The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-04-22
FEATHERS AND EGGshELLs.

A novelty at the Elizabeth IN. ~
poultry show was the Matching OF
mosquito eggs and the development
of the pestlferous insects in sight of
the audience for their information so
that they may know enough to kill
one when they see it. We have heard
fanciers claim that they got stung
when they bought New Jersey Leg
horns, and we now believe some of
those Jersey fellers have got their
skeeters and chickens mixed
Those cute little ground squirrels
that cock their tails over their backs
are expert egg robbers and are often
the sneak thieves that get away with
Mother Turkeys eggs. They raid the
grain fields and the fruit also and
should be exterminated.
Senior Jose Canalejas. the late as
sassinated prime minister of Spain,
was much interested in poultry cul
ture. When the international poultry
exhibition was held at Madrid he gave
a luncheon to the foreign delegates
and presented them to the king.
When hens drop their eggs under
roosts at night or soft shelled eggs ap
pear it's nearly always case Of over
fat. The hens should be examined
and fatties penned elsewhere and fed
a light ration with plenty of greens
and made to exercise for their grain.
Ireland is certainly forging ahead in
poultry. Her turkey crop in 1912 was
IT,
Wales together produced but 45S,O0O
She is also ahead Of these three coun-
tries in chickens. eggs and goats.
There are many reasons presented to
the courts as grounds for divorce The
latest is where Reading tPa.I woman
asked for a divorce because her hus-
band kept chickens in the house and
made her clean up the dirt The roost-
ers crowed from morning until night
and got on her nerves and wakened the
baby She ought to have a divorce.
AS with everything else, when fan
cier gets his first incubator there is
always deluge of advice from out
siders how to run it. As most ma
chimes are bought on trial, it is wise
to follow the manufacturers directions
A beautiful bouquet of flowers in
natural colors, made of goose feath-
ers, was on exhibition at the late Phil
adelphia poultry show. OF course no
woman would be goose enough to wear
them, but lots of them do and don't
know it, just as they wear dyed rabbit
for black fox fur and skunk for Alas
ka sable.
Very often commissions, wry neck.
timber neck. leg weakness and suppos-
ed ptomaine poison are simply the re-
suit of feeding moldy corn to fowls.
When whole this is easily detected,
but when the grain is ground fine by
SUBSCRIPTIONS millers it Is hard to de-
Itect unless one has very sharp, well
TRAINED smeller.
An incubator with capacity of $780,
900 eggs. or 100000 eggs per season,
has been set up at an incubating plant
lat Port OConnor. Tex. This is the
largest single incubator in the world
Milo B. Hastings. formerly Of the Unit
led States department of agriculture, is
lin charge.
A farmer living near Montoursville.
Pa. set a spring gun for chicken
Thieves, and the gun went off and kill.
led man who had served time in the
Eastern penitentiary for highway rob-
Ibery. This is the first instance. we
know, where the deadly gun trap
idtdn't shoot the innocent instead of
sthe guilty
V. NO .'SI'ssr~vAh.