The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-09-26

egg that is rich brown every time is
hardly possible, but by selecting and
Matching only dark eggs and breeding
from their hatch for several years you
may get there
9. My chicks seem to have rheu-
madsm. They are on dry board floors
by day and sleep in warm indoor
brooders by night and haven't been
forced for growth. Please suggest
cure. A. The best cure for your
chicks is to get them out on to the
damp earth After chicks are on dry
floors for four or FIVE weeks the juices
In their legs seem to dry up. This is
the case where the brooder
nursery is heated by lamp under the
floor
TO A CRYSTAL SPRING.
sing of spring
On the farm in the hills.
Whose waters. so pure and SO cold,
Trtckle up through the rocks,
Then So singing in rills
Through green meadows and wheat
fields of gold.
How the larks carol there,
Where the wild roses fair
Draw their life from thy pure, linpid
pool,
And the thrush from the tree
Sings an anthem to thee.
Crystal spring. purlins water so cool
There the cows and the sheep.
Standing in grasses deep.
Bow their heads to thy life giving riil,
And the boy, whistling gay
From the field far away,
Comes to thee his brown Jug to all
Oh, the lingering sips
That took with my lips
A. dipped my hot face in thy coclI
And how often the time
That dropped down a line
To ensnare the sly trout in thy pool.
Thirsty fowls of the air
AZ they Quaff sweet drink there
Raise their eyes full of thanks to the
blue.
Weary pilgrims that pass
AZ they kneel in the grass
Praise their Maker, oh, cool spring for
you.
C.M. BARNITZ.
FEATHERS AND EoosHELLs.
Sandy soil is best for poultry runs.
This soil affords best sanitary condi-
tons, and on it hen health is pro-
NOTED. II your location does not at
ford natural drainage. artificial should
be applied.
When cluek is off the nest and
blowflies settle on her eggs you may
be sure she is sitting OF some rots.
Rots often leak through the shell pores
and, like bad company. spoil the good
eggs around them.
Merchants who handle cold storage
eggs often have nonreturnable egg
cases in large quantities for sale in the
spring. These may be bought low and
only need new cardboard cells to make
them o. K. for use.
Two great essentials to poultry sue
cess are cheap grain and green's. and
the fancier who raises his own has a
cinch on the fellow who must buy ev-
erything he feeds. He is independent
Of market fluctuations, and his fowls
flourish on free range and sound. fresh
feed.
When things all seem to go wrong
with you and you get so mad you are
bound to swear at somebody. then
swear at the monograph, and when it
has taken your record sit down and
let the machine blow your cuss words
back at you. That will reform any
mule.
Chicken feathers are now largely
taking the place of bird plumage on
the hats of fair woman White HoI-
land turkey tails furnish the largest
feathers. Most Of them are dyed.
Barred Rock feathers from breast,
wings and tails are latest for muffs,
boas and hats.
Laying capacity varies much among
individual hens. A test shows some
laying 200 a year and others none.
When trapnested a fancier is often
surprised to find the hens he consider
ed his best layers are his worst drones.
Trapnests are cheap Better buy and
test out the deadbeats.
Like Mary's lamb. pet goose TWEEN
ty-five years old followed Kathleen
Alworth to a New York school and,
unlike the little sheep. was admitted
and was used for nature study.
Geese certainly have strong likes and
dislikes. and the feathered rubber
necks, unlike the human. are very in
teresting
White Rock breeders have regis
tered a kick at the picture of the
Rock cock bird in the new Standard
The tail is bungled badly. The artist
who got $50 for the job. az usual
blames it on the printer. The associa-
ton should appoint committee from
its prominent rooster faker tail graft
ers to finish the job.
While the storage trust is expert on
figures and is certain of big demand
for eggs the winter through, when IT
comes to figure on the natural supply,
there's the rub. To Illustrate, the last
week of February. 1910, $4,000 cases
Of fresh eggs were received in New
York, while in the same week of Feb
ruary, 1911. 116,34O Eases were ship