Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1908-06-10
FEATHERS AND EeesHELLs.

German experts have tested the wa
ter glass egg preservative and find
eggs keep we'll four years.
You should make truck for hauling
your Breeders and colony houses from
place TO place. The wheels may be
found on 4 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
greens and soft mash Of bran and mids.
and their eggs were 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 10 rooSt with
the chickens and got the distemper il
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 4 bright. clear eve.
and the feathers cling tightly 10 their
plump bodies. When pigeons loaf and
pun up their feathers. get the louise
gun.
When a thunderstorm threatens 10
catch those chicks in 4 hurry simply
have piece Of raw meat handy. our
chicks pile over each other for il. and
we gather up = thousand In few
minutes.
At one time fresh egg was equal TO
4 pound OF meat. Now scientists say
four eggs do the stunt. But YOU never
see silt edge sign to this effect in
meat markets, and their storage eggs
are equal 10 anything
The real causes OF leg weakness in
chicks are heavy wings and running on
board floors. To prevent il get them
out on the ground soon rs they are
cape proof and clip the wings. DO not
pull the wing feathers. Ii IS cruel.
When YOU set brain flag take time
of or you may serve up stale ideas or
have n brain storm. Fresh air and
garden spading. chickens and cherry
tree climbing are preventiveS. What
are the symptoms and sensations Of 4
brain jagF 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-
priaton for some counties reached
$1,000. Women are employed to lee
ture on chickens ut $40 4 month. These
women certainly can lecture
Los Angeles has the largest pigeon
plant in the world. Fifty thousand
pigeons, mostly white. are housed
in cotcS and large shed building.
They eat three tons OF wheat 4 day
What 4 fluttering and Tapping Of
white wings as they rise for flight
What 4 tremendous stir when they re-
turn.
Your customer kicked on your last
shipment because the dressed chickens
were dark and had bad olor. Yes.
Of course they were fresh and yellow
when YOU shipped. You cool them too
quickly. by putting them NJ 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.
L am going into the poultry bust
ness TO be my own boss" says one
Don't get gay. my friend. You'N pad
ufe your own canoe against rock. and
1t might be Plymouth Rock poultry
farm too. The poultrym0n not only
gets henpccked. has no holidays. can't
blow in money ar SeaShore resorts. but
the business. If done rigth. is the most
eXacting boss. \ few side issue, pu:
on the VarniSh.