The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1913-05-20
POULTRY NOTES.

POULTRY NOTES.
A good hen, good feed, good feeder
make good combination pretty sure
| to bring success.
| Progress is usually the result of ex-
tperience.
| In all experimental stages expect
loss, and when it comes, regard it as
educational
The eggs of many ducks are so del
icately favored and delicious as hens
eggs.
The wise gardner saves the drop
pings of the poultry houses. They
make a valuable fertilizer, whether
applied directly or put in the COM
post heap, to be applied to the land
later, and in combination with other
things.
Good feed is food properly balanc-
ed to build up flesh, shell and eggs in
the shell. An egg contains calcium,
protein and nitrogen. Feed for these.
There is big money in pigeon rails
ing. Squads are always wanted by
caterers and hotel keepers. The first
plant is the greatest cost.
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At one time the Cochin craze was
old Dutch craze for tulips. Then
Cochins gave way to other breeds,
| cti nj
| in the affections of poulterers.
|
A law of the poulterer is "the great
cts weight in the smallest relative
| compass or the greatest bulk
around the most desirable portions
of flesh"
A number of poulterers are max
| ing a great favorite of the Indian
Runner duck. They claim for it har-
diness, freedom from vermin, fine
! flavor of both meat and eggs, and
! that it is almost immune from fowl
! diseases.
| No one business in the United
| States nearly equals it's egg produc-
this business half the ability and
| brain work that is spent in other
! occupations and then note the result.
| Heretofore it has been too often reg
| ulated to the weaklings on the farm
| The high cost of living will soon
| change all this. The 50-cent egg will
| surely some time produce a demand
! for the 50-per cent. good gray mat
| ter of the brain.
The census of 1910 gave a total of
! $85,O00,000 as an estimate of the poul-
! try product for this year. There has
been a great increase since the CEN
| sus was taken.
Where the age of fowl cannot be
told by the legs, there is often a
| dull heavy look under the eyes OF an
old birds, which an experienced poul-
terer can discern at a glace.
|
Prof. James Dryden, of the Oregon,
Agricultural College, has a goob opin-
| ion of the trap-neSt. He says
"The only certain method of separ-
ating the good layers from the poor
is to use the trap-nest and keep a
daily record of eggs laid. 1t is not
always the fault of the feed and care
that they don't do better. 1t is the
misfortune of the hen herself very
often; she could not lay if she wanted
to.
ct required considerable time to
keep a trap-nest record of a flock of
! hens. Not every farmer has the time
but if few farmers in every county
would trap-nest a flock of hens, in a
few years all the farmers of the coun-
ty would very likely have stock that
were from heavy-laying trap-nested
fowls. Where it is possible for a
! farmer to devote a little time to it
each day, he will be we'll paid for
F! his labor.
ut has been shown in our expert
ments that the poor layers during the
first year are usually the poor layers
the second year. If at the end of
full years record all hens that had
laid less than 100 eggs, or 120, were
to be killed off, it would save the
farmers keeping a lot of fowls at
loss for another year. From 25 to so
per cent. of the fowls in the average
f1ocks do not pay for their keep"
When a hen is over-fat at the lay
ing season it is we'll to hold her in
suspicion of having her laying organs
somewhat out of order. An excess of
some substance that is ordinarily
used for egg-nurture has been turned
into fat. Such a hen may lay eggs
occasionally, but not often enough,
or reliable enough, to make it worth
while to keep her for her eggs. Gull
all these birds out of the flock, if you
want to continually breed it up to nts
best. The poor layers may be put into
flock by themselves and the result
watched. Such as are poor layers or
non-layers, will make good pot-pie, or
chicken with dumplings, or croquettes.