Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1915-08-11
POULTRY
CONSUL TING DEPARTMENT
Timely Pointers

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Good wheat at full price is cheaper
than screenings at half price for the
poultry.
If you cannot dress poultry so it
looks good better sell it alive, as it
will bring more.
Oats is one of the most important
feeds we can feed to growing chicks,
as it is muscle and bone builder and
makes fine feathers.
Don't sell those early Matched pull
lets. You are exchanging a dollar for
fifty-cent pieces when you do. They
are the all winter layers, the paying
kind.
The first trap nest patent was is
sued in June, 1897, seventeen years
ago, and hardly in practical use yet,
and one of the best improvements in
poultry raising.
Just one paragraph on an article
published in Poultry World (London)
on Campines. 1t reads thus: "The
bird that for over 400 years has held
sway in Belgium by it's wonderful
power of production, must have
proved itself worthy Of the ecomiums
passed on it by that nation. In Bel
GUM whole districts are devoted to
the Campine, districts where egg-pro-
duction is the staple industry of the
people. Therefore it is to the bird
that has for so long proved itself
worthy of this posistion that the In
tensivist must look for his egg-ma-
chine"
Sour or musty food is sure to start
bowel trouble.
Do not let eggs accumulate in the
nests, as it has tendency to encour-
age the hens to broodiness.
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You should join the club that rep
resents your favorite bread, take hold,
be booster" do your part to help
promote the bread that is your
favorite.
Science says impure food fed to
poultry is the cause of many diseases
in man. Then as poultrymen we
should be careful what we feed our
poultry and the care we give it.
How many mistakes in mating have
already come to light. 1t is bound to
crop out, mistakes always show up
where correctness is not noticed. We
should take nbte of our matings that
produced the like and those that pro-
duced the best and profit by last eX-
y
Good care and right treatment will
even make the common chick more
productive.
Success will not come the first year.
In fact it takes two or more years to
get started in the poultry business,
and then you must keep everlastingly
at it to make success.
Whether or not it hurts an egg to
hold it over for two or three weeks
depends very largely upon the egg.
If it contains strong germ, the dam
age may be little or none; but If the
germ is weak to start with, it GER
tainly will deteriorate rapidly.
Dryness of the brooder floor, or if
brooder has heat below the floor, is
apt to cause leg weakness. 1t is a
good plan to have the brooder much
like outdoor conditions in summer.
You can sprinkle the earth on the
brooder house floor after the chicks
have gone under the hover for the
night, providing the house is dry and
is not liable to make it damp.
Did you ever notice that the June
or July Matched chicks are often mar
wells in the way of color, though not
so large in size until perhaps their
second year? / would just as soon
have a fall Matched chick as one
Matched in spring. Hens sit in the
fall as we'll as in the spring, and so it
must be natures way. When the hen
sits she usually does so through de-
sire to increase her family. Let ma
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