The Delta independent., 1911-06-16
POULTRY NOTES.
Field and FarmJ


our Colorado orchardists should
ly all means be chicken raisers. The
chickens eat and destroy the yermin
Of the orchard They scratch the
soil and by constant scratching keep
IT porus which helps to produce a
larger and finer crop. BY having
the two together the bank ac-
count is materially increased and
hut little extra feed is necessary to
keep chickens growing right along.
The latest theory out is that
fresh eggs placed in cold storage
are alive at the time of going in
but that the germs slowly freeze
to death in the cold chamber. This
gives an Objectionable flavor when
cooked. 1t is now claimed that by
electrifying the eggs before they go
into storage the natural fresh taste
may be retained during the storage
period.
A simple dry mash for poultry
may be made up OF two parts of
bran. two parts of shorts or mid
dlings and one part of beef scraps.
The grain can be fed morning and
evening in litter OF straw, thus
compelling the birds to take plenty
of exercise in hunting for their
food Nothing should be fed that
is musty or foul in any way.
on a ranch in certain Colorado
valley n new and strange method
of Matching chickens is being prae-
ticed There are in that section
many artificial wells bored for the
purpose OF furnishing irrigation.
One of these wells is $50 feet
deep and the water produced in II
has a temperature OF l02 degrees.
This water is being used for the
purpose of submerging an incubator
in which chickens are hatched. The
eggs are placed on straw in the
bottom OF can and are turned
twice each day during the period
Of incubation. The chicks are tax
en- out and placed in brooders when
two days old.
A new breed of chickens is call
ed the Malinc and 1t is the soft
roaster par-excellence. remaining
without caponizing in succulent
state until nearly full grown. or
from seven to eight pounds in
weight. The largest mature old
birds equal the Asiatics in size.
The Maline shows several colors
cou4cou or barred; black black
and red and white-one of the
most priced being cockcrel with
metallic black on the web, while
all the under fluff is completely
snow white which would allow the
flavor of the flesh to be influenced
by the dark pigment and dressing
off like perfectly white plumaged
fowl. These large soft roasting
fowls have peculiarly white flesh
on exceptionally long. broad bodies.
Poultry raisers all over Colorado
are complaining that this is an off
year for Matching chickens and 1t
does look that way. Although more
than double the usual number OF
eggs have been incubated less than
half of them have been hatched. We
fancy that the trouble is due mostly
to the lack of experience and 1t does
take a lot of fussing to make an
incubator behave itself.
More and more each year the
cream of poultry profit Is obtained
by Matching. raising and sending to
market the chickens known as broil-
ers which includes in general way
birds that weigh from one to two
and n quarter pounds at from two
to four months old. The highest
prices are obtained during the ear
" part of the season and Just now
the Denver market is screeching for
more of them. For broiler produc-
ton fully ninety per cent of the
poultry men use the incubator ex-