The Syracuse and Lake Wawasee Journal, Volume 15, Number 13, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 27 July 1922 — Page 3

CULLING THE SLACKER HEN Culling the slacker hen is like convicting the thief when you find the stolen goods in his possession. The evidence is there. Culling out the slacker hen is work that can be easily done by any poultry woman and poultry man. The good and poor birds are easily identified. It is the medium class that may -fall on either side of the line that are the most difficult to recognize, but these may be overcome with practice. As the laying season advances, the high production point is reached during April and May. After this time a gradual decline takes place. The average layer shows up gradually and the poorest birds stop entirely. It is the poorest birds that we wish to cull out. The greater part of the culling work will come during July, August, September and October. The chief points in practical poultry culling will be noted separately. Color is one of the first factors to consider in culling. All yellow skinned breeds should carry a reasonably large amount of yellow pigment previous to starting the laying season. This is most noticeable in the shanks, beak, earlobes, eyering and vent. Color disappears first where the blood flows more freely. After a very few eggs have been produced, color around the vent disappears. The edge of the eye lid is next to fade, followed by the ear lobes, beak and last in the shanks. The beak starts losing its color at the base and continues to the tip. The shanks lose color and do not fade out entirely until two or three months production have passed. . When the hen stops laying the color starts to appear in those parts where it first disappeared. Color fading takes place very rapidly when chickens are. confined to small areas. Fading of color does not appear in white skinned breeds, however, the size and shape of the vent flatness of shanks and texture of skin are all applicable. A second factor that is necessary in a heavy laying hen is capacity. She must be capable of handling twice the amount of food required for maintenance. The evidence of capacity in the hen’s body is shown by the spread of the pelvic bones, the distance from the pelvic bones to the rear end of the breast bone, the width of length of back; depth and width of the breast. The pelvic bones are the two small bones either side of the vent. The low producing hen usually has spread enough to allow only one finger to be placed between the pelvic bones, medium producers two fingers and the high producers three to four finger spread. The spread of the pelvic bones shows production at present but does not denote long time production. A hen with other indications of high production and narrow space between the pelvic bones

indicates a vacation or nearing ! the end of the laying period. I The pelvic bones should be thin and pliable and not fleshy. The depth of body can be measured by the distance from the pelvic bones to the rear of the breast bone. Non production is again indicated by room for only one finger and high production when there is room for three to four fingers. The shape of back and spring of ribs are the best permanent indications of a hen s ability. The hen that is deep both front and rear and appears slab sided is a high producer, while the shallow round body is a low producer. Quality is a characteristic of the laying hen that may well be considered. A hen carrying hard fat is a non-producer; the hen in laying condition may be fat but the fat will be soft, pliable and well distributed. The skin should be soft, silky and pliable, bones should be thin and pliable, in the high producer Quality in the hen is shown as in other fowls and animals by the clean cut head, bright eye and thin smooth skin. The two remaining characteristics are the comb and time of moult. A hen’s comb is a direct indication of her blood condition. She is in the pink of condition when the comb is bright red and silky, and these conditions are present when the hen is in high production. Toward the end of the laying year the condition of a hen’s plumage is a very noticeable and reliable indication of production. One can make up . their mind that the high producing hen needs her energy for production so she keeps her old warm and ragged coat. These early moulting hens do little else than care for themselves. If moulting has started pin feathers may be found among the saddle over the back just in front of the tail. The length of time she has been moulting may be figured from the number of new flight feathers in the wing. The flight feather next to the short axial feather in the* center of the wing is the first to drop and requires six weeks to grow out. The second feather drops two weeks later than the first and grows out three weeks after the first. Moulting the ten flight seaA-— -■ - - - ----- - 9 Economical and 3 - •fc Handsome J* wFWmt Cloth tfr? 1 Seo It Before Affirfißriß «ls Screening ■ OSBORN & SON T j Syracuse, Indiana

' thers requires five to six months I when shed one at a time. i High producing hens do not start to moult until late fall or early winter in which case their moulting period is shortened by dropping more than one flight feather at a time. There are factors at present which have a tendency to upset culling factors, such as artificial light, bringing moult into January, February, or even to May. Broodiness, short rations, and poor management in general will alter conditions in culling. After the culling compaign select your breeding hens, in October and November. Select the hen that still maintains vigor and vitality after a year’s production. Adhere to type, size and characteristics of the breed you choose. Select the male, from the standpoint of vigor, vitality, breed characteristics, and from the production records of his daughters. o SEVENTEEN-YEA R LOCUST The 17-year locust, or cicada, as it is more properly called, may be expected this year in Illinois and southern Wisconsin, with small broods along the Lakes. In Indiana on the border of Lake Michigan, the characteristic whirring nqise of the cicada will be heard. A big brood will appear in eastern lowa. Unlike the locusts of the Bible, which were really destructive grasshoppers, the 17-year cicada does but little damage of a serious nature. Interest in it is due chiefly to its unusually long life cycle. The Bureau of Entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture will welcome observations on this year’s occurrence in order to maintain its records, from which is forecast the reappearance of the various broods. There are about thirty broods of the 17-year cicada scattered over the United States in different sections and appearing in different years. From 1924 to 1928 almost no cicada will be seen. °—— < Everybody should have a living wage, but a lot of folks aren’t satisfied unless they have a flivvering wage. CATARRHAL DEAFNESS is often caused by &n inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tifbe. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing. Unless the inflammation can be reduced, your hearing may be destroyed forever. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE will do what we claim for it—rid your system of Catarrh or Deafness caused by Catarrh. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE has been successful in the treatment of Catarrh for over Forty Years. Sold by all druggists. F. J. Cheney A Co., Toledo, O,

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Columbus discovering the U. S. : Sat.—Ted was trying to joak ’ me about Jane and makeing me beleave he was hevvy with her and I got to take a rear seat and etc. So I goes to Jane and Frankly ast her was it trew did she like Ted. She was smileing when she answered and sed. Yes r I like him. Just the same way . I like Caster Oil. I was smilet ing to for I happen to no she j cant bare the stuff. ; Sunday—Are Sunday skool , sup. was tawking about crool j men and Blisters up and tells of a man here in town witch whips his wife evry time his dinner is late. He ast us what we thot of ’ it and Jake says he thot it was t a awfly bad habit to get in to. A specially in such hot wether. ; Monday—Pa was answering M sum questions got out by a Cyko ' Annalist Co. and he let me read j. it. lof the questions was. What did you like to play when you was going to skool. Pa rote as , his answer.’ HOOKY. I laffed t “ —— ; I Diamond Mounts | s t ♦ i t Have you seen the latest i I in Diamond Mountings? | i We have a liberal select tion of the new AIRLINE $ - t mountings that will hold t t your stone and make a i ■- | specialty of remounting f | diamonds. All our t)ia- x Imonds are mounted in y AIRLINE mountings be- | cause they are new and x show your stone to better x advantage. i I < ► flmos Jewßlru House | 130 So. Main, Goshen, Ind. <>

silently and kep the joak to myself. Tuesday—Went to a music Recital this evning and herd a lot of students play. The last peace must of ben a very hard one for they put 2 of them at it and they just got threw in time to stop and eat ice cream and cake witch was the best no. on the program. As fur as I am concerned. Wednesday—Ma sent me after ;um cold Cream tonite. Evry thing wood of went all rite xcept I went to the telefone and ast her did she want 'Vanella or Chocklate. She sed Dummy I want Cold Cream for my Sun Burn. So I was up vs. it and had to disapoint my apetite. Thursday—Got a dime mowing are yd. today and spent it for a Dream Book. Las nite I drempt I was a nite watchman in a ice cream factry and I want to see if it really has any bearing on my future life. o GOODRICH RUBBER CO. REDUCES TIRE PRICES The B. F. Goodrich Rubber • Company, Akron, Ohio, announces new tire prices that i bring the cost of Goodrich Tires > to the lowest cost mileage ever known. This revised price list affords motorists a definite guide ! to tire prices as Goodrich Tires are the definite standard of tire quality. Cheaper motor transportation by at least $50,000,000 this year is the concrete and visible effect of this announcement made, reducing the price of automobile tires by from ten or fifteen per cent. The reduction takes effect immediately. This tremendous saving to the entire automobile industry is made in the face of a determined

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THEY SAY. “They say” is the introduction to an awful lot of harm. We often hear the “they say” stories on the streets or in the stores of Syracuse and always, if we will stop and think a moment the one telling the “they say” story never tells it about a member of his own family. Telling this kind of story is an idle pastime with some people. They may not mean any harm-and yet “they say” has done more to blacken characters and sadden hearts than any one thing. The victim has no opportunity to combat a “they say” story, even if it should, as it seldom does, come to his ears. The story starts on no more authority than “they say”, and with each telling it grows and magnifies. Pretty soon it is common talk, and each time it is repeated you will hear that damnable “they say” quoted way to break up this miserable thing. We wish we knew away. — : o Be friendly with every Syracuse citizen. If it wasn’t for them you would be a total j stranger in this neighborhood. * J| ” ■ Is cigarettes I —* 3 k’ 3 S' They are GOOD! 1O’ Bay this Cigarette and Save Money