Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 258, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1916 — POULTRY POINTERS [ARTICLE]

POULTRY POINTERS

As the chicks grow they need more room. It does not pay to let them crowd. Beware of musty, moldy, soffir or decayed food. It is sure to cause trouble. Tough grass is of no value as a green food. Better sow some quick growing crop. Feed hoppers “greatly —reduce the work. 'lf they are kept filled, the chicks will never go hungry. Clean, fresh water lessens disease among fowls. Filthy drinking water is the source of much trouble. Clean the drinking pans frequently. %udden fright and excitement at once tell on the egg crop. Never allow strange dogs about, where hens 2 are. Carefully conducted experiments have proved that eggs packed in salt will not keep perfectly in majority of instances. The best way to “plump” a dretoed fowl is to dip it for ten seconds in water nearly or quite boiling hot. Our best birds this year are those that are hatched from cockerel and two-year-old hen matings. They are larger and healthier. The best step for early eggs this winter is to procure early * hatched pullets and get them to laying now. You will find that your hens If fed for eggs will waste their food, unless they have ample space for exercise. A balanced ration is essential, to be sure, but it will be of no purpose unless provisions are made for exercise. Remember that advertising is the key-note to success in all lines, and is no less true in the poultry business if you have good birds.