Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1917 — POULTRY NOTES [ARTICLE]

POULTRY NOTES

A good Incubator insures early hatches. Chilled chicks are apt to have diarrhea. The pullet hatched early in the year is the one which will lay next winter. The small coal stove brooder which will accommodate 300 chicks Is a good investment. • Little chicks should be kept dry. Don’t turn the hen loose too early in the morning. If Incubators are used, remember that it. is just as Important to have a good brooder. Long, pointed, short, round, thin, or thick shelled eggs should not be used for hatching purposes. Kill the louse. A piece of blue ointment the size of a kernel of wheat rubbed into the skin just beneath the vent will do it. Most people either raise twice ns many chickens as they should or provide half enough brooding equipment. Plan your equipment for the worst weather that can be expected. Yards sowed to oats furnish hens and chicks material that can be ■supplied in no other way than by green food in some form. Later, rape or buckwheat can be used to advantage. Imitate nature in hen hatching. Either make the nest in a bottomless box on the ground or put an overturned sod in the bottom of the nest. This assists the hen in controlling evaporation from the egg.