The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1911-04-21

Sheep will eat many kinds of wild
grasses. They thrive in dry, mild
climates.
If protein is supplied freely there
will be abundance of eggs from the
same flock.
Use good lice paint on the roosts
in the morning and repeat every two
or three weeks.
Make up your mind to grow at least
a part of the poultry food on the
home farm this season.
If the hens do not lay we'll it may
be solely because they are not intel.
managed or fed.
A bull tied in til stall will get lazy
and useless, besides making extra
work in his care and feed.
A few ears of corn laid in the oven
and allowed to parch gives good oc.
casional variety to the feed.
No matter what kind of floor there
is In the poultry house, the main
thing is not to let it get damp.
In the production of eggs, as in
that Of milk, proper feeding is essen.
tial to attaining the best results.
A flimsy fence will not restrain a
bull-and will cause no end of annoy
ance especially in a busy season.
Oats will do better on sod land
than barley, but neither of them do as
we'll on a tough sod as after corn or
potatoes.
Don't sell eggs for Matching until
you have tried out eggs from the
same pens at home and know they
hatch well.
Select out only good, trustworthy
hens that can be relied upon as be.
ing good sitters. They should be
we'll feathered.
Misshapen eggs will sometimes
hatch good chicks, but it is better to
choose well-formed eggs with clean,
smooth shells.
Handle eggs carefully and avoid
rough handling. A bad shaking up of
eggs during handling or shipment has
spoiled many a hatch.
If you must feed soft food provide
a small trough in which to feed 1t. It
becomes starter Of disease when
thrown on the ground.
A good way to test a chick food Is
to place small quantity on a dish
before some husky chicks and note
what they leave of it.
Strongly fertile eggs from good,
healthy stock will often hatch we'll
and produce good chicks under ap-
parently unfavorable conditions.
The mixture of poultry manure with
such materials as land plaster and
kainit or acid phosphate is almost in.
perative for satisfactory preservation.
The young chicks which are to
make our winter layers should be
hatched from the middle of March to
the middle of May, depending on the
breed.
Other things being equal, the breeds
belonging to the Mediterranean class
II fowls, namely the Leghorns. Minor
Las and Hamburgs, are the greatest
,gg producers.
Hen nests should be cleaned and
after each hatch before
'tarting another and the old nesting
should be burned. Fight lice
low and all the time.
It is all right enough to rear tur.
leys with the chicken hen If the fool
len wouldn't wean them so early.
Then lice are always more trouble
ome than with turkey hens.
Undoubtedly one Of the most remun.
.rative branches Of the poultry bust
less for the average poultryman is the
production of eggs, combined with
he sale of market broilers as a side
Inc.
Land plowed last fall may be sown
o oats without again blowing. II
own broadcast SOW two bushels to
he acre over the plowed ground and
harrow them in both ways, then roll
o level the land.
When the SOW Is given warm,
ich slop, or other milk producing
eeds just after her pigs are born, a
trong milk flow is forced. The new
'orn pigs get too much and have diar-
hoea, which often kills them.
1t is only through the legumes, and
Trough certain lower orders Of plant
lie with which farmers are not famil.
ar and which we will not discuss
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