Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-04-22
Questions Answered


SO many have asked about water
glass. This is tho month to put UP
eggs. May is also a good month to
put them up. The eggs are usually
smaller IN hot weather and unless
they are gathered often you may
find blood spots in very short
time.
Water glass is to be found at the
drug store. Sodium silicate is what
the doctors call it, but the druggist
will understand the term water
glass. 1t may be as much as 50
cents gallon, and gallon viii
see that would be only a cent for
a dozen eggs.
Pure water that has been boiled
and cooled should be used. 1 think
enough for two or three families. L
have known ten quarts of water
used to one of water glass, but the
United States bulletin on poultry
says it takes a quart for fifteen or
to buy a quart of the water. glass,
get a stone jar, be sure it has
Been thoroughly scalded, do not use
one that has been used for lard.
mix a pint of the water glass and
seven gallons of the cooled water:
Put in the eggs that are clean and
have been laid that day. Do not put
in a cracked egg nor one you must
wash.
have two, three or four gallon jars;
have just the solution in one and
every day as you add the eggs to
the other one pour in enough OF the
mixed liquid out of the other jar
to make the top layer of EGGS two
get one jar filled. set it in. cool
place, tie u paper over it, and watch
it, for you know water evaporateS,
and when you see it is not as full
as it needs to be, add more out Of
the jar that you have the mixture
These eggs will keep until Christ
mas and be nice unless you are care
less in handling them before they
are put in there.
When you need them they can
be used just the ways you would
use eggs right out of the, neat, ex-
cept that when you want to COOK
one in it's shell you must pierce the
shell with a pin or the heat will
make the shell burst. ,,ee,o
AS to nux vom1ca, the dlIference
In feeding frying. sized and baby
chicks with a pint of meal and the
teaspoonful of the powder is just the
difference in their crops. They must
make meal off of it, and II they
can be fed just before time for the
to Gull ones flock every year. To
do that, one must study the stand
ard of perfection for ones special
breed, and do not keep the sort that
does not measure UP to it.
Go to the poultry shows and look
over the specimens of the breed one
has and see if you cannot tell the
winners and why some fail. Take
a good poultry magazine. 1 take
three. Then every year or SO get q
specially good setting of eggs. !
from a Madison Square Garden
prize winner. I've heard people say
ed" and I've known people too short
ed" and I've know people too short
sighted to see that one must spend
money to have anything worth while
Many chickens need special attep-
ton to keep them free from lice. The
poor little things have their vitality
drained out of them by lice and
mites. They need a cool shady place
plenty of water, clean, fresh water tc
drink and freedom from verm1n.
expect to raise my choicest in May
Push them, by giving them butter.
milk in clean vessels, chick feed OF
cold bread and nice place for bugs
and grasshoppers and see them
grow.
4NeAC IllOHIl DeS1u 10 put a l1ICle
EPSON salts in their drinking wa
ter once a day. Not more than 4
. heaping tablespoonful to a gallon OF
water.
Questions
Dear Mrs. Thomas: It has been
several months since I wrote to Our
Corner.
1 am coming now to ask for some
advice on chickens I have tried to
save. every word you have written
Oh toll . =
to KEEP the letter about giving small
chickens nux vomica for hawks, ex-
cept the one in which you said give
a teaspoonful of powdered nux voml-
ca in a pint Of meal made into a
crumbly dough.
Will you please explain through
our column how much and how often
to feed it to month-old chicks to