The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-09-19
FEATHERS AND EccsHEILs.

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Two pens of White Leghorns were
shipped 1900 miles from Adelaide.
South Australia, to Glancoway. Den
bigshire, England, and laid the day
after arrival.
There are 5000 poultry keepers in
the city limits of Buffalo. with an ag-
gregate Of $1,000 fowls Oh, you city
chicken crank, you are getting there.
too. and may your tribe increased
The scaly leg mite starts to work on
a chicks legs while with old mother
hen If mother hen has the same trou
BILE on her trilbys. Sulphur ointment
or plain lard knocks this parasite.
The more hens on the roost the more
liable you are to have bad air. The
more hens in house the oftener you
must clean up. Experiments show that
a small flock tended well is the payer
You may generally tell whether egg
farmers feed greens by the color of
the egg yolk Alfalfa and clover give
the yolk that rich yellow that gives
Mariar's sponge cake that golden tinge
In the new Standard of Perfection
the Rocks are all described as identical
in shape, and yet the half tones Of the
Barred, White. Buff, Silver Penciled.
Partridge and Columbian Rocks all diff
fer in shape. The artist must have
had chicken craze or a brainstorm.
Many fiocks are sluggish, lazy and
unproductive because not compelled to
work for living. Grain is thrown on
the ground, they gobble 1t, then doze
till next meal If you want eggs to
rustic make those hens hustle to
scratch of that fat hustle.
A newspaper comes out with the
heading, Keep Chickens and Live
Better at Less Cost" This advice
surely should be followed by those
editors who are the victims of dead
beats and must accept for subscription
spongy red beets, soft cabbage heads,
rotten turnips and squash.
To understand how breeds have
changed one needs only to study poul-
try art of today and yesterday
| What vast difference In shape, size.
style, color, beauty, in favor Of the
present, and yet old breeders thought
they had reached the limit. Our turn
to be dubbed fossils will come.
When a Pennsylvania baby cut a
big bunch of teeth at one lick 1t was
remarked that the kid must have been
brought up under one Of those sys-
TENS by which you make $4,000 a
year from six hens ON city lot and
build bon ton broilers for market while
| the customer phones his order.
If you have an idea that the big
| Light Brahma has about fiunked visit
| the "south shore" section in Massa.
chusetts. You win find him there as
| the famous south shore soft reaster
in thousands. sold right at the raisers
door, live weight. at 80 cents a pound
| for the benton Boston market.
When it comes to fattening poultry
for market take into consideration
that shape has much to do with the
success Of the project as well as the
feeding method Avoid those narrow
backed. goose necked. lanky birds
cut out the screeching fiers. Wyan
dottes. Reds and Rocks finish slickesi
and sell quickest.
1t is remarkable what demand
there Is for white shelled eggs. and II
seems to be growing. Those White
Leghorns and Minorcas do certainly
shell out the beautiful white globes Il
beat the band. New York and Sar
Francisco want them. Philadelphia
has now caught the mania, but Bostoi
still sticks TO Browning, brown beam
| and brown shells.