Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-02-09
POULTRY CLUB NEWS
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(Bv Miriam M. Jones. }

Begin early with your chickens
this Spring. 1t is time now that you
had your hen setting. Let's have Gear
| ly Matching" for our standard for "it
is the early bird that gets the worm. .
! Chickens Matched early attain more
I! rapid growth, have more eenrgy, usu-
ally are not infested by lice and mites
and the pullets should begin to lay
in September, October November
when the hens are Noting. If you
haven't your hen already sitting, get
setting of one of the standard vari-
eties-Plymouth Rock, Wyandotts,
Leghorns, Orpington, Rhode Island
Island Reds and set them right away!
The Nest.
Now the first thing to consider is
the nest. Do not wait until you are
ready to set the hen to prepare the
nest. Prepare a box 16 inches long,
16 inches wide and Is inches high,
with tight sides and top, and mar
row strip about five inches wide
across the front of the box to keep
the nesting material from falling out.
Nail strip about four inches wide on
the bottom of the front edge. of the
box for the hen to fly upon when she
gets in and out of the nest.
Next follow these steps:
/. Sprinkle the inside of the box
with insect powder or snuff.
2. Make the nest in a shallow saucer
shape of dry and clean straw,
hay, leaves, or pine needles.
3. Get the hen that has set two or
three days on nest egg for the
new nest.
d. Put the thirteen standard variety
eggs in the new nest.
5. Take the hen by the feet, hold her
head down and dust the feathers
we'll with insect powder, especial
ly under the wings.
6. Place the hen, preferably after
dark on the nest.
z. Feed the hen while she is sitting
with whole corn, wheat or oats.
Put this where she can get it af-
ter getting off her nest, also have
water and grit near the nest.
8. Dust the hen with insect powder
8. Watch the hen to see that she sits
regularly and it is better to see
that she if off her nest about half
hour each day. In three weeks
you should have thirteen little chicks.
Feed For Baby Chicks.
Do not feed little chicks for sc hours
after they are first Matched. For their
first feed day feed them sour milk or
butter milk. For the second day feed
them dry or butter toasted bread
crums or, hard boiled eggs and wa
ter. On the third, fourth and fifth
days begin to feed them dry bran.
Give them charcoal and plenty of fine
grit or coarse sand. Always keep
your chickens supplied with fresh
clean water. After the chicks are
three weeks old feed them dry mash
with the following materials:
2 parts ground Oats.
2 parts of crecked Wheat.
l part Corn meal.
part cheap flour.
Moisten this dry mash with a lit
tie water or buttermilk and feed just
enough for the chicks to eat in five
minutes. Always be sure your chick
ems have plenty of green feed.
MIRIAM M. JONES.
Co. Home Dem. Agt.
Club Items.
The members of the Faith Agricul-
tural club are wide awake bunch of
young folks. At their last meeting
they had several new members to
join them. They conducted the meet.
ing well with an appropriate program:
Both Main Street and Hazel street
schools have some material to work
with and as soon as they get ngood
working order, we will expect some
good from them.