The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-07-04
DON'T BE BucHoUsE.

An easy way to kill or stunt chicks
- to put them into coops and brooders
that have just been vacated without
first thoroughly cleaning ana disin-
fecting the same. It's like making; a
newborn babe sleep in dirty cradle.
The chicklet cradle not only gets
filthy. but is often buggy. and with
such 9th underneath bad air over
head and bugs biting and sucking
blood it's no wonder there is such
slaughter OF the innocents ana SO many
runts.
It's SO easv and SO simple TO clean
coops and orooders ana spray them
with an insectide and disinfectant
that just this little word from your
Dutch unre' ought to be sufficient:
Don't he bughonse
FEATHERS AND EeGsHELLs.
1t is claimed l.4S3 persons were
Killed In tlsee months In Chicago by
Dad air III the surface and elevated
cars Closed cars seem as great germ
breeders for humans as i'll ventilatey
henhouses are for hens
strfam Of water running through
hen runs Is a great convenience un
less The hens are Kept 90 the hospeE
Plan. when IL becomes d menace to all
stock OF he place.
AIR. Fl karslake HouesdaI,.. Pa.
has demonstrated the usefulness OF
the incubator for saving pun, pigs
that need ezra heal III birth Fill IN
your incubator with little hogs and
try ii.
When the Franklin County tPa.l
Poultry association counted the re.
ceipts and expenditures of its last
show its receipts were 1923 and ex
penses $S23.41 So near and yet not sc
fur!
If you wish TO know whether those
cakes you buy are made Of rots and
spots or not just heat them. When
cold the rots and spots have the nor
NAL egg smell. but when hot they
aren't sweet forgetmenot.
Pennsylvania incubator manufac-
turer claims that his machine matches
1000 chicks for less than q cents a
hatch. Now. If that's a lie it's wbop
per-
India Runner ducks originated in q
red hot climate and should especially
fit the Pacific slope and the southern
states In the last Australian laying
contest their average was over 200
eggs per year
1t Is now law In New York that food
products may be kept in cold storage
only six months unless the state 81
perintendent of health extends the
time, and he has the power to make it
six months longer
II you happen to be sold setting OF
rots don't fare up and send a rotten
letter to the editor. He is not ''trus-
tee Of providence" nor does he keep
his fingers on all the keys of the uni
verse. Spurious advertisements occa
sionally slip into papers. religious and
secular for editors are not acquaint-
ed with all the rascals of the rogues'
gallery any more than you are.
The fellow who is too stingy to buy
good eggs from fancier and buys his
eggs for Matching at a grocery re
minds one OF the fellow who married
mulatto because she didn't need to
buy hat TO save her from sunburn.
At the late New Orleans show the
first prize White Wyandotte hen. val
ued at $1,000. was swiped by hungry
negro. who was captured just as he
was about to cut of her cackler. Her
owner tainted for Joy when she was
restored to his fond embrace.
Winter eggs are not laid by scrubs
any more than by scrub brushes. You
are Matching this season TO get pullets
TO lay winter eggs that sell at 81
per dozen. but you'Il not get them
from stock that looks like 3 cents.