The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-06-30
CHICKEN NOTES.


Farmers who employ the artificial
method of Matching should now have
goodly supply of youngsters running
about, and II these are carefully at
tended to, they should be ready for
killing during the time that prices are
at maximum. Those who rely on
hens for incubation cannot expect to
have chickens ready for the market
until prices have attained their max
imum. or are on the decline, as sitting
hens are still scarce, and are likely
to remain SO for time This is not
the place to discuss the relative ad-
vantages or disadvantages of the two
systems, but in passing 1t may be OBJ
served that there are few branches of
the poultry industry that yield such ex-
cellent results as the Matching and
raising of chickens for the early spring
markets.
A common idea seems to exist in
the minds of many that winter chick
ems are exceedingly difficult to rear,
and that the extra labor and risk
involved, make it hardly worth at
tempting. This, however, is by no
means the case and although early
chickens do require careful attention
and cost little more to feed, the excel
lent prices procurable for them more
than compensate for the necessary
attention and expense of feeding.
Great care should be exercised in
removing the chickens from the in
cubator to the brooder, as it is a
very simple matter to give the chickens
a check from which they will never
recover. Especially is this point of
importance during severe weather. The
chickens should remain in the drying
box of the incubator till they are quite
dry, and during this time, they do not
require to be fed-in fact they are
better if left entirely at home. The
brooder or foster-mother-the small
heated house. into which the chickens
go from the incubator, and which takes
the place of the hen-should be main
tanned at a temperature of about ninety
degrees during the first week; during
the second eight-five degrees is suf-
ficient, gradually reducing it, until
when the chickens are month or five
weeks old, artificial heat may be al
together dispensed with. During a
spell of severe weather, the lamp may
have to remain for longer time, till
they are perhaps seven or eight weeks
old, but under ordinary conditions they
are better if allowed their own way,
as soon as possible.
Many people make grave mistake
in supplying artificial heat for too
long a time, as this only results in
enfeebling the constitution and render
ing the birds more delicate and
liable to colds. The brooder should
be frequently moved on to fresh
grounds, as tainted soil has a most
injurious effect upon the chickens.
The utmost cleanliness should be OBJ
served in everything pertaining to
the chickens.
STOMACH WORMS OF SHEEP.
1t is during the summer months
that loss from the twisted stomach
worm of sheep occurs, and flock own
ers should early endeavor to prevent
their fiocks from becoming diseased.
Healthy adult animals seldom be-
come affected with this disease, and
the greater part of the loss occurs
among young and weak animals.
However, if the conditions are favor
able for the sheep to become infested
with this parasite, the death rate
among the mature animals is also
heavy.
This disease is not as difficult to
treat successfully, as is generally be-
lieved. The preventive treatment is
very important. 1t is based on keep
ing the sheep in a healthy. vigorous
condition, and among surroundings
unfavorable for the entrance of the
eggs or larvae of the parasite into the
digestive tract with the feed. Drink
ing surface water and permanent pas
lures, especially if pastured close, are
favorable for the production of the
disease. The preventive measures
that are most practical to use under
the local conditions can be judged
best by the person in charge of the
flock, and the success of this part of
the treatment will depend on the
precautions that he deems necessary
and the thoroughness with which
they are carried out.
Sheep raisers, who have lost sheep
from this cause in former years,
should not wait until the disease
develops in the flock before using
medicinal treatment. The following
mixture is recommended by DR.. Law,
and has given excellent results; ar
senious acid one dram, sulphate of
iron five drains, powdered nux vom-
lea two drains, powdered areca two
ounces, common salt four ounces.
This mixture is sufficient for 80 sheep
and can be fed with ground feed
once or twice week. In case the
symptoms are already manifested, it
should be fed once day for two or
three weeks. In giving this remedy
in the feed, the necessary precautions
should be taken, or each animal may
not get the proper dose. Turpentine
is largely used in the treatment of
stomach worms. 1t administered
as an emulsion with milk Zone part
turpentine to sixteen parts of milk.
The emulsion should be we'll shaken
before drenching the animal. The
dose is two ounces for lamb and
four ounces for an adult, and to be
effective should be repeated daily for
two or three days.
sILOS IN NORTH DAKOTA.
An agricultural writer recently
visited tub silo on the premises of
Soule Bros. Cogswell, North Dakota,
which was giving its owners excel
lent satisfaction and largely increased
profits from their large herd of Hol-
stein cows, the milk from which was
worked into cheese in factory at
home. The tub is made from 2x4
pine sticks of various lengths, with
| Axe timbers set into the building
which are used for Jugs for the hoops.
The structure rests on a foundation
of cement and stone, which makes it
both rat and water proof. "Guys" of
wire are fastened on the top hoops and
extend to the ground at distance of
100 feet or more and there are secure