Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-09
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A Successful Poultry Ranch.
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call at a neat little bungalow
home, a few days ago, broadened into
a visit to real up-to-date chicken farm
-htat interested me beyond expression.
Only one fowl is cultivated, the large. r
pure-bred Barred Plymouth Rocks-but
they make a show, you bet! There were
one hundred and twenty-five young
chlckens, under two months Old and
they are the progeny of last years pul-
lets. The surplus ea>z are sold to those.
VINO wish to get pure stock at good fig
ures-aLG common hens do the sitting
Every. brood has it's neat and com
modiouS pen. The grown chickens are
housed In well ventilated structures
and the droppings are easily removed.
the young chickens are regularly fed
once in. two or three hours. The grown
ups are fed three times a day, The
grain is grown on the farm attached and
there is variety in the mixtures that are
constantly used.
A close calculatio nmakes the feed
Dill of those fine chickens one dollar per
day.
They have a wonderful range. among
native oaks and grassy lawns. They
go out and in at will.
Two hens are set at a time, on the
same day, so that the young chicks can
De given to the one hen best qualified
to carry them until weaving time. Al
incubator is also used at proper times
! TO keep up the number. But the best
results come from good hen mothers TO
hover them of cold nights
1 said to myself, IF l was only TWEEN
ty years younger, I'd certainly have
small chicken ranch"
l must not forget to say how perfect
those young chickens were at weaving
time. Everything iS kon
clean and water in the troughs is
changed three times a day
CONSERVING STRING BEANS.
L was interested to see large quanti-
ties of snap beans strung and drying
in the shade when 1 visited a Barlow
county farm house a few days ago The
lady of the house told me she dried
surplus beans in the same way last
year and they were good eating in the
winter time.
The beans were young and tender,
She strung them as for dinner (to be
boiled), and then took a coarse needle
with a long thread and strung them
like beads, to be hung on the wall in
the shade under the piazza roof 1t
was astonishing that she could accu-
mulate such a quantity so early in the
season. s.sr
After these tender young beans were
cured in the shade she puts them away
in sacks until the cold weather She
soaks the dried pods before cooking, for
several hours, and then boils them for
the table. l have for a long time known
that beans and green corn are among
the very difficult foods to be safely pre-
served for winter. l have found that
they should be cooked almost done
enough to eat or they will not keen
at all.
If the tender snap beans can be prop-
erly dried, like fruit and okra are dried
in farm homes, there will be a difficult
problem solved very satisfactorily
We need simple, easy methods. and /
had never seen this plan in operation
before
Maybe some of our country-home
readers have more acquaintance with
the plan than I have.
Governor Dorsey in Gainesville
The colored people, with their food
demonstrators. had a rally in our town
last Saturday-and / was invited by
them to be present. 1t gave me real
pleasure to attend, because. the war
crisis seems to be upon our country and
have been doing my little utmost to
encourage the colored men to invest
their savings in land--and the women
to make everything that can be pro-
uuCeu III the nome, the. gardens ana
patches.
My experience in the civil war has
remained fresh in my memory, and we
only managed to save some land and
my household was clothed by hard
work with looms, spinning wheels and
the saving of everything that could
make a quilt, or rag carpet. The time
to save has come again-and the col
ored people should utilize their own
savings. Mrs. Neel, the president of
the Baptist Woman's Missionary union.
made the colored women a stirring ap-
peal, before the arriva lof the governor,
with School Superintendent Britain and
cultural department
These gentlemen gave the colored
folks and the white visitors some val
liable information on the numbers of
colored youths who had gone into the
military service, and of their willing
ness to go, and their loyalty. / am
certain the effect was very good. When
the government called colored soldiers
by the draft law, they must be well
equipped, well cared for in sickness and
health. and given a good opportunity
to make good in the army. Right or
wrong, the governments action must be
fully recognized and sustained in mat
tiers of such import. and it is gratifying d.
to be told that these colored soldiers
are doing good service, on the battle
lines in France and Italy.