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THE STANDARD BIRD
Greatest Profit in Pure Breeds of fowls.
GUV ELLIOTT MITCHELL
The Bureau of Animal Industry has
Just prepared a short bulletin embody
ing a number of useful hints to poultry
raisers. In submitting the text to Secre
tary Wilson, Chief Melvin of the
Bureau stated that the article was pre
pared with the special end in view of
furthering the purpose of bis Bureau
to give the raisers of poultry, especially
the general farmer, the best informa
tion possible In a very concise form.
The article Is written by G. Arthur
Bell, Assistant Animal Husbandman of
the Bureau of Animal Industry.
Selection of a Variety-
Pure breeds are desirable, says Mr.
Bell, as with these one has a flock of
Missed the Opportunity to Get I am*
ous horse Named Aller ti.m.
When a man becomes famous, all
the incidents of his past life are laid
bare. There is a great story —*—
around of how Nick Longworth
near to attaining to fame some
ago, in connection with horses.
“The story runs, ’ according to a
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prominent
horsemaq, “that some years
AL Ziegler, --
of Cincinnati,
the
ago H. IZ.
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noted owner of thoroughbreds, ami an
ImiLUUlU friend of
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intimate
Air, Longworth,
took the latter down to bis Kentucky
thoroughbred farm to show him his
collection of tine yearlings.
"All of these yearlings were as yet
unnamed.
" ’Longworth,’ said Ziegler, as they
strolled about the stalls, ’you’d better
let me name one of these yearlings
after you. They're a swell bunch, ami
almost all of them are well-nigh bound
to do something big in the world.’
“ ’I don't mind,' was Longworth's
should be placed against, the end of the |
The Great Ameriean Hen.
house opposite the door or under the [ Rightfully comes she by the title,
roost platform, and should be darkened. for according to statistics the Ameri
It is well to have several small boxes
for shell, grit, beef scraps, etc., against can hen yields more money annually
the walls about 16 to 18 inches above than any other one farm product. With
the floor. If cement or wood floors are eggs as low as a cent a piece—a very
used, a dust bath should be provided cheap and nutritious food—a well
bred hen laying about two hundred
for the fowls.
eggs a year has a value of $2. An
The Feeding of Hens.
In order to obtain eggs, it is neces estimate is made that *1 a year will
sary to have healthy, vigorous stock, keep her in comfortable if not is luxuri-
that
properly fed. To do their best, hens ; ous, quarters. The trouble
should be fed grain, animal, and green millions of barnyard scrubs do not
food. They should be fed enough to ‘ yield a hundred eggs a year.
According to Government authori-
keep them In good condition but not
overfat, and should be induced to take t ties the earning from the egg and
poultry industry amounts to about
$280,000,000. Cotton, the king of crops
with a value reaching up to $259,000,-
000, is thus dethroned by the magnifi-
clent earnings of the fowl.
During 1905 the total value of all the
gold, silver, wool and sheep produced
I in the United States was $272,000,000.
The wheat crop, considered the most
i valuable of all agricultural products
I had a value in the same period of
$229,000,000. The great American
hog, consumed at home and abroad.
I was valued at about $1.86,529,035. The
i sugar production of the country was
only $20.000,4)00. The combined value
i of the oat and potato crops was only
| $160,000,000. The industrious little
gallus domesticus produces enough
WHITE COCHIN COCK.
i eggs to require a train of refrigerator
First Prize Bird at New York Show in 1904
I cars 900 miles long filled with 43,000,-,
1000 crates, each of which holds 360 | reply. 'But I’d like to be sure of be-
| eggs. The value of the egg as a food I f stowing my cherished name on a real
i product is equal to that of any food , good one. I’d hate to have a bad one
stuff of its size.
running in my name. My friends of a
racing turn would be guying me all
the time about my namesake’s perform
Winter Egg-Euying Contest.
ances.’
’’ ‘Well,’ said Ziegler, ‘you’re a pretty
A novel egg-laying competitlqn at
the Lady Warwick's Ladies’ Agricul good judge of a race horse yourself.
PLYMOUTH BOCKS—A PAIR OF PRIZEWINNERS.
tural College is reported by Consul Now here are two of my cracks in
fowls which will produce carcases and i plenty of exercise. No set rules can be Daniels at Sheffield, England. The i these two stalls. 1'11 have ’em led out
eggs of a much more uniform shape, given for feeding, as conditions vary, conclusions reached are that breed does I into my paddock by oue of the stable
color, and size than will mongrels, all and there are different methods of feed not govern so much as the laying | hands, and you can look them over and
of which aids In finding a ready sale. ing different breeds.
strain or families of a breed highly de , take your pick of them. Whichever
If one already has a flock of mongrel
A good system to follow for winter veloped as egg producers. The pen of ;one you like the better I'll name after
fowls anil cannot afford to buy pure- feeding is mash once a day and grain four Buff Orpingtons led from October I you.’
“ ‘Done’ said Mr. Longworth, and the
breeds, he should choose a purebreed scattered in the litter twice a day. The 16 to November 16 by producing 49
male bird of the breed preferred and mash may be fed dry or slightly moist eggs, and again November 16 to Decem two yearlings were led into the open.
“They were both fine lookers, but Mr.
mate him with a few of the beat mon ened. When the former, It is usually ber 16 with 120 eggs. One thing the
grel females. This system, If carefully put into a trough or hopper hung present competition shows is the little | Ixmgworth liked the appearance of the
followed for a few years, will give a against the wall and the fowls allowed help it is to birds to be what show i larger one of the two the better.
“ 'That one,” he said, pointing to his
enthusiasts call ‘‘beautifully marked,’’
high-grade flock that will be practically access to It at all times.
as good as purebreds, so far as market
The mash fed at the Maine Experi for as often as not It is the ordinary | pick. ‘He looks good to me.’
“
’He's christened “Nick Longworth,”
conditions for dressed fowls and eggs ment Station is as follows, In the pro- looking competitors, birds a show
are concerned.
judge would laugh at, that have the I then,’ said Mr. Ziegler, and the colt was
l»orllons Indicated:
biggest total of egge to their credit. | duly named Nick Longworth and regis
Choice of variety will depend largely
200 pounds wheat bran,
100 pounds corn meal,
In the winter laying competition what tered with the Jockey Club under that
on the purpose for which the fowls are
100 pounds wheat middlings,
kept—whether eggs alone,both eggs and
stands a bird in good stead is not that name.
“Now, the other colt of the pair from
100 pounds linseed meal,
meat, or meat aloa Is the chief object;
Its father was the winner of <•
a ...euo.
medal.
100 pounds gluten meal,
but that its mother and grandmother | 11 lca Mr- Longworth made his selec
whether white-shelled or brown shelled
eggs are desired; and whether sitters
100 pounds beef scrap.
were wonderful layers, and that its tion was afterward named Hernus.
Sounds kind o’ familiar to you, eh,
or nonsitters are wanted.
that name. Hermis? Well, I should
Eyg Breeds.— Nonsitters and produc
think
it would sound familiar, seeing
ers of white-shelled eggs—Leghorns
that. In the deliberate belief of many of
and Minorcas.
the most astute horsemen in this coun
General purpose breeds.—Sitters and
try, Hermis was absolutely the finest
producers of brown-shelled eggs—Fly
race horse ever foaled in the United
mouth Rocks, Wyandottes, Orphlng-
States, a speed and distance marvel,
tons, and Rhode Island Reds.
a bulldog who never knew when he
Beat Breeds.— Sitters mid producers
was beaten, and an animal worthy to
of brown-shelled eggs—Light llrahmas,
be ranked with the very greatest race
Cochins, and Lnngshans.
horses of all time in this or any other
What Kind of Houses.
country.
Location.— Select an elevation hav
“So much for Hermis, the one that
ing a natural drainage away from the
Mr. Longworth didn’t pick out. As for
I eliding, a dry, porous soli, such as a
the one that he did pick out. and that
candy or gravelly loam, being pridur
was named Nick Longworth—well.
able to a clay soil.
Nick was worth about $9.72 as a rac
Exposure.—As sunlight and Aarmth
Ing proposition, and that's alcout all.
are essential to the best success with
He could win a selling race once in a
I oullry, the buildings should face the
while on Thursdays when the wind was
south. A southeastern Exposure is pref
sou'-sou'east by nor', but hecouldn’tget
erable to a southwestern one if a
out of his own way in running with
direct southern exposure cannot be ob
even fair handicap horses, and he lost
tained.
about twenty times to one win, and
Size of House.— The size of the house
it really did come to pass that Mr.
will depend almost entirely on the
GROUP Of YOUNG WHITE LEGHORNS.
Ixwgworth’s Cincinnati friends guyed
number of birds to be kept. If in flocks
him unmercifully about his namesake
of forty to sixty, about 5 square reot
horse. Mr. Longworth never, of course,
of flour space should be allotted to I
in the proportions indicated:
told his guying friends that he’d actu
each hen. The building should be high
pounds corn meal,
ally had the chance to get so noble an
enough for the attendant to avoid
pounds ground oats,
I Ducks don’t need water to thrive. tinimal as Hermis named after him.
bumping his head against the celling.
pounds wheat bran.
are many farms in this country, He probably felt that the situation was
ng chickens should be fed a little There
A House for Fifty to Sixty Fowls.
Imo and often. If they are given where thousands of these fowl are bad enough as it was.
The l>est house for fifty to sixty fowls t
d food alone, there is a great raised each year for market, and where
is 20 by 14 feet; front elevation 6'4 1
there is not even a puddle for them to
TUE XEGRO AS J FARMER.
feet, back elevation 5’4 feet with <
flounder in. One of these establish
double pitch roof of unequal span The *
ments is said to furnish 20.000 ducks Booker Washington Says He Is at
roof, if shingled, should have not less <
a year.
His Worst in Large Cities
than one-third pitch. If roofing paper is t
llooker T. Washington in an addresa
used, one-quarter ptteh will answer. In t
at Washington, D. C., recently struck
the front, or south wall there should be r
a keynote when he stated that, “The
placed two windows about 1 foot from s
negro is at his worst in the crowded
the top and 3 feet from the ends; 8 by c
life of a large city, and at his best in
10 inches Is a good sized pane to use fl
I the rural districts where he owns and
In a twelve-light snsli. making the sash f
cultivates the soil.
about 3 by 9 Inches high, anil 2 feet 5 <•
I
The speaker said the demand in the
inches wide. A door 2’4 by 6 feet may t
I South for negroes trained tor teachers
be made in one of the end walls, and
' and leaders in the class room, and the
also a small door in the front wall, for p
I factory was tremendous; but more,
pressing yet was the demand from the
l>est white people of that section for
negroes to take charge of their farms,
Extending the Weather Service dairies and other industries. This de
In order that the work of the mand is shown, he said, by the fact
Weather Bureau may be of greatest that every one of the 525 students who
possible benefit to the people of the left Tuskegee last summer had been en
United States, and especially to that gaged weeks before the end of the term.
class which Is dependent upon the Washington is solicited by mail, tele
weather. Prof. Willis L. Moore, the graph. and in person to furnish
chief, has been making arrangements 1 < trained negroes, and could have found
by which such ngrleulturlsts as have ; places for twice the number had they
telephones and want the service, may been forthcoming.
obtain weather forecasts within a few
“Association with the white people
minutes after the announcement of | lias given the negro new «ints, de
telephonic advice as to the state of com sires and ambitions,” said Mr. Wash
ing weather. This is opermlug in New ington; “To these, education is neces
York. Pennsylvania. Indiana. Michigar sary, both to appreciate fully the newly
and other states. Recently the Weather awakened feelings and to provide
Bureau made arrangements for an ex moans for their rational satisfaction.
tension of this service in Maryland. Hence, from the most selfish point of
Virginia and West Virginia.
view, the right kind of education is |
beneficial for the negro.”
That the negro is not naturally an I
The bloodhound Is generally thought , idler is shown, the speaker said, by the
to be very ferocious, while, on the con trebling of the South's Industrial ■
trary. It Is really a« gently as almost wealth in the last twenty years, with
any other kind of dog.
out any appreciable increase in iiurni
erat Ion. This advance is due. he
The Pennsylvania Railroad Is con thought, In great part to the well
templating cutting a tunnel through the directed labor of the negro.
Allegheny Mountains, and the South
ern Pacific will eventually tunnel the
Cork, in spite of its buoyancy, will
Sferre Nevada range.
not raise to the surface again from a
depth of 200 feet twlow the ocean's sur
Tall persons usually live longer than face. owing to the great pressure of
short ones, while those born in the water. At any depth short of that it
snrtng have sounder constltntlOM than will gradually work its way back to
those born during the other seasons
the surface.
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