THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT
APRIL 4, 1907.
PRACTICAL UTILITY POULTRY NOTES
By A. D. BUHHATfS.
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Grading l'p the Farm Flock.
The fact that the average flock of
poultry on the farm lays about fifty
eggs per year per hen goes to show
that more attention should be paid to
the grading up of the average flock of
hens. Go to the market poultry buyer
and he will tell you that the average
farm flock of hens and chickem sent to
market weigh from two to four pounds
less than a good breed of general pur
pose fowl and you will see the advisa
bility for breeding for size as well.
It has been demonstrated by farmers
and utility poultry keepers the, whole
country over that pure-bred fywls of a
good grade will produce more pounds
of meat and more eggs per hen than
any flock of scrub chickens that you
ever saw. One way of Improving the
laying qualities of the flock and also
of increasing their average size is to
grade up the flock annually by the use
of a few pure-bred males of the breed
which vou think would suit your pur
poses best. If you are going in for
eggs alone or have a tendency along
that line it will be a good thing to stay
close to the Leghorns or Minorcas. The
Leghorn fowls can be had n a good
many different varieties and colors,
ther being the buff, black, white and
brown with both single and rose comb.
If you want a heavier layer that will
consume a littlo more feed than the
Tn-lmrns. but at tho same time being
a better table fowl, tho Minorca, either
of the white or black variety will be a
good one to try. If you want laying
qualities and table qualities as well
select something in the Wyandotte or
Plymouth Hock breeds. Neither hc
Wyandottes nor the Plymouth Rocks
will lay as many eggs as the Leghorns
or Minorcas but as a general purpose
fowl they will excei them and in the
total cash receipts tho general purpose
fowl will probably bo much in the lead
owing to their superiority as a market
fowl.
Five cockerels would be erough to
use in the average flock for the first
year. If you care for a general purpose
fowl we will imagine that you have se
cured five males of the White Wyan
dotte variety. These will cost you from
$1.50 to $2 each, coming, from good stock
noted both for Its heavy laying quali
ties, its vigor, its quick growth and
general hardiness. The chicks from .he
first season's cross will average from
ono to two pounds more each and will
gain this extra size on the same
amount of feed that the average scrub
chicken will consume. The pullets from
this mating will ' lay twice, as many
eggs as the scrub pullets if only given
the same amount of care. As a rule,
where better poultry is being bred bet
ter care and housing conditions prevail
and if this is .so in your individual case
the laying qualities of jrour flock of
pullets during the first winter of your
trial of grading up your birds will pro
duce more eggs than we have intimat
ed. Wyandottes weigh from about
neven pounds ior females to nine and a
half to ten pounds for tho males ac
cording to their age, They grow very
quickly and are plumper and they take
on fat more readily at any stage of
growth than tho Plymouth Rocks or
any of the heavier breeds.
If you want fowls which are consid
erably heavier than the Plymouth
Recks or Wyandottes .try Langshans
or Cochins or piobably the ligh'; Brah
mas. Any of these breeds can be found
in most any section of the country in
the yards of some poultry breeder who
is making a specialty of them and the
males will bo easily purchased. These
three big varieties are known as the
Asiatic breeds and they grow In rlze
from eight pounds for females to
twelve punds for males.
The Poultry and Fruit Combination
To the average utility poultry raiser
very few Instances of a combination of
utility poultry growing and fruit grow
ing combined have come under his no
tice. The writer has visited duping the
past fall and winter, a number of
poultry farms where fruit ami poultry
.were combined and tho project made
to pay n m;irkubiy well. Om farm in
northwestern Missouri of about sixty
live u'i en was devoted to good poultry
keeplnj' for eggs for nurket and some
fowl wr also .'-old as well. On this
pla. e tho yards and houe.4 were seuf
teied among the fruit trees to ;od ad
vantage and the chicks were rained on
the colony system. Tho colony homes
which were very cheap In construction,
although they wrr imtdo will, won"
real tend ainohfr th- tr'e in th tldo
of the hill whet.- tho land wnt well
drained. Th chick did tenKtrk:il ly
will Ur whl aoii through. Small
bro.(l ips uh'te tlt heiu ;'t and
I t If d Wn ir r 1h v.cto (diced about
tho coitr.il part of th orchard near
lite nsldeit and th cl ti ks were kept
III ihrn, ffe.iil Un t!!ie tliev were
batched until ilout three month oh
when they were removed to the colony.
Ab'ut lx hundred head ( hhk w r
raised by "hen power" the past year
and four or five hundred more were
grown by ther artificial method of in
cubation and brooding. During the win
ter about four hundred head of early
hatched pullets were kept in the colony
houses and fed for winter eggs. They
were of well-bred stock and shelled out
the eggs when they were high in price.
The eggs were sold on the average
market but because they were strictly
fresh a premium of two or three cents
per dozen was asked and easily re
ceived for each dozen sold. One hotel
at St. Joseph, took all of tho eggs that
could be spared by the farm.
Tho fruit on this farm consisted of
plums, pears, cherries, apples and
peaches. Some strawberries were also
grown. The fowls run among all of the
fruit except the strawberries and these
were so far away from the center .of
the farm that the chicks did not bother
them. The soil which made up the ma
jority of farm was of a light clay loam
and none too well adapted to general
farming, indeed it was too hilly and
washed too much. A heavy cover crop
was kept in the orchard the whole year
round. This made excellent picking for
the fowls in the way of green feed
;ind they also secured a great many
bugs and worms.
The fowls ranging in the orchard de
vour many insects that are injurious
to tho trees and the man who had
chargo of the fruit told the writer that
the trees close to the center of the
poultry houses and coops grew much
better fruit, there being less blemishes
than were on the fruit of the trees that
were farther' away, being located out of
tho general run of forage that the fowls
made.
"Good Lock" With Cl.lol,en.
Did you ever notice that the poultry
grower who had "good luck" from one
year's end to another in the growing
of chickens, selling of eggs when they
were high in price, and his general
poultry work was more or less of a
handy man in caring for the stock and
performing the countless details that
might make up a big success of the
business? Tho element of luck that en
ters poultry growing is nothing more
man constant attention to the small
details. Tho little things go to make up
the whole and very often if one of them
is neglected It affects the whole sea
son's work. For Instance, if a poultry
grower crowds his chicks too much or
allows them to be jammed up in their
coops for a couple of weeks or so he
will have such a lot of trouble from
sweating and considerable more in a
short time from roup and colds that he
wil: not give the chicks another chance
to perform a like trick as long as he Is
raising poultry.
Not long ago a utility poultry grower
who acquired more from winter eggs
than from any other revenue from the
flock, built a good poultry house in a
dry location and put a good floor in it
to keap his fowls up off the damp
ground. He double walled the north
side with plenty of windows to admit
light and fresh air. When he carried m
numerous basketsful of eggs from hla
two hundred head of pullets confined in
this house, his neighbors, also keeping
chickens called him lucky and said his
luck was always good vt raining and
caring for chickens. The essential of
the whola thing is that he understood
what it took to make the necessary
conditions under which the fowls will
lay wll all winter. In the first place
his pullets were early hatched and of a
good strain of laying stock. They wer
well cared for from the start. Ills
brooders were not allowed to be over
heated and wore always kept clean. He
fed his chicks heavily and liberally
from the start and they grew like
weeds His neighbors who visited him
said that he was lucky with chickens
lie mixed a littlo "Fktn sense" alons?
with his elbow grease and was a good
chicken raiser. This was the size of it
Instead of giving his baby chicks slop
py messes of cornmeal and water he
fed a good chick food for the first
three or four weeks until thev were
past the danger lino and were ready for
crncked corn and wheat. You would
lind his brood coops clean and not too
many chicks in each one If you lookel
Into tnetn every n!;ht.
Ill pullets begnn laying the latter
put of October or tho first part of
November and ho mv to it that they
were provided with plenty of gre.n cut
bune nnd when early spring cauio on
and h" wanted fertilo eggs to r t in hti
Incul.itorjj 1m used plenty of green
lo:te ;n,d Rrcen feeds a.i well. His
yard i weio :iort to alfalfa nnd dwarf
i:. si x n,r. Ocalon.Uly he had one of
Hun pit wd tip und town to rye In
tho fall. Plenty of green feed wa aU
way at hand ut all time. Then little
thlti 's am tho rtncH that compoeed the
unut r amount of luck that his neigh
bors crc-llted him with.
All that Father uivc on th pirlr
fuel bin in sajinrnT h In expected to
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The liOncl)- Honey moon.
You know decs Joe dat iine''to go
For work wceth mo. Signore?
He's marry yastailay, you know,
An' gon' for Baltimore;
An' so deesgusta man like Joe
You nevva see bay fore!
Eh? No, da girl's all right, my fr'end;
Dat's mak' eet harder, too.
Ha! wait an' you weell ondrastand-
I tal cet all to you.
You see. dees Joe long time ago
Gat Rosa for hees mash,
An cvra seence he worka so
For male' an' sve da cash,
Baycause he want gat marry soon
An' mebbe takln. too,
Dees w'at you calla "honeymoon,"
Like 'Merlcana do.
Wan day he tak' fi'-dollar note
An' go to steamsheep store
An' buy two teecket for da boat
Dat sail for Baltimore.
An' den he tal me: "Shuf your mout'
An' Justa looka wise.
Dees theeng ees no for talka 'bout;
Ket gona be su'pnse."
So, w'en dey marry yestaday
He smile so proud, Signore,
Wen he ees kees her cheek an' say:
"We sail for Baltimore!"
Ah! den, my frand, so eadda eight
You nevva see, O! my!
Poor Rosa she ees gat so white
An' ees bayepn to cry.
"Eeg dees," she say, "a weddln treepT
Such fooleeshness you speak!
I no can stand cet een a Bheep
Da sea ees mok me seeck."
Poor Joe, he swear an' den he keese,
An' coax an' beg her so,
For theenk of all dat she weell meeas
But no. she weell no go.
"O! Rosa mia!" Joe ees cry,
"Your heart eet ees a stone,
For dat you mak' me say 'good-bye
An' tak da treep alone!"
O! lonely honeymoon, an' O!
So sadda man, Signore,
Dat gotta leave hecs wife an' go
Alone for Baltimore!
So hearta-broka man like Joe
You nevva see bayfore.
T. A. Daly The Catholic Standard and
Times.
The advantages which men have had
over worqen in the ease with which
they can dress, and the small expense
upon which they can make a good ap
pearance for a season, are very proba
bly among the reasons why they are
able to accomplish such real success,
while women at best seem only to frit
ter with business and with the profes
sions. Take the item of a hat alone. A
man usually decide upon and buys a
new hat within ten minutes at the
utmost, while a woman frequently
spends hours trying on different shapes
nnd colors, observing It at different an
gles and elevations, often unable to
make up her mind at all as to which
piece of headgear she prefers.
This is not, as man might suppose, a
matter of foolishness or vanity. The
style of a woman's hat, its color aad
general suitability to her faco and form
are all matters of the greatest import
ance, frequently affecting her social
advancement and fortunes generally.
With u man, as some poet once re
marked, a hat li but a lid.
Kvcn after the bat Is decided on,
there Im a vaM difference In the ad
justment. A man tlap:t his hat on hli
head without much thought and rarUy
uith a look In a mirror. A wotian
must tidjimt her hat with the greatest
care and fasten It neetirely. If It tills
too much to ono nldo or the other, or
forward, or back, It rnara her itppcar
artce to an extent that may decide the
destinies of her day. If her hair Is not
properly fastened beneath It so a to
brim above the fJeo, It slumps or set
lies down after an hour or two .f
travel or wind, absolutely destroying
Ha smart look which every woman
strives for in theso day.
I-' It triy wonder that wornen carry
their npulir llttl .vanity bag and
Work Shoes
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lid. of selected and seasoned leather.
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Pressecfors. LnmbenHen. Merhanirc. nA
like all Mayer shoes
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mirrors about with them? Tho woman
who disdains these small aids never
looks, what she mtiy be as to Jjrahi-j
and a high-thought attitude toward
life; she simply appeals dowdy, and
neither men r.or women question why.
The faster a man travels the. soon
er he will get there, and the faster he
lives, thu sooner he will got there, too.
When others fa il to b have, 'you
hoar them "bawled out," Winn you
fail to behave, others hear you "bawl
ed out."
MAYOR CF SUM BURY
Says Pe-ru-na Is a Good
Medicine.
lion. C. 0. Brooks, Major of Sunbury ,
Ohio, also Attorney for Farmers' Bank
and Sunbury Building and Loan Co.
writes:
"I hare the ui most confidence in tho
Tlrtueof Peruna. Itis a great medicine.
I hare used it and J hare known many
of my friends who have obtained bene
ficial results from its use. c&naoi
praise Ptrutu too highly
THERE are a hoe t of petty allmenU
which are the direct result of tho
weather.
This is more true of thexi'i'tiv3 hrat
of summer and the latent cold of win
ter, but U partly true of all neaKonrf of
the jear.
Whether it be a cold or a eonh, ca
tarrh of thehe&il or bowel complaint,
whether the liter be affected or ti e !td
eys, tho cause Is rtry liable to l tha
earn.
The weather slightly deranfe tha
niuoou iik ;nlranAM of the oratu atitt
the result I some functional JlB, e.
Peruni Ass aVcartf n $tsuJb it
thouuindi of home tor minor !
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