Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-08-09
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1 have been very much interested
In your pieces in The Atlanta Jour
nal and have derived much benefit
from them, Last December l. 1deAsl
cided 1 would deyote a little time to
poultry, as much for pleasure as
profit. I bought ten hens, four S. L.
Wyandottes, four Rhode Island Reds,
one Plymouth Rock and one crossed
between r. /. Red and Brown Leg
horn. From the first of January to
the first of July, six months, they
layed 72s eggs and Matched off Y
chickens. Kept them on lot 5Ox150
feet. Fed them scratch feed, cooked
oats, bran and corn meal mash. Kept
Purfna Chicken Chowder, Oyster
shell and charcoal before them all the
time. Fed them once a day on leaves
Of alfalfa hay. Kept fresh water
for them all the time with an occa-
sional dose OF DR.. Hess & Clark
Poultry Powders. Is this a pretty
good record?
This little experience. teaches me
that there is a great deal of pleasure,
some profit, a lot of patience and
plenty of work in the chicken bust
ness. ~
Thanking you for the information
derived from your writings, am,
Yours truly
MRS. ]. F. ADAMS.
1SS Oakland avenue, Atlanta.
ANSWER
Yours received and the record made
by your fowls is certainly good and
shows that you have done your duty
towards them and that they will
usually yield to care and attention
from anyone but so few seem to know
the first lessons in poultry keeping.
Success is practically summed up in
a few words: Cleanliness, proper
and prompt feeding with variety of
feeds, a love for the work and look
ing after little details. This spells
success in the poultry business. If
more families would do as you have
done and be satisfied with few good
birds well cared for they would get
far better results.
"FIindly advise me If the feed should
be reduced during the moulting season
for hens two and three years Old!
What special feed would you recon-
men dior them while moulting?
w. ]. THOMAS
Charlotte, N. G.
ANSWER.
of hens during the moulting season,
especially where they are two and
three years old. If you can give
them free range and instead of re-
ducing their feed they should really
have better care and attention during
moulf than at any other time and
should have a greater variety and
II should contain a lot Of commercial
meat scrap. The Aunt Patsy Poultry
Feed comes nearer to being bal
anced ration for moulting hens than
anything / know Of and IL should be
kept before them at all times where
they can have free access to II in a
dry form, also they should have
good feed Of commercial scratch feed
once each day. With this treatment
they will moult out quickly and nat
urally and keep in good condition
while going through this trying time
on them and will usually lay through
out the moult. However, II yours
are two and three years old and
have been yarded IT would be a good
idea to turn them out where they
can get plenty Of exercise and suf-
fcient quantity of bugs and green
grass which will help them to satisfy
their appetites and they will not
need as much of the grain feed by
doing this. A change and variety is
really what does them good. Chick
ems while moulting should have plenty
of good food which gives them
strength to grow and will enable them
to go through the moulting season
much more quickly than II fed a
scant ration.
Please tell me through your coli
umns If the little Texas fly will kill
them? A friend told me they were