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'2 THE FEEDING II ME OF BABY i CHICKS i,I A The Feeding and Care of the Baby Chicks is a Very Im portant Phase of Poultry Farming, and Upon These Depends in No Small Measure the Success of One Engaged in the Industry. Editor tatesman: j i Feeding baby chicks Is a very Important phase of poultry fann ing. Upon the fading and cart of yoang chicks depend in no small measure whether they develop in to fine, well matured stock or be come, cull and weaklings. Of 'course, no amount of sk 111 In feed -inf young chickens; fan overcome Inherited constitutional weakness. iVjcb chicks, if there are any in the brood, should beiculled out at or.ee. If the chicks are from healthy, vigorous hens that have never been seriously r Ick, and are absolutely tree from white djir thoea. It is quite probable that chicks from Rucft hens will be worth feedrng hig:i priced grain BABY CHICKS ' i "NOW ON HAND 558 State Street Opposite County Court House C. N. NEEDHAM Snltm Baby Chick Specialist JTry.'it f- tlien decide! Paynth'n9 Doit nothing Us for 30 Jays - -1 Sharpen Itself j , Stropi, 'liaveV &xulj deans without remonn 500cleaxucomortaUesnaTes guaranteed from eaclt dozen blades. v j -"j. " Every AutoStror Razor est includes a fine leather etrop . and 12 keen-edged Lladesl stftsg Tta it koma witt you r write tod w will mail It. I J. F. TYLER, Druggist 157 S. Commercial St. SALEM :: OREGON JUST 4 OUR BACK FROM MARKET SALE brought overwhelming crowds to our store. It was impossible to serve alL To those who could not be waited upon we ask an apology. We did everything human ly possible to provide for the crowds but there's a limit to every SUPER 3 cans Borden's or Carnation Milk . . :25c pound Cocoa in Bulk. . . . . . . . . . . ..... ..10c TIIE OREGON STATESMAN. 111 WHO HNS BOW tnd wiil repay tlje time and atten tion given t hiii. Probably no othr creature rel ished or reijjires, for beat develop nifiil. furh a largo variety of food as a chicken does, it takes many varieties of raw materials to de velop ( he.. bones, muscles, feathers and t;l'i-h of the chicken. If any e.-M" iiiial inured. en I In the feed is lurkinK. the cbick may be lacking in that par'kular quality which the' oinittf iood is calculated to develop. Ilenee it is very essen tial to letd a very wvll balanced ration ti f rowing chicks. The first rood ."wliich may be given 'from 40 to 60 hours after tthe clacks hatch Khou!d Ise wattr and f.ne gr.t ir U.o chicks are oe ing raisd artificially, or if the chicks are Umf, brooded with hens the ,ra:n and prit may b tsiven at the sauu: time. For many jears. I have used, as the first jrraln feed for young chicks, chic ken rolled oats. On our farm they are fiid this in small quantities J ve times a day for the flrwt three or four days, and at the end of this t me. chick feed I any good com mercial brand! is gradually auied to the ration of chick n rolled oats un:il in abont.five or six days the major portion of the ration is commercial ch!ck feed and at the end of about IU days the rolled oats may be omitted enl.rely. I do not pretend to say that Ibis is the oaly safe way to start f-eding young chicks, but I have used it for years with excellent results and I see no reason whatever for changing it. Young chicca for :n fact any kind of fowls) should be kept as- tive. Activity is absolutely essen tial to health. Therefore, the periods of feeding young chicks should Ik? arranged ai that they w.U be kept busy and active all day. By teeding jtlle and often this can be accomplished. Baby chicks should be fed five, times a day to start with, and as they grow older the feedings may be reduced in number nutil the regu lar schedule of three feedings a day Is adopted. In order to keep the chicks active, as stated above., the feedings during the day should be somewhat KBiail. I mean by Mhat that at 110 time during the day. should they b permitted to Completely sat fy their hunger. Only ut night should tbey be sal lowed to till their crops full. It may be thai some people have poor success in raising yong chlcka because of overfeeding. Bu4 I am a firm believer irt the prac tice of letting the chlcki fill their crops at night. I have practiced thU for years and I can not recall losing a single chick from the cause of htavy feeding. Of course, this practice may not be succens fut with everyone, but I have found it very successful. I do not believe' in the practice of giving a mah of any descrip tion to chicks under the age of five days. It has been detei mined by exper.'ment that in some cases feeding heavily on mash right at th9 start sometimes causes leg weakness. There Is nothing so fine as a tissue and muscle builder as cracked grains for young chicks. It is the vital part of their ration. The commercial chick 'feeds are being so scientif eally put np that AS WE EXPECTED Monday Will Be Another Big Day COME EARLY SPECIALS FOR MONDAY Shop IV 'hie The Big Ctcwds THErapi mm SALEM. OREGON A typlv-i.7 and no one can make a mistake Inline baby chicks, it may lie said feeling any of the best brands of that there Jire many systems m urh toods. Years ato. I always i ployrnl ;oda. All systems, how- mixed my own chick feeds. But with the fid vent of guaranteed commercfa.1 chick f.-eds, I stopped that vrael.ff and have been using the latter, always with excellent: nsiilts. A good commercial thick mash ; should be added to the raiti ru-j tioa al)oiit the fit ill or sixth day. Ch.ck.riever develop so rapidly; when fed only an cracked grains, j And since a Fomewhai rapid leel- j opment is desirab, ground grain : must be ftd. KverythiJig consid-' ere.d, it is a better practice to teed : the mash dry to young chicks. It ', should lw bvtore them constantly i after they are five or six days old, unless, of cotr.e, they have a ten-; dency to consume so much at one ; time that it causes them to W-oiue i clugKisli, in wheh case ihe hop-j pers should bo shut a part of the j day. Young chicks should never J be permitted to become inactive, during the day. j There i.-i a differeiirA reeding hen raised chick and those blooded artificially. The chicks j raised undM hovers should be fed 1 in short cut straw, which should t cover the. floor of the brooder house to a depth of alio lit three ouarters of an inch or a little less to elart with. The depth of tlu litter should be gradually in creased as the chicks grow older. It is best, hwever, for the first three or four days to feed the artificially raised chicks o:i smooth, clean boards on top of the litter. By this means, every chick will gets its share of food. The amount to feed can also be lie tier gauged if the ch cks are fed on boards for the first lew days. ' For best development chicks need more ash, or mineral matter. ! than can be supplied by the use; of grain alone. In the natural state, where fowls roamed over large areas of land, it is probable that they obtained this supply of mineral matter from the soil. But it is quite necessary to supply this material to the chickens raised on limited range. The best way to supply this is by the use of a good Krade of granulated bone meal. However, if a person uses com mercial chick feeds, this material is usually made a part of the In gredients composing the mash. The nc-cess.ty for cuarcoa. tn 1 the ration, and its health promot ing tendency, are too well known to need dlscastlon here. The vice of toe p'eking should be carefully watched. When thicks are brooded in large flo-'ks. this sometimes becomes a serious factor to contend with. This Is a trait caused, mainly, by too close confinement. If the chicks are constantly kept active, there will be less danger of this pernicious habit mak.ng its appearance. Keep the chicks busy, keep them inter ested, never permit them to be come Mie. Toe picking is a condi tion that, as stated above, resalts from too close confinement, but chielly from idleness. At any rate it is certainly advisable to keep a 1 very close watch for any signs of j toe pick ng. To sum up the subject of feed- Bay -.V -. - .t -' T i - ' 4 modern Western Oregon Poultry House ever, slioutu aim 10 promote h2lih. vigor, growth and activity in the brood. If you have a good system of feeding baby chicks and it has KUeti you excellent re?ults m BABY CHICKS 43 Willi That is What Is Being Accomplished at the Inwood White Leghorn Farm Near Corvallis, by a Young Man Who Has Built From the Ground Up in a Very Short Time. As evidence that t iere is money in the poultry business in this val ley and to show the rapid growth and development of the poultry biis'nes.i on some of the nearby poultry fauns, the writer wishes to quote from a recent letter from Ihe lnwoo.l White Leghorn farH. K. Armstrong proprietor, lo cated n ar Corvallis. Oregon: "We now jiave 43 incubators in operation.' There are 16 40 egg capacity Cyphers, 22 000 egg hatching machines of my own manufacture thre 500-egg Jubi lees, one 100-egs Queen and one SO-egg- Buckeye, and of them all ur own home-made machines are giving the lest or as good satis faction, one of them having an 86 1 2 per cent hatching record. "We are turning out 500D ba by chicks per week and orders and inquiries are being received for ihem daily. "We are building a house to accommodate l.'.OO pullets and nrrn iRin rniiiT Tinn mmirvrnirn dttd A! iiu muii: 1 THAT 1ST DEPEND Marion County Should Have a Bee Inspector, For Which The County Court Has Been Petitioned, Under a Law That is On the Statute Books of Oregon. (The following article was sub mitted to The Statesman for the Salem slogan edition on Bees, pub lished February 24; but was acci dentally omitted:) ' Most observant persons have noted the i interdependence of many fruit bearing plants and the honey bee. Long ago, Chas. Dar win discovered that many varie ties of clover depend entirely on the visits of bees for the ferti lization of their flowers. It has long been known in this country that les ar indispensible in. the fertilization of orchard fruits. So well is this fact recognized that in California growers of almonds, apricots , prunes, and other fruits r.ladly pay the owners of bees a liberal rent ier colony for the use of bees during tlv blossoming sea son. The interdependence of hon ey bees and fruit plants being such as it is. it is apparent that as the orchatd area is increased In any given section, it becomes wlso and profitable to increase the bee in terests in the same proportion. The commercial orchard interests have developed so rapidly In Mar ion county during the past few years that such plantings (includ ing small fruits) amount to about thirty thousand acres at the pres ent time. For a number of sea sons the be business has not kept pace with the orchard business in Mariou county. Ona of these reasons Is that many of our orchardists do not yet fully appreciate the value of the bee in the orchard. Another and more serious rea son is that during the past two years there have been many out breaks of a virulent and often fa- ! tal contagious disease in the apiar ies or Marion county. This disease, which is highly contagious, is known as American foulbrood. An- i other quite distinct disease U known as Kuropean foulbrood. but Is not thought to exist to any se rious degree In this section. Amer ican foulbrood is decidedly the most serious pest that the apiarist in this section has to deal with. I and its ravages In this county dur- ; ing tne past two seasons have been 1 very serious. In several sections where this disease has not been j understood and intelligently han ! died it has made a clean sweep of , Ihe bee business. I The county court or Marlon I ennn'y has Wn portioned to pro j vide for bee inspection during the , coining sea n. nnd is very Im ; -M-tnt th.it all apiarists should ; clearly understand the situation l-wud 1M remly to lend every aid to the inspector in rendering this j work thorcugh and effective, j Kvery bee keeper in the count v. j no matter if he has only one col ony, should take an interest in th'a mattf r and if h? susneefs the presence of disease should report the cas to the .inspector. The outward indications of the dis ti1 - 2 T in the past, stick to it. The sys tem which produces Mhe best re sults in each particular case is the method which should be followed, at all times. run,, m akqi am. Kstacada, Ore.. March 4, 1921. A WEEK will tiapnest them. . Will also have 2o colony houses to accom modate loo pullets each, and by Ihe end of April we will have .'000 pullets on the place. "Mv pen of 'Royals' consist of 19 White leghorn hens witn trapnest records of 24 0 to 268 eggs in a year, and they are mat ed to cockerels from a 204-egg Hollywood hen. A thousand dol lars would not buy this pen. We should net gome great records from some of the chicks from this pen and mating." Mr. Armstrong has been very successful In the poultry business and while yet a young man has built up one of the largest and most modernly equipped plants and poultry farms in the valley and on limited capital. This is only one of the several successful and money making poultry plants established in wes tern Oregon, and there is room and a demand for many more of them. wu inyuainiM UPON EACH OTHER ease are manifest in a gradual weakening of th colony, which may have its origin during any period of bonev flow. The means of eradicating this disease are mainly sanitary, and, while quite simple, require thoroughness in every detail. (The Marion county court has under consideration the petition mentioned in the above article. It has been suggestel by some inter ested parties that S. II. Van Trump, fruit inspector, might be glve also the appointment and thelowers of county bee lnsiec tor. without additional salary; and the writer understands that Mr. Van Trump would be willing' to act in that manner and under those conditions; if he were ac ceptable to the bee Interests: thoueh lie does not wish to be forced Into any controversy. In herited or to be brought out In the future. The matter is beeoni ing urgent, and tbe growing Im portance of the bee industry de mands that action be not long de layed.) Abundant Health is assured when thera Is good blood In the veins. Hood's Sarsapatilla is the medicine to make good blood, l'egin taking It now. It is just what the system need at, thin time and will do you great good. Sharpens the appetitie, steadies the nerves. , Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Passes Away at Her Home Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, f.7 years old. wife of Martin E. Smith, died at her home eat of Salem curly yesterday. The funeral ser vice will be held at the Catholic church at Sublimity Monday at 10 o'clock a. in. and Intermenjt will be In Ihe Catholic cemetery at that place. ; Ttidet her husband. Mrs. Smith leaves three sons and six u us liters. The sons are George A. Smith and Frank C. Smith oX Sfavton and Martin Smith tT Ilillsboro. The daughters are rs. Ella Itoedigheimer and Mrs. Barbara Gehlen o' StaytoTi. Mis. Josephine Ilarr of Mt. Angel. Mrs. Emma Doerrier of Shaw, and Mrs. lesnette Doerfler and Mrs. Dora Zelinskl of Salem. The funeral will be in charge of the Terwilli- ger Funeral home. Fritt (to his mother nutting ufi his school lunch) That cheese yof put in my sandwich yesterday was fine. Give me lots of It to day. Mother I am sorry, son, bnt it's all rone. I Fritz Oh. wrhat a pity! Teach- - K f t.V . ... iu ii i came uacK wan any more like that she would not let tae In the school building. Elm! ra Telegram. - INCUBATORS I SUNDAY MORNING. MARCH 4.001 OFFICERS Opportunity Now Open To Young Men With Mili - tary Experience !S ARMY NEED! WHITE HAS STATEMENT!"- Successful Competitors To Receive Appointments For Life Four thousand more offl.-ers are needed by the 1'nlted States army, according to a letter receiv ed by George A. White, adjutant general of the state, who was ask ed by the government authorities to bring the need to the attention of all who might be Interested In . tak.ng the army examination. The vacancies are' in first and j second lieutenancies ami ezamina- j tlons of all eligible young men are j to be held April 25, at which time 2385 new lieutenants will be se lected, the letter states. Those eli gible to qualify are reserve corps officers, all members of the na tional guard and graduates of cer tain technical colleges which have the approval of the war depart ment. While Oregon Is assigned no definite quota, a large number of the vacancies will be filled by Oregon men, Mr. White stated, judging by the outcome of the country-wide competitive examin ation held last summer in which nearly a hundred Oregon men were euccessful in gaining perma nent commissions in the regular army. Mot IlranclMK Keprex'iitcd. Nearly all branches of the ser vice are represented, the largest number of vacancies being In the infantry, field artillery and air service. The successful competi tors will receive life appointments. Second lieutenants will receive $176. 6J a month and first lieuten ants. $216.66 a month, in addition 1 to living quarters and travel al lowances. The following outline of essen tial facts from tbe government letter of information was prepared by Mr. White tor the information of prospective applicants: "Applicants In Oregon should address their applications to tbe ofricer in charge United States re cruiting ttiation. Portland, or the commanding officer, Vancouver barracks. Wash. Application blanks supplied by Fame officers. ' Regulations governing all de tails of the examinations are now being distributed to all military posts and stations and applications for such information should be od dressed accordingly. Do not wire or write the adjutant general of the army for information. Central Board Aoint. "April 25 Is the date of final ex amination. Preliminary to that date applicants will be given a preliminary examination which will consist merely of an inquiry Into Ihe physical, moral and men tal qualifications of the applicant. "The examinations will be con ducted under the direction of the ninth corps area commander t headquarters at San Francisco) at points to be announced. Selec tion of the successful candidates, however, will be made by central boards convened in the war de partment. "The ages prescribed are from 21 to 30 years. Since eligibility for appointment is fixed by law the war department slates that re quests for exemptions cannot be given consideration. Order of Merit ItoJe. "Successful candidates will be arranged in their order of merit and wlll.be appointed in the army in mat order. "It is intended to announce the successful competitors about two months after the examination. are held, thus giving them an op portunity to complete the present n i Travele Attention ! We carry one of the largest assortments of trunks, grips, valises and hand bags. 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