Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-07-30
FEATHERS AND EeesHELLs.

FEATHERS AND EGGSHELLS.
German experts have tested the wa.
ter glass egg preservatiye and find
eggs keep well four years.
You should make truck for hauling
your broodcrs and colony houses from
place to place The whcf may be
found on Il foundry scrap Sle 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 ana soft mash of bran and midS.
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 ii
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
puff up their feathers. get the lous,
gun.
When a thunderstorm threatens to
catch those chicks in a hurry simply
have a piece of raw meat handy. Our
chicks pile over each other for it. and
We gather up n thousand in a few
minutes
At one time fresh egg was equal to
pound of meat Now scientists say
four eggs do the stunt. But you never
see gilt edge sign to this effect in
meat markets, and their storage eggs
are equal to anything.
The real causes of leg weakness inI
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 OF
have brain storm. Fresh air and
garden spading, chickens and cherry
tree climbing are preventives. What
are the symptoms and sensations of al
brain jag? Is yours chronic?
Ireland is not only organized for lib. |
erty, but for poultry culture Fifteen
thousand dozen of thoroughbred eggs
were distributed last year. The appro. |
priation for some counties reached |
$1,000. Women are employed to Ice /
ture on chickens ut SO a 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 large shed building |
They eat three tons of wheat a day !
What Il huttering and tapping OF
white wings as they rise for flight
What tremendous stir when they re
turn.
Your customer kicked on your last
shipment because the dressed chickens
were dark and had n bad odor. Yes.
If course they were fresh and yellow
when you shipped You cool them too
quickly. BY putting them at once
nto ice you drive the animal heat into
he crop and entrails and they ferment
Gradually drive out the animal heat by
hree changes of well water before
ising ice.
Il am going into the poultry bust.
less to be my own boss" says one
Don't get gay, my friend. You'll pad
lie your own canoe against a rock, and
might be Plymouth Rock poultry
arm too. The poultryman not only
'ets henpecked, has no holidays, can't
'low In money at seashore resorts. but
he business, If done rigth. is the most
xacting boss. A few side issues put
n the varnish.