Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-11-09
TELL HOW THEY DID IT
PRIZE-WINNING WORKERS ARE
ENTHUSIASTS.
Polk County Students Making Pro
nounced Successes of Their Sew
eral Undertakings.

That school industrial work is gain
ing greatly throughout the state, an
= that Polk county leads all others i
this particular, is acknowledged b
all persons interested in this brancl
of educational work. And the Oregon
way of doing things is meeting witt
the approval of educators of othe
states, statement proven by the in
terest manifested in the industria
display from this state at the Pana
ma exposition. The public press ha
devoted much space to the work, evi
IDENTIFY believing it worth while The
Sunday Oregonian this week had {
full page pertaining thereto, in which
is included the following about Polk
county workers:
Girl Wins Poultry Prize.
Hazel Bursell of Monmouth was
one of the poultry club winners last
year who came back and won the
first prize in the state contest again
this year. In addition to making more
than $35 net profit from her small
flock, she won a grand prize offered
by the Hicks-C -Chatten Engraving COM
pany, Portland, Oregon, for the best
record made in egg production by
poultry club members. Miss Bursell
tells the secret of her success as fol-
lows:
"The object of this work is to show
the value and Importance of the poul-
try industry, and the marketing of
only frst-class, uniform products and
to teach us how to take better care
of our focks, which means more and
better eggs, better matches, more and
better chicks and incidentally better
boys and girls.
"In 1918 | won one and bought an
other setting of White Wyandotte
eggs from Archie McCauley of Port
land, who had the best chickens in the
juvenile work at the 1912 state fair,
winning thereby a Shetland pony.
This boy is making all his own college
money right in the city of Portland,
at the same time attending high
school. | raised all the chicks from
these two settings excepting one, and
it fell in post hole and died before
l found it. The next year | raised
another nice bunch of chicks and this
year am raising more chicks for next
year. There are always few Brown
Leghorns at the house, as they are
about the hardest fowl to keep where
one wants them, and | use them in
my club work also. My folks have
raised pure-bred Brown Leghorns for
16 years, and we have some splendid
layers. We get a dozen or so eggs
when many people do not get single
one. Ours do not have very good care
either.
"During January and February |
fed my chickens wheat at night and
oats one morning and oat screenings
the next. My chickens like the screen
ings better than the large oats. fed
my chickens between 6:30 and 7 In
the morning, but in the evening it was
necessary to feed them at different
times during the six months because
of the different times at which it be-
gan to get dark. During March, April
and May l fed oats in the morning
and wheat at night, with potato
peeling mash at noon in March and
April, but in May / did not think they
needed it. In June oats predominant
ed in my rations. In the latter part
Of June l fed a mash Of milk, bran
and shorts. fed dry bran and shorts,
also grit and shell in hopper.
Sept my. grain in barrel so that
chickens could not tear the sacks and i
spill the grain, and also some few
chickens would get too much to eat.
measured all grains, ETC., in quart
Measure, for knew just how much {
luart of each variety of grain, bran I
,r shorts weighed, and kept it in the
rain barrel. / cleaned the houses on I
also put in clean litter, G
leaned nests, etc. v
"My method of managing disease |
S by applying the old proverb, An
unce of prevention is worth pound v
# cure,' and. by applying stitch a
n time saves nine, and a few simple (
emedies. | do not have any trouble {
,ith diseases. About once in so often +
scald the milk and water dishes h
thoroughly and then put tiny grain il
{ copperas in the water. BY seeing h
hat the fowls do not gel diseases L
o not have to waste time treating.
'nce in a great while hen gets some g
imple disease. One hen started to
ave the cholera. but the first day S
forced here to eat Goals and in a
ay or two she was as sound as ever.
Vhen my chickens begin to have q,
,oseness of the bowels l empty the \
sh box in their yard, where they can !,
ct all the Goals they want and thus !;
rev cure themselves. W
''I know that interest in your work r,
clips you to do it well and this club 81
ork is the sort of school for the o,
ractieal side of life. a
ssWhen one works alone the task is p
OF nearly so interesting as if they Il
ave a club and meet TO discuss mat ts
rs every so often. Besides this, the ol
struction and the experience we re- Il
i've now will help us greatly in our b.
ork in the years to come. ol