Middletown transcript., 1906-10-06
POULTRY pIcKINGs

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/ Guinea fowls will keep bugs and in,
sects off garden vines. They win no,
scratch like other fowls, or harm the
most delicate plants.
After the breeding season is over We
should at once remove the male birds
from the females and they should be
kept separate until the next breeding
season.
Great Injury is caused to ducks by
their being exposed to too much sun, by
lack Of cool place to roost at night and
lack Of fresh water in warm weather.
The Department of Agriculture rec
oniniends in warding off ronp q decrease
in the proportion Of corn and an increase
IN the proportion Of meat food in the
daily ration.
It is a mistake to give cayenne or any
other hot, spicy condiment to ducks, as
il causes them to abort their eggs, and its
use, II persisted in, will cause infamma.
tion Of the reproducing organs.
Much dressed poultry that would sell
at the highest quotations if properly
dressed is OF necessit, sold at unsatis-
factory figures because Of carelessness or
ineficiency on the part Of the dresser.
Neglected late matches are never profit
able. Chicks won't raise themselves in
June or January. Keep them free from
lice, on fresh ground and short grass, and
the chances are good for healthy chicks.
Careiessness in the selection of eggs for
tatching is frequent cause Of smalIness
of size and weakness in the brood. Eggs
laid by unhealthy or ill-conditioned fowls
will hatch small, puny chickens, which
will neevr attain fair size.
Geese are the great grassers. WWh
plenty OF water to bathe and fish in,
together with pasture, geese will require
no other feed. They waddle along, COW
ering considerable amount Of territory,
but need but little care.
In the perfecting of any given variety
OF fowls one should come to recognize
that the principle Of heredity governs to
greater or lesser degree the powers of
longevity, fecundity. disposition, habits
and color.
One writer, who has exceptionally good
success in securing fertile eggs, Gays he
never gives soft or warm foods. He feeds |
a grain ration with an abundance of cut
clover, as hens ought to have a ration
that will reproduce summer conditions as
largely as possible.
With poultry the ordinary farmer can |
& great amount of waste material
about his farm into money. With intelii-
gent management poultry ought to be
all the year revenue producers, with the
exceptions. perhaps, of two months during
the moulting period.
Avoid having your hens too fat during
Inoult, as they monlt very uneyenly, and
are apt to be until late fall before getting
On their new coat, which win not render
them Improbable, but will spoil them
for exhibition, as they are apt to be mot
lied, owing to the different ages of the |
cath ers.
One of the best remedies for infam-
nation of the bowels is to place the fowl
in comfortable house and abstain from
giving it any food save what is easy of
digestion, and add ten drops of tincture |
of bryonia to each pint of drinking water
your birds no other water to
lrink.
To keep the hens in laying conditions
8 the aim Of every poultry raiser, parti-
,ularly in winter, when full egg basket
mean so much. There are people sufi-
:iently versed in henoly to make biddies
ay during cold weather, when eggs are
nigh. The ia little profit in keeping hens
Unless part of the eggs can be produc-
d in winter and winter prices received.
The short route to success in securing
> heavy production Of eggs lies not in
ihe breed, but rather in the wedding out
Il the drones of the flock, and then
breeding from the heavy lawyers.
Five ten or twenty dollar'ss as the case
nay require, added to the price Of a breed
lird in the spring may make difference
1 several hundred dollars in the value of
hicks raised from the mating Of which
Ie is the head
Suppose setting OF eggs purchased !
or $5 produces one frst-class breed
He bird and the rest are culls. That one
ird is worth the price paid for the eggs,
nd the culis, Il sold for table purposes,
ill mure than pay The cost Of raising the
rood.
One hundred chicks raised from pen
irst-ciass birds are far more valuable /,
,r industry than twice that number
aised from two pens Of less valuable
5oek. Itshould be remembered that the. !
,ale is really half the breeding pen and
9 should be Of superior quality II the I
est results are expected.
The chicken lonse, like the common !,
ouse fiy, breathes through the pores of !.
8 skin, so that any fine dust or powder
licb viii penetrate these pores win
,yer the lice and cause their speedy
cath. The ashes from hard coal will ac-
,mplish this purpose and are much more
sneficial than road dust.
sunhowers are good to plant where
,ung bfoods Of chicks are to run. They
ii be planted early and chicks will not
,ther them. After a while they will
ye just the pleasant shade, not dense
desirable for young chicks. Later on
e crops win mature and be good as
lip 10 balance winter rations,
Avoid wooden floors to the nest. Re-
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