Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1917 — Poultry Pointers. [ARTICLE]

Poultry Pointers.

Never allow broods of chicks to be mothered by any except clean, healthy hens, for filthy, diseased mothers carry sickness and death to the youngsters. A chick with lice will stand and cry, or drop its heal as if sleeping while standing up, but the fault may be with the disposition of the hen. If she is not naturally a. good mother, there is no remedy but to get rid of her in the brood yard. Fowls are not likely to contract tuberculosis from domestic animals or from man, yet birds that have had the disease are serious menace to other farm animals, as well as the poultryman and the family. Do not neglect to give room to the growing chicks. At six weeks, the chicks are independent of the brooder, and may be put in cold brooders or colony houses. Their inclination on j(?ool nights will be to crowd. Piling up means trouble. For this reason it is best to have not more than twenty in a group. Letyourpoultry have the free range of your orchard. There they will not only find the shade so grateful to them In hot weather, but they will feed on nmltitudes of Insects which may be injurious to trees and shrubbery. ; As soon as practicable, give the pullets more room by culling out the cockerels. Dispose of the precocious little

fellows that get red combs and begin to crow before they are half grown. They are unlikely to make the best birds, and become a nuisance about the place. Leghorn pullets are capable of comsuming about 90 pounds of skimmilk each during a year. A hen seldom chooses an open, exposed location for a nest. The shape of the egg Is no Indication of what the sex of the chick will be. There Is money In raising broilers and roasters.