Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1908-06-18
FEATHERS AND EoesHELLs.


If you are raising broilers, a 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. Z.
What poultry prefer to eat is not al
ways fit 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-
formed chick cannot come out. but in
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 most important items first
Then shove them through. and dc
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 II
nothing for day before This is the
law in some states. Thus the digestive
J system will be empty. If fowl is full
fed and to be drawn. make an incisioI
around the rectum and tie the organ
with strong cord. There will thus bs
no accident. and your fowl will not bs
! foul
When you permit your poultry tC
drink from the foul pools around tn,
manure pile. just remember that al
egg is largely water. No wonder you
young turkeys die when allowed t.
wade through such a mess. It's enough
to paralyze hog. If your customer.
see the picture it will paralyze you
egg trade
:. Death of chicks in the she'll hai
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moisture and improper ventilation IL
incubators. too high or low temperature
old eggs and last. but not least. open
ing the door during Matching to coun
the pipped eggs or to show OF tn,
wonderful marvel Of nature to an awe
struck multitude.
The hard times. with the fall II
prices. will count something to th
poultryman on the feed question. Bot
poultry and SQUAD raisers culled dow
to a minimum and now have the fines
pens and lofts ever That much goo'
the high feed prices did. and you'll Sc
the best stock raised this season in tn
history Of poultrydorn.
It's a delightful chance you have I
make things hum this summer. &c
out Just the number of chicks or duck
lings you can feed well and care fol
Then lay aside the spring fever an
the summer prostration. After good
happy hustle you may slack up In tn
fall long enough to receive congratuls
lions and then boost the rooster 70
winter eggs. May you always &c
there.
During the winter season in Califol
MIA fresh eggs sold at 23 cents storag
extras at II cents. while wheat. oat
and corn stood at S1.S5. bran at S1621
aud mids at $50. Now. you easter
knockers who have been buying whea
at % cents. corn at GO cents. oats at
cents. bran at S1.30 and mids at S1.4
and at the same time selling eggs frof
30 to 60 cents. yes. you had better qul
your knocking
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