East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-10-10
Poultry Pointers.

Before the beginner starts in the
poultry business he should study up
q on It. Get ideas from good poultry
publications and practical poultry
ralsers, and know something about it
before putting your money in the
business
Get busy now and make needed re-
pairs on the chicken mouse In order
that the fowls can keep comfortable
when cold weather comes.
There is a minister not far from
Fort Worth who cleared $500 last
year from poultry as a sideline. A
good hen is a profit maker.
II you have pullets that are unde-
slrable dispose of them this fall You
cannot afford to feed them this WIN
ter II they are not desirable for lay
ers. 1t will be desirable to fatten such
birds for the market.
1t costs no more to keep a pure
bred productive hen than it does to
keep a mongrel growing.
Put away a lot of second-class cab
bage to feed your fowls during the
winter when other green food cannot
be had.
II you henhouse has a dirt floor,
be sure it is high enough above the
surface of the ground outside so that
1t will be dry all during the winter.
Give the boy a henhouse and a
flock of fowls. He will soon take an
interest in caring for them we'll
enough to make it profitable, and will
enjoy earning his own spending mon
ey.
Fowls that are confined in limited
quarters must be watched closely or
the ground Of their pens will become
contaminated and filthy. Frequent
spadings are good but a changing OF
yard and seeding the old yard to rape
or some thick growing crop is better.
The way to get the largest returns
from hens Is to give them the best
care, especially the most careful feed
ing.
A certain poultry woman keeps the
hopper supplied with mica grit, oys-
ter shell, dried cracked bone. beef
meal, clover meal, charcoal and bran.
The hens help themselves
If stock must be yarded don't for
get plenty of green feed Lettuce is
an ideal green food. Cabbages and
mangels for winter feed should be
raised
1t is not always best to discard a
hen because she is n little aged. Look
at her egg record and as long as she
keeps tat up we'll don't let her go.
The hen that does all the laying dur
ing the summer months should be dis
posed Of before the fall season is very
old.
Don't underfeed your chickens The
flock may look we'll and yet be just
enough lacking in feed to fail in egg
laying Fort Worth Citizen-Star.
Strippings.
one man may easily milk ten cows,
attend to all their wants do a lot Of
other work, visit some enjoy life and
maybe run for some cheap office If
he wants to. and with the COWS and
his market good, have an income Of
$500 to $1,000 a year which is ever
and tver so much better than most
men in the towns and learned pro-
fessions" are able to gather up. But
first learn the COW
An excellent grain ration to feed
IA hay is ground corn, oats, bran and
oil meal, gluten feed or cotton seed
meal mixed in equal marts and fed
in amounts according to production
of the COW. usually at the rate Of
about one pound of reed to three
pounds OF milk.
According to the last year book Of
the department of agriculture there
are 21.720 milk cows m the United
States and these are worth $702,945,-
100000. The magnitude Of the in
dustry can perhaps be best under
stood when It is considered that these
cows produce yearly about $1,000
100000 worth of dairy products.
This is the most trying time of the
season for the dairy COW. She has
been fighting flies and poor pasture
Help out the supply of feed if you
want her TO do her best
1t should always be borne in mind
that the heifer is the dairy COW in the