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THERE U literal profit In broil
era for those who hava (kill
In poultry raising. The mutter
of location la not o vital with
this commodity as with aome classes
of produce. In raising broiler It la
aeldom necessary to drlre to town
oftener than once week. Customer
W1U be satisfied with a weekly nerv
ke. provided It Is regular.
For tata reason a poultry farm may
be three or four miles out, where
land sells at $73 to 1 100 an acre. With
dairy or garden truck it la unprofit
able to locate so far from a station,
and where land la bought within a
mile or two of a good town It costs
JJO0 to $300 an acre. Location must
be considered also If the owner has
to go to the city daily.
Broilers weighing two pounds or a
little less sell readily for 35 cents
apiece. The cost of feeding Is not
over 3 cents on a farm. A profit of
$25 to $30 per 100 Is pretty fair. Ho
tels, restaurants, clubs and well to do
private families are regular buyers,
and the demand exceeds the supply. A
little farm ought to produce 1.000 or
2,000 broilers every year.
I know of a place of five acres,
about an hoar's ride from Chicago,
where not less than 2.500 chickens are
produced annually, many of them be
ing sold as broilers. The owner raises
an acre of wheat and three acres of
corn. He supplements this with table
leavings and ground bone. Chicks get
nothing but menl and breadcrumbs
soaked In skimmed milk or dry, ac
cording to judgment, for the first three
weeks.
After this the variety of food Is en
larged. Cornmeal, wheat, boiled po
tatoes and scraps of all kinds make a
satisfactory diet for growing poultry.
In dry weather they need a chance to
ran about They may be confined to a
building or yard the last week or ten
dsy for fattening. Cornmeal, boiled
WHAT ROTATION DOES.
If a man's land Is already rich
he must keep It so. If it is yield
ing minimum crops he must In
crease Its producing power.
This may be accomplished by
properly rotating crops, main
taining and increasing the hu
mus content of the soil by re
turning all organic matter and
growing leguminous crops.
Further than this, there Is
scarcely a farm that would not
be greatly benefited by plowing
under some green manure crop.
Wyoming Bulletin.
OPEN AIR POULTRY HOUSE.
Good For the Fowls In All Weathers,
Not Excepting Cold Months.
A correspondent of Orange Judd
Farmer writes' as follows concerning
open air poultry bouses:
My open air poultry house I like very
much. The yards join the center of
the bouse, making one house do for
two pens. The openings are covered
with poultry netting, thus making
them secure against prowlers. Inside
are muslin curtains stretched on
frames to fit the openings. These are
hinged at the top and booked back to
the Inner roof when not in one. They
are used only in bad weather.
The roosts are arranged above a
platform, which is also hinged, and can
be let down to remove the droppings.
The roosts themselves are made of
sassafras, which is said not to harbor
vermin, but 1 have found that it does
just the same. The floors are covered
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POUIiTET COLOXT BOrRE WITH CANVAS
rSOSt FOB VENTILATION.
with deep litter. In this the fowls
scratch and sing and hunt for food.
I whitewash the houses and keep
them sweet and clean. The roofs are
covered with felt roofing, and three
sides of the building are made perfect
ly tight no cracks or knotholes. 1
found last winter during severe weath
er my fowls did much better In the
open front bouses than those In the
other kind: There was never a frozen
comb in the open front house, while 1
found two of my best cockerels with
their combs badly frozen In bouse
supposed to be warmer. A small hole
is placed at the lower right hand cor
ner for my little flock of ducks It Is
closed nt night The ducks drop their
eggs on the litter.
Hint For Cabbage Growers.
Lime is a good preventive of club
foot in cabbage. If you have a qunr
ter of an acre of the plants scatter c-n
ten bushels of '.he lime.
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THE LITTLE
PAY
By C C B0WSFIELD
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potatoes and sklinmtlk will do nicely
for the fattening process. Such things
as shorts, cracked wheat oatmeal
mush aud table scraps also produce a
nice looking aud palatable young
hlokcn Kven Id winter chickens ought
to have a chauce to exercise wbeo the
weather Is bright Few people keep
their poultry free from vermin, and
this Is why to many fail at the busi
ness Chickens are less bardy than
ducks and geese, aud If lousy there la
no profit In raising them.
After considerable experience I am
able to keep poultry clean by providing
plenty of dust heaps lu the yards,
whitewashing coops and houses and
occasionally applying kerosene or
grease to Boors aud roosts. A tew to
bacco leaves bung about the nests bare
a good effect There art many good
remedies, but the chief thing Is vigi
lance. The clean and careful handling of
chickens will tell in growth as well as
quality. Therefore It pays to be thor
ough. At least one good Incubator la
necessary. I have made It a rule for
several years to turn most of my egg
production Into poultry. Broilers at $4
a dozen pay better than eggs at 30
cents a dozen. But when one is In the
business there will be a percentage of
full grown chickens and also some pro
portion of eggs to market
Winter prices are Invariably the
highest so that It Is best to hatch as
many of the summer eggs as possible
and have a heavy supply of poultry
around Christmas and. In fact, all win
ter. Broiler customers demand their
supplies at all times of the year. The
farmer needs to have a regular day for
furnishing this commodity. If It Is
necessary to ship to a large city It Is
possible to have a hotel or club take
the entire output It Is easier to make
such arrangements than many would
suppose. Have the quality right and
the selling will be easy.
t THEY "KNOW IT ALL,
2 It la strange that any one 2
X should claim to know all about 3J
X farming, which Is one of the
broadest and deepest subjects
among men. When we contem
plate what might be accomplish
ed In plant growth and animal
breeding If men knew, we are
opt to be overwhelmed with the
Ignorance of men upon scientific
agriculture. And yet occasion
ally one may be found who
thinks that he bns learned all
about farming. Farm and
Ranch.
BARREL NEST AND RUN.
Give ths Hens s Comfortable Place to
Hatch Their Eggs.
The Illustration here reproduced
shows how the barrel nest and run
are made. The former is a flour bar
rel laid on Its side In an excavation
sufficient to bury the side of It about
two or three Inches. The dirt secured
NEST AND HUN COMPLETED.
IFrora the Farm Journal.
In digging this ditch Is spread on the
inside of the barrel and upon this Is a
nest hollowed out and filled with to
bacco stems.
On the top of the barrel is fastened
heavy roofing paper. If this paper Is
nailed to cleats and fastened by wire
It can be readily removed after the
hatching season and used for years.
The run Is constructed of whole
length plastering lath and made in sec
tions, as shown In picture.
At night a wide board is placed In
front of the barrel, with an opening
above sufficient to afford ventilation.
The nest being on the ground, the eggs
receive plenty of moisture and a better
hatch Is assured. Farm Journal.
CRITTER WISDOM.
See to It that your breeding row has
a good balanced ration. Don't go to
the extreme of feeding her too much
orn or barley or routs.
Mighty easy to feed new corn to
the hogs, stalks and ull. but you will
find that If the corn Is first run
through the shredder the animals will
(it It up clean.
You can greatly improve the looks
of your cows by taking a little care
of their hoofs and horns. A few mo
ments spent with a coarse file and a
pair of pincers may change entirely
the looks of an animal.
Cold pressed cottonseed cake pos
sesses a high feeding value and with
corn and corn stover gave larger daily
trilns than any combination of feeis
at Uie i-ijiasku xiatiou. Tins Was
slajvn in a lest for bcuuuiiiivu! beef
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A LESSON FROM NATUSU.
Whn the busy dm flits from ftowr te
tie's not on a plmeure tour,
lie's gathering honey lu atora away
To tuuka the future sure.
When eM Dog Trey huics bone In the
ground
He's not doing that for fun.
He'll dig up that bone some cither day
When hie other Ixmea are done.
When the frtnky niulrrel gathers hickory
nute
It's not a grand etand play.
He's storing food In his roty neet
For the long, cold wintry day.
And thus the man who Is wlee In his day
Will not be s butterfly.
But he'll be bulMins a bankaccount
And stacking the dollars high.
And thue when the winter of life shall
come
He'll not be hungry and cold.
He'll lt In the warm and cut coupons
And draw on his rwrrva gold,
C. M. IIARN1TZ
SANITATION OR RUINATION.
Filth Isn't just llllh. and the bad
smell Isn't the worst of It. Filth
means multiplying mlcrolxw. and with
poultry that means tutvtvulosis, chol
era, enteritis, white diarrhea, turkey
blackhead.
Filth is the breeder of gapeworms,
tapeworms, rouud worms aud the
scaly leg parasite.
A hen cau't roost above droppings
and breathe the poisonous air without
detriment nor can tender chicks and
turkey poults sleep In filthy coopa or
run on filthy ground and live or normal
ly develop.
Feed and water contaminated with
filth are killers.
This Is an age when the wonl annl
tnry has In-come onlluiiry. Sanitation
la preached everywhere.
Sanitation as applied to poultry,
young and old. means keep the house
they live and sleep In clean, keep the
vessels they put and drink from clean,
keep the ground on which they ent and
run clean, and keep the fowls them
selves as far as possible free from ver
mill.
Such preventive measure, coupled
with pure food rightly fed to vigorous
stock. Insures maximum success.
Great mortality among chicks Is
nearly always the result of neglect of
one or more of these precautions. We
have seen parties buy high priced eggs
from most vigorous pure bred stock
and raise the worst of culls from the
hatch because they raised them on the
hog pen plan, but of course the fnn
cler who sold the eggs was blamed.
Many people keep flocks that don't
pay because they think It doesn't pay
to take time to treat them deceiitly,
but If anything Is worth doing at all
it Is worth doing right
FEATHERS AND EGGSHELLS.
Have you noticed many fanciers sell
thirteen eggs for a setting aud guar
antee a lucky hatch from the thirteen
and consider thirteen Just the right
nuinlwr to set under a hen? Vet If
these same fellows get show coop 13
or are asked to take room No. 13 at a
hotel, most of them quickly get cold
feet Funny, lsu't It?
Not counting feather beds, we hun
dred million Americans pillow our
heads on about 300,000.000 pounds of
feathers every night These feathers
wear out at the rate of about 20,000,
Oi 10 pounds per year aud that much
pillow sttililng must be renewed every
year. Now, we ought to gather that
quickly from the millions of fowls eat
en In this country, but no, we Ameri
cans are such frenzied feather tlnan
clera that we throw millions of pounds
of feathers on the dump anil go and
Import vast quantities from foreign
countries. Better call the fool killer.
"Borne wtia not built In a day."
That's a seutein e from your old school
grammar, but It applies to many proj
ects today. You can't expect to build
up a big poultry business and make
big money the first year. Whoever
heard of a millionaire poiiltryinau?
Did you? There's money In It, but not
a million unless you break the record.
Pennsylvania has many big Leghorn
farms along the New York line. These
ship their eggs across to those egg lov
ing New Yorkers, who are so stuck on
white shelled eggs that they pay from
5 to 7 cents extra for them.
Michael Itewley of Powers I.nne,
Md., claims to have America's oldest
hen. It was given him when he was
a babv mid Is twenty years old. A
hen of such antiquity need not fenr
that she will go to chicken heaven by
the cook p"t route unless she belongs
to a preacher.
Fowls of breed shape and standard
size are only produced year nfter year
from pure bred, healthy, vigorous
stock. Klrong constitution Is the foun
dation of strong reproductive power
and Is only achieved by careful breed
ing for n term of years.
The statement "All stork and eggs
sold only from the farm" Is appear
ing In many poultry advertisements.
Yes. farm raised stock and eggs cer
tainly have the bulge on what Is pro
duced by the city lot canary cage plan.
A well grounded knowledge of the
poultry business, willingness to work,
a fair amount of working capital and
ability to buy and sell are the chief
requisites for successful entry Into the
poultry business. It Is necessary also
to state man or woman In single har
ness lu this business Is a dismal fail
ure. When the little Leghorn roosters'
combs turn over "flop" look for lice.
Head lice will cause that, as will
crowding, colds, bad nlr from filthy
quarters and Insufllclont or Innutri
tions feed. Itoup will loosen n rooster's
comb, make it turn over and so weak
en him that his tall will turn wry and
he will finally turn up his toes.
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"I don't mind. This is
aStudebakerWagon
that's why I bought it. 1 noticed that
men were using the Stuclebaker where
ever the work was hard hauling steel
girders in the city, logs in the woods,
stone in the quarry."
"My work is hard and I know it. My wagon
is on my payroll and must earn its salary. That's
why 1 bought a Studebaker. i can't afford to
buy a cheaper one."
"Get in touch with a Studebaker dealer, he's
a good man to know."
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