Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-21
OUR HOUSEHOLD
CONDUCTED By LIZZIE o n4OMAS
SUMMERTIME - SOME DON'TS

| them? Don't forget that they must
have as much, in proportion to their
size, as they had when they were
three weeks old. Don't let your en-
thusiasm be covered by caution and
stunt them just as they get where
they really can make a safe propo-
sition for success. Don't keep them
| in crowded quarters, and let them
get eaten up with mites and lice.
[ sometimes see chicks that ] want
to take out and give a real chance
to live and grow. 1 have heard three
poultry raisers, in the last week, say
! that their houses were oVer-run with
mites, and one has lost some fine
chicks and will have a bunch OF
| Stunted creatures on hand, just be-
cause he waited until the place was
alive with mites and lice. A good
| plan is to examine every setting hen
| at least once a week to see II she
has lice, and to line each nest with
paper and burn it a week before the
| hen is to hatch. AS I have told you
in the past, there is nothing better
! than to soak a cob in Coaloil, first
putting it on a stiff piece Of wire
| two feet long, then set it afire and
| put that fierce blaze in, under, and
around every side of the nest, it. GER
| tainly means quick work, but no
mites will remain. Then you can
use the solution of stockdip, oil and
water that L have told you to make.
| Or you can then use carbollnium,
and if the nest is isolated you will
not have another mite in it for a
! year. [ paint my hovers with it, but
keep the chicks out a week, also do
f! not paint nest that a hen is oc-
cupying, for it is too strong for them.
| Work with it in a shady place, too.
But to return to the youngsters,
and their treatment. Don't expect
| them to be able to sit on the brdi-
nary roosts when you begin to train
| them, the small roost is frequently
| the cause of crooked breast bones,
and judge is sure to find that right
away; set them on roost as wide as
your hand. The change to a high
place will not make them so nervous
if they don't get the idea that they
must hold on for dear life.
! The price of friers is dropping, and
the thing to do is to organize a capon
club and take the cockerels that you
are going to keep for your flocks'
| improvement and make capons Of
them, they will grow as'large as the
breed allows, if you feed them, and
they will bring as much per pound
as your early frierS did. You will
have to keep them until winter, then
when the turkey market opens your
capons will be in demand. Think Of
your surplus ROSTERS selling in De-
/ cember and January for 80 and So
cents pound. 1 saw seven sold
| for those prices last year. ] would
! not advise you to have more than
! five or six the first year, you must
| learn to manage them and the mar
ket is just beginning to find how nice
they are.
! l hope that you are not neglecting
| the salts and sulphur. 1t seems to me
that weather conditions are ripe for
the face of the earth to be covered
/ pretty soon with sore heads. 1 don't
say that the remedies that I use are
| infallible, but 1 notice that the dis
ease is not severe, nor on such a
large scale. Permanganate of pot.
ash used in the drinking water about
once a week is a good disinfectant:
put as much as will stay on a dime
in a gallon of water. 1t seems dread
full to be dosing the flock, but it is
!
! of sore heads. ..-
Do you keep account of your
| flocks, or do you guess" that you
have so many? 1t is hot at last,
! and any dead creature will be a men.
ace to them. 1 know that one dead
| hen under the house of a woman
away from home was the cause of
| a perfect epidemic of li1nberneck,
and one dead mole caused the loss
| of several fine hens. Dig a deep hole
and bury all dead creatures. unless
you can take time to furn them. In
Its early stages a teaspoonful of
coal oil will probably kill the crea-
| lures in the crop, but as a rule all
remedies are an experiment, but
you don't feel right unless you work
with any disease for a reasonable
| time
Do your hens and youngsters have
plenty of water? 1 know that it
| takes at least two water buckets
full for thirty hens and seventy
youngsters.
Canning time is approaching fast.
Have you bought your rubbers, and
tried your jar tops? If the rings
will not stretch and fly TACK into
| place, don't buy them. Ten or fif-
| teen cents is such a little insurance
to pay for good things, and you
can't expect to keep your tomatoes,
beans, or kraut if the Jars are not
alright: We must get out the war
time recipes and save sugar. Can
your fruit with as little as possible
and when the new crop. comes in.
and the price is normal, you can
add sugar to the jars as you open
them. This section will have no
fruit; counted nine peaches on a.
tree that usually fills my jars; apples
are dropping, but our grapevines are
loaded. 50 we must take the grapes
and be glad that the high price for
sugar will not tempt us to save
trult. as We might do if it were
ploptif,,I