Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1914-03-12
FEATHERS AND EoosHeLLs.

FEATHERS AND EoosHELLs.
Yes. turkeys like fresh air. and their
thick feathers are a protection against
cold. But there's a limit. They
should be protected against fierce
storms and fed regularly and well dur
ing the winter
This is certainly big country and
most too large for the law to handle.
and 1t certainly is task to catch all
the food dOpers. tuberculosis beef and
meat fixed with preservatives are sold
to the public without conjunction or
fear of detection. The best way to get
ahead of such swindlers is to eat less
meat or raise your own.
The shipments of poultry. eggs and
feathers from the IA counties of Mis-
souri, last year reached $3O.902, 416.
Missouri's poultry product is $5O,OOO,-
900 per year. the result of pushing
poultry culture. and every state in the
Union has the same chance
There ought to be at least a nest to
every four hens. and each nest should
just fit one hen comfortably. Where
two hens can get on the same nest a
fight and broken eggs may be expected.
You fellows that raise wheat needn't
hold your heads so high. The whole
wheat crop Of 50.1S4.OO0 acres was
only $3.50. 10000. The American hens
egg crop was over $500, 900 900. ana
that was only half her crop and from
much less land than the wheat acreage
and with less expense.
A brooder house pays best where a
good number Of chicks must be
Matched.
Over 1900 auto licenses were issued
In Pennsylvania the past season. and
mighty few Of them didn't average
killing one chicken. Pretty hard on
farm poultry. but as an Offset they
paid a tax of $750.OOO. to be applied to
road building.
When news came from the North
American egg laying competition that
an Englishman's White Leghorn had
broken the worlds record by laying
292 eggs in year. English fanciers
went glad and Americans got sad and
mad. But read this, you cranks: An
American hen. half Leghorn and
White Rock. has just skinned them
all by finishing her years record at
the Oregon experiment station to the
tune of BOB eggs She did not stop to
celebrate. but kept right on laying.
Next
The oldest chicken thief to be ap-
pretended In Pennsylvania is eighty
years old, sentenced In December to
the Lancaster jail. Think Of it-so
near the grave and yet a knave!
Where nests are dark and roomy and
sufficient for the hens you seldom see
egg eating Hens will always rush for
broken egg because like most hui
mans they know good thing when
they see It.
The state game farm at Forked Riv
er, n. j.. is success. Forty incu-
bator Matched quail. 200 wild Mallard
ducklings. thousands Of English pleas
ants and a wild turkey gobbler and
ten hens live in the wild natural sur
roundings and promise well for future
extension of the work.
1t is real amusing to hear the re-
marks of male kickers when women
exhibit fowls at the shows as II wom-
en- weren't the producers Of the bulk
of the poultry in this country. There
should be three jackass classes at the
shows. One should be for fellows that
knock the Judge. the next for the fel-
low who knocks the show manage
ment. the third. or big jackass class.
should be for the fellows who criti-
else women for exhibiting their birds.
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