Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 223, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1917 — POULTRY POINTERS [ARTICLE]

POULTRY POINTERS

When chicks are confined to a limited range, the ground should be spaded up at frequent intervals, so as to provide fresh ground for them to scratch in. Any pullet that does not begin laying before the first Extremely cold weather will seldom lay many eggs during December and January. On the farm where pullets have plenty of range, hopper feeding gives very satisfactory results; that is, certain food is put into a self-feeding hopper where it is always available. there is no economy in giving only one kind' of feed, because, fowls and chicks need a variety in order to get the required amount of the different kinds of nourishment. ■ A dirty water dish offers a good chance for the distribution of disease germa, and all dishes should be cleanod and scalded with boiling water frequently during hot weather. Unless there is plenty of gravel or other grit which the fowls can pick up about the place, they should always have a box of commercial grit where they can reach it time, for grit is necessary for perfect digestion. ‘Geese do not need shelter except during cold winter weather, when open sheds may be provided. As the weather changes in the fall IL is poor policy to let the pullets roost outside. . Frosts and chilling winds retard their ronm aerioHs setback from which they are slow to recover. If your flock is penned up, do not neglect the meat constituent- of the ration. k -- ——* i - The chief danger in feeding oats lies in the hulls. It is too expensive to buy hulled oats, and about the only way to eliminate the trouble is to soak the oats, or. still better, sprout them. Poultry uses feed more economically probably than any, other class of farm animals when it Is carefully handled. y , Mites can -easily be eradicated by apraying with common kerosene plus ls» |w>r cent crude? carbolic odd <OO