The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-02-03
l HAVE LEARNED


important factors in the poultry BUSH
ness; without cleanliness comes lice,
mites. roup and deaths, and a gener-
al falling off in egg production and
week offspring.
I have learned that a very small
crack or air hole in the rear of the
poultry house on top or bottom will
cause much trouble among the fowls
from colds and swollen eyes and wa
terry nostrils.
l have learned that leaky roof
is worse on flock of valuable hens
than a chicken thief A leaky roof
Is torture n slow r! coo youmm
is torture and slow death to any
flock Try to imagine cold rain
soaking down through your bed
clothes for eight or nine hours, and
then you will have good illustra-
tion of how it must feel to the warm
body of a fowl. and how she must
feel next morning.
I have learned that fowls will
scratch and dig in the ground in
nter just the same as in summer;
but how many poultry men are fur
nishing their birds a place to dig?
Hens cannot dig through a concrete
floor. or board floor. A good
floor is all right in a poultry house,
but l believe that a space should be
left in each house without a floor,
same to be filled with sifted earth.
sand or fine gravel. This earth
space to be situated so as to get the
sunshine sometimes during the day.
MY houses have no floors except
Mother Earth which is spaded in
winter the same as in summer.
I have learned that air-slaked lime
sprinkled on the floors. on dropping
boards, in cracks and crevices. and
about the runs, is worth its weight
in gold as germ destroyer.
I have learned that one part air.
s,aked lime and one part sifted wood
ashes mixed together will act as an
excellent lice powder; also that goose
oil will cure colds among poultry
quicker than any other remedy I
have ever tried (by bathing head and
throat). Ask your doctor about the
value Of goose oil as remedy for
Group among children: then try 1t
on your sick fowls that act croupy or
roupy.
have found that clover hay is ex-
cellent litter, also furnishing large
percentage of green food. I have
learned that poultry should have
warm water to drink in cold weather
I have learned that $50 hens will
eat one-half bushel of potato parings
cooked and mashed, mixed with i
pound Of alfalfa meal and two
pounds of wheat bran. Some hens
eat that much potato par
ings in week. particularly in cold
weather.
I have learned that powder U
don't care who makes it) will not
kill head lice on baby chicks. l
have learned that hens that set in
July and August will mott after leav-
ing the nest and be in full laying
for the next season by October 1.
I have learned that hens set in box
es ON a level with the ground will
seldom break any of the Matching
eggs entrusted to them.
I have learned that crude carbolic
acid poured into scalding water and
the solution poured in cracks and on
dropping boards is sure death to red
mites. I have learned that white
diarrhOea does not exist among my
hen Matched and brooded chicks
have learned that crowding of
birds on the roosts causes colds.
| have learned that sudden
change to cold weather will affect
egg production to greater extent
among Leghorns than it will r. I.
reds I have learned that for one
to be a successful poultryman you
must devote much time in reading
and eXpend some cash in advertising.
I have learned that following the
aforementioned means hard work.
and hard work means success. F.
Laughlin. in American Poultry Jour
nal.