The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1915-02-16

%. T. hhapp IN charge of Poultry
Investigations and Pathology
The larger breeds as the Rocks.
Nyandottes, or Orpingtons should be
Matched IN February OF March. prop
crly cared for and fed so as 10 reach
full development and have prope.
weight by all. Selection OF pullets
for breeding should be made from
these early hatches. Strength and
vigor must be kept in mind in making
these selections.
The lighter breeds as the Leshorns
may be Matched about the first Of
April. Pullets Matched at his time
will begin to lay in the fall and will
probably not moult until the following
fall, thus saving the loss incurred by
the birds going through a moult.
Often such breeds Matched a month
or two earlier begin laying in the
early fall then begin to moult which
causes them to stop laying for a
while.
The following ration is used in
chick feeding this year at the North
Carolina Agricultural Experiment Sta
ton.
The baby chicks for the first five
days are fed a mixture of
Bread crumbs or cracker
Wate.... =. g parts
Sifted beef scrap. :. 2 parts
Bon meal. . d. j.. ;. IL part
This mixture is mixed with sour
SKINNED milk and fed five times a
day. Shredded green food, fine grit
and charcoal is scattered over the
food.
From five to fifteen days the follow
ing mixture is given:
Crack wheat. -. ;. B parts
Cracked corn (fne).. -. =. 2parts
Dinhaad oatmeal MORT
Scattered in light litter morning
and evening.
The following mixture with sour
5 milk is given three times a day in
} addition to the above. At the end of
f fifteen days it is fed only twice a
5 day:
Wheat BRAN. =. =. d parts
: Corn meal. . . -. ..3 parts
l Wheat m~iddlings.. =. ..3 parts
/ Beef scrap. >. -. . 70. B parts
: A After the chicks are 80 days Ola
give moist mash once a day. And
: keep same mash dry in dry mash hop
pers before them at all times. And
give the following in litter morning
and evening:
O Whole Wheat. :. b parts
y Cracked corn. =. -. 49,. 2 parts
- Hulled oats. -. :. =. Il part
: After the chicks are six weeks old
continue dry mash as above and give
the whole wheat and cracked corn
+ equal parts in hopper.
) Chicks should be provided with
green pasture made by spading up
or rape. Clean water should be kept
before them at all times. The pans
d must be thoroughly washed each day
: Avoid damp foul ground and if brood
r, ing is done by the hen keep her con.
a fined till hic are weaned and re.
VI, TO c1oon Trash Ground onon q
d week. DiSinfeCt with a 5 per cen
10 carbolic acid solution or other equal
ly good disinfectant all feeding uten
J. sis and brooder or brood coop FIRE
& quently.
- The Experiment Station and Colleo,
Breeding Work
GO Considerable time and money haV
- been spent in introducing new bloo'
into the poultry focks Of the Nortl
-. Carolina Agricultural Experiment Sta
&c ton. The best blood inc obtain
20 able for the different varieties tha
ne are being bred mentioned below:
al S. G. Rhode Island Red, S.. c.. Whit
n Leghorn, Barred Plymouth Rock
ne Buff Orpington, Columbian Wyan
e. dotte, Partridge Plymouth Rock, Sill
D yer Pencilled WyanGotte, HoudaT
a Dark Cornish, Silver Spangled Ham
ad burg, Golden Wyandotte, White-face
ed Black Spanish, White Plymouth Rocl
or Silver Campine, Buff Plymouth ROcl
tn BACK Cochin Bantam, BrOnZe TuI
Sc keys, White Chinese Geese, Peki
Ducks.
m These will be used in college an
station experimental work.
90 The College Poultry Reading Room
,1e A Poultry Science reading room ha
no been provided in the Department {
no Poultry Science of the college. T
this reading room the following pOu
70 try papers come regularly:
~ Profitable Poultry, The Pacif
,n Poultryman, The Canpine Beral'
The AncOna Wrold, The America
W. Poultry Journal, The Reliable Pou
a. try Journal, The American Poultr
~ Advocate, The Western Poultry Joul
nal, Poultry Culture, Rhode islam
he Red Journal, Poultry Post, Wester
er- Poultry J-Sefnl Poultry Journal O.