Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-09-28

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
rs sufficient for q mash for loo birds
Too much salt is not good for fowls,
but a little helps to keep them in tone.
If the ROSTERS you used this season
are not to 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 rs q fertile eggs spoils
much quicker than one that is infer
tile.
If q hen lays one egg 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 the profit and If the greater
number come in winter and early
spring, greater still will be your profit.
A nice uniform flock of fowls roam
sng about a farm gives a great deal of
pleasure to the owner. They are q
ource of pride to the family n even
the neighbors as they pass by cannot
help but admire them and feel an added
respect for the man whose paiastaking
care mas made the flock what it is.
Poultry on the farm will pay big
profits. But you must know how to get
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gets @ profit eve If he does succeed in
rearing large numbers Of birds and get
well filled egg baskets. The main thing
lies Ain keeping down expense and at
the same time keeping up the profits.
ItBis q good plan always to have on
hand for use with fowls some quinine,
tincture OF iron and some regular fam
lily liver pills. as well as a quantity Of
Epson salts. EPSON salts are cheap
n when a fowl is found dropping 1t
is always safe to Civ a dose of salts,
followed by either quinine or q liver
pill, depending on the symptoms.
Soft shelled eggs are usually caused
from lack of lime. Supply IL either In
the grain ration or give oyster shell.
The former is to be preferred. Some
times hens are over fat causing soft
shelled eggs, but this over fat condi-
ton is a result of excessive fat form
ing element in the ration. Feed less
corn, oilmeal, etc, and more wheat,
clover or lean meat, ground bone, etc.
A lock OF five or six hens carefully
cared for are capable of producing eggs
enough during the breeding season to
raise 100 youngsters, If not allowed 70
set. Now is a good time to start the
boy or girl out In a flock Of pure bred
poultry. AS breeding stock ! year old
or older can usually be bought very
cheaply at this season OF the year,
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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 I'm this way If penned
closely and fed by themselves, two
weeks is a sufficient length of time for
feeding. Young goslings should aver
age 10 to IA pounds apiece.
We like to mark such pullets as be-
gin to lay first in some way; and as il
LIS 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 n are not the best
for this purpose as you viii almost
need to catch the fowl to Identify her.
] have a half dozen tubes OF oil paint,
different colors. when / find an early
pullet on the nest / give her n dab of
paint on the back. If there are several
use different colors for each one. then
when the oio run eut I begin owe
again this time putting the paint on q
wing. o can learn readily to recog-
nize each pullet at a glance and the
paint remains until the next seasons
moult. Now hould some Of these pull
lets prove to be extra steady layers, n
can easily. brand her or give her q
permanent foot mark before the moult-
ing season.