Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-22
OUR HOUSEHOLD
CONDUCTED BY LIZZIE O. THOMAS

these driZzly days when they will
! get hot and cold is when they need
! it. Remember it eats holes in iron
! or tin. A fine drinking vessel can
| be made of a. candy bucket. Your
! grocer will sell one for about fifteen
cents. Divide the sides into thirds,
or so as to leave three broad up
| right pieces, and saw the other
! pieces off so that the receptacle for
water will be about four inches
deep. BY fixing the top to the three
I upright pieces you did not saw off
you have a drinking vessel that will
/ be cooler than one exposed. IT
should be scalded, so should all
drinking vessels, at least once a
I week. COpperas or the perman-
ganate of potash can be put into
the candy bucket with no bad eff
fects.
Sometimes little chicks get food
in the cleft of their mouths; if one
is mopy, open the mouth and see
if the throat and nose are in good
condition. I use carbolated vaseIine
with the baby chicks, and for canker
you must take an old pocket knife
and scrape off the canker, then
touch with iodine and fill the
mouth full Of vaseline. Some use
a stick of caustic, but in as quick
a job as treating the mouth one
is apt to get burned fingers. A
stick of Caustic is handy to have
in ones medicine case. 1t is the
n 11f tn ~1ot,1
stop the horns before they grow.
Now A word about baby chicks.
Don't order cheap ones. Use your
common sense. [ never saw more
enticing advertisements than are
displayed this year. l nearly fell for
some, tried to think that it would
be good business to buy them and
raise early broilers. I have some
of my own that at two months
weighed over a pound, and their
feed cost me two and a helf cents
each. But some have bought the
cheap sort, paying from eleven to
fifteen cents for them, and they
were dead in a week.
Even vigorous chicks are a prob.
lem, an hourly responsibility, so
pullet eggs and the rakings of we
know not what flocks are not to be
considered.
Now about the ages. A male, is
a cOckerel until he is year old;
q pullet becomes hen at that age.
A "matron" is now a term used for
hens at lesat two years Old,
One does not wash the colored
birds for a fair, except the feet and
legs, and a little sweet Oil may be
lightly brushed over the comb and
Wattles with the palm Of ones hand.
Several have asked me for the
address Of the lady who offered to
send Yellow Root to sufferers with
stomach troubles and the earlier
stages of pellaSra. Please send her
at least two cent stamp when
you write to her. I am told that
she helped a number of people last
year. Address your letters, not to
! me please, for I must then forward
them to her. She is Mrs. c. A. Will
banks, Commerce. Ga, Route %.
You may think I am almost A
mOnOmaniac on the subject, but ]
must again tell you to plant a gar
den. There would not be so much
stomach trouble if more boiled vege-
tables were used. You need not
/ have them reeking in your. bacon
| grease. White sauces. mayonnaise
and butter are really better. Iron
is what you need now. Have you
turnip salad or spinach? Even as
far north as l am, onions can be
| left in the ground all winter and
are delicious right now. When you
plant your sets, put all Of the small
ones in a row, cultivate them, but
! leave them there till next Year and
see how nice they are. You may
think they have rotted, but don t