The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1921-06-16
FARM BUREAU NEWS.
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!, Practically all farmers raise
poultry. No other class of live
stock is so widely distributed. II
you are in the farming business,
no matter how large your farm,
how much money you have to
spend, or in what section of the
! country you live, you keep chick
ems. KEEP-Y es, that s the word
you use when you speak of your
chickens. You "take care of
4 your COWS, and your horses and
pigs, but you KEEP chickens.
4 1t isn't much trouble to keep
chickens. They can roost most
any place-on the fence, in the
barn or pig pen, or even in the
| trees. They can live on most any
thing, bugs, worms, waste grain,
litter or table scraps-and If they
chance to wander into the gar
den where the eating is good,
they are shooed" or stoned out.
They can drink rain water or eat
snow, and il there is no rain or
snow-well, somehow they get
along. The average farmer con-
siders poultry raising "side is
sue IA job for women and child
ren-a sort of necessary nuisance
to provide fresh eggs and roast
or fry.
Now why not let your chick
ems KEEP you. Do you know
there is nothing you have on your
farm that will bring you great
er net profit than a hundred
high producing hens, properly
housed and properly fed. The
only way the hen will make you
any money is through the egg
basket route. The average farm
hen produces only, so eggs year,
she is boarder" and doesn It
pay for her KEEP. So you see
the necessity of starting with
good stock, hens that will lay 120l
eggs a year, and culling out the
boarders from your flock Now
If you had high producing
dairy COW you would not think
of subjecting it to all the changes
of climate and temperature thru
out the year and expect it tol
maintain its production. 1t is
just as essential to the hen to
protect it from the cold and wet
in the winter as it is to your
dairy cow. A good hen house,
inexpensive, but rightly built,
will afford this protection and
mean more eggs in the winter
months when the price is high.
The feeding problem is the same
proposition, but whole volume
could be written on this subject.
The best way to learn of these
things is to have some one tell
you and demonstrate to you who
knows. Prem Moore, Extension
Poultry Specialist has had Is
years of practical poultry ex-
perience and knows the why's and
wherefores of all of your prob
lens relating to poultry husband
ry. Elsewhere in this issue there
is published schedule of series
of poultry culling, housing and
feeding demonstrations that will
be held in Lewis county for your
benefit. 1t will pay you to at
tend one of these and find out
there is much to be learned about
the KEEPING of chickens.
The grasshoppers are Begin
ming to hatch out in different
parts of the county and it is well
to get them while they are young
and before they have scattered.
The investmnt in a few pounds of
poisoned bait at the right time
will save hundreds of dollars
worth of crops later on. For the
benefit of those who have not
used the poisoned bait, the for
mula for mixing it is published !
herewith. / pound of white arse
nic. 25 pounds coarse flake bran,
lemons or oranges, (ground
fine), one-half gallon low grade :
add 2 to A gallons of {
water. Mix the arsenic and bran
together thoroughly before adj :
ding the fruit juice and molas-
ses. Add enough of the water
10 make damp mash and scatter
The poison broadcast at the rate
If ten pounds to the acre.
A report of the Women s Work
in the Mason Prai- !;
lie community to date, was re-
,eived at the Farm Bureau office I
rom Mrs. T. s. Baer, Women s ]
Work projet leader for that COM
nunity. The report shows to-
al of dress forms made at a !,
.ost of $500 and a total saving
# $4,000 effected. {
Floyd. the 12-year-old son of e
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