Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1913-11-29
FOR THE POULTRYMAN.
Timely Hints of Interest to Poultry
Raisers and Fanciers.

If turkeys are closely confined, more
than not you cannot get them fat at
an. lnuced, they have been known,
when put in confinement in good flesh
to Dcgln losing it right away, until
nothing much but the skeleton is left
If turkeys are given their freedom,
they will not roam far in cold weather,
and when it is cold and snow is on the
ground is the time OF year they put
on fat in quick order. No use having
a poor Christmas turkey.
Boiled corn, to which you add a
little oil meal. is the best of fattening
food for turkeys They relish it, and,
even if new. it will not hurt digestion
if boiled before feeding. A big sugar
or soap kettle. whichever you may
call it, is just the vessel for boiling
up the turkey corn.
Don't forget that box OF busting
material, kept where il will stay dry
all through the freezin weather. and
don't forget the grit and charcoal.
even if you do forget the oyster shell.
Grit and charcoal keep them healthy
Charcoal holds medicinal ingredients
that are entirely beneficial to diges-
ton by sweetening the contents of the
crop and killing acidity
Poultry on ranges can assimilate
huge quantities of corn and yet keep
well and lay we'll Many poultry
keepers are pleased with the amount
OF eggs they get. and furnish the hens
little else but corn. and plenty OF
green stuff in summer, thou"h not so
much in winter. The reason hen
can keep healthy on corn If running
at large on god days is because she
must keep up at least six degrees more
OF heat than other kinds of animals.
md corn supplies what she needs III
that line.
There are persons who are partial
to spotted cows. spotted dogs and spot
ted chickens. or spangled. as the spot
ted chicken is spoken of The l1ou-
" spotted, but the topknor hurts the
first. and the small size the latter.
Why don't more advertisers give us
the Spangled Orpington. an evenly
spotted Whit and black bird of large
size. and, it is said. the equal of the
Buff and Black in LAYING power
A chicken off its feed. or sick. hunts
the roost early in the evening. and
we'll known poultrynan says that, III
his experience. the hen that goes to
roost first is the one off the roost last
and is always n poor layer: also the
hens that 90 farthcrest back on the
roosts are the same. though strong and
hearty. These are classed for culls
The laver is a hustler. late TO bed and
up early.
The colony plan that scatters the
houses over a large area of ground
means lots of work. and takes cap
able business man to look after il
right and make il pay, for only too
often the colony plan OF keeping poul
try means greater expense than when
poultry is kept in one continuous
house.
The continuous poultry house was
not success when wire was used
only for partitions. 1t was cold
house then. and contagion starting III
one compartment spread down the
long house to all But now the parti-
titions are solid and each compart-
ment is practically a little house to
itself. and much warmer than If stand
in" out alone to the winds from all
sides. These are now the favored
houses. They are favored because
TIE means OF work are all at hand.
You have your feed room, incubator
and other working rooms at one end.
You go down the alley under
roof. in storm and snow TO feed the
fowls In the continuous poultry
house the alleyway is usually built
along the rear of the compartments.
The yearly records of certain hens
at some of our late poultry-laying
contests bring to mind the record OF
light Brahma hen belonging to the
veteran poultryman. Isaac Felch, that
laid 300 eggs in less than year This
was over forty years ago. a White
Plymouth Rock hen belonging to an
other responsible noultryman laid $40
eggs in the year 1908.