Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1908-06-16
FEATHERS AND EeesHEtts.

German experts have tested the wa"-
ter glass egg preservative and find
eggs keep well four years.
You should make a truck for hauling
your brooders and colony houses from
place to place. The wheels may be-
found on foundry scrap pile; the rest:
you can make yourself.
There is nothing in the statement
that soft feed brings infertile eggs. We
fed one pen nothing but oats, cut bone.
green's and soft mash of bran and mfdss
and their eggs We're highly fertile.
Your early chicks must not only be
fed well, but they must be kept out of
the wind and rain. We use heavy mat
ting on the wire pens to break the
wind, keep out rain and the hot sun.
If your watchdog went to roOst with
the chickens and got the distemper 1t
certainly shows the scratching litter
was damp enough. Maybe when local
option comes your way you'll keep dry,
Homers in good health carry the
head erect have a bright, clear eye.
and the feathers cling tightly to their
plump bodies. When pigeons loaf and
Duff I'D their feathers, get the louise
gun.
When thunderstorm threatens to
catch those chicks in hurry simply
have a piece of raw meat handy. Our
chicks pile over each other for it. and
we gather up thousand in a few
minutes.
At one time fresh egg was equal to
a pound of meat Now scientists say
T,,t nps
see gilt edge sign to this effect in
meat markets, and their storage eggs
are equal to anything.
The real causes of leg weakness In
chicks are heavy wings and running On
board floors. To prevent it get them
out on the ground soon as they are
cape proof and clip the wings. Do not
pull the wing feathers. 1t is cruel.
When you get brain fag take time
off or you may serve up stale ideas or
have a brain storm. Fresh air and
garden spading, chickens and cherry
tree climbing are preventives. What
are the symptoms and sensations OF d
brain jag? Is yours chronic?
Ireland is not only organized foE hb-
erty, but for poultry culture. Fifteen
thousand dozen of thoroughbred eggs
were distributed last year. The appro-
! priation for some counties reached
S., 900. Women are employed to lee
ture on chickens at $45 month. These
women certainly can lecture.
Los Angeles has the largest pigeon
plant in the world. Fifty thousand
pigeons, mostly white, are housed
in cotes and a large shed building.
They eat three tons of wheat a day.
What a fluttering and tapping OF
| white wings as they rise for flight.
What q tremendous stir when they re-
turn.
| Your customer kicked on your last
| shipment because the dressed chickens
were dark and had bad odor. Yes.
of course they were fresh and yellow
when you shipped You cool them too
| quickly. By putting them at once
into ice YOU drive the animal heat into
the crop and entrails and they ferment.
| Gradually drive out the animal heat by
three changes of well water before
using ice.
| "I am going into the poultry busi-
] ness to be my own boss,' says one.
Don't get gay, my friend. You'll pad
die your own canoe against a rock, and
1t might be Plymouth Rock poultry
| farm too. The poultryman not only
gets henpecked, has no holidays, can't
blow in money at seashore resorts, but
the business, If done rigth. is the most
exacting boss. A few side issues put
on the varntsh.
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