica grit and you have the prepare
ton. This will be found splendid for
young fowls of any kind.
The time of moulting has come and
care OF the flock should be taken. Feed
nutritious foods and ningle some oil
neal Of sunfiower seeds in the food.
Not a great quantity, but just enough
TO keep the fowls in a healthy condi-
don. The moulting time is one of the
most trying for the fowls.
For breaking up sitters there IS no
better plan than to put them IN a
roomy pen with a lively cockerel. Have
nothing in the pen that they can con-
vert into a nest and he will keep them
stirred up. Hens will lay better, how
ever, to allow them to sit for a couple
Of weeks even without eggs and then
break them up. In this way they get
some of the surplus fat off and are IN
"A better condition to lay.