Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-04-02

they get the spirit OF wanting to make money
for themselves; then they can stay at nome
and be enough help to earn their board. lhey
can let the family all the chickens ana
eggs they need, for the feed, and all over
that sell Let the daughters have the money
they make, and see how much better tnls our
door exercise will be for the girls than work
ing in some store for but little more than
enough to pay board and car fare, to say noth-
ing of clothes. know OF girl that gets one
hundred dollars month, and her step-Ialher
told me that il takes IL all 10 pay Doaru,
laundry, car fare, etc. Now, please don |
think / mean to belittle the city girl and her
work: some of them have got to work to live
and | say, God bless them, but let te
country girls stay on the farm, ana there VIII
not be so many for one job ana perhaps the
girl who must get Il get better wages
There's many a country girl al work in town,
whose mother is killing herself at nome ana
paving and begging some negro woman 10 help
her with her burden, and can't get the help.
They will nav the hired help, why not DeglE
IN time and pay the girlsE
l will give a few hints on how manage
nv chickens as I'm quite successful. first,
when you set your hen don't put her in on the
old straw that has been doing duty ever since
fall probably longer but clean out your nest
good and take a machine oil can or something
similar and fill with kerosene Oil ana sprinkle
all over the foundation and all cracks. Ihen
nut in some clean nice straw and be sure you
have enough for good nest, Tor II the eggs
get down on the board, where the oil was, they
won't hatch. l prefer crab grass hay Tor
nests, as Il will make round nice nest
While
or leaves viii flatten out. Some argue that the
straws of hay afford such good place Tor
mites to hide. l admit that If you let 1t stay
long enough, but the scent or the oil VIII re-
main I'm the nest four OF five weeks and no
mites will come near. When the hen hatches
clean out the nest and put In clean straw
Don't set eggs taken from a large basketful,
hut set fresh eggs, all laid as near the same
day as possible. they will all hatch at once
Set eggs of different ages and the fresn ones
will come out maybe a day and night berofe
4t,, IL do Xonp restless
maybe leave the nest with two three chicks
The eggs should be as smooth ana nice as
possible; examine a nest after you take OFT a
hatch and you'll find that the eggs LEFT are
those that are very large or are round at both
ends or have rough ridges, specks under the
she'll I don't set the very small eggs either.
but a small one will hatch better than a very
large one, only the medium size should be set
I LET nv hens STAY on the nest one night after
all chicks out and when taken OIL II there
are any little squabby fellows, put them In
something and wrap them mp warm Tor the
hen win STOW them and they are sure to die
in a day or two.
Give tncm a pan Of fresh water soon as
cooped and food except little coarse corn
meal fed dry. it's tine first few DAYS that
col,nt: start them off right and they'll live.
never feed mine anything but dry feed
at present am feding cracked corn and peas
and wheat equal parts OF each. 80,
While visiting one day l asked a dear old
lady what made her little chicks peep so?
She said she didn't know. Shed had them out
there two days and they'd just hollered all
the time; she hadn't given them any water
but had been feeding them corn meal right
sloppy with water Every died. Don T.
don't. give sloppy fed and then wonder why
vour chicks have howell trouble If You haven t
grains. cook cornbread for them. Get some
thoroughbred stock. l have the Single Comb
Brown LeghOrn. hut am going to change TO
the Rhode Island Reds: the LeghOrns lay con-
tinuously, but are so small when IL comes 10
II Love owe to all. '"rRIxIE."