Middletown transcript., 1911-04-15
FARM NEWS AND VIEWS

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Bulky food serves to promote digestion
and health.
A ration rich in carbon will produce
too much fat
1t is not necessary to build elaborate
poultry houses.
Too highly stimulating food is apt to
cause liver troubles.
Red beets, either cooked or raw, are ex-
cellent for fowls.
The best preventives for mites are clean
illness and sunlight.
Geese should have access to green forage
as early as possible.
Laying hens need plenty Of pure water.
an egg is about 80 parts water.
Having chosen your incubator study
the book of directions and follow it care
fully.
Food rich in carbohydrates tends to the
production of fat, and fat hens are not
the best Of layers.
It is very bad policy to feed the hens
nothing but corn; but it is being done by
many. Feed variety.
The trap nest is the only device that
will pick the laying from the non-laying
hens with absolute certainty.
For all, the production of eggs is an i'm.
portant object in poultry-keeping; for the
great number of people it is the grain OBJ.
ject in pOultry.keeping; for the great
number of people it is the main object.
An ounce of the fluid extract of black
haw in pint of warm water will be found
very valuable for a COW threatening abor-
tion. A half dose can be repeated in two
or three hours as often as necessary.
To the man of little money and many
children the Shorthorn is bonanza, sup.
plying milk and butter and good salable
calf at weaning time. The Jersey, Ayr.
shire AM Holstein are great milk and but
ter COWS.
The Warmest part of the brooder should
be in the center rather than at the side or
corner. II the heat comes from above
and considerable portion of the brooder
be heated to the same temperature, no
crowding will take place.
The temperature given for running
broodere vary with the machine and the
position of the thermometer. The one re-
liable guide for temperature is the action
of the chicks.
If they are cold they will crowd toward
the source of heat; if too warm they will
wander uneasily about; but if the tenn
perture is right each chick will sleep
stretched out on the floor.
The cold chicken does not sleep at all
but puts in it's time fighting its time fight
ing its way toward the source of heat.
In an improperly constructed or i'm
properly run broeder the chicks q
through varying process of chilling
sweating and dstrnggling when they should
be sleeping, and the result is puny chiCkl
that dwindle and die.
The arrangement of the brooder for thC
sleeping accommodations of the chicks il
important, but this is not the only thin.
to be considered in brooder.
The brooder used in the early season
especially the outdoor brooder, must havt
ample space provided for the day time &C
commodation of the chick.
This part of the brooder must be vel
lighted and somewhat cooler than thu
hover. AS soon as conditions will per
nit, get the chickens out on a larger floor
or, better still, on the ground.
Keep the chicks scratching in daylight
and sleeping stretched out at night, anG
the most difficult problem of poultry rails
ing has been solved.
Start with Pekins-they are the hand
lest, and mature early. Pay well for 9
welI-bred male, but do not accept scrut
as gift.
Pekin ducks do not need water fol
swimming, but they must have plenty oI
absolutely clean drinking water.
Pekin ducks do not make good settlers
use chicken hen. Place not more thar
l3 eggs under the hen. Sprinkle the eggt
with slightly warmed water every day fol
week before Matching, or the youDgsterl
cannot come through.