Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-09-26
CHICKEN RAISING
BY LIZZIE o THOMAS
More About Chickens


Please explain just what chicken
! has to be to deserve a band, and is
| there such a thing as a registered
| chicken? Some say not, while others
| say there is. have your Just
About Chickens" of September OF
| file for further reference. Please give
me a good remedy for lice on grown
fowls. l notice that mine have a
| few.
Thanking you in advance, am
| sincerely, MRS. ..
l have written to this lady and
| to three others, but so many people
asked me the same questions this
! summer and /, in turn, asked ia
nous poultry judge what he thought
| of the pedigreed hens. His answer
was: $50 many astonishing things
come to pass these days l am learn
| ing to say it may happen but III
the meantime l say that pedigreed
| poultry depends entirely on the
| honor, the memory and the sys-,
! tematic records, for years back, OF
the present hens, baby chicks OF
eggs to be sold. You and l know
certain famous prize winners whose
| eggs have sold for a small fortune.
| The first of real note was the white
hen Peogy. Do you suppose anyone
has her descendants, so pure thai
| they can be called 'pedigreed?' Line
bred is q surer and more convincing
term. Then it only has to be one
side of the mating; pedigreed stock
means both sides for at least fou1
generations Now, don't misunder-
stand me. There are some I've no
doubt eligible, but don't let youl
readers bite at any and every sort
of bait"
AS to the bands. You can see
dozens of the advertisements of deal
ers in all the poultry papers. Bands
are nee-ed in every flock. A good
method is to band your pullets with
the number of the year Matched. Use
one sort for spring and another fol
the later matches. Put the coloreu
bands on the sort you hope to de-
velop into breeders. Some Of my
baby chicks have a small round hole
in one foot, some have the edge of
a nail cut off. All of these mean
something to me in keeping up with
them. [ handled a pullet yesterday
that is the exact counterpart of
pullet I had five years ago. All or
the intermediate descendants have
been splendid layers, and shall
keen her. All the males have been
good, but I could not say that she
is pedigreed pullet. She has been
Iine-bred on one side, and carefully
bred on both.
Judging from the letters I've re-
ceived and from observation in this
part of the country, there never
has been a worse year for sore head.
1t began in early July. 1 kept it out
of my flock by giving Epson salts
and sulphur, but The Farmer forgot
it all of August, the month that l
was absent, and when l came home
l found every youngster, hen and
rooster with high fever or postuleS.
About a dozen were blind, or nearly
so-and you can imagine me up to
my eyes in the job of curing them.
What did I use?
The unadulterated stock dip. The
sort you buy in tin cans. Sylvia
held them and literally washed
their faces, heads and ears
The stuff shrivelled my hands till
they looked like wet brown paper
covered them, and in less than a
week, the skin had all peeled off. |
I had seven hens that developed bad
cases, every day 1 mopped them |
with the dip, and ten youngsters re-
quired the same Treatment. A few
I've had to feed. I may lose a few
more, but believe the seven that |
died right away will be all. There |
are several as good remedies as |
stock dip. Lard and iodine cured |
some; the grease on some peoples |
dish water cured theirs, black oil |
cured a neighbours. kerosene and lard |
was successful with some flocks. |
Boric acid and lard is what a poul- |
try editor uses on her flock. It is |
more important to keep the. scabs |
soft with the grease and heal the |
sores than to ~'break your neck" |
getting some especial remedy. The |
Epson salts and sulphur kept 1t out |
of my flock as long as it was given |
to them.
Now is the time TO get your best |
birds and condition them for the |
fair There is no better place to |
start than in your county fair Sc |
?ect the birds you know are accord
ing to standard regulations. In the |
Rhode Island Red class they are |
long bodied, with tails carried not |
higher than forty-five degrees. a
d'rk even red color, not chocolate
nor with black wing feathers or
smut in fluff, showing
Put these best" birds in a cool
shady place and feed them all that
hey will clean up four times day.
They must get their exercise or they
will have Indigestion and refuse to
cat enough to grow and make good
n!umage Dish water is fine to
damnen the morning mash Corn.
sorghum seed and sunflower seed
must be fed to them if you want
he best results. Let them have all
the buttermilk that they want,
fresh and elem, or it will give them
@our crops Do this for three weeks
md see the difference. and then
select the two best for the fair. If
you fail YOU viii earn. May every