Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1912 — POULTRY NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

POULTRY NOTES

Success with poultry is a matter of details. A clean hen house Is necessary both summer and winter. Fertile eggs cannot be shipped safely unless they have strong shells Slacked lime is a good disinfectant to scatter around the poultry yards. Mate about five ducks to one drake, and thirty can easily be housed In each pen. FOr quick fattening try a mash oi corn meal and skimmilk. Feed it warm three times a day. Success in commercial poultry farm. Ing depends upon success in the hatching and rearing of the chicks. No one need hesitate to buy incubators or brooders because they have not before used them or saw them used. The person who raises good stock need have no fear about prices. First class fowls always bring good prices, no matter how great the surplus of ordinary stock is. It is a noticeable fact that few improvements have been made in recent years on the old standard breeds. Conservative raisers and dealers still prefer the old standbys.