The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-01-09
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CONSTANT DOSING OF FOWLS.

H AiNRAiAhN anu ass ~ tttNN ~ hAN' a.
dragging. If this be true, we should
expect that the egg Yields would show
the effects quite strongly. What about
the prospective 200-egg hen or the
possible 300-egg hen that one man has
written so gIbly about? / was looking
over the columns Of poultry adycrtis-
| inc in single periodical, One man
offered Barred Rocks from pen
headed by male from a 2CI-egG hen.
and claimed that his best pens aver
aged - and u eggs in January. An
other. hqring the same freed offered
eggs from trap-nested Rocks SIG gen
erations nf .o0-eggers" One offered
! roae-combed Rhode Island reds, "e40-
egg strain" Another had white W.
! aud0ttps. "24G-esg strain" Rrse-tn,ab
brown I.eghorns have been offered in
so-called "240-egg strain for years.
| The Buckeyes We're referred to a. the
coming 3o0-cgg hens. OTHER breeds
| in other issues have equally POSITIVE
advocates
The September issue Of enc Of our
| periodicals contained the "cffcial" re-
| port OF a recent competition in which
the winning pen, white eghorns, were
reported as laying over 255 eggs
| apiece, and the worlds record" is
| -56 pulls, for the best pen in a certain
competition and 1888 eggs n hen tor
the entire Geo. In this country. the
Maine experiments have seemed c
offer nest promise and 10 be based On
tine best foundation work Yet. after
mydh paiusJakin& experiment tbe
t0ch is row reported as not susiaiuin
! its oriainal average as 10 layirg. AnC
with all the above buncCInhe or dctua,
| experiment. SORT il oat as ycu may
| there is upon it this fair connect:
The edsors OF two of the most prn1.,
| inept papers devoted exclusively &c
| poultry, both men OF many years en-.
! rerienCe and wide knowledge OF Goa
Li'ioDs (not merely as they process tC
| he, but az they arel have declQloc
| their conviction that there is no such
| a thing rs a flock of 2lo~e = hens
| One OF them uses these words, I'VE
do rot believe there is a single foa5
with an average that approaches 25t
eggs in u year That is for this cccn,
try.
And, meantime, eggs are higher thaH
ever before and the fancier rauEu,
afford o sell his medium grade breed.
ing stock 10 customers who need it tc
build up their focks, because it pays
him better to sell it outright 10 the
butcher. VIII medicine right the sit,
uation? | think it safe to advocate
only one kind of medicine. that which
is called preventive, ana especially
that branch OF treatment which is cal
/ led sanitation. The world is watkins
| mp to the Ealue Of this. The crusade
against the dreaded babou:c plague
in one Of our larg ST cities developed
! iu,o a frht AGAINST rats and for com
plete sanitation and i'll WAS reported
as completely successful just a.saa
these liaes The very dealer in staa,=
| supplies is advertising Sanitary bed.
ding" in those days, Now what about
that epson salts which the manager
Of the Australian competition folHC
it desirable to use in order to be ablt
to fierce his birds little more? What
about the eDsCm salts which our gov
eminent experts are recommending in
order 10 ward off white diarrohca?
think the point for MS to think
about is right here A patient, rccCut-
| ~ talkiuS with a Doctor mentioue.
SICK headache All, yes" said tas
doctor. that IS to%emia. Another
stated recently in print thai II auto
iutoxica,ion. which is the madicu.
term tor self-poisoujng or, in Other
words, retention '~-colld ba dona
away with thrc2-l0ur'hs cf al tic
disease wnicl now afiicta US wc1I3
be at once overcome, This puts .
tremendous responsibility right where
# lelongs-oa The shoulders OF these
OF US who overeat, ana mderexcrciso
and underbathe, etc.,--iu other Hcr1s
those who don't keepsthe eliminatcrs
! open. Ask doctor what to take fcI
grip, aud he may give you grip pills
but he will surely give you physic
That is where the epson salts cone
in They are physic, and will give
us the privilege Of forcing our birds
. little harder along the special line
Of egg production, because if the elm
inators are in COED working order the
birds can eat a little more.
There is just one al gument for thC
use of this EPSON salts treatment 'h,t
recommends it to the farm poultry
man--it is feasible While he can
not with any completeness disinfett
his whole farm" or that wide street
Of it on which often, his fowls dis.
port themselves, he can administer
a dose Of EPSON salts, and if he hays
a tight house he can conlina the sto i
for day or two, and Gi@intect The
house after the salts have worked
On occasion this might he in9t tn.
thing 10 do, but under present con
ditions it seems to me we ought usu9t
ly to talk for less rather than more