Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1912 — POULTRY NOTES [ARTICLE]

POULTRY NOTES

Don’t sell cracked or very small eggs. Grit and oyster shells should not be forgotten. You can gain two or three cents a dozen by shipping your own eggs. A filthy hen house is the best breeding place for lice and mites. If you want eggs in winter we must breed from hens that lay in winter. The idea that water Is necessary to any one who cares to raise ducks is a mistake. - s In fly season, keep netting over the egg basket, as fly-specked eggs are not Inviting. Stale bread thoroughly dried and rolled into fine crumbs Is excellent chicken food, t 1 It is time for questions about getting fowls to come down out of trees and roost in houses. Careless and Indifferent systems of feeding are often the cause of poor ihilk yields and small profits. It Is absurd tp expect pullets to lay during the early winter when they were not hatched until June or July. Eggs during the hot weather should be removed from the nests at once and placed in the coolest spot in the house, i " There should be provided plenty of fresh clean water to drink, preferably water from which the chill has been taken off. Cabbhge heads or mangles make an acceptable green feed for them to pick up, also apple and potato parings are much relished. In summer time all eggs marketed should be Infertile. Such a condition can only exist after the males have been removed from the flocks. Many beginners make the mistake of 4 ,not specializing in some way—in eg|fc, for example, or in pure bred stock. There is no reason why the 'two should not be combined.