The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-09-27

: POULTRY JoTTiNGs.

All kinds of fowls require a variety
of food and are grateful for a change
occasionally.
Salt should always be added to a
mash of cooked vegetables. An ounce
Is sufficient for a mash for 100 birds
zoo much salt is not good for fowls
but a little helps to keep them In zone
II the ROSTERS you used this season
are not 10 be used again, make haste to
.get them out OF the way at once. The
hens VIII do better and the eggs keep
much better as a fertile eggs spoils
much quicker than one that is infer
tile.
If a hen lays one S a week the year
round she is paying her keep and you
Will have the carcass left for your
profit. Every additional egg laid in
.creases he profit and If the greater
number come III winter and early
spring, greater still will be your profit.
A nice uniform flock of fowls roam-
ing about a farm gives a great deal Of
pleasure to the owner. They are a
source of pride to the family and even
the n~eighbors as they pass by cannot
help but admire them and feel an added
respect for the man whose painstaking
care has made the flock what it is.
Poultry or the farm will pay big
profits. But you must know how to get
the profit. Not every poultry keeper
gets a profit even if he does succeed in
rearing large numbers of birds and get
well filled egg baskets. The main thing
lies in keeping down expense and at
the same time keeping up the profits.
1t Is a good plan always to have on
&and for use with fowls some ~quinine,
tincture of iron and some regular fam
ally liver pills, as well as a quantity of
EPSON salts. EPSON salts are cheap
and when a fowl is found dropping it
is always safe to give a dose of salts,
followed by either quinine or a liver
Pill, depending on the symptoms.
Soft shelled eggs are usually caused
from lack of lime. Supply it either in
the grain ration or give oyster shell.
The former Is to be preferred. Some
times hens are oyer fat causing soft
,shelled eggs, but this over fat condi-
ton is a result Of excessive fat form
dng element in the ration. Feed less
corn, oilmeal, ETC., and more wheat,
clover or lean meat, ground bone. etc.
a fock OF hye or six hens carefully
cared for are capable of producing eggs
enough during the breeding season to
raise 100 youngsters. If not allowed to
set. Now is a good time to start the
poultry. AS breeding stock l year old
or older usually be bought very
'cheaply at this season Of the year,
when the breeder wants all his extra
space for the young flock.
Geese will grow up on little less than.
grass alone. In October or November,
When the grass is cut down by frost,
they may then be penned and fattened
Tor market. Geese may be fatted on
anything a hog will eat. They do
very well running after fat cattle and
fatten rapidly In this way. If penned
closely and fed by themselves, two
weeks Is a sufficient length Of time for
feeding. Young goslings should aver
age IL to IA pounds apiece.
We like to mark sue pullets as be-
gin to lay first in some way; and as it
Is not always the very precocious pull
let that makes the best layer in the
long run, we usually like to keep tab
on her all winter. Now the average
farmer is too busy to bother with trap
nests and leg bands are not the best
for this purpose as you will almost
need to catch the fowl to Identify her.
IA ave a half dozen tubes of oil paint,
different c%olors, when / find an early
Jpullet on the nest I give her n dab of
paint on the back. II there are several
"a use different colors for Zach one, then
when the colors run out I begin over
again this time putting the paint on a
wing. You can learn readily to recog-
.a1fze each pullet at a glance and the
paint remains until the next seasons
moult. Now should some Of these pull
lets prove to be extra steady layers, one
can easily brand her or give her a
permanent foot mark before the moult-
Ing season.