The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1913-07-17
FEATHERS AND EaosHELLs.

II. B. Fullerton, a Long Island
gardener, sold barrel Of caulifow-
er for As cents and traced 1t to city
market, where 1t was being sold for 70
cents a head. Beans that sold for 30
cents bushel were resold to city
housewives at 81 bushel
A good big bunch Of hens ON the
roost means comfort and few frozen
combs. Roost Stats should be arranged
so they may be moved close together
on cold night
One way many get poor laying STOCK
is to set the first hens that go broody.
These first hatchers are the hens that
do the heavy winter laying. They
set these hens on the eggs Of the poor
layers. who start to lay in the early
spring, when any old bunch OF feath-
ers lays the cheap egg.
F. A. Kinds of Battle Creek, Mich.
named one Of his hens Miss Calling.
because on several occasions she has
laid three eggs a day. Are we to In
fer from this that she manufactures
haymow explosives?
In washing white birds for show 1t
Is wise to clean the shanks and feet
first. To leave these last means han
ding the fowl after the plumage Is
washed, and the less of that the bet
ter, for a single stain often means the
loss Of the blue ribbon, especially the
prize for the whitest bird.
The Buffalo Poultry and Pigeon
club has enrolled class Of over forty
boys and girls to study poultry cul-
ture. Cornell university is supplying
poultry course to the rural school
districts of New York, and the depart
ment of public instruction in Pennsyl
vania Is introducing poultry instruc
ton In the rural schools.
Bleaching birds for show with by
drogen (peroXide) still fools some O.
our fresh new judges that know !
all, but the judge Of experience know
the natural feathers and the fake b.
simply running his fingers through
them. Peroxide makes a hens feath
ers so brittle that second wash afte
its use means the breaking and drop
ping of many of them.
One reason for colds and roup q
4 shows is the use Of insecure waite
D. cups on show cOops. These cups dunn
their contents in the coop. The bird
e not only are without drink, but the
IS sleep on the wet sawdust and. {
g course. get sick.
II Missouri shipped 1895, 144 pounds
feathers to the other states last yea
an value $51S,45S Yankees sleep on Il
rs 600. 600 tons Of feathers, and these mu
10 be renewed every twenty years. A m
lion pounds are thrown on the dun
N heap every year; hence we MASTERS II
III port 100000 pounds annually. MI
es souri, sets an example to the nation.
From the amount of grease In son
beef scrap there is mighty little b
draulic pressure used at the factory
UT eliminate it Much of our so CALI
Ill high protein beef scrap is lehi-hog
lard cracklings
es Mrs. Ellen Bucks of Bristol, Pa,
az save her sixty young featherless Ply
outh Rocks from the frost cut up b
d. old stockings and made dresses for b
es little roosters. Thus once more nect
sity is the mother of invention.
al The dropping board should be watc
lg- ed closely. for the drop is a quick
dicator Of any digestive disord
ur When natural 1t is semisolid, CYL
ms drical in shape. dark green and has
ler pure white tip. II the tip Is yells
look out for trouble
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