Indianapolis Recorder, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1914 — Page 7
POULTRY and EGGS
FEEDING THE PULLETS.
Careful Handling Needed to Make Good Egg Layer*. A masb or dry ground grain will hasten the pullet to maturity much faster than an all hard grain diet because in such a mixture it is possible to incorporate the more concentrated high protein products, such as bran, middlings, beef scrap, etc. Meat in some form is absolutely necessary in order to start the pullets to laying and keep them at it all winter, writes A. E. Vandervoort in the American Cultivator. • . Pullets require careful handling to make them good layers, and w’hether they will be profitable producers for the next six months depends largely upon the way they are treated for a
POULTRY WISDOM. All the poultry bouses should be in shape for winter. Be sure there is a good supply of litter in every house. The birds need exercise and plenty Of it Don’t w’ait till the houses are infested with vermin. Keep spraying with some good lice killer and keep the houses clean all the time. It is well to be preparing at J this time for a supply of green • I feed for your flock during the I! wdnter. Beets make a good win- 4ter ration, as do turnips or small potatoes. Immature heads of cabbage are an excellent winter feed. Do not crowd your birds into a space too small for them. Keep ^ only as many as can be comfortably housed.
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Bumblefoot results where fowls Jump down from high perches to hard floors. The ball of foot swells, web puffs up between toes, abscess forms, foot gets hot and, if not treated at once, gangrene sets In. To cure, wash foot, draw sharp knife across ball of foot, cutting deep, and squeeze out pus and blood; then paint with iodine or carbolic acid and bandage, passing the rag across cut between toes, around shank and back again. Paint again if necessary. Place patient on straw away from roosts and foot will soon heaL
The feeding of hens for the production of hard shelled eggs not easily breakable in handling ,is possible and demands attention. Shells vary greatly in strength. A strong, heavy shell is not nearly so likely to be broken by the jars, jolts and rough handling incident to ordinary shipment as a weak one. Chemical analyses show that the shell of the egg is largely carbonate of lime, but that it also contains carbonate of magnesia, mineral phosphate and some organic matter. If strong shells are to be produced the mineral j elements must not be lacking. Grains that are ordinarily fed do not contain these mineral elements in sufficient proportions, and an additional and separate supply is necessary. Fortunately these mineral elements are available in much cheaper forms than in grains.
month prior to the time they should begin to lay. We mugt gradually acclimate them to cold weather, feed them a ration that will mature the body and grow a thick coat of feathers. The food should contain a large percentage of what chemists term ash, or mineral matter, as well as protein, carbohydrates and fat. Ash will be found largely in cut bone and most green feeds. Beef scrap contains some bone and meat and bonemeal a still larger percentage. These are excellent feeds for the maturing pullet and should constitute a goodly portion of her ration. If the pullets are allowed to crowd on the roosts they will sweat, and the growth of the feathers will be retarded. They should have plenty of fresh air and not be too warmly housed; In feeding maturing pullets we are very apt to feed them too little. They should consume a large amount of food, and the more they will eat the better. If we find that they do not eat up their feed clean and leave some we conclude that we are feeding them too much and cut down the ration. Above all things, do not overfeed them. I am much in favor of hopper feeding of dry ground grains. My dry grain ration consists of dry ground grains, beef scrap and charcoal. Your hopper should be so constructed as to not allow the pullets to throw the food out and waste it The filled bopper may be kept before them all the time, but I keep the hopper before them only part of the day, giving them their whole grain in the morning in a litter and give them the use of the hopper about 10 o’clock for the rest of the day. Egg Eating Fowl*. The egg eating habit is a bad one and not easily cured. The probabilities are that it is first caused by a broken egg in the nest or a soft shelled one found under the roost in the morning. After once getting a taste of their own product the hens want more and will try to break every egg they can find. When- one discovers that the hens are eating the eggs, strenuous measures should be taken at once. Scatter china eggs on the floor in order to let them see that all eggs cannot be broken. You will find that they will pick at these for a time and then desist. Feed plenty of raw meat for a time and keep them busy working for all food they get If you find a hen persistently breaking eggs you had better have her for dinner. Watch the hens closely till the trouble ceases.—Kansas Farmer.
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It pays to dry pick poultry. The fowl looks, keeps and tastes better. Hans birds as shown in the picture. With head in one hand grasp large wing feathers firmly with the other and withdraw next the tail feathers, then tender portions of the body, such as abdomen, breast, back and thighs. Grasp a small handful at a time and pull in direction of least resistance.
Lime Is the principal ingredient of oyster shells, which may be procured for $10 to $12 a ton. Iron, magnesia and often phosphorus in many kinds of artificial grit may be procured for about the same price, while these elements in grain w’ould cost at least dou ble these figures. Bone meal contains phosphorus in appreciable amounts besides lime, magnesia, etc., and, while expensive, it is effective in giving the shell an evenness and fineness of texture which adds much to its strength. It is therefore often used as an ingredient for dry mashes for laying flocks, usually in amount Varying from 3 to 5 per cent.
Clean Up the Poultry House. If the cleaning of the poultry houses has been neglected now is the time to remedy the matter, for it won’t do to let the fowls into a dirty house for the winter campaign. First of all clean but the loose filth, droppings and scratching material; then spray the whole interior—walls, roosts and nest boxes—with a good disinfecting fluid, and besides all this a thorough fumigation of the whole premises will not be out of order. Make Hens Exercise. • It is not advisable to have heat in the henhouse. While it may be the means of more eggs, It also has been the starting point of more colds. Warmly built bouses and the fowls compelled to exercise will be far better than artificially heated houses.
TiiMj IISTVIAN APOJUS RECORDFJR. /
THE POULTRY MAN.
Castor oil is useful in cases of diarrhea in poultry. A dose will relieve the Intestines of irritant matter, the cause of the trouble, and cool and clean tbe'bowels. The male chicken is a cock, the male goose a gander, the male duck a drake, the male turkey a tom or gobbler. February is generally the beginning of the laying season for both ducks and geese. Keep up the fight against lice. Do not let the good work of last month end your w;arfare. You did not get them all by any means. Go at them again. Poultry culture calls for brains, energy, experience and capital.
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For practical purposes lice and mites may be divided into three classes, ae cording to their life habits and the best means of destroying them. The first and least harmful class is that made up of the large body lice which live upon the skin of adult fowls andi annoy them chiefly by the irritatioc of their presence. These are comparatively easily killed by lice powders sift ed through the feathers, or by the dust baths which all fowls enjoy if giver opportunity to take them. Given opportunity to take these dust baths, adult fowls will need little help in combating this class of parasites. The second class is composed of those which burrow into the skin or beneath the scales of the fowl’s body and legs The depluming mite which burrows Into the skin at the base of the feathers and causes these to drop out and the mite which causes scaly leg by bur rowing beneath the scales of the feet and shanks belong to this class. These cannot be reached by dusting powders and must be attacked with some grease or oil that can penetrate tc their habitations. Any nonirritating
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News of the Lodges Atlanta, G».,—-In a decision handed down Tuesday by Judge Geo. L. Bell, of theSuperior Court of Fulton county the right of Rabban Temple of Nobles of the Mystic tinrlne, this city, to use the titles emblems, insignias and rituals of the order was sustained. The decision followed the hearing on Mon day and Tuesday of last week of the injunction proceedings instituted in August by Yasrob Temple of Shriners white, against the continued existence of Rabban Temple. Attorney George Gordon, white, represented Rabban Temple. He was assisted by Warner Me Guinn of Baltimore who represented the Imperial Council of the Ancient Egytian Ara bic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, and was associate counsel in thecise. Mr. McGuinn ably assisted Mr. Gordon in preparing the brief and argument for the defense, the latter presenting th a'gbment In court
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JOHN H. MURPHY The counsel for the plaintiff claimed prior title and argued that the colored Shriners had no legal existence. The defense contended that the white Shriners did not have exclusive rights that no damages had been claimed under the common law and that the colored Mystic Shriners were incorporated and the whites were not. The question of legal existence was what Judge Bell reserved his decisioa unti 1 Tuesday. The case against Rabban Temple has been watched with interest by the Mystic Shriners oil over the country. The Imperial Council backed Rabban Temple in the tight and Imperial Potentate John H. Murphy of Baltimore was on hand to direct the fense. Chas. A Faison is the Ulus trious Potentate of Rabban Temple, which has a membership of about seventy.
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Scaly leg In fowls is a filth disease and is caused by a parasite that burrows under the scales and when it starts soon infects the whole Hock. Where it exists clean up thoroughly, whitewash walls, roosts, nests, dropping hoards and disinfect floors. If scale is thick soak the fowls’ legs in sweet oil, remove crusts gently and apply sulphur ointment or a mixture of three parts lard and one of coal oil. Repeat until the disease disappears.
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Fattening Geese. For early geese the last period should not be more than three weeks. The birds should be penned up in flocks of twenty-five and kept in semicoufinement The food should be soft in the morning and corn in the afternoon. Clean water in troughs should be kept constantly before the birds, but they must not be allowed to swim. The soft mash may consist of Indian meal and middlings, and the grain, wheat and barley. The grain gives better results If it is steeped in water for a few hours. All food should be fed In troughs, and if any remains it should be cleared* away about half an hour afterward.
Regularity Pays With Hens. Have a regular time for'dolng all the chores necessary to be done about the poultry yard. A regular time for feeding means that you will be ready and the birds will be ready. They will look for you, and they seem to know when feeding time comes. Regularity along this line is very important, and the man who feeds just as the fever •trikes him will find that the birds do tot respond as they should.
grease or oil may be used, ordinary lard being as good os anything, though it sometimes needs re-enforcing with mercurial or blue ointment in the proportion of about one-fourth part of the latter. This can be rubbed in and reaches the pests. As a liquid dip for legs kerosene or coal oil is efficient and handy. 'j. The third and most destructive class of parasites is represented by the common red mite. These mites do not stay upon the fowls during the day, but live In cracks aud behind loose boards about the nests and perches and come out at night to feast upon the blood of their victims. Careful search will find them In any neglected henhouse, and no fowls can thrive where they are present. These are to be killed by the »ice paints or sprays and by whitewash. For painting perches and small surfaces kerosene to which has been added one-fourth part of crude carbolic acid is cheap and effective. Any hard'grease like tallow may be melted and applied to perches by means of a brush; this will fill the pores of the wood and lasts longer than the liquid paints. Charcoal For Poultry. Charcoal is an excellent corrective of the evils t»f injudicious feeding and also is a good remedy in bowel disor der in poultry. Having wonderful Absorbent powers, especially for gases, only a small quantity should be put in the hoppers at a time, on account of Its absorptive nature. It should be kept in a thoroughly dry vessel with a close fitting cover, so as to exclude the air. If charcoal is heated well before given to poultry it will have a tendency to drive off Impurities which may have become absorbed and will be equal to fresh charcoal.
will include the 32nd degree and the Mystic Shrine. All Master Masons who are in good standing in the B.ue Lodge are eligible. See Dr. S. A. Furniss, 132 West New York street or Geo N. Redd 437 Indiana avenue at once. This may be vour last
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Persian Temnle No. 46 Mystic Shrine meets Friday evening Nov. 27. All Nobles are urged to attend. A new Lodge has been Instituted in New York City called-the Order of Knights of Alpha and the Ladies of
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