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position, the tendency to be an y b o d y ’s wife. The tu rk ey erop is g ettin g smaH-
dog fo r th e sake of a p ettin g , the lia er every year.
b ility to run aw ay and v isit to t days
The m aintenance o f productiveness
a t a tim e. I f k ep t on a chain and trol and vigor are the essentials in p oultry
By Howard 0. Kegley.
ley w ire th ey m ake fin e w atchdogs, and keeping, and when both can be realized
owing to th e ir quiek, nervous snapping the w ork will pay.
f PO U LTRY R A ISER S In general b u t th ey b rin g th e biggest retu rn s a th ie f will th in k tw ice before tackling
A lthough there may not be any vis
understood the value of sunflow er when cu ltiv ated , of course. I f a single o aa,”
ible lice or m ites in your poultry house,
seed th ere would undoubtedly be row along the garden fence is desired
it is a good th in g to w hitew ash it tw o
few er losses du rin g the m oulting sea fo r a sm all flock of fowis, th e seeds
or three tunes a year.
Son, and more garden fence rows be may be drilled two and one-half inches
Tho young ehicks should have fresh
decked w ith heavy-headed sunflow er deep and th e p lan ts th in n ed la te r until
•talks.
milk only, as sour milk is suitablo only
th ey stan d a foot a p art. Occasional
C onsider the fa c t th a t m oisting is hoeing or stirrin g of the soil around
Lim e is b est supplied by giving the for tho adults, being injurious to all
kinds of young anim als.
m ade easy by th e use of sunflow er seed, the stalk s is su fficien t.
fowls access to crushed oyster shells.
and ihan estim ate the num ber of run
To protect roosting poultry from a t
I f a big p atch is to bo p lan ted the
F ilth y m ilk w ill usually induco the
ning fe e t along garden or field fences, seeds should be placed fo u r inches bowel disease among th e young chicks. tack by verm in there has been invented
w hich are absolutely barren each year, deep, to give th e roots a firm hold, in
a tra p which, when fastened to a pearch,
A com bination of high roosts and
and you quickly arriv e a t th e ex ten t hills 18 inehes ap art, and rows three
catches and poisons inseets.
heavy
fow
ls
seldom
proves
satisfacto
ry
.
of th e loss th a t maDy tillers of th e soil foot wide. C u ltiv atio n such as com
W hen chickens arc k ep t in the yard
are su fferin g w heth er they are keeping requires m ay be applied suecessfuly.
DEFECTIVE HOUSING.
p o u ltry or not.
The erop w ill m ature in 90 days or thro u g h o u t the year, green food is nec
OT in freq u en tly do poultry keepers
I t is not a good idea to cut sunflow er less and w ill grow w ithout abundant essary.
complain b itte rly of tho failure of
heads and throw them in to the poultry m oisture. Indeed, a fin e sunflow er crop
W hen the fow ls pick them selves f r e
th eir fowls to show profit, when
yard s fo r the fow ls to em pty a t will, can often be found in a drouth dried quently, you m ay be sure th a t they are
tho whole fa u lt lies in defective hous
fo r in th a t w ay th e birds all too often d istrict. In th e Southw est the sun infested w ith lice.
g et an over supply of oil, and th e lay flow er is a real w onder if irrig ated
T here is little d an g er of draught in ing. Poultry lead an en tirely a rtific ia l
in g period is a p t to be correspondingly once in a while. The Russian type th e p o u ltry house if th ere is only one life when th ey live penned in a run,
or even when a t lib e rty and provided
sh o rter as a consequence.
seems to be u n iv ersally th e fav o rite opening in th e building.
w ith a sleeping house— th a t is to say,
Sunflow er seed should never be fed v ariety .
N ever fo rg et th a t p o u ltry requires
T ak in g in to consideration th a t th ere g rit and lim e for d ig estin g food and they have th eir food provided them
to your chicks. N othing o f the sort is
and do not sleep in the trees as th e ir
needed (luring tho baby moult, and if it is alw ays a read y m ark et for sunflow form ing egg shells.
n atu ral in stin ct would teach them. It
be given the heavy oil in it may cause er seed a t fiv e cents p er pound to tho
S c a tte r d ry g rain am ong the litte r on is simply the difference betw een sleep
rheum atism .
w holesaler, and basing an estim ate upon
th e floor of th e p oultry houses so th a t ing in a house and sleeping in trees
In case any young birds su ffe r w ith the it raised itse lf sunflow er crop re
the hens will be forced to exercise.
that, upsets them. When they do th e
Theumatism from such a cause, confine su lts o btained b y a i/os Angeles county
I t is unw ise to spend money for b e t la tte r they may not lay well, but th ey
them in a coop b y them selves and feed man, th ere is reason fo r believing th a t
them exclusively on chopped w hite sunflow er farm ing, if properly done, te r chickens and then give them such keep th eir health. More th an half tho
diseases from which fow ls su ffer ure
should net th e farm er a t least $900 per poor care th a t they cannot do well.
elover (g reen ) until they recover.
I f a male is not popular w ith the paused prim arily by th is defective
W. T. Beane, a man who has made a acre.
The man in question planted a n ick fem ales in his pen he should be re housing.
rem ark ab le success of the pou ltry busi
e
l
’s
w orth of sunflow er seeds in the moved and an o th er b ird substituted.
ness in th o Southw est, advises feeding
P R E P A R IN G BONES.
ground around th e outside o f his poul
Once or tw ice a y e a r a wagon load
sunflow er seed in scrr.tch feed.
try
y
ard
.
The
p
lan
ts
w
ere
thinned,
and
OWLS
alw ays p refer bones th a t aro
of
sm
all
gravel
should
be
hauled
from
“ In m y o p in io n ,’ ’ says Mr. Beane,
cut or broken into sm all pieces,
“ fiv e pounds of sunflow er seed to 150 th en irrig a te d and hoed twiee. W hen some stream fo r the fow ls to work J
w ith m eat eith er raw or cooked a d
pounds o f ord in ary scratch feed is the tho heads were ripe th ey wero cut o ff over.
and stored in boxes and b arrels until
proper proportion.
When given w ith care, one of the hering to them. The hens do not care
needed for feed. S tan d in g one foot best foods fo r young and grow ing fo r the comm ercial bone, unless such is
“ D uring tho m oulting period the ef
fe e t o f sunflow er seed can be height a p a rt, th e sta lk s each bore an av erage chickens, and th e lay in g hens, too, is free from the odor of am m onia and
decaying m atter. D ry bones, e ith er
sw eet milk.
ened by th e use o f flax seed jelly. Boil of one-half a pound of seed.
N ine rows of sunflow ers, th ree feet
broken or ground, will bo eaten, b u t
one pound of flax seed to a je lly and
W
hen
lay
in
g
freely,
a
flock
of
50
m ix it w ith 50 pounds o f w hatev er sort wide and 80 rods long would make an hens will d rin k from four to eight not so readily as those th a t are fresh.
o f mash is custom ary. Twice a week acre. F ig u rin g it a little fin er there q u a rts o f w ater daily, depending upon Fresh bones are not easily ground in
would b e one row 12,000 feet long. I f
any kind of mill. T hey a re usually
is o ften enough to feed a flax seed
the conditions.
the hills wero one foot a p art th ere
steam ed in order to render them b rittle ,
ratio n , however.
Colds w ith pou ltry often lead to roup, or place in the oven and burn. O f
would be 12,000 hills in the acre and,
“ A handful o f sulphur in the mash
a t the ra te of one h alf a pound of seed and when once th e roup gets a good course, when subjected to heat, they
fo r 100 hens, fed on a d ry day, hastens
s ta rt you arc likely to have quite a lose more or less nitrogenous m atter,
th e moult, too, for the sulphur makes per hill, which is a conservative e s ti task to g et rid of it.
m ate, th e acre should produce 6,000
such as m eat or gelatine. W ith a bone
fe a th e rs grow rapidly. Do not feed
pounds o f sunflow er seed. A t p rev ail
More tu rk e y s would mean more cu tter, all kinds of bones can be p re
sulphur on a dam p day, however, else
th e fow ls are a p t to catch cold. Sul ing prices, such a crop would be w orth spending money for m any a fa r m e r’s pared for the fowls.
phu r in th o mash once a week is s u ffi $300.
In Southern C alifornia, Texas or A ri
cient.
“ A n o th er good th in g to give during zona, it would bo an easy m a tte r to
grow th ree crops of sunflow er each year
tho m oulting season, or in an y season,
upon an ord in ary piece of land, and
is a dash o f epsom salts. T w enty grains
some so rt o f a crop of pum pkins could
o f epsom sa lts to each hen, fed in the
be tak en from th e ground at th e same
mash every tw o weeks, stirs up the
time.
hen and keeps her b rig h t and busy.
Also, in view of th e fuel value of
I t tak es th e av erag e breed o f ehiek the stalk s and th e fa c t th a t they used
ens about 100 days to pass through to be ex ten siv ely used for firew ood in
th e moult, b u t th e period can be n o tice m any p a rts o f K an sas and o th er states,
ably shortened and tho fowls brought th e stan d in g stalk s ought to cut quite
thro u g h in b e tte r shape if sunflow er a figure a t d efray in g fuel bills, espe
eced be used judiciously.
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cially in p a rts o f th e S outhw est where
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In th e open m ark et sunflow er seed stovewood is w orth ab o u t $14 a cord.
I
re ta ils fo r 10 cents per pound alm ost
I t is not indulging in guess work to
anyw here in th e W estern states, but estim ate th a t an acre o f ground could
nearly every poultrvm an could produc be made to produce $400 w orth of su n
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his own supply o f it in ease he choses flow er seed annually, and a t th e same
to do so.
tim e grow enough “ p u n k ’’ and pump
S unflow er will spring up alm ost any kins to d efray th e expense of w orking
w here th a t th e seeds happen to fall th e land.
Sunflower Seed for Poultry
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Poultry Hints
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Mr. Rancher!
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Mr. Fruitgrower!
Milk for Poultry
IL K can n o t ta k e the place o f meat,
as it is n o t su fficien tly concen
tra te d , hence th e hens could not
drink enough o f it to supply th eir
w ants. I f a gill of linseed meal is
added to a p in t o f milk, and th e milk
then used for m ixing gronnd grain , it
w ill largely assist in providing a com
plete food. Milk shgnld be given in
vessels w hich w ill p revent filth from
g ettin g in to it, and vessels eleaned
daily.
M
W heat is a sta n d ard food for poul
try , and farm ers have enntented them
•elves th a t grain is su fficien t, b u t it
has been dem onstrated tlw t when fresh
milk has been given to chicks intended
to be sold as “ f r ie s ’’ the gain, when
milk is added to th e grain ratio n , is
nearly tw ice as much as when grain
alone is used. I f milk can be eonven
ien tly given to laying bens, larg er
p ro fits will be derived by thus u tilis
in g the w aste products th an by feed
ing it to th e pigs, as skim-milk and
butterm ilk contain nearly all the ele
m ents o f food, the eggs are more easily
produced by hens fed upon such food |
th an when th ey are not otherw ise pro
vided, and every farm er should allow
th e hens a s h a r e 'o f th e skim milk and
b u tte r milk.
WATCHDOGS FO R POULTRY.
C tjlR
a farm w atchdog we like a
H
good A iredale te rrie r b e s t,’ ’
says Dr. P rince T. Woods of the
“ A m erican P o u ltry J o u r n a l.’ ’ “ In our
experience A iredales are ap t to prove
a ‘ one m an d o g ’ and know only one
m aster. In a w atchdog th a t is a m ighty
fin e tr a it. They have w onderful endur
anee and courage, are fin e k illers of
rats, skunks and o th er troublesom e
pests, and th ey can be ta u g h t to let the
pou ltry alone. The A iredale can be
tau g h t th e bounds o f y o u r farm and to
stay w ith in bounds, and be is not likely
to perm it stran g ers to handle or move
an y th in g on th e place. We have found
then*, g entle w ith children, very in te lli
g en t and obedient, b u t supplied w ith
ab u n d an t w atchdog q u alities, and apt
to be a b it savage w ith trespassers,
though seldom noticing any one outside
of farm bounds.
“ The collie can be train ed to round
up the birds and make them selves g en
erally useful, b u t our ch ief objection
to them is th eir very affe c tio n a te dis
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