Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-04
OUR HOUSEHOLD
CONDUCTED BY LIZZIE O. THOMAS
Just a Chicken Talk

We are having our first really
cold weather and it pinches. These
cold mornings are demanding more
attention for ones poultry, too. ]
am not fixed for the lights, I wish
were, but my house is warm and
is large enough for me to give the
flock their first meal right there.
1t means a clean floor, too, for va
rious intestinal troubles come from
filthy eating places.
1 have a beautiful lot of young
sters and hope to get them shipped
out to their new owners in a little
while. Some were bought last May.
Some are writing to me that they
are going to dispose of their flocks
and want my prices on ten hens,
make too radical a change.
Eggs are going to be high this
winter. Too many people have re-
duced their flocks. Sell your unde-
sirabIe male birds, but keep your
s n me a most ar OF fhe People PIE
or six hens and a cockerel. Save
those eggs and sell the ones from
the hens running at large. Your hens
will not do much unless you feed
them, a feed merchant in your near
est town will be able to furnish
spoonful a day for each hen will
supply her with the food she used
to get in insect season. There are
many hens that form a part of their
egg and then absorb it because they
have nothing to make the other por-
ton out of. A sack of bran is as
necessary for a flock of hens as the
cotton seed meal and hulls for the
COW. Bran forms the albumen in the
egg. Bran two uarts, cracked corn
one quart, and twenty-five teaspoons
full of tanlIage made into warm
you plenty of eggs. Vary this by
giving cooked oats and a handful
Of cottonseed meal once a week. AT
night let them go to roost with their
craws full. Corn is best for the last
meal as it is heating. I have some
sorghum Seed, not threshed out, and
that keeps them busy. One or two
heads is enough for a dozen hens
if you only give them for exercise,
1 hope every one of you planted
rape and rye. We put rape where
the summer crop of Irish potatoes
leaves for the .penned flock. These
tender leaves mixed with the few
leaves that are on the winter tur-
nips make us a very nice salad to
Doll with the IurnlpS. we can DE
too careful of our youngsters this
month. Roup is always to be feared,
but this first cold is the time for
that and sorehead. Invest in some
good roup remedy or get a quarters
worth of permanganate of potash
and make their drinking water wine
color. 1t will eat up iron vessels,
or tin, SO get something else to put
it in. When you find one with it's
nose running put it's head clear
under the water and keep it there
until the bubbles come. Of course,
do not wash out it's head that way
in the water the flock uses. Have
an old cup or glass and make it
pretty strong. If you want chicks
to hatch in January select your
hens now, pen them and do not let
those eggs get chilled. l do not set
more than ten eggs under a hen at
this season, and see that she is on
a nest that is we'll lined with paper
and then hay, for it's like having
plenty of cover and sleeping on a
thin mattress not to have the under
side of the nest warm. High nests
are hard to keep warm.
And you may expect to raise
every one you get Matched off, if
you do not let the little things
freeze. Don't set eggs unless you
are going to have warm sunny
place for them.