Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-05-15
SPRING WORK FOR
PROFITABLE FOWLS
Spoiled Food Is Source of Hot
Weather Chick Complaints
To Tell Sex in Guineas-Symp.
toms of White Diarrhea: Sour
Milk Is the Best Preventive
OBy II. ARMSTRONG ROBERTS,

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Expenditures for enlargement or per-
manent improvements are to be counted
on the credit side of the ledger.
Beware of rat-holes. The number of
dollars that slip into them unawares is
surprising.
Avoid the mistakes Of running too many
bre eds. Specialize.
Blood will tell in poultry raising. If
your flock failed to average 100 eggs per
hen last year, don't breed from it. Buy
some eggs or chicks from stock with
the 'lay' bred into it.
Use the busting powder freely on sit
ting hens.
Culls and runts are usually made in
the first three weeks of a chicks life.
Anything that gives the brood setback
at this time, such as vermin, overcrowding
or tainted food. is almost certain to leave
a permanent handicap.
If the Incubator is run too high in
temperature it will produce a prema-
ture hatch; if it is run too low it will
produce "A delayed HATCH and both are
bad Hens eggs should commence to
pip on the Goth day, and the hatch should
be completed the day following.
See that your hands are clean. partic-
ularly free from oil, before turning the
eggs in the incubator. The best plan is
to turn the eggs before you trim and fill
the lamp.
AS rule the fertility in eggs laid by
n hen which produces from 40 to so eggs
in succession is not so good as in the
eggs which are laid in shorter litters.
In handling geese be sure to grip them
by the neck. They can strike vicious
blows IL the attendant is not careful.
Spring is a good time to plan those
new poultry buildings. Summer Is the
best time to build them, ready for the
fall pullets.
STORE TIE CURTAIN FRAMES
Muslin curtains and screens which
were used in the fronts of houses last
winter. and which are now no longer
needed. should be brushed off, marked
with the number of the house or loca-
ton, and put away under cover for safe
keeping. A loft is a convenient place.
Don't keep them out in the weather I'M
necessarily. The cloth has to be replaced
all too quickly at best.
Spoiled food is a source of hot weather
chicken complaints.
Bundle foot Is common ailment where
hard floors are used. A callous or corn
forms on the bottom of the foot and be
| tween the toes which later becomes a
painful swelling attended by alterations.
1t is caused by the birds jumping from
perches that are too high. or from bruises
and irritations by splnters. Painting
with iodine will dssipate the callous II
taken in the carly stages. But If it has
become liberated. open the ulcer, remove
any pus. cleanse the wound with an anti
septic and then bind the foot in an ap-
plcation of carboated vaseline.
A steel trap placed uu the top of a
high pole is a good way to catch hawks
Fasten the trap to, the pole, or the
hawks may get the trap
Chickens We're never intended to thrive
on bare ground Dig up the yards and
SOW them TO rye or OATS which purifies
the soil and furnishes green food.
Experienced poultrymen make It a point
to note the condition of every fowl every
day. 1t is the best safeguard against an
epidemic.
AS soon as you have ceased Matching
get the ROSTERS to market, cOnsign them
to the dinner table. or pen them by
themselves. Produce infertle eggs dur
ing warm weather.
CRUDE OIL FOR VERMIN
Because of its flowing and penetrat-
ling qualities and because of it's vola-
tile nature which remains potent for a
long time, crude oil Is a valuable insecti-
| eide.
Frills are demanded in n great many
commodities. The public has grown to
expect them. Candy Is sold with waxed
and lace papers bonbon tongs, orna-
mented boxes. ribbon and expensive
wrappings. Fancy fruits are sold in
much the same way. Flowers are sold
the same way. Numerous foodstuffs are
packed with frills. Poultrymen who sell