The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., January 29, 1910, Page 58, Image 6

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A FIRST YEAR S EXPERIENCE.
Some Costly Mistakes That Might Easily Have Been Avoided
—Some of the Things a Young Breeder Learned in Her First
Year’s Work.
Messrs. Editors: My first venture
in poultry raising was the purchase
of two sittings of Rhode Island Red
eggs from a reliable breeder in my
own county. I sent for these eggs
myself, to insure careful packing and
handling, and set them under hens
to get the best results, and at the
end of 21 days I had 11 chicks
hatched from 26 eggs.
Then came the experience, or rath
er the want of it. I put them in a
coop in the shade, as I was afraid
the hot sun might weaken them. I
greased them with sulphur and lard
until they looked like they had just
fallen out of the drinking fountain,
and I gave them food in abundance,
all kinds of table scraps, corn bread
and anything else that came to hand.
Every experienced poultry breeder
knows their fate before I write it,
for it was a sad one. Several of
them went blind from the sulphur
treatment and in 8 or 10 days most
of the others died from over-feed
ing. Three, two cockerels and a
pullet, passed the danger line and
grew strong and healthy, but I think
it was wholly a case of the survival
of the fittest that saved the hatch
from being a clear loss. I did not
know then that sunshine and fresh
air are the best tonics for chicks as
well as man, that over-feeding is
more injurious than under-feeding,
that feed should contain a large per
cent of wheat and some grit, that
young chicks should exercise for
their feed, and that it should be kept
clean and fed dry, or that equal
parts of kerosene oil and lard are
better than sulphur for keeping off
vermin; but I know these things
now.
My friends looked on, the next
spring, with doubting comments,
while I built a house and pen that
cost $15. It really ought to have
cost less, but ignorance in this
branch of the work makes experi
ence come a little high. I ordered
three pullets from one of the oldest
breeders in the State and those
chickens (through no fault of the
breeder, I am sure) brought sore
head into my yard. The prettiest
one lost her eye after three applica
tions of carbolated vaseline, and I
learned that carbolic acid in any
form was injurious to the eyes. 1
feed the acid now, as a preventive,
2 teaspoonfuls to a half-gallon of
meal mixed with water, twice a week
to forty or fifty chickens, and use
peroxide of hydrogen applied with a
piece of absorbent cotton, mixed with
lard to consistency of salve, for a
cure.
But to get back to the subject.
I used my best cockerel and pullet
hatched from eggs, with two remain
ing pullets ordered, with good re
sults. The cockerel was a fine one,
worth more than the price of the
two sittings of eggs (I say this be
cause I have bought since and know
their value) and the pullet began
laying early and had laid between
30 and 40 eggs by the last of Feb
ruary. The other pullets were fairly
good layers and gave me eggs for
April hatch. From these chickens I
raised my pullets for the next year
and a small ad. in The Progressive
Farmer and Gazette sold about $30
dollars worth of surplus stock at
utility prices. Good advertising is
the key to success, when you have
learned to produce the best.
I did not estimate the cost of rais
ing these fowls, but on the farm this
should be no drawback, as the pages
| of this paper tell from time to time
how food can be provided with little
labor and expense.
MARY W. EADS.
Oktibbeha Co., Miss.
WHEN SETTING THE HENS.
How to Set and Care for the Hen
So as to Get a Good Hatch of
Healthy Chicks — Wage War
Against Lice.
Messrs. Editors: I usually set sev
eral hens at the same time and by so
doing can double them up after they
come off, giving each hen from 12 to
15 chicks according to season.
A hen should never be set where
other hens will lay to her or disturb
her. If she has stolen her nest in a
secluded place, well and good; but if
she wants to sit in the hen-house
where the rest of the hens lay, she
should be moved, which can easily
be done after night, and by keeping
the nest closed for a day she will
generally become quieted down.
The house where they aro set
should preferably be in another
yard, or kept closed for a few days,
as she will invariably go back to her
original nest, if allowed to go into
her old run or yard.
After she has been on probation
several days she is set on the eggs
intended for her to incubate. Right
now the work begins, for the time
to fight the head lice is just three
weeks before the chicks are hatched.
She is dusted thoroughly with a good
lice powder, and this does not mean
sprinkling a little over her while
she is sitting on the nest. She is
held in the lap and gone over thor
oughly, holding back the feathers
and getting the powder down next
to the skin. She is then placed on
the nest gently so as to keep as
much of the powder in the feathers
as possible. This dusting is repeated
weekly until the chicks come oft.
when they will have a fair chance to
live.
I have never yet raised a chick
until it was safe without encounter
ing at least one Bpell of bad weather,
so am prepared for it long before it
comes by putting the hen and chicks
in a large coop that has a roof that
doesn’t leak. They are never en
trusted to a barrel or to the coop
that is made by covering It with
barrel staves close enough together
to keep the hen from jumping out
md depending on the hen to keep
them dry.
The hen Is kept confined and dur
ing good weather chicks are allow
ed to run out. The hen will hover
the chicks whenever they come to
her if she is kept confined from the
start.
1 lie profit is not in how many
lousy chicks you take off, but how
many healthy ones you raise.
W. C. TAYLOR.
Hinds Co., Miss.
A correspondent at Greenville,
Miss., wants to buy:
25 Brown Leghorn pullets.
1 Berkshire boar, 2 years old.
1 Shorthorn bull.
head of cattle to graze and
fatten.
Here is an opportunity for adver
tisers to sell stock and those having
such should let it be known through
an advertisement in The Progressive
Farmer and Gazette.
“To escape criticism: Do nothing,
say nothing, be nothing.”
Harafnrrla Forty registered and grades.
nereiorai bargain.
PaHah C.. J Sensatkx ul. prolific, l>iw l-•!l
vOUOn wCCU Selected 1* years, .f'j lialos
per acre. $3.00 per bu.
I7a0a S. C. Rhode Island Red* and R. White
“Bo® Wyandotte*. 11.50 for 15.
- Write for particular*.
G« . W. Thr»rr>no. : M rir'n. Ale.
Cowpeas Wanted
State kind, amount, and price. Addre**,
I.. FOOT, ('anton. Mi**.
Seed Corn
From the Care Spring Strrlt anil drain farm
Mo*by, Davis's Poor Land. St. Chari*’*. Hickory
King. Boon County. White Reid* and Yellow Dent
Price. *1.75 per bu. Send for circular. 1 grow
the seed. Y*ou grow the feed,
CLARENDON DAVIS
_Ht’NTSVH.t.K. A!.A
Mosby Corn, Cook’s Cotton,
None lie Her.
Soy Bean*. Bronze Turkey». Hereford B ill. for
sale, April 21st. Every farmer and ittekmin I
should write for valuable circular.
Lambert Stock and Seed Farm.
Darlington. Wilcox Co.. Ala
Cotton deed
Tools Improved Prolific Cotton Seed and Yob j
low Bloom. Earliest and Best Won first pnxe from !
Planters Fertilizer Co., at Charleston. Make* >
J*er cent, $1.00 per bu.. 10 bu. lota over 90c per bu
R B. LANEY. - Cbcraw. S. C,
Velvet Bean Seed For Sale
Two dollar* bu hcl.
Address, A. S. Wella, TalUha»sec.
Fla.
SIMPKINS COTTON SEED.
You want pure "rumpk m.
cott n seed and should bur only from
the originator In package* put up and
branded by him wun tua tied tattered
Trademark and signature which guar
tee their purity Beware ol Imita
tion* lor they will b« on the market
telllnf you they are the Simpkins."
and Just aa good aa Simpktn* will
ship you." but ln*lsl on the genuine,
which are onlr sold by me or my duly
authorised agents. Yours trulr.
W A. SIMI’K INK.
Hal sigh, S. C _
MarTboro
PROLIFIC CORN
We are the originator*, we grow It pure
Will yield nitt p- r cent, more than any other
variety, ihe premium corn at all the Kiperl
mental Stations Price t- ho per bu
Excelsior Seed Farm Co. Cheraw. S C.
Triumph Cotton
la uawd almost asclualvrly by the Oov
ernmenl In boll weevil sections It will
revolutionise the South. Try It and be
convinced It yields more per sera,
turns out more lint, and la earlier than
any other big boll cotton In the world.
B selected bolls per pound 1.300 pounds
seed cotton make a &Q0 pound bale, sta
ple one and an eighth Inch Our entire
crop le planted each year from selected
stalks a..d bolls. Our aeed are guaran
teed. Write lor catalogue and prtcesL
WAOE BROTHERS. Seed Breeders.
Alexander City. Ala.
GEORGIA CASE SEEP FOR SALE
Produce* a syrup which many prefer to
hat roads of IxmUlan* cane, makes fifty per
cent, more than sorghum Best •uhatltute
or boll weevil cotton The leed It produce*
sy* the cost of rslslnt s «ure crop anr year.
Price- | »>»).. ffc.OO; »■, bu.. *2 VI; 1 peck. fl.fiO. 1
ya!., fl.OO.f. o. b. Raymond. Mim. A<ldre«»,
Jss*smlo« By> up Farm,
Car* of W Calvib Wai.i.H.
JACKSON. t MISSISSIPPI.
Improved Shoepeg Corn
Won 1st price Mtaalaatppt and Ismlslana Fair,
also price Mississippi State Fair Ued Cob.
weevil proof, keeps well In Held. |i 00 p*r
pock. |3 00 per bu 6 bu. IIXCiO
THOft. R TRIM.
WLaonville. - - M«**i«*ippi
LESPEDEZA SEED
I A hardy cover for poor land Makr*
lucurtanl growth on atrons land, sulu
any soil. Now ready tor sh'pnw nt Price
while preaent stock I a* la ft W ter hu o)
d> lbs . In anr quantity. 1.1 t F l. WW*.
seen Mihi iukts Stahkvu.ik M'sa
O f* B* ft ft ft ai y lag jhai H far **i«.
5ttUL0RNw- m..
IMI’KOVKI)
Cleveland Big Boll Cotton
From carefully gelected §eed. 1,300
Ibg. aeed cotton to 600-lb bale 1 V*
bale per acre, uplands Large boll,
prolific and very easily picked With
stand* drought well and fruit* heavi
ly and early |3 00 per bu . 10 bu..
tl 6n per bu . fob Order at once
Supply limited T. nmVKHtli,
WlllUiufi, Trttn.
PURE MOSBY
PROLIFIC SEED CORN
drown from orUlnator'* eoed ihu year,
rrlcw V2 00 per buehel. thalled. Ub. here.
A I AMU. SUflnUt. Mtu
E* O R S A I. R—flott Minruy) Improved M<u
bp Heed Corn I/-MI •ubjort lo d*n.a*e br
wwrrils In r*r or tbri:« < »t fj ® * hu»b»; over
ten bu »l Tft T R II vR|ip:r Arnot Mu*
Square Deal Seed Corn
Won cold modal at NL leuii World'*
Fair Tb» originator of ihle variety
offer* linn 00 for a eurn that win pro
due* more per acra.
HMI MCT • KM It for tale al li 00 per
buahei. bp s a .1 ^ ^
S. F. EWING Hamiton. Miss
SEEDS
You need GOOD FRh li SRRDH We bare
them \ epetable. Field and F.ower Hend for
our i»loOa*a!o*ue ‘ A". We will mall U u» you
FRF.K
DAVID HARDIR KRRD CO.
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Lewis's Prize Cotton Seed
■ u**af||°oo,per “'4 ' 1' ‘ bu »' >° «*« '»
Inaior.
lerltton. la
Excelsior Prolific Cotton
Beats the boil weevil, earliest and most
prolific cotton *rown, fruits closer, faster and
thicker than any other cotton Will put on
two bolls in same space and time -other
varieties put on one. Write us for circular
how to tfrow three bales j>er acre. Price 10
bus., $12.50. ::: Special price on car load.
Excelsior Seed Farm Company. Clicraw S C
SEED CORN 133 BUACRE
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