The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1906-09-27
Poultry Notes

Is effective. Apply Ii In a fine spray
with force pump.
Early pullets are the ones that lay
the winter eggs.
Give the growing chicks variety
of feed. They will respond to liberal
feeding in a way that will gladden. the
heart and fatten the pocketbook of
their owner.
Shade is as essential for poultry as
for other stock.
Bran and buttermilk mixed into a
mash makes an excellent feed for
young chickens 1t is cheap. Why not
try 1t?
Why not fill the dust boxes now
while dust is easy to secure and store
it away until winter when the hens
cannot get it themselves?
More fowls die from Indigestion
brought about by lack of grit in their
crops than many poultrymen suppose.
. Keep the grit box well filled and easily
accessible to the fowls and they will
eat it as they need it.
Keep the hen house and chicken
. coop clean. If you don't the mites and
lice will trouble your fowls
1t goes without saying that the pOul-
try houses should be kept thoroughly
whitewashed. Stake fresh lime with
water, add an ounce of carbolic acid
to every gallon of whitewash. Stir
the mixture to an even consistency
and apply with power sprayer. In
that way the whitewash will more
surely permeate every nook and
channy than if applied with brush.
Besides it is easier and cleaner to
spray than to paint. Be liberal with
the application, it isn't expensive.
If one allows rats on his farm he
may be pretty sure his poultry will
suffer. Rats have great affinity for
spring chicken and will go out of their
way to get them. The only sure way
to save the chicks is to kill the rats.
Often the chicken raiser notices his
flock is growing smaller and smaller
yet she can find no dead chickens.
Perhaps she will even suspect her
neighbor of stealing them if she hap
pens to have one she doesn't like when
if the truth were but known the fes-
tive rodent is the cause of her loss.
1t is difficult to get rid of rats once
you become infested with them. If
you have them get busy with trap and
poison else they will destroy no end
of valuable poultry
Fresh lime is a good disinfectant
and should be literally sprinkled about
the poultry house, especially in the
nests and beneath the roosts.
Poultry droppings are so rich in nj
trogen that they should be mixed with
coarser manure or spread very thinly
on the field
The obseryant poultryman will learn
something new every day. To be sue
cessful one must keep UP with the
times.
A poultry show is good training
school for the beginner in the poultry
business. Attend few live poultry
shows and ten to one you will want to
raise few pure breds yourself
To show how great aloss in duck
culture one could endure without fail
ure, John Weber says that if only one
half the eggs put in the incubator
hatched and only one-half of those
Matched lived, there would still be
enough in it to encourage one to sticl
to the business without taking into
account the fertilizing value of the
vanquished host
The Kansas state poultry exposition
will be held at Wichita this winter
BY the way, did you know 1t is a
least the second largest poultry SHOW
in point of number of birds exhibited
of any in the United States? 1t is