Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1916 — POULTRY POINTERS [ARTICLE]

POULTRY POINTERS

Sudden fright and excitement at once tells on the egg crop. Never allow strange dogs about where the hena are. Don’t relax the care of the chicks. They will become Inactive and diseased. Market the broilers and all the roosters that you don’t want to keep tor breeding purposes. Uniform products command the best prices. Purebred fowls produce uniform products. When selling the eggs to the country merchant or cash buyer. Insist that the transaction be on a quality basis. After one lot of chickens is removed from the brooder house, clean thoroughly and spray with a disinfectant Clean up the Incubator; use a good disinfectant; empty the oil and throw the wick away. Allow the machine to dry thoroughly before closing the door up tight Regularity of feeding means much. Those who feed spasmodically are likely either to injure the fowls by overfeeding or not give enough, perhaps both. The birds should have their feed regularly. Eggs are easily affected by bad odors. Do not keep in a musty grain! bin, or tn the vegetable cellar, or where they can absorb the odors of* kerosene and gasoline. Marketing must be done at the right time and in the right manner. This is very important for it will be the final test of profitable poultry raising. There should be method in marketing. Not only should feeding be regular, but the quantitiy should be ample. It would be waste .of feed to give too much, but enough should be given and just enough. Surely this requires method. Method has much to do with poultry raising even where fanners have small flocks. Just as method is responsible for .much in general farming so is it important in raising poultry.