Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-01-28

does nCt pay III any Work and Certltn-
ly not in poultry keeping.
Experience is the best teacher
! There is strong and growing SEN
, timent against cold storage eggs. Let
it grow. Fresh eggs are the only
ones fit to use. An infertile egg never
gets rotten and stays fresh longer
than a fertile egg. If you want to
save up eggs for market so as to get
a full basket take the males out of
the breeding pen and the eggs will
stay fresh for a longer time An in
fertile egg will shrivel up until there
is nothing in it except small little
ball, if kept for year or 50.
Fresh water should be before your
chickens all the times. It is very nee
essary if You want eggs because nine
ty per cent. of an egg is water
Inc pulcHcl olIcH has IldUN OUUS
and ends which he is willing to sell
for a very small price. This meat is
just what you need for your chickens.
1t makes them lay, and that's what
you want.
Glover makes good green feed for
the chickens. 1t can be grown very
easily and with but little trouble.
Use common-sense in raising chick
ems.
If you have not got a bone grinder,
it is easy to break the bone with a
Ratchet or hammer.
Confine broody hens as soon as dis
covered.
Wheat has gone UP half of cent.
Barley could be fed more frequently
than it is. 1t is a good deal cheaper
than wheat or corn When | first
gave my chickens barley thov Inst
picked at it, but after a while they
became used to it and | found it very
satisfactory.
While there are a large number of
poultry plants in the country, it is Il
fact that the great egg producers are
the farmers; the general farmers all
over the country. with theifnfocks- of
from 25 to 100 hens, oftener the for
mer than the latter Here little and
there a little, their production of eggs
and also of dressed poultry aggre-
gates an immense quantity. Indiffer-
emily housed fed haphazard for the
most part, yet in spite of this d1n5
remarkably well, the farmers hen
with her business foot in the soil OF
freedom, is the mainstay 81 the de-
mand for what She c1n produce
1t is only within recent years that
a farmer ever thought of Matching
chickens in any other than the good
old way, Something like Is years ago
| purchased the first Incubator ever
seen in my town and it was a great
curiosity to the people of the neigh
borh3od. There are not more than
six or eight in town now, but they
have become plenty enough to cease
creating any excitement.
The incubator Of the present day |
consider an essential to my farm as
the corn planter or moving machine,
says II. Leigh Hunt of ermont in the
American Cultivator They have been
improved until folr hatch is assur-
cd with good machine and proper
attention aud they are simple enough
In operation so that any person of or
binary intelligence can operate them.
With them chicks can be Matched at
any time after fertile eggs can be
mad and a large number Of chicks be
mad at once. no small advantage in
more ways than one, when one thinks
Of the many broods Of varying ages
usually Matched by hens when chicks
in any large number were required.
One hundred chicks of the same age
VIII DO better in given space than
half that number Of different ages.
Unless each brood is kept separate
the older will crowd out the younger
and weaker, and the smallest stand "A
fair chance to die,-Bangor CONNER
cial
Chickens on free range do not
need change Ct food as often az
those cooped up because they can
pick up enough food to balance thci,
ration.
Never cat your chicken the day It
Is killed. After killing it, put it in Il
pan Of cool water SO as to get all the
animal heat out Of 1t then put 1t in
the ice box or in rcme other cool
place, and leave it there day or so.
You will soon find that If you ate