Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-08
~ H. h. sTODDARD. Riviera. Texas.
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From
The
Poultry
Doctor

HolIiS them or
trying to have
S SsSG simply ns Stu. Doctor
Whlle had one-tenth of the ingenuity.
tlme and money aforesaid been spent
on devices for labor saving in natural
incubation the results would have been
simply stupendous. too
Commonly incubation advice is pub
lshed In late winter or early spring.
pui at the South October. November
ana december are good months for
Matching
There are as many methods of man
aging setting hens as there are of kill
ing cats. In ordinary cases. when only
uozen or two hens are set in a wear.
almost any old way will do NV uncle
mac a way about as simple az can be
ana followed it all his life. He was a
farmer and his fowls ran at large. a
rev inviting boxes. barrels and cubby
hoIes being provided in positions handy
Tor MIN to get at. He let the setter
stay in the nest she had been laying in
ana never tried to shut others off from
laying to her" The settlers eggs he
marked in ink, with plain coarse line
entirely around each egg. and numer-
ais, also in ink, showed day of month
que. lie fed twice a day and at the
second feeding. when the sun was bout
Y.
Pretty much every setter around the
sapWorks would leave the nest Then
ne visited each nest settlers and all for
the regular daily egging If a setter
mad not left her nest he would lift her
off. Sometimes there would be one,
two or three unmarked eggs
That plan wouldn't do in a warm eli
mate where eggs must be gathered
several times a day, but this was in
GrI,t
with layers and raise the dickens? ?"
Mine don't he would answer They
have enough Asiatic blood in 'em to be
peaceable. and if | find one once in a
great while which Is mean. all ] do is to
cut her wattles off close under her chin
so ! win know her, then when a good
time comes | shut her up by herself a
week and feed her on nice stuff, then
eat her"
The foregoing plan is very primitive
and elementary. No new nest and no
new range for the setter are required,
and there is no catching and moving
her, trying her with dummy eggs to see
if she will stick. and all that. The
advantages and disadvantages are APP
parent at a glance.
REQUISITES.
Among a number of requisites, the
chief and most important is freedom
anu bltnlN OF room TO run. ana run
rapidly. Even if there is ward for her,
the maximum of good will not be af-
forded unless the yard is a large one or
one narrow but quite long will do. Ma
ture teaches her to run like sixty every
day and to use her wings vigorously
also Sometimes she will fly quite a
distance. if of not too heavy a breed.
and sometimes she has a penchant for
fving up to a high perch or high place
of any kind and down again. Anything
to bring into play the muscles of legs
and wings There is. a. meaning>tO this.
There is a close connection between the
use of these muscles and the proper
activity of the bowels. A proportion
and sometimes quite a large proper
ton, of settlers confined in Cramped
quarters show evidences of constitution
and diarrhea by turns. and wilt foul
their nests This mishap is the mean
est. most detestable scrape in the whole
routine of fowl keeping from \ to IL
Yard. and has put more bricks and
boards into immense walls of incubator
factories than any other one thing.
There are other requisites: but none
50 important as opportunity and in
dUCement for running and hving. A
chance to come off at any time Of day
and as MANY times q day as she pleases
and go back when she gets ready. is
desirable. Sometimes she needs not
merely time for eating, drinking and
exercise, but wants to indulge in a
quite lengthy dust bath. When the
weather is cold, nature teaches her to
stay off only a short time. but when il
IS very hot she knows enough to keep
her and for the eggs. too.