The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1913-11-14

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More than twenty States of the
United States are conducting expert
mental poultry work, majority of
which maintain regular courses in
poultry husbandry Several of these
give two annual coures in poultry rails
ing-a three-weeks' demonstration
course and a twelve-weeks' textbook
and demonstration course. One of the
of the last official acts of Hughes, as
Governor of New York, was the sign
ing of bill enacted-by the New York
Legislature appropriating 100000 to be
used for poultry instruction building
at Ithaca, as part of the State College
of Agriculture. Fifty acres of choice
land for this building and it's poultry
parks had already been set aside by
the trustees of the college.
In the Eastern States, New York,
Rhode Island and Connecticut have Ia
ken the lead in poultry husbandry
Cornell University doing perhaps the
best work inNthe country along this
line. In the West, Missouri holds the
premier position. The Secretary of
the Missouri State Poultry Board
states that statistics lately issued by
our State Labor Bureau show that
nearly $46,000,000 worth of poultry
products were marketed in Missouri
last year Q912), figuring eggs at Is
cents dozen and the poultry at 10
cents a pound" He adds:
'"Our surplus of poultry products
now amounts to about three times that
Of the dairy products, eleven times
that of fruit and exceeds our surplus
of corn or wheat. 1t amounts to over
$5,O0O,000 more than our combined
surplus of farm crops"
Whole corn is more heating and
fattening than cracked corn. 1t is
well in feeding grain to have three
kinds of mixtures, say, wheat, and
cracked corn and oats, or Kaffir corn,
barley and wheat. pest
A very, fin eway to make a charcoal
feed on the farm is to put some cars
of corn in the oven and let them stay
there until they burn quite black.
! When they are cold at least, feed
this to the fowls and see how greedily
i they will go for it, This, is, of course
not to be considered as a meal, but
only as luxury or side dish to whet
the appetite.
The thirteenth census of the United
States. taken in 1910, gave the money
value of chickens in Kentucky as So,
857, 456. These 8,000,457 chickens pro
duce during the year 44,313,377 dozeI
of eggs, worth $7,605,11 And these
figures do not include ducks, geese
turkeys, guineas or pigeons. 1t seem.
| a large showing but it is only abou
half of what it ought to be and prob
!, ably will. be the next census.
One of the best forms of green food
especially in the bare months, i
sprouted oats. The oats should b.
soaked in clear water over night
: sprouted in a shallow box, and KEEP
warm for several days. At the end o
that time there will be small plants
| three to five inches high. These ar
: taken to the houses where they stin
ulate the reproducing capacity of tn
| hens OF course, it will be necessar
| to keep a box of wet oats started -ey
cry day if one wants continuous GRO
: of green oats.
Scientific breeding and scientific
feeding are the key to profit in tn
: poultry raising. The simplest ma
/ may be employed to do the work, Blu
there must be head, with brains an
q pluck, at the top end.
: &There is no one fowl house which
best of all. Locations and purpose
differ essentially. Some lands ar
, we'll drained and easily warmed; otf
: ers are low and damp and the pos
L. ton may lack windbreaks and need
5 have very close houses. But a
1 houses, anywhere, need ventilation. /
, reply to this correspondent We wish
2 say, too, that it is impossible for us
| give an approximate cost fer an
house, since the price for material
and labor varies in the different loca
tiles. -
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