The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1915-04-09

this is great waste and we should do
better A chilled chick means a dead
one. and it has been hard to prevent
chilling this season. can't resist the
pleadings of the baby chicks to get out
in the open, but had to turn deaf ear
at last to their wailings and keep them
confined in the houses till the weather
got warmer; then they stopped dying
and are growing like weeds. One
poultry raiser said her chix had turned
cannibals and were eating each other.
A neighbor told her they needed food
they were not getting and to feed them
milk; this was tried with good results.
After chick is two weeks old it needs
a diet furnishing protein, this is OBJ
tained from insects when they are
plentiful, otherwise it must be fur
nished. The large poultry plants keep
dried beef scraps before their chickens
all the time, to eat as much as desired;
beef scraps are expensive and care
must be used to have them fresh The
experiment stations tell US that milk
and cotton seed meal may be used in
stead. Care must be used in these
feeds also; cotton seed meal, If the
least musty, will cause bowel trouble
even in grown fowls and | have been
afraid to use it for very young chix.
Clabber or butter milk is better than
sweet milk, for the reason that it
might be the least bit sour when it is
dangerous to feed in that stage,
Chicks need to be taught to drink but
ter milk by pouring little in shallow
pans and crumble in a little corn bread !:
it won't take them long to learn that
it is good, then they are perfectly ra-
venous for it. Overlooking will kill as
well as the cold, especially when very
young. A baby chick is supplied with
nourishment with the yelk of the egg
for the first three days, after that
they should be fed just enough to keep
them hungry for little more; when
they have to be confined, some place
should be provided for exercise. A
bucket of sand in which is stirred chick
feed or grIts, from which the fine parts
have been sfted if poured in a corner
Of the coop or room will keep them
digging and scratching all day Idle
ness is as much the cause of their pick
ing at each other as the want of proper
food Tack a bacon rind on the wall
Of the coop for them to pick.
Farming operations are going on at
rapid rate; everybody is trying to
get the corn in the ground before it
rains, Corn that has been planted two
weeks, shows no in of coming. Early
planting Of Irish potatoes will show
bad stand Cabbage plants put out in
February are doing nicely; other early
vegetables are beginning to grow now
that we are having some sunshiny days.
| am sure the cows will appreciate
these warm spring days more than any
Of the farm animals; their lot this
winter has been hard. Most Of US have
more cows than we are prepared to
care for; this isn't good management
and it is pitlful to see the poor half
starved things staggering around in
the cold and rain We will have to en-
ter into stock raising slowly, content
TO raise what is needed on the farm,
with a little surplus. These things
don t come by leaps and bounds; re-
adjustment will surely take place as
the need IS felt, and not as an expert.
mcnt
Best wishes for all
MRS THERESA DOWNER.