Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-05
Our HOUSEHOLD
CONDUCTED BY LIZZIE O. THOMAS
JUST ABOUT CHICKENS

The melancholy days have almost
arrived, and the busy days are sure
ly here. There is a certainty of high
prices this fall so it will be the
wise woman who has plenty of hens
to furnish eggs this winter Septem-
Der is the time to plant rye or barley
to furnish the green's for the poultry
and it will help the growing crop
as well as the calves to let them
eat over the place occasionally and
keep it tender. Rye punches and re-
sists cold better than oats, and it
will grow where nothing else will.
more expensive than the ordinary
sort, but you will double your graz
ing by planting that variety. 1t is
time to begin to set the hens so as
to have the young chickens feathered
before cold weather comes: Fried
chicken is a delectable dish for
breakfast Christmas morning, and
when one gets tired of all the good
things that og-killing time affords,
it is a nice substitute to be able to
vary the family diet.
Have you been, noticing your hens
and are you ready to get rid of the
slackers? Don't put them off from
time to time. Sell them to the man
who supplies less fortunate people
with their poultry and eggs, or can
There will be many times this win
ter when you will be glad to take
down quart jar filled with chicken
that is ready to be made into a pie
or into a stew with dumplings.
But to return to the work in the
poultry yard. This is the time to ex-
pect sorehead, gapes and all manner
of diseases. The long hot weather
has made them susceptible and if
You have. not been giving epson
spoonfuls to a pint of water is the
proportion that L use in the general
drinking water. They do not mind
that much, and as soon as their drop
pings look too loose pour it out and
give them pure water in clean YES
sells. Most of us have stock dip or
creolin on the place and if the
heads that have sores on them are
painted with the undilUted dip it
will cure the sores.
This seems a heroic treatment, but
it is not more painful than iodine
and many people confuse the roup
sores with sorehead; they come from
letting the chickens roost in damp
places. See if they wheeze when
breathing, or if their nostrils are
stopped up, or if their breath is foul;
they are all symptoms of roup and
may be cured with permanganate of
potash, just enough dissolved in
cup of water to make it wine color.
Put the head under the water until
bubbles come up, the bubbles show
that the fowl has drawn the medi-
cine into it's head and throat and
washed the affected parts.
Limberneck was the SCOurge that
swept Madison, Fla, this summer
There were dozens of fine hens and
many youngsters lost by that disease.
equal parts, and a teaspoonful to a
hen is the quick cure for those badly
affected. Then feed them some moist
mash or cornmeal dough, with tea
spoonful of cooking soda in just
enough to feed one hen. But half an
hour after you give them the tur-
pentine give them all the sweet milk
they will drink. Hyposulphite of
soda, one ounce to gallon of drink
ing water, is the medicine to keep
before the entire flock until you find
the dead chicken, or rat, ;or what
ever the fowls have been poisoned
with.
This is the time to shut up your
fowls, lime your soil and plant wheat,
oats or rye. AS soon as it sprouts
only help the flock by giving them
something to scratch for, but you
will clean UP your yard and have no
more gapes for several years.
Judge Marshalls remedy for chol-
era is a heaping tablespoonful of
Venetian red or the same amount of
black anthony, to a quart of feed.
made into good damp mash. have
never had the misfortune to have
cholera in my flock. Clean roosting
places, salts in their water or damp
mash occasionally and plenty of lime
seem to be about all 1 need except
when damp weather threatens them
with colds. then the permanganate in
their drinking water helps them.
Elaborate colorful brocades are
combined with chiffon velvets to
make very stunning wrap. What
with fur.