The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., March 19, 1910, Page 214, Image 18

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THE POULTRY YARD
RAISE ONLY PURE BREEDS NEXT YEAR.
A Dollar or Two Spout for a Sitting of Eggs Now Will Enable
Yon to Select Matings of I'uie Breeds, or Develop a Vigorous
Strain of Half-Dreeds.
H. B. Geer. Nashville, Tenn.
-|N THE PRESENT egg season,
we see great possibilities in
- the way of improvement in
the poultry on the farm; and it
seems to us that every one who is at
all interested in poultry should take
advantage of this very opportune
season.
We assume that there are a great
many flocks of poultry on the farms
where this good publication circu
lates, that have been bred in and in
for a great many years, without the
addition of nay new blood to speak
of; and with no introduction of high
class, pure bred stock at all. The
poultry on the place is just "chick
«a®”—flood, bad and indifferent,
with no particular classification, or
special points of merit. This condi
tion has caused the flock to run down
a good deal as individuals, and to
make a low average of eggs per hen
during the year.
Now this is a condition that should
not be, for it is both unprofitable,
and unbecoming some of the other
up-to-date features of the live stock,
and Improvements on the place, per
haps. The hens are certainly worthy
of some consideration, and right now
is the time for us to take the neces
sary action in the way of improve
ment. With this worthy purpose at
heart, our plan would be to make a
first move by buying a sitting of eggs
of some breed of our choice, from a
reliable breeder. Or what would be
better, two or three sittings. Then
placing them under good reliable sit
ters, we would start in this way to
hatch at home the young chicks that
should later on add much to the bet
terment of our home flock. We
would be quite sure to raise several
fowls of each sex from the eggs thuf
utilized, and from among them we
would pick out a mating of- pure
bred fowls for the second season.
Jills would enable us to raise ex
clusively pure stock if desired next
year, thus doing away with the com
mon stock entirely.
Or, if we should prefer, it would
be possible for us, in addition to the
pure bred mating, as suggested, to
dispense with all our common roost
ers and to put some of the young
males from our fine eggs with the
common hens early next spring, and
from this mating raise a number ol
vigorous half-breeds, which, because
of the new blood mixture, would be
larger, more prolific, and more vigor
ous in every respect, and the young
hens much better layers than their
mothers.
This is one way in which the farm
ers who read this paper may now
take seasonable action to make the
farm produce $500 additional.
T. G. Blocker, West Point, Miss.,
say he could not fill one-half the or
ders he received from his advertise
ment of White and Buff Orpingtons
inserted once in The Progressive
Farmer and Gazette. Mr. Blocker is
raising some good young stuff—
chickens at seven weeks old weigh
ing two pounds.
BEE KEEPING FOR FARMERS.
1—How the Small Farmer Can Make Monej With Iky*
By Prof. T. C. Karas. Powell Statioo. Toaa.
-~ucnc' to _ o_
-— *^ » uuc upeuing ior
bee keeping in the Southern
States, a few of our general
farmers have always kept bees, but
rarely with any knowledge of scien
tific theory or practice. The bees died
or were generally not profitable.
In recent years some exceptional
cases have been observed. In these
the old box hive has been replaced
by the modern hive with movable
frames and a close study of recent
methods has been followed. One
farmer in Polk County, Tenn., has
been making $600 a year from bees
as a side line. One of our neighbors
started out last year and made $240
with a few stands in the first season.
In our little village he found ready
sale for his honey at 15 to 20 cents
a pound and the leading hotel and
grocery store at Knoxville, only eight'
miles away, took all he would bring
at the latter price. Of course, his
honey was in modern section frames
and handled in the most attractive
way. He realized about $10 to the
colony, if anybody thinks this
statement is colored, he can get orig
inal information by writing to John
W. Reagan at Powell Station, Tena.
we can speak also from our own
experience as to the success of mod
ern bee keeping. From a few hives
we have delicious honey on our table
the year through and we sell the
overplus at prices above mentioned
The chunk honey readily brings 15
cents a pound and section frames 20
cents. 1 he latter have sometimes
sold in the city market as high as 25
cents a pound. The demand last
year was nothing like supplied, even
among farmers around us.
But real success comes only with
the practice of modern methods in
modern hives and with modern ap
pliances which we shall describe in
a future letter. Farmers around us
who work in the old way do little
or nothing and in most cases, as al
ready stated, their bees die out in a
few years.
Bee keeping on the farm is just
as easy as keeping poultry if you go
at it in the right way, and it is not
worth while to try any other. In
some parts of the country specialists
in bee keeping make as much as
$3,000 a year, but I do not now ad
dress myself to that class. They have
their special Journals and extensive
scientific manuals. The parly I wish
to reach in these loiters is the gen
eral farmer who should make bee
keeping one feature of his general
plan the same as he does poultry.
A few bees need not take much
time from your other work. Except
in the swarming season, the work
may be done in the moruing and
evening or at noon and other odd
times. The mother or some grown
up daughter or son may assist, or
even take charge of the entire busi
ness as in the case of farm poultry.
Of late, bee keeping has become quite
popular with ladies who desire to
adopt an easy, paying business of
their own, and get the benefit of
open air exercise. Besides, the work
Is very interesting and its study of a
most intellectual, scientific, and de
lightful character.
The foreboding soul comes up at
once with the objection that boee
sting. Of course they do if you let
them, but the modern bee keper is
protected with a smoker, a veil and
glove* so completely that if he ever
get* a sting. It is the fault of his own
carelessness, ltut l-vnh If Vaii eltAA I si
K* t stung now and then. It might not
bo an unmitigated evil, for It la
claimed with much show of reason
that bee stings cure rheumatism, and
whether this accounts for it or not,
the writer can truthfully say that
since ho began keeping bees he has
had no trouble with that disease from
which he formerly suffered greatly.
My next letter will tell the new
il,fN? keeper bow to start the business.
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