The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1910-03-11
news OF The farm.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Poultry Yard.

Do you keep your chickens or do
they keep your
Good warm wheat makes nice
breakfast for the blddies.
Skim-milk is thin looking stuff,
but It may be put to good use In the
poultry yard.
A little more clean litter on the
floors Keep the fowls hard at work.
II Is the price OF health.
In poultry raising the breed Is
important, but the man or woman
behind the breed is more 80.
Chickens that lay around almost
anywhere sometimes are merely
emulating their betters. ....
The man who keeps hens is not
so much OF philosopher as the
man who has the hens keep him.
For Matching purposes take 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 10 catch the
droppings. and handy to clean. And
don't forget to clean II.
Excelsior always seemed TO me
rather cold stuff to make nests OF.
Good fine, clean oat straw is about
the best OF anything that we ever
tried.
As a rule, eggs from two-year-old
hens give better satisfaction at this
time of the year than 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 to be as strongly fortified, as
eggs from hens that made but fair
showing.
The last egg laid before hen
goes to sitting will often be so small!
that 1t Will have no yolk at all.
There is an old notion that II is
bad luck to bring these small eggs
In the house.
A nest that suits the turkey hen
first-rate may be made by turning
salt barrel on the side Put straw
In the hollow, and nest egg, and
cover the barrel over with brush,
II you have It handy.
One of my neighbors says that
there's no money in poultry, and
that the easiest way to get eggs is
to buy them. He says that he
keeps chickens to eat the bugs in
his orchard; pays 'em a cent bug.
Is there place under some oh
building where you can spade up
the earth and give II to the hens
to work at? They will dig away
hard TO find the worms that may be-
in 1t. Nothing will do them more
good
When hen lays now and then,
and not soon again, and you can't
decide whether she hadn't better
quit altogether, I'tell you what to
do: Why, just ak her to. and Meth
er In box nor In keg will she ever
lay another egg.
Especially in early matches, care
should be taken not to set a hen
until she is thoroughly broody. ItI
does not take much experience to
know when a hen is really broody.
She will be very fussy when APP
preached, and hug close TO the nest
when the hand is placed under her.
March settings should not con-
tain more than eleven eggs, for
when Il larger number is given the
hen can not sufficiently cover thom
to impart the necessary warmth.
When too many eggs are placed in
the nest, those on The outer edge
are not apt to get the amount Of
heat required 70 develop the germ
and bring forth the chick.
Any system CT feeding Is expen-
sive IL the hens do not lay, and the
greater the number of non-produe-
ers the greater the cost OF every
egg produced. Improper feeding or
overlooking may be the cause OF
flock yielding only half OF what it
should. 1t will be found that the
surest course Of feeding Is to fol-
low as nearly as possible along the
line OF nature. and this means va
riety In such a way as TO compel
exercise.
From March Farm journal