Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-05-09

will send you a bulletin on feeding
fowls by the examining method, which
will also show cuts of the machine
used for this purpose and will tell
you the kind of feed to use. This will
give you more information than
could possibly write you in a letter.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
B. A. r., Atlanta, Ca
am having trouble with my chick
ems. They have something like a
corn on their foot and it swells up
and causes them to stand around on
one foot. Please give cause and
remedy.
ANSWER.
The corn on the bottom of the foot
of your chickens is caused from a
bruise, usually from flying down off
a. high roosting place. 1t is best to
make them roost on the ground or
straw to keep them rebruising the
place. Usually 1t is impossible to
cure them. and it gradually becomes
worse. especially if you go to doc
toring or fooling with them. The
best remedy is to change their roost-
ing place and give them either sand
or straw instead of the rough yard to
take exercise in.
w c. Logan, Headen, Ga.
In your letter in The Semi Weekly
Journal of the 21st instant, you say
l in reply to Mrs. Walker: I'VE do not
Nbreed Brown Leghorns any more"
1T appears you once bred them but
do not now. Please state in The
Semi Weekly Journal your reasons
for not breeding them. / have bred
many different kinds of chickens but
none that excelled the Brown Leg
horns for egg production.
ANSWER.
Our reason for not selling Brown
Leghorns is not because they are
not good fowls and are not profitable
They are very profitable and one of
the most popular varieties bred to-
day. We simply had good offer
for our entire lot of prize winners,
and as we wished to reduce the varie-
ties kept by us we let the party (Mr.
Caldwell Porter, of Rome. Ga.), have
them. They are splendid fowls and
certainly do lay eggs, and are well
adapted to our southern climate.
ANSWER.
You have been very fortunate in not
losing any more chickens than you
have You must expect to lose some,
and the hen referred to evidently died
with a broken blood vessel, or appo-
plexy. The treatment you are giving
them is all right and certainly will
produce eggs. The Barred Rocks re-
ferred to, as long as they lay well,
you may rest assured are not In very
bad health I do not think it is worth
while to try to doctor them. Possibly
change in their feed might help
them, but as long as they lay. you
needn't feel uneasy, for no chicken
can lay unless in good health.
Mrs. z. D. Andrews. Lovejoy, Ga.
l am having some trouble with my
young chickens. Their eyes close, but
don't seem to be sore-no corruption
of any kind seems to form in the
eyes. The eyes close as If they were
asleep. If you can give me any In
formation as to the cause and what
will cure them, l will appreciate it.
have the Crystal White Orpingtons
and Rhode Island Reds.
What is better for chickens, butter
milk or sweet milk?
ANSWER.
Examine your little chickens for lice,
and also for mites in the box where
they roost at night. The indications
are that these pests are sapping their
life out, which will make them weak
and lifeless and they will sleep their
lives away. Their eyes will close up
and they do not seem to have much
life in them when affected by insects.
am confident that this is the trouble
with your chicks, or they have not
vitality enough to make them thrive.
Sweet mix is better than buttermilk
for chickens, but it should always be
fed in a stiff mash with bran and corn
meal.