The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-05-07
FEATHERS AND EecsHELLs.

FEA nEn0 NND CNA0T1GGGO'
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.
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.
Biackhead has about destroyed the
turkey industry Of New England. IL
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 II series Of
details. Itemize your days duties
and put the most important items first.
Then shove them through, and do
all If it's not beyond your strength.
A small thing we'll done Is better than
big thing bungled.
When you dress fowl to sell feed it
nothing for a 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 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 squab raisers culled down
to minimum and now have the finest
pens and lofts ever. That much good
the high feed prices did. and you'll see
the best stock raised this season in the
history of pouItrydom.
It's delightful chance you have tC
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 the spring fever anC
the summer prostratlon. After a good
happy hustle you may slack up in the
fall long enough to receive congratula
tionsl and then boost the rooster fol
winter eggs. May you always gel
there.
During the winter season In Califor
nia fresh eggs sold at % cents. storage
extras at II cents, while wheat, oats
and corn stood at $1.So, bran at $l.G2H
and mids at $l.90. Now. you eastern
knockers who have been buying wheat
Mt '95 cents, corn at 60 cents, oats at 81
cents, bran at $l.3O and Inids at $1.4(
and ut the same time selling eggs from
30 to 60 cents. yes, you had better qui
your knocking.