Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1912 — POULTRY NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

POULTRY NOTES

Gather eggs daily. The profits in poultry culture are measured by the care given. It is useless to expect many from old fowls of any variety. All scraps; of vegetables from the table should be given to the hens. A poultryman is judged by his surroundings and the condition of his fowls. Hens need to be provided with a summer dust bath as well as in the winter. . Grit enables the gizzard to prepare the food for digestion. It is a fowl’s false teeth. The dropping-boards should be regularly cleaned and the filth removed from the houses. It is of little profit to have a goodsupply of eggs if we cannot market them to advantage. A large part of the heavy loss from bad eggs can be obviated by the production of infertile eggs. The market age of goslings is twelve weeks, which is a short time after they have feathered out. Chickens are creatures of habit. Whether they are lazy or active depends largely on the way they are raised. The enemies of the fresh egg market are the preserved and the tested out incubator eggs. Be above such trickery. Guinea fowls do not mate in pairs like pigeons or doves. One male to several fowls is the proper way to mate them. At the present day many poultrymen grind part of their chicken feed Into a meal sb it can be fed into either a dry or wet mash. Any breed of hens will consume an enormous quantity of feed before commencing to lay, but after having once begun will not require so much grain as berore. If you have never tried rape, raise a small field next spring. It is Very popular with the hogs and does them a world of good. Ewes that are broad and lopg will make good mothers and produce vigorous offsprings. In this way lambs of a better type will be produced. ButteY is often of inferior quality because churning is ,not done until a sufficient amount of cream accumulates to make churning worth while. Do you feed pumpkins to your cows? They have never been known to Increase the flow of milk, but what a color it gives to the cream and the butter! Keep your calves In clean separate pens for about four weeks, and then ts the weather permits, turn them out with the herd, and they will not suck the cows. It is advisable to place a box of grit or coarse sand where the turkeys can find it, (as not all farms have sufficient quantity for the purpose of good digestion.