Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-07
OUR HOUSEHOLD
CONDUCTED BY LIZZIE O. THOMAS

that the. Egyptians tried to make
the Israelits make brick without
straw? You are playing the same
game when you fail to feed the right
material to your hens.
Next month, will most probably,
be as hot as August, but if you will
set. a hen or two now, in cool places,
and have shade for them, and plenty
Of fresh water no mites, and rape
to run in, you should have some
beauties for Christmas fries, and
YOU might take the most promising
pullets through the winter. L don't
sell eggs at this season, nor do | adj
wise any one to raise many fall pull
lets. They lay we'll, but seldom grow
off as we'll as those Matched in the
first of the year.
For home use, that is for eggs, it
is we'll to raise a few fall pullets, but
your reputation suffers if you sell
them and they do not come up to
the size expected.
Buy copy of The Country Gen
tleman, August ., and read the arti-
Gle, Half a Billion Dollars in Blue
Checked Apron" Or, better still,
send a dollar and set the magazine
a year. The farmer on this place
thinks he could not farm without it.
They advocate quality eggs from
dual purpose fowls. One does not
always want to keep a hen after the
second year, and the American
breeds should weigh enough then to
sell for at least a dollar to the mar
ket men. But if one has an eXcep-
tional breeder she should keep her
as long as two, pullets can be count
ed on. l have letter before me,
telling of a Rhode Island Red four
years old that is still laying pretty
we'll In fact, is laying right now
/ never raised as many pullets in
my life as I have this year, and the
color is uniform. On the other hand,
a friend who has the Identical strain
and incubators about the same time
that l did had only tWenty-fOur pull
let's in a flock OF siXty-siX. You never
can tell. it may be my turn to raise
cockerels next year. But whatever
you do, be sure to save. your mature
hens for breeders, and mate thrifty
cOCkerel with not more than ten.
Let your mind dwell on the mating
from now on and if you expect to
get winter eggs it is now time for
you to put the hens where they will
be all winter. Changing their quar-
ters is almost sure to make them
quit laying for at least a month.
Get at least an ounce of perman-
ganate of potash and let the young.
sters have some in their drinking
water from now on. 1t does not take
much to make a gallon of water
wine color, and is preventive for
colds. If you see any with running
nostrils, or bubbles, dip their heads
in some of the water use it for three
or four and throw that away and
get more for the next, as you don't
want it after it becomes infected.
Don't be afraid of the flock getting
too much; it is a fine tonic for all
Of them, especially while they are
moulting.
The last American Poultry Jour
nal had a letter from Mrs. Mahood,
and she also said to use the salts
and sulphur from now till frost as
a preventive for sorehead. Put it in
a crumbly mash once q week. [ use
salts Tuesday and sulphur Friday.
Omit the sulphur if the weather is
damp. A dose of either is a teaspoon
full to four hens. Mix in bran or
meal mash and you are sure of the
dose.