The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1917-06-25
HUMANE
FARMING

Mrs. Winnie Honnold, wife Of the
manager of the Idaho Land & Live
stock company's farm between More
land and Blackfoot, is a humane
farmer and follows common sense,
not custom, in dealing with the
friends in feathers and fur" A
year ago we published an article
showing her ingenious ways of man
aging the chicks so they were all
happy and thrifty, and each one had
all the kinds OF food his little sys-
tenn erayed. Those chicks have
grown up to adults and the pullets
have made great record as layers
OF eggs, Last winter when eggs were
worth 30 or 90 cents dozen, Mrs.
Honneld was harvesting about 80
eggs a day from 100 hens.
Now folks, think a moment % to
the edibility of eggs supplied by 0
bunch of pullets that always had
clean food in good variety and never
suffered from hunger or cold or
pain. Then think a little about the
quality Of eggs laid by pullets that
grew up yeiping for something to
eat. Pullets that ran around as
chicks, foraging for food, suffering
all kinds of priYations and when they
were fed, had the food thrown out
to them on the ground where they
had to grab it hurriedly out of the
dust and-now listen-dust that they
and other chickens had been standing
around in all season and using as
their toilet room. The dropplngs
from their own bowels mixed up In
this same dust and particles OF IT
grabbed up with their food. IT Is
q law Of nature that such an act
in any kind Of animal life produces
deadly diseases, such as typhoid fever
in the human kind, blackhead in tur-
keys, cholera in hogs, and various
other outward indications of deadly
poison in the system.
AS we said before, Mrs. Honnold
Is setting an example of common
sense methods in raising chickens.
She shipped in 800 new chicks from
the hatchery at Petaluma, California,
and we have observed homes in the
country where there are big girls
loafing most Of the time and just
spelling for something to do who
might be having the time of their
life raising chicks II they would go
at It on the Honnold plan, and be
making bank accounts for themselves
besides. Mrs. Honnold has put all
the little ROSTERS in enclosures sep
arate from the girl chicks, and is
fattening them for the July market.
They are two months old and some OF
them weigh two pounds. Their little
combs look fresh and red and they
have been learning to crow these
two weeks. 1t is fun to watch them
and to hear their funny little at
tempts to crow like their daddy used
to do. If you were taking care OF
them you would think SO much OF
them you would wake up in the
night wondering If the little rascals
had kicked the covers off or lost
;. their pillows.
=, Mrs. Honnold did something else
I lastaspring that we want to tell you
about They handle a good many
sheepg on the place, and you know,
Ia sheep is never so happy as when
/ IL can, die. If it gets anything the
sniaTfsr with it, it gives up and dies
E al so6n as possible, just the reverse
4 Of al cat. Well, at Landing time
I there were lambs that nursed and
limbs that needed help, and the
Z the1rders helped them. Then there
: were lambs that lay around and
= gasped and died and went to lamb
/: heaven. Mrs. Honnold told the mer
:: to bring her some of the doubtful
ones that the herders could not dc