Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1917 — POULTRY POINTERS [ARTICLE]

POULTRY POINTERS

Remember, milk is meat when it comes to feeding chicks or hens. The best eggs for hatching come from flocks that have free i-ange. Watch for head lice on the ducks. It found rub top of head with a small piece of lard free from salt. It is a good plan to force egg production. but nature may be materially aided by good feed selection. The production of ducks especially should be emphasized at this time, because of the rapidity with which they grow. . •„ • A laying hen is nervous; if she is frightened or even startled much, there Is apt to be -a miscarriage of eggs.

For this reason, the poultryman should carry on the work in the henhouse qujetly and evenly. To destroy mites and keep the flock free of their depredations, insecticide sprays and a sanitary building are necessary. Ducks qf most of the meat breeds, properly fed and managed, frequently weigh from ~ftve~to-six-pounds al ten weeks of age. If it is worth keeping poultry at all, it is worth making a good Job of it, and nothing except a good Job will a profit. A’fter the grass gets tough chicks can catch more bugs and worms and will grow better on loose soil. The cornfield furnishes ideal conditions. Be careful* that the chicks, poults, ducklings and goslings do not have any food and cannot get apythlng to eat on the range which is moldy or musty, for such stuff causes canker and digestive troubles. ■ _ The Leghorhs today are a much better breed than they were years ago. The tendency has been to breed larger birds and still retain all their characteristics as producers of a large number of eggs. With larger bodies also has come the production of -larger eggs, which Is an added merit to the breed.