The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-06

Recent experiments held by one OF
the prominent State Experiment Sta
tons go to show that
Early Matched chicks grow faster
than late Matched ones.
Eggs set during February seem to
produce the highest percent of
chicks.
So It will be seen by the above
that 1t will pay us all to get out
some early Matched chicks.
The Show season is over and it is
now time that we have our pens
mated up to produce the winners for
the shows the coming fall and win
ter. You can't be too careful in Sc
lecting and mating your pens, if you
want the best results. Better mate
just a few birds as near one type
as possible, you will get better re-
suits than If too many are mated to-
gether.
Take a good look at your poultry
flock and compare il with that of your
more successful neighbor who has got
an mixing into the ways and kind
of stock to keep and is making an
effort to keep pace with the times
In this branch of farming.
Dust the setting hen before setting
and then follow up each week during
the period of incubation, in this way
the liability of lice bothering the
chicks is reduced to minimum.
II is a mistake to wait until the
hens are lousy before using insect
powder. Constant prevention is the
ony safe method to pursue.
You cannot probably raise chick
ems and lice in the same house. If
the fowls have body lice, dust them
with a good insecticide, renovate and
fumigate the house thoroughly, paint
the roosts, nest boxes and furnishings
with a good lice paint, sprinkle gen.
erous amount of air-slacked lime on
the floor, provide new litter and nest
material, and your efforts will be re-
warded in increased egg production
and general health of your fowls.
When white washing the hen house
use little carbolic acid; it will be a
good disinfectant.
A dull, sunken eye in a fowl de-
notes defective nutritive power and
lack of constitutional vigor.
A few drops of tincture of iron in
the drinking water makes an excel
lent spring tonic for the poultry. 1t
tones up the system and makes rich,
red blood.
IL would be good plan to make
arrangements to make a small garden
for the poultry this season. Plant
a small plot OF cabbages, beets, car
rots or onions for green stuff, and a
larger one with sunfowers, for the
seeds and shade they will make dur
ing the summer. It will not take q
very large piece of land to produce
enough to keep fifty chickens most
of the year, as far as green food is
needed.
Where one has chickens It is good
idea to keep some troughs, as they
are quite useful to feed any soft
food to the chicks in, as well as be-
ing good for keeping grit, oyster
shells, charcoal, etc, in for the fowls
to eat at will. They also make good
water vessels for the larger fowls.
Poultry raisers. when building new
poultry houses, should try to arrange
to prevent the driving rains we have
been having lately from beating in.
They cause dampness inside the
house, which is conducive to colds
and roup.
=. Arrange the water for the little
clicks so they won't get into it with
their feet. A good arrangement is to
punch hole with a large nail in the
side on a tin can' about a half inch
from the open end; fill the can with
water, place deep saucer over 1t and
turn the can and saucer up-side-down
together, and the water will drip out
through the nail hole into the saucer.
This keeps little water standing
4. in the saucer around the can and as
fast as the chicks drink more wa
ter will drip from the can, causing