HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION
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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.
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