The Democrat-sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1906-1935, 1907-11-21
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be bought cheaper in the fall than
in the spring, after they have been
kept through the winter.
Even if but two hens and cock
are bought to start with, these
will produce enough eggs next
spring to start goodly flock. TIC
buy eggs for this purpose would
cost q considerable sum of money,
and the buyer would take the
chances that go with eggs shipped
from distance. For q few dol
lars a trio of fowls can be bought
during the fall or early winter,
and they can be studied during
the coming months, until very
fair notion of what is necessary
may be acquired by any one whose
powers of observation are well
developed.
A good many fail in the poultry
business because they undertake
to do too much in the beginning.
The most extensive breeder of
high priced fancy poultry in this
country began with dozen fowls
on town lot. He took the best
care Of them, attended to every
little detail, and grew up into a
business that now takes a big farm
and amounts to about $40, 900 a
year. His strain of fowls 10
known around the earth, and his
future is secure, yet when he be-
gan his highest ambition was to
breed good fowls on modest lit
tie place that he could call his
own. This man is on the right
side of forty years, has a bsauti-
full home, a charming wife and
million friends, all because he
liked poultry and took good care
of it.
Indian Runner breed of ducks is
becoming quite prominent on ac-
count of its activity, silence and
prolificacy. Pekin or Ronen ducks
are much more noisy than Indian
Runners, while they do not lay
nearly as many eggs in year.
The Indian Runner is often called
the 'Leghorn of the duck family
because of the large number of
pure white eggs it lays. The eggs
are considerably larger than those
from hens, and are es delicately
favored as could be wished.
Where one has room to allow
them to range about farm flock
of Indian Runners will almost keep
themselves during the warm
months, as they are very active
and diligent foragers, seeking from
morning until night for insects,
which they capture with surpris-
ing success.
Recent experiments show that
these ducks bear confinement very
we'll, and may be kept yarded with
perfect success. We bslieve the
time is near at hand when this
breed of ducks will be much more
common than it now is.
1t is time to prepare for winter
and to begin to provide for that
variety of feeds which promotes
egg- production during the cold |
months. One need not be too
particular about the nutritive ele-
nents or the axact nutritive ratio |
If the feed given, if one will se-
cure as large variety of feed as
possible, A mixture of grains
of corn, wheat, plump
'ats and barley, with little buck
wheat and a few sunfiower seeds
las proved a good grain feed with |
IS. To this should be added some
ucculent green feed, such as
cabbage, turnips, sugar beets, or
If these cannot be se-
'ured lay in a supply of cut clover
lay or meal, which can be bought
It any poultry supply store. Char
oal is almost necessity, any beef
crap should not be left out of the
winter stores. Grit in the shape
# fine gravel, oyster shell or pre-
Jared grit should be supplied in a
VaY that the hens can get at it at
ime.
With these provide a house
which is wind tight, and free from
and winter eggs should
70 produced. The house need not
70 frost proof, as hens endure
Without discomfort a tempature
n which a man would be deeidelv