Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1919 — POULTRY NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

POULTRY NOTES

The pullets and the year-old hens are the best egg producers. Market all cockerels not wanted as breeders at as early a date as possible. * * * A “chicken” is a young fowl, usually under six months of age. It becomes a “fowl” after that period. • * * One pound of feathers can be secured from five ordinary fowls, or from ten ducks, or from four geese. * * ♦ Whole corn is the proper food for sitting hens. They should have green food, grit, and pbre drinking water. ♦ ♦ * Eggs for hatching should be care fully selected, well-formed, with good shells, and kept in a temperature of 50 degrees to 60 degrees F. ♦ * * The chick worth having is the chick that releases itself from the shell with vigor, life and vitality; that comes jumping, as it were, into life. -» ♦ * ' A time-saving plan is to set hens In pairs, and giving the chicks hatched from both to one hen, allowing the other hen to go back to laying. * * • In salting the mash dissolve sufficient salt in the water with which the mash is to be moistened. In this way the salt wilt be more evenly distributed. An ounce of salt is about right for 100 fowls. ' .