Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-18
OUR HOUSEHOLD
CONDUCTED BY LIZZIE O. THOMAS
Gardens and Poultry

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picture Of fat little fellow, 1923"
studying a seed catalogue. In only
costs a postal card to get one, and,
to me. there is a dollars worth of
pleasure and information. I've gone
to some shows and lectures an den
tertainments" that cost several
times as much, and did not go away
with half as much benefit as an eve
ming spent with an up-to-date seed
catalogue.
The descriptions and pictures show
one what to work up to when Guilt
waiting a garden; and, oh! the thrills
one gets thinking of gathering such
luscious tomatoes, beautiful cab
bages, peas and beans. Can't you
see your shining rows as they come
up? "And, says the Unimaginative
One, cant you feel the sun on your
neck and the salt in your eyes?"
But what would life be worth if
one could not get some thrills out
of hard work?
All, or many of you have heard
of the man who saw a magnificent
bovine in a field and decided, that it
would be fun to rub his nose in the
ground, pay him for acting so "big
CITY" Well, the bovine proved to be
the better muscled and Mr.. Man was
thrown over the fence. When he
was able to get up he rubbed the
sore spots and said: Faith, and it. S
good that had my laugh, first" If
we get lot of things out of the idea
Of a fine garden, and it's not natural
for any of US not to. feel a thrill
when we plant things, the thrills we
get at gathering time are interest on
our investment. I suppose I must
be classed with the "easy marks"
for I dearly love to buy new varie.
ties, and have found pleasure and
profit, labor and loss from reading
the enthusiastic things some cata.
logues say.
Don't have all your eggs in one
basket" is a good rule, for there
never has been two years with exact
ly the same seasons, nor economic
conditions, and do not plant all of
your seeds of any variety at one
time.
How have your hens started the
new year? There is no use crying
over spilled milk nor eggless nests
We can now work for February and
March eggs, but last fall was the
time for January laying to be en-
couraged. know people with
twenty or more hens that bought
Christmas eggs. Are you giving the
flock any green stuff? Don't expect
them to find it now. I have Just
bought a ton of peavine hay, and a
bag full is given to the flock every
two or three days. Then cane seed
is thrown out for them, not threshed
seed, but the whole top, and un-
shelled peas. Let them work for
their living but give them something
to work up into eggs.
Now IS the time to set your incu-
bator, unless you have already done
so, Forty little yellow balls are
making this room fairly ring right
now. Incubator chicks, for the
first week, require as much care and
good treatment as a sick baby. They
must not get chilled and must be
kept off each others backs, for they
will pile up unless you look after
them constantly. There is one OBJ
lection to early chicks: true, they
grow fast and are soon out of the
way, but some of the pullets may
lay early and that often retards
their growth and they sometimes
mott when they should be laying fall
eggs. [ raise some early ones, but
late February, March and April
matches have really Eeen more salts.
factory. April matches should be
layers in October if they are given
a good range. Then they are ready
for their next clutch of eggs to be
used for Matching.
Twenty-Five January chicks, as
many a month later, not three
weeks but full month, for they are
babies a month, and then more as
I4lSSO SGT Jul VI tIlS way. I(610ofll-
Der, [ am not writing this for the
poultry fancier. but for the women
on the farms, or living where they
can raise hundred more or less.
know what can be done with
breeders and baby chick hoverers,
but the rank and file of our country
homes are not so we'll equipped. An
incubator, 60 to 100 eggs, is almost
a necessity now, for the early
chicks bring good prices, and the
winter eggs make it possible to have
early chicks, even if Mrs. Hen is
not inclined to shut herself up for
three weeks.
use mine, sixty-egg size, from
December till May, and it paid for
itself with the first hatch. A relia-
BILE incubator, one with a Well-estab-
ished reputation, does not give me
as much trouble as five hens. It's in
the house and not going to leave
the eggs, nor break them. Don't
'projec with it; the maker tells
exactly how to run 1t, and if you do
as he says, you can't go wrong.
set sixty eggs and January 1 took
off fort hran 1iUo1Iy 11O11r Gov,