Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-09-11
Make Your Variety the Best.

Whore lON1S o1O NOAAA11Co " SIAdll
-ords they need very careful attention,
~sarticularly in hot weather, to keep
nom from contracting some disease.
When the weather gets very hot the
dor from a lot of filthy surroundings
- not very conducive to health. If
!bo house is we'll cleaned every few
lows. as it should be, that is not all.
The ward should be spaded or turned
oIer in some way N order to have the
t,inting from the continued droppings
scattered over the yard turned under
Trhere they will be dissolved and taken
rare of by the contact with tho fresh
oarth. Then you have the fresh
round on top ready for the fowls to
work on.
# is really an advantage to grow
some crop upon the ground, as the
growth of the crop takes up all the i'm
%rurities in the soil.
This s not so easily done unless
rou have double yards that you can
nsf one while the other is being seed
ID down. Then there is the movable
run which some have used with sue
cess. 1t is the plan of seeding the
yard. having a wire netting run say,
four by eight and two or two and a
half feet high, according to the KIND
Of fowls kept. This yard is kept in
one place two or three days and then
moved to a fresh place. Allowing all
the rest of the yard to be vacant for
the growth of the green stuff.
A good dust bath place is a very
essential thing at any time of the year,
but specially so in hot weather. Where
YOU are turning over the ground for
the sake of getting the droppings I'M
der and not "a sing green stuff, the
mellow dirt freshly plowed or spad-
ed makes a regular play ground for
the hens or chickens of all ages and
sizes.
Where it is not possible to raise
any quantity of green stuff at a time,
it is a good plan to make a frame of
Ike boards 3X6 feet into which SOW a
half bushel of oats after having soak
ed it over night in water enough to
cover it. Have your frame located
upon smooth hard ground owe the
oats with about one inch of loose soil
and water we'll every day. When the
sprouts show through well it is read
to feed.
When you wish to feed it take a gar
cen hoe and slip the blade of it under
the pats and all and life it straight up
and you can carry to where you wish
to feed it. This not only makes the
finest green food you can obtain, but
it will as a rule be full of worms, too,
which will give them something to
work on for some time.
When your fowls combs have a very
dark red look to them it is a sign that
they have some form of liver trouble
or indigestion, and they need more OF
this good green stuff regularly all the
while, and it should be provided or
they will not do we'll. Do not pay any
attention to the other fellow; let him
run his business the way he chooses,
but you want to stick to the breed
that you have and make it the best
breed on earth and there will soon be
many others who will be thinking the
same way and want your stock.
have known a good many breeders who
who have made themselves leaders
and that, too, with what many people
supposed was an unpopular fowl
They s SIMPLY showed people that it was
as good as the best for all practical
purposes and the show room, too. A
freed is pretty near what one chooses
to make it. One man will take it and
with his shiftless and careless way of
handling it lead observers to think
that it is of but little use, and he will
eventually drop it for something not
as good.
If you really think that the breed
that you are handling is not as good
Tor you at least as some other one
would be, sell it off and make a change
for the one that you are sure will have
confidence in, for you will never do
much with a variety that does not suit
you. 1t is a good deal like telling
every one with whom you talked that
your wife was no account. Such 4
procedure would soon be the means OF
making her really no account to you,
There is nothing like having things
matched up right. You take an in
tense interest in the hens you are
Keeping and then they will Johnny
On the spot" for you, if you will allow
the eXpression.-F. J. Marshall in
southern Rural st.