Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1912 — POULTRY NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

POULTRY NOTES

Clean out the house and put in fresh litter. Take care of your poultry and it will take care of you. Capons should not be killed until their crops are empty. Spray a weak coal tar solution over the chickens on the roosts. Dunghill fowls, like incompetent labor, Is not worth having around. Color the drinking water of all fowls, pink with permanganate of potash. No successful poultry plant was ever established with mongrel stock. Thoroughbred fowls, like skilled la-bor.-are sure to create a profit for the farm. Simply because an egg is fertile is no guarantee of it hatching out a chick. Before packing and shipping poultry should be thoroughly dry and cool, but not frosefi- x Many of the fowls in this country are fed only enough to keep them alive and growing. ‘ ■?.- ‘ r - - . Exercise is great for hens. Give them a chance to get out In the fresh air . every day & their lives. Poultry Should be well fed and watered and then kept from 18 to 24 hours without food before killing. Cleaning roost rooms is too much neglected.' Some farmers do not clean them oftener than once a year. Oats' is one of the best of grains for feeding fowls and should constitute a part of every grain mixture we fsefL To check its progress in the flock, separate the diseased chickens from the others and place them in a clean airy coop. It is possible to raise turkeys in pens, just ss chickens are raised, but tee business cannot yet be said to he other than precarious. v -