The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-01-16
POULTRY NOTES.

1Snt, the next LnlnS Is 10 SSo U Iue
rests or incubator boxes. 1t is to
arly yet to put any old box in thu
open, where rains and draughts can
make havoc of the hen and her preci
us eggs. A house is the need of the
ime-not a rat center, either. In the
house, into which sunshine should
.ome some time in the day, put BIO
nest, large, roOmy enough for the
mother hen to stand up or turn aroun
n. Hens often turn around, and
he quarters are too small they ar
.pt to break an egg in doing so. TIL
est may be provided with bottom
Of turf, grass side down, beaten hard
md saucerlike hollow scooped In
is center. Fill the corners OF the boy
with turf, packed down tight in the
;revices. The nest should next be
covered with hay or soft straw, well
lusted with insect powder.
There are so many crying needs"
in the poultry industry. One says
hat the greatest need is intelligent
feeding; that this is the solution of
he reproduction problem. Another
declares that the one crying need Is
intelligent mating. Another lays
stress on intelligent housing, and 9TH
ers on other features. The whole
truth is composite The solution OF
the poultry problem lies in that one
word, intelligent" Eevery step
should be forward one and taken, al
ter intelligent consideration. Haphaz-
ard methods no longer avail. The age
has outgrown them-in chicken rails
ing as we'll as in the higher profess
sions, such as teaching, preaching
physicking.
A German savant, DR.. Gebbing, di-
rector of the Leipsig Zoo, has discov-
cred, through various experiments,
that the most effective way to keep
down mosquitoes is to- have wild
ducks on the ponds where the insects
breed. Ducks feed greedily on all
sorts of inset life in its larvae stage.
One German nobleman has stocked
his ponds with thousands Of wild
ducks.
The hen of the future will be en-
couraged not to waste time loafing
on some old nest that is possibly mite
infected, brooding day after day for
three solid weeks or more, but to Law
her nice large egg every day in the
year and then go about the business
of making the next days egg and
swelling her masters bank account
Her little buffy, duffy, dandy birds
will come, but they will come in a
warm incubator and grow up in a
brooder.
The February and March chicks
are the chicks that fill the pocket
book They are also the chicks that
make the early winter pullets and
lay the high-priced eggs in November
and December.
Breeding the best layers year after
year is the only true method of secur-
| ing high water marks in poultry rails
| ing.
The barred Plymouth Rock is bird
to be proud of when you have the
| best there is of them. With his full
deep breast, his deep body, his arts.
| tocratic bearing, one must feel that
| he is king among birds.
If you hope to get winter eggs, ii
| will be necessary to provide as great
variety of food as possible for the
season of the year. Vary the grains
provide sprouted oats, alfalfa, cab
bage, beets and meat ration. And
make the birds exercise.
| Do not be afraid to leave the hen
house stay open in cold weather
Fowls flourish on dry, fresh air. They
are warmly clothed by nature and
| hn oil hn
not let wet in, nor draughts, nor
storms.
A burlap curtain which can be rails
ed or lowered, according to the wealth
er conditions. is generally sufficient
in such climate as we have in Kentuc
ky. 1t is essential, however, that the
fowls exercise, not stand huddled VI
on one foot, awaiting food that is TOT
easily obtained. Sow grain in the foo
litter and make them hunt for it.
You Backyarders, see what you Cal
do with your backwards the comm,
season. You might wire off one-hal
for fowls and give the other half VI
to garden. The house owner VIII,
loves either avocation has a world o
pleasure in his off hours, and whel
a neighborhood of gentlemen get tn
chicken fad or the garden fad no out
side attraction can lure them ava
from home evenings until dark close
down. They hurry nome from tn
Office, put on jumpers, seize the no
or spade and out into the fresh, al
they go, gathering health and chea'
ing the good doctor out of his natu
al rights. The wife mas her inning
when the bowl of brown eggs, all {
one size and shape come to the tabl,
or the vases are filled in the dew
morning with great creamy roses, {
when at noon the table is adorne
with a steaming bowl Of green pea
or with crisp radishes laid on crispe
lettuce leaves of green and white.
Auto driving is to be taught III
der the engineering department (
the Iowa State College this year.
class from Paris would make might
fine material for the instructors
start on