Milford chronicle., 1923-02-16
THE FARMERS SHORT
COURSE in MILFORD
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special attention to ventilation and
moisture. The temperature should be
held at 102 IA or 10S degrees in both
large and small machines. The meth
cd of Matching was discussed. He said
that for the first four days the eggs in
a machine should not be cooled, but
that after that they should be cooled
for ten minutes. This, he said, tends
to strengthen the chicks. In large ma
chimes it is not so necessary to cool as
in small machines. He suggested that
the chick should be taken from the
machine the night of the twenty-first
or the morning of the twenty-secOnd
day. The temperature of the incubator
cellar should be kept at 40 to so de-
grees.
Mr. Warner, of Toms River, N. J.,
discussed "Brooding and Rearing of
Chicks" on Tuesday afternoon. He
said in his talk that he prefers small
brooder house about 14x16 feet. Such
a house will brook about 500 chicks.
The brooder should be set just a lit
tie back of the centre of the house.
Two-thirds of the front of the house
should be open and protected by cur
tains. Under the curtains there should
be two windows. The doors for chicks
should be about three inches above
the floor level to prevent drafts. Be
fore putting the chicks in the house,
he suggested that an inch of sand COW
cred with chopped hay be scattered
on the floor of the house. Around the
stove place a screen of wire about Is
inches high, covered with muslin. The
/ 10 81, ho daTslroT1o6 tho first
day after the chicks are put in the
house, for they need rest then. Feed
the morning of the second day after
Matching, using only sour skim milk
or buttermilk. Place some line chick
grit in the litter. The next day feed
about five times with rolled oats al
ternately with fine chick grain. Always
keep semi-solid buttermilk where the
chicks can get it. At the sixth day a
dry mash should be fed the chicks.
Use 80 parts bran to 10 parts beef
scrap After three weeks feed a dry
mash of two parts bran and one part
corn meal, one Sart middlings and
one part beef scrap, and give three
feelings per day of chick grain. After
six weeks feed full size grain.
The temperature under the hoover
should be about SO degrees at first
and gradually reduced to 80 degrees.
After six weeks all the ventilation de-
sired is alright.
Remove the cockerels as soon as
they can be identified. Pullets on
range need two feelings a day, early
in the morning and about p. m. Keep
dry mash before them at all times.
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opened by DR.. Palmer, of the Univer-
sity of Delaware, who talked upon
Poultry Diseases and Their Control"
DR.. Palmer stated that if the free rOup
serum sent out by the University had
been purchased from commercial
firms it would have cost the poultry
men of the State about S7500.00. DR..
Palmer gave a rather full description
of white diarrhea and its control.
About fifty per cent of the chicks
Matched die of this disease. Drugs are
not a remedy. The disease is in the
egg, and is handed down from the par
ent bird. He advocated the plan of ac-
credited white diarrhea hOcks. The
disease can be avoided only by dis
carding the eggs from hens that are
carriers of the disease. The presence
of the disease can be determined only
by laboratory tests of the flock or
hens. Fowl tuberculosis has never
been reported from Delaware, al
though it is quite common in many
States.
DR.. Palmer said that fowl typhoid
has been common in the State during
the last year. Copper sulphate, given
in tho
drinking water were given as reme-
dies. Use one teaspoon of powdered
blue stone and one gallon of sour milk
or one teaspoonful of concentrated
lime sulphur in one quart Of drinking
water. It was very evident from the
lively discussion that the roup and
pox vaccine sent out by the University
had been very successful in prevent
ing attacks of these diseases.
Mr.. Warner in brief manner told
of his methods of breeding for imprOV-
ing the flOcks. He advocated the use OF
trap nests on about one-fourth of the
breeding flock. He said that high egg
production is probably carried from
the male, and advocated that only
roosters from highly prolific hens
should be used. Many New Jersey
poultrymen, he said, have practiced
cutting out of the breeding hens, and
they have raised their flock produc-
ton from an average of $50 to 175
eggs per hen to $50 to 100 eggs per
hen. After Mr.. Warmers talk, two
very interesting movies were shown.
One depicted what happened inside
the egg each day until it Matched. The
other showed methods of control of
insect pests in the flock.
The program for today and tomor-
row follows:
Friday, February 16-Horticulture
$3.50 a. m.-Orchard Fertility Prob /
lens, Dean C. A. McCue, University of
Delaware.
1O:45 a. m.-Grape Diseases and
Their Control, DR.. T. F. Manns, New
ark, Delaware.
1870 p. m.-Orchard Spraying Prob
lens, DR.. J. F. Adams, Newark, Della
ware.
2:45 p. m.-Sweet Potato Round Ia
BILE: (a) Statistics of Sweet Potatoes,
Mr.. M. o. Pence, Newark, Delaware;
(b) Standardization, Dean C. A. Nc
Cue; (c) Diseases in the Field, DR..
J. F. Adams; (d) Diseases in Storage
and Storage Problems, DR.. T.. F.
Manns.
Saturday, February 17-Live Stock:
$3.50 a. m.-Swine Diseases, DR..
Morris Zurkow, Dover, Delaware.
1920 a. m.-PrOfitable Rations for
~ Mr. n Tom !