The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-01-30
CHICK CHAT.

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the little bantam that weighs only
twenty-five ounces to the Mammoth
Bronze turkey, which tips the beam
at fifty pounds. Poultry breeding is
now recognized as one of the scien-
tific developments of very scientific
age.
It is claimed that even where eggs
have begun to hatch under the hen,
It is better to finish them off in an in
cubator, since by tina: method the wee
chicks are free from liability of gath
ering lice or mites from the mother
hen. The change should be made
from hen to incubator quite a while
before piping time comes.
Remember that newly Matched
chicks do not need food or water Ma
ture has, their proper nutriment pre-
pared for them for the first twenty
four hours.
A young man who left the city and
Office life and bought a chicken farm,
and who has made good, tells how he
began, how many discouragements he
had, how he used. these discourage
mentS as ladders, anc how he has end
ed in receiving more orders for his
products than he can easily han Il
alone. He used incubators and saved
he time of his hens for more lucra-
tive purposes. Out of the incubators
he sold day-old chicks and also eight
lays old chicks, thus saving feed and
lime and losses. The incubators
turned out chicks faster than his
early breeders. What he thus had
over he fed for broilers as long as
prices were high. The rest he fed
for roasters in the fall. He plowed
and sowed his lanG and. raised his
own feed, giving the slip to the grain
dealers and mfddlemen. He even
made the lawn clippings count, cur.
ing them the same as clover and
storing them away for winter feeding
He made the waste from the wood-lot
count by burning it for charcoal. II
: is needless to say that this diligent
% former newspaper man "got there"
:. Reflect little and you will find
. hat allday free range for poultry
6" not conducive t. profitable egg
yields.
> Egg farming is in a class by itself
- Other farm crops are liable to meet
n with fuctuating prices, but this does
not come to the egg farmer. The
price of eggs is about the same
month by month, one year with an
ID other, and it is continually raising
IS Most other crops require expensive
n lands and costly fertilization. The
IL egg crop can be raised on very cheal
land, and hens themselves make ;
salable fertilizer.
8 The Department OF Agriculture o
~ the United States has just begun il
IS vestigations into curious methOt
of of cheating which has developed il
the poultry industry. 1t seems tina
some shippers have been "fattening
fowls by supplying them, just befor
ed taking them to market, with food mix
he lures into which have been put rocl
w and sand, for the purpose of maxim;
to false weight in the birds. The New
&c York Live Poultry Dealers Protectiv,
1t. Association brought, in evidence,
barrel of these sand-fed chickens
Some of the crops we're pulled up t
ny the size of a small orange and weigh
% ed a half pound each, while not NOR
", than three ounces was the Lawful
"a weight of the fowls.
Mr.. H. NJ. Lamon, OF Washington
City, government expert on poultry
is now in the State to establish pou
ch try clubs corresponding to the cor
rs and canning clubs of the boys an
m girls Of the State. This is move il
lis the right direction. The boys an
ed girls canning clubs have done woI
he derful things-things to emulate an
ta to rejoice in.
There is great lesson as well a
great -suggestiveness in the presen
he high price Of eggs and poultry, if onl
t., the stay-in-the-rut farmer will nse
as and heed it.
Eff
m. The Biddy OF the fftiee-yes, and G
"a the sixties too-spent a whole year j
70 laying some eighty odd eggs, an
nearly half that time in sitting o.
them in the darkness and silenct
- then clucking small broods of chick
up to puddledom. The Twentiet
Century hen is not so. She is reach
ing out after two hundred and fit
eggs year and has been cut OF th
job of rearing refractory yOungster
J altogether. She is still mother, bu
" her offsprings belong to the master.