The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1911-04-20

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or three weeks.
Make up your mind to grow at least
part OF the poultry food on the
home farm this season
II the hens do not lay well 1t may
be solely because they are not intel,
ligently managed or fed,
A bull tied In the stall will get lazy
and useless, besides making extra
work In his care and feed.
a few ears OF corn laid In the oven
and allowed to parch gives good oc'
casional variety to the feed.
No matter what kind OF floor there
is In the poultry house, the main
thing is not to let 1t get damp.
In the production OF eggs, as in
that OF milk. proper feeding Is essen
tial TO attaining the best results,
A fimsy fence will not restrain
bull-and will cause no end of annoy
anCe especially In a busy season.
Oats will do better on sod land
than barley, but neither Of them do as
well on tough sod as after corn or
potatoes.
Don't sell eggs for Matching until
you have tried out eggs from the
same pens at home and know they
hatch well
Select out only good trustworthy
hens that can be relied upon as be-
ing good sitters They should be
well feathered.
Msshapen eggs will sometimes
hatch good chicks, but it is better to
choose well.formed eggs with clean,
smooth shells.
Handle eggs carefully and avoid
rough handling A bad shaking up of
eggs during handling or shipment has
spoiled many hatch.
If you must feed soft food provide
a small trough in which to feed it. 1t
becomes a starter OF disease when
thrown on the ground
A good way to test chick food is
to place a small quantity on a dish
before some husky chicks and note
what they leave Of 1t.
Strongly fertile eggs from good.
healthy stock will often hatch well
and produce good chicks under ap
parently unfavorable conditions.
The mixture of poultry manure with
such materials as land plaster and
kaintt or acid phosphate is almost i'm
perative for satisfactory preservation
The young chicks which are to
make our winter layers should be
Matched from the middle of March to
the middle OF May, depending on the
breed
Other things being equal, the breeds
belonging 10 the Mediterranean class
of fowls, namely the Leghorns. Minor
cas- and iIamburgs, are the greatest
egg producers.
Hen nests should be cleaned and
whitewashed after each hatch before
starting another and the old nesting
material should be burned. Fight lice
now and all the time.
II Is all right enough to rear tur-
KEYS with the chicken hen II the fool
hen wouldn't wean them so early.
Then lice are always more trouble
some than with turkey hens.
Undoubtedly one of the most remun
cratiye branches Of the poultry bust
ness for the average poultryman Is the
production Of eggs, combined with
the sale OF market broilers as a side
line.
Land powed last fall may be sown
to oats without again plowtng. II
sOwn broadcast SOW two bushels TO
the acre over the plowed ground and
harrow them in both ways, then roll
TO level the land.
When the SOW is given warm,
rich slop, or other milk producing
feeds Just after her pigs are born. a
strong milk flow Is forced. The new
horn pigs get too much and have diar
rhoea. which often kills them.
DIR. w T. Tuck, who is in charge Of
! the New York Office OF the bureau OF
animal industry Of the department OF
/ agriculture, spoke Of the uses OF por-
/ noise meat. "Porpolse meat, he said,
! 10 not al all bad. have tasted It. and
/ II is only through the legumes. and
! through certain lower orders or plant
! life with which farmers are not famil
Iar and which I'VE will not discuss
now that the soil has been filed with
the nitrogen which is of the utmost
Importance in any system of agricul
! cure.
II seed oats are infested With smu
II f. advisable TO treat the seed 20 de
stroy the smut, using formaldehyd'
Lrnn1nnnnt aftnr getting the hnlletii