The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1908-07-03
FEATHERS AND EoosHELLs.


If you are raising brollers, u good
fattener is wheat. scalded overnight,
fed every other day.
If your poultry run is full Of plan
tain. don't let your hens gorge them
selves or you will be plantin' them.
What poultry prefer to eat is not al
ways TT for the end in view. They
prefer fat producers. Antifat for fresh
eggs.
Beware of beef scrap that smells like
fertilizer. It's Chicago tankage. Re-
ject scrap that's yellowish. It's Chi
hog-o cracklings.
One reason why English poultry
look so untidy in the showroom is be-
cause they are shipped in wicker
hampers. They look 'ampered.
Blackhead has about destroyed the
turkey industry of New England. If
baldhead was so fatal, there would be
no deacons left in the front pews.
When the small end of the egg is
elevated during Matching, the head
grows in the wrong end, and thus de-
L,
this and other cases you often come
out the small end Of the horn.
A poultryman's work is series Of
details. Itemize your days duties
and put the xost important items first.
Then shove them through. and do
all if it's not beyond your strength
A small thing well done is better than
a big thing bungled.
When you dress fowl to sell feed it
nothing for day before. This is the
law in some states. Thus the digestive
system Will be empty. If fowl is full
fed and to be drawn, make an incision
around the rectum and tie the organ
with strong cord. There will thus be
no accident, and your fowl will not be
foul.
When you permit your poultry to
drink from the foul pools around the
manure pile. just remember that an
egg is largely water. No wonder your
young turkeys die when allowed to
wade through such a mess. It's enough
to paralyze hog. If your customers
see the picture it will paralyze your
egg trade.
Death of chicks in the shell has
various causes-weak males, lack of
moisture and improper ventilation in
incubators. too high or low temperature,
old eggs and last. but not least, OPEN
ing the door during Matching to count
the pipped eggs or to show off the
wonderful marvel Of nature to an awe
struck multitude.
The hard times. with the fall in
prices. will count something to the
poultryman on the feed question. Both
poultry and squad raiserS culled down
to minimum and now have the finest
pens and lofts ever. That cuch good
the high feed prices did. and you'll see
the best stock raised this season in the
history of poultrydom.
It's delightful chance you have to
make things hum this summer. Get
out just the number of chicks or duck
lings you can feed well and care for.
Then lay aside tile spring fever and
the summer prostration. After good,
happy hustle you may slack up in the
fall long enough to receive congratula-
lions and then boost the rooster for
winter eggs. May you always sst
there.
During the winter season in Califor-
mia fresh eggs sold at 90 cents, storage
extras at II cents, while wheat, oats
and corn stood at S1.S5, bran at $1.621a
and mids at S1.00. Now, you eastern
knockers who have been buying wheat
at % cents, corn at 60 cents. oats at 55
cents, bran at S1.30 and mids at S1.40
and at the same time selling eggs from
30 to GO cents, yes, you had better quit
your knocking.