The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-02-26
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49,
Do you keep your chickens, or do
they keep youi
Good warm wheat makes a nice
breakfast for the biddiss.
skim.mnk IL thin looking stun, but
Il may he pu, to good use in the poul'
try yard.
A little more clean litter on the
floors. Keep the fowls hard at work.
II is the prlcc Of health.
In poultry raising the breed Is i'm
por,ant, but the maj or woman behind
the breed is more 80.
Chickens that lay around almost any
| where sometimes are merely cmulat'
ing the bctters.
, The man who keeps hens is not 50
much Of a philosopher as the man who
has the hens keep him.
For Matching purposes AXE the eggs
from the hens that lay best. Build up,
never let the standard down.
A shelf, a couple Of feet below the
%roosts, is handy to catch the droppinps,
and handy TO clean. And don't for
get to clean It..
Excelsior always seemed TO me rath'
or cold stuff to make nests Of. Good
fine, clean cat straw is about the best
Of anything that W. ever tried.
As a rule, eggs from two year'old
hens give better satisfaction at this
time Of the wear han when from
Younger stock, and the chicks are more
vigorous,
The eggs of hens that did heavy
laying during the winter are not so
! apt 70 be as strongly fertilized, as eggs
from hens hat made but a fair show
ing.
The last egg laid before a hen goes
TO sitting will often be 80 small tina,
it will have no yoke ut all. There is
bring these small egg in the house.
\ nest that suits the turkey hen
first rate may be made by turning d
salt barrel on tho side. Put straw il
the hollow, aud a nest cgg, aud cover
the barrel over with brush, il you
have It handy.
One Of my neighbors says tina, ther''
no money IN poultry, aud that the east
est way to get eggs Is to buy them. liz
says that he keeps chickens TO eat TIA,
bugs in his orchard; pays 'cm a cent 1
bug.
Is there u place under some oi,
building where you Fan spade w th'
earth aud give 1t to the hens to w"r'
att They will dig away hard to iin'
the worms that may be IN il. Moth
ing will do them more good.
When a hen lays now and then, an,
not Don again, aud you can I decide
whether she hadn't better quit alto
gethcr, III tell you what to do: Why
Just az her to, aud neither 10 box no
In kcg will she ever lay another egg
Especially in early matches, ear
should be taken no, 10 eat a hen un
III she is thoroughly broody. It doe
y NeN' "h'A 'NI'' 'H' w. Wv
Wien a hen is really broody. she vii
be very fussy when approached, an'
hug close to the nest when the han,
is placed under her.
March setting should not contain
more than eleven eggs, for when
larger number is given the hen rar
not sufficiently cover them to impair
/, the necessary warmth. When to-
, many egg are placed in the mes
those on the outer edge are not ap
, to got the amount Of neat require,
, TO develop the germ and bring fort
p the chick.
? ANY system of feeding is eApcnsiv
I II the hens do not lay, aud the great"
/ the number Of onproluccrs the great
r er the cost Of every egg produce,
Improper feeding OF ~oy"rfeeding ma
: be the cause Of a floch Yielding oni
half Of " at il should. IL will b
found that the surcst course Of feed
ing is 20 follow as nearly as possibl
along the line of nature, aud thu
means variety in such a way ~ to con