The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-09-17

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Any of the commonly advertised
coal tar stock dips may also be used
with satisfactory results. They may
be diluted with fifty parts of water.
Apply with brush or with spray
ing machine. A good spraying mach
inc is quicker and more efficient than
a brush. Great care must be taken
to fill thoroughly every crevice in
the walls, perches and nests with the
liquid These mixtures will kill ev-
cry mite with which they come in
contact, but it is impossible to get all
of them with one spraying.
Two thorough sprayings should be
made on the first day. The next
made and if any mites can be found
alive the house should be treated
again. Although these solutions will
kill the adult mites, it is not likely
that they will reach the mite eggs
and prevent them from Matching.
thoroughly sprayed twice again at
intervals of one week. This will
catch any mites that have Matched
out from eggs laid previous to the
first spraying.-Indianapo News.
SIMPLIFYING CHICK FEEDING.
For sixteen or seventeen years l
have been feeding young chickens
with the same food as old hens, with
the exception that the chickens got
fine instead of coarse cracked corn
feed in the middle of the morning
and got mash the last thing at night,
writes the Editor of Farm Poultry.
This year, my boy, on his own &C.
count, still further simplifed the
feeding. His chickens, about fifty,
have been fed just the same as the
old hens, except that they got the
mash the last thing in the evening
as we'll as the first thing in the morn.
ing.
There has not been a pound of any
grain but whole wheat, whole oats
and coarse (sometimes very coarse)
cracked corn brought on the place
this year. The chickens have grown
just as we'll. l have told this to
number of poultrymen as l met them,
and found several who had been sim
plifying their own feeding of young
chickens; and one who had grown
several hundred chickens, feeding
practically the same. He is an old
breeder, and declares he never had
better chickens. Some say this is
all right for chicks Matched and rails
ed by hens, but you can't do it if
using artificial methods. l presume
they are right in part.
Suppose you have fifty chicks with /
four hens and feed them ordinary !
coarse cracked corn. There are
some particles too large for the small,
est chicks. The hens probably eat |
these first. and the hens eat at first
more than half the corn anyway.
Now If you put the corn down to
fifty chickens without hens, the
coarser particles may be left. l don't
know that they will be. l don't think
any one else knows, or will know
until they have tried it. The idea
that small chicks must have small
grain is still believed by many to
hold good with chicks no matter how
Matched. I know it is not long be-
fore chicks fed coarse cracked corn
will eat any and all of it.-Indianap.
oils News.
UNDRAWN FOWL THE BETTER.
DR.. Charles Harrington, of the
State Board of Health, has filed with
the legislature a report on the rela
tive merits of drawn and undrawn
poultry. The report is in compli.
ance with resolve passed by the
legislature last year in which the
board was directed to make the in.
vestigation and determine what un.
wholesome change, if any, takes place
in the flesh of poultry shipped or
stored without the removal of the
head, crop and other entrails, as com
pared with the flesh of poultry from
which these have been removed, and
thus settle the question which has
been brought up annually for many
years past by the advocates Of one
or the other methods.
For the purpose of their investiga
ton the board raised a quantity of
poultry and after keeping it for a
reasonable length of time killed it,
drawing one portion and leaving the
remaining portion undrawn, and pro.
ceeded with their experiments. The
report shows that when poultry is