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About The gazette-times. (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925 | View Entire Issue (July 9, 1914)
HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION 7 A Weekly Page of Poultry Hints to You Here is a Department Full of Bright Ideas For Readers of the Home and Farm Magazine Section. I F YOU have a Bupply of wood ashes, nse t&cm on. the dropping boards, Lice will never prosper where they lave to come in contact with wood ashes. The lye is the ashes kills the vermin almost as soon at it touches them. The ashes may be sprinkled on the board each time the droppings are removed. This should be done each day. Never permit an accumulation of manure on the droiiDln? boards for it urill ). breeding place for lice, mod the fumes are bad for the fowls that have to roost over them at night. The wood ashes ij a purifier and also a good absorbent 01 . tue moist droppings. It is well known that wood ashes contain le- ments that are valuable for fertilizing purposes, and when mixed with the manure rrom the poultry house, become of double value to the poor land. Those droppings should be removed and placed in a barrel or other guitaole container, and kept where it is drv. Such fertilizer will enrich the noor- est land, and make ordinary land grow crops mac win gurpnso you. Do not read this and forgot it. but trv it out this year, and you will find thiit many oenems will be derived irom the extra effort. Skim Milk Tor Poultry. A contributor to an agricultural n.i per tolls of an experiment he made in the feeding of skim milk to poultry ttiat proves its value in a very definite way. He divided sixty pullets into two even lots. One lot was fed skim milk as a part of the ration, and the oilier was given water. The test began No . vrmber 1 and closed Mav 1. In this period of six months the fbiek that lmd ; been given nkim milk produced $52.05 worth of eggs at a cost for feed of $18.97. The floc'i .that had boon given water produced $30.91 worth of eggs, wane tlieir iced bill was $23.72. But tcruiilk is nearly as uoud as skim milk and either should b fed to the hens . wtieuevor it can be had. White Feathers. An egg-laying competition in Eng laud has brought to light the interest ing fa;t that all the champion layers are white hens. A scientific poultry breeder has come to too conclusion that tliero is some peculiar virtue in white feathers. He noticed that in a mixed lot of hens (lie whites wont to roost last; they took more exercise and were less affected by bad weath r. . This English competition suggests that hens capable of laying 2j0 eggs a year are more likely to come from the white Wyandotte or white Leg horns than from any other variety, but what the relation may be no one knows. Nutrition of Eggs. Hens' eggs contain 50 per cent water, 1G per cent protein, 33 per cent fat. Dueka' eggs, 46 per tent water, 17 per cent protein, 36 per cent fat. Goose eggs, 44 per cent water, 19 per cent protein, 36 per cent fat. Turkeys' eggs, 48 per cent water, 18 per coat protein, 33 per cent int. Protein, as is generally known, is the substance that joes to make muscle and blood. Fat, of course, is fuel for rtnning the body-machine. Thus, it will be Been, eggs, though half or near ly half water, are extr .inely nutritious, containing all the elements required for the building up and support of the human body. Poultry Hints THE carcass should be dressed imme diately after killing. To allow the feathers to remain on for several hours will hasten decomposition. In France parts of a carcass can be purchased in market legs, wings, heart, or any part wanted, la this country it is the whole thing or nothing, Neatness brings buyers, The best al ways goes first. Quick growth influ ences quick sales. The markets have a surplus of poor stuff, Poultry buyers are educated they want the best. Turkey hens are profitable catil five years of age, but it is a good plan to ehange the gobblers ever jwr, It re quires twenty-eight days to hatch a turkey eee, and seven eres is con sidered a setting. The nests should be on toe ground. The chief peenliaritiea of the Eng lish method of dressing poultry are: Killing by wringing the neck, not by chopping or sticking; feathers left on the neck or a few incheB from the head, also a few feathers on tail and tips of wings; the breast bone is sometimes broken down by pressing it to one side with the thumbs, and the wings are twisted. The duck generally lays at night. It thrives best on soft, eucenlent food. Strong, vigorous birds can be success fully bred at four years of age. When properly fed, when at eight weeks of age, green ducks will weigh nine pounds to the pairs. The best prices for green ducks is given about May 1. Then the price gradually declines until the month of July. "Farm raised .stock" is not always a guarantee of health and vigor. If farm raised fowls are allowed to drink from dirty pools in the barnyard; if they are compelled to roost outdoors in all sorts of weather; if they must hunt their grain among the waste in the manure piles, we had rather take our chanees with yarded stock. We like to know what our fowls eat and drink, and how comfortable they are at night Buy stock from good Jaying strains, if eggs mostly are wanted. Select stock fnr broilers from flocks that have plump breasts and broad backs. Such birds will "score" 100 in the market poultry, and yot probably bo disquali fied for (ho show room. While it is important to keep poultry within the line of thorough bred, there is no par tieular value in scores for market pout try. It is nlmost next to impossible to have show roeords and first-class utility qualities in the same flock. All of the little things that will be necessary for the well-boing of the youngsters coming on shortly should be done now. It is not possible to put off till tomorrow what should be done today in rearing poultry. A dark, unclean, noorlv ventilated brooder house will givw a low mortality. Whitewash, nut on hot. with some pond germicide in its makeup, will mako a big difference in the number of chicks raised and the rapidity ef their growth. Fruit and poultry work well together, provided tbo fowls are given the whole orchard is which to run. Certainly fowls are great weedera, and if one wants to keep down the grass in the or chard he can do it without trouble if his flock ef hens is large enough. Too many useless trees in the poultry yards are a detriment, as they prevent the growing of tape and other things that make good pasture for fowls. A plum tree here and there is all right. Don't forsct that the hens want plenty of fresh water, even if the weather is not hot. Lavinff hens are heavy drink ers, as as mueh of the egg is composed of water. Eggs from the best hens should not be eat an. When a fowl reaches the 200- pgg mark in a .season it is evidence of qualities which osght to be perpetuat ed. Eggs from this Itind of stock should go into thB incubator.. The purchase of a few baby chicks from some fiue pen of birds will make a splendid start if you care to start in July. July days bring ot weather and ice, and if the latter get a good start the task of getting rid of them all will not lie an easy Jons. . Let there always be a good supply of cool, clean water and a shady spot to which the chickens can resort during tie heat of the day. Now is the time to reduce the quan tity af all fattening food in the ration at least one-half. Corn, especially, is too heating and should not be fed. my BUSH & LANE POLICY FROM FACTORY TO HOME No one has ever solved the nroblem of ffettins bet ter values than you get here. 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