The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-05-20
DEPARTMENT
BY w. l. Witch, Jr. Secretary Escambia County /
Poultry Association

(Note-The Escambia County Poul
try Association, recently organized in
Pensacola, Fla, proposes to do all pos
sible for the upbuilding of the poultry
industry in this section, and to aid all
persons interested In poultry in any
way it can. This department of The
Journal, edited under the auspices OF
the Escambia County Poultry Associa
ton, will gladly answer questions rel
alive to the care, management, feeding
and diseases of poultry.
Don't expect all of the chicks to be
winners. They don't grow that way.
Invest in better houses, better fowls
better feed, and you will find your
money making a better per cent.
1t is much easier to dust each
brooding hen few times than to have
to dust all the chicks as a result OF
neglecting it.
Pour out the surplus water every
evening and scald the drinking YES
sells frequently. Provide a shaded
place for the water through the sum
mer.
Don't forget to cover the roosting
places with kerosene monthly during
the spring and summer, and oftener if
any mites are found,
Don't give the baby chicks anything
but dry feed, and give them no feed
at all until SO hours old, and they will
not be subject to diarrhoea.
Growing chicks, as well as layers
and breeders, should have a variety of
grains, oyster shells, charcoal, grit
and fresh water.
Too many farmers depend more
upon the number of hens they keep
over winter for their supply of eggs
than upon the kind of fowls and the
care given them.
Plant an extra bed of onions to
have to give to the poultry as a tonic.
Onions is fine conditioner but they
should not be fed regularly to laying
hens nor to any fowl for a few days
before preparing them for the table
Provide busting places for the
brooding hens Some sulphur and in
sect powder occasionally scattered in
the dust box will aid materially in
keeping off lice. 1t is well to scatter
sulphur and ashes also in places most
frequently used as a busting place on
the yards of both growing stock and
larger fowls.
Have plenty of nest boxes for the
than 1Sx1Sx30 inches, as hens are
less liable TO crowd and break eggs in
large nests than in small ones.
Luck in the poultry yard is simply
misnomer. Have a practical system
by which everything is done. Quit
doing things in haphazard, go-as-you-
please way and you will soon cease
talking of bad luck. You will soon
find that things done in certain way
produce certain results, so that you
may soon come to know that when
you want to produce a given thing
what to do to get it. Let all move
ments be methodical
A good spray pump is a mighty good
thing to have around the poultry
house just now. Use some of the
liquid disinfectants in it and keep the
lice down. A good mixture is as fol-
lows: Dissolve two pounds of ordi-
nary washing soap with a gallon Of
boiling water, remove from the stove
and add a gallon and half of kero-
sene and one pint of crude carbolic
acid. To this add five gallons OF hot
water; stir we'll and use with a spray
pump while hot. It will rout the lice.
Look after the nest frequently now
until cold weather. The nesting ma
terial soon becomes stale during hot
weather, and for that reason alone the
straw or whatever material Is used
should be changed often. Some good
lice powder should be sprinkled in the
bottom of the nest box before putting
the straw in.
Young chicks just taken from the
incubator should be well protected