The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-12-23
FEATHERS AND EeesHeLLs

The high price of grain will lead
poultry raisers TO Gull down low. Be
gin before the mott by advertising sur
plus desirable breeders in your town.
county and poultry papers. and if this
doesn't take them dress and sell to
private trade. the best paying Of all.
While a passenger train Oh the Fred
erlck division was loafing at Keymar.
Md. two turkeys flew FROM a nearby
barnyard ana alighted on the top of a
day coach, where they remained until
the train had travelled some distance.
when they few of into field. The
passengers told the conductor n train
had reached the limit as a hobo when
it was so slow that poultry made a
rOoSt Of H.
The demand for first class capons Is
vastly greater than the supply, the
large cities taking about all the output
at a big price Here's a branch Of
poultry culture you should get wise 10
and practice, for ii pays highest OF all
and solves thai problem. How to make
roosters pay better than laying hens.
For large portion of the population
If China poultry is the only meat used
Duck is the staple II is dried, pick
led canned and preserved In various
ways tooths, ne 10 the Chink. who
thinks 50 mu, p of 1t that he often has
1t shipped 10 him thousands Of miles
from home.
when turke are raised by chicken
hens in about .hree weeks the old hen
gets restless soon begins to lay and
then deserts h brood, which is not Old
enough TO be without lowering wings
Mother Turk, only lays in the spring
1ud often st SIS with her poults tln
large as herse
4 Deawar preacher who STACKED
the speak ca.as ia his town was at
tackled ia tm with shower of rotten
eggs When % minister does his duty
such rotten fatmeut is hard TO swal
low.
While Eng lnd imports $33.uoomo
worth of egg and much dressed poul
try. Ireland exporting $2o00O000 IN
poultry prod, IS annually England is
overrun with foxes allowed To breed
and protected ny law. 50 that those de
bilitatcd dul IS and duchcSses may
have fun ch, sing them around The
foxes eat the aoulliN. poultrymen are
not allowed Kin them hence decline
Of the induSt' aud large imports
China has population Of over SOC
100000 and .eariy every family is Ia
the poultry business ou % large az
small scale. lncuhaorS do most of
the Matching ducks predominate. and
from the Va poultry product large
quantities are exported. China stand,
first as a poul ~ producer. this country
next
\ York u'll dealer advertised foi
10000 strictly fresh eggs. all 10 be de
Hvered ina 0ceh Wouldn't that al
make Our creitgrandmother sit up in
her hoopskir, ANA take notice aud
make great-grluddad exclaim. We'll,
IN be Joe kickcd.'
Last year gold mines in the United
etates produ. rd S9G2g3.52s. and the
gold output of the world was SAGA. 1oo
O0O. The great and only American he'll
produced SlWp@u.W0. Now. who's
whDt
That the language of chickens ana
ducks differs is shown when an old hen
warns her chicks away from honey
bee aud they beat IL. but when she
warns little ducks away they eat It.
Eight hundred Wild turkeys were
raised on the california state game
farm TO be turned 40 liberty to restock
the wild turkey habitat Of that region.
Hope they have the gun iends In jail
or the experiment win fail
Poultry houses with windows toward
the east are cooler On summer and win
ter than those facing the south