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THE POULTRY YARD
KEEP THE CHICKS GROWING.
Four Reasons Why This Must Be
Done if Profits Are Expected.
Messrs. Editors: The caption of
this article needs to be emphasized
every year. “Keep the chicks grow
ing” contains as much chicken sense
as can be condensed into four words.
"There is a reason” for this advice.
1. A chicken whose growth is re
tarded from any cause, seldom
or never makes up for the loss. It
almost invariably will be deficient in
size, and frequently it will be de
ficient in figure and plumage. The
largest and best chickens are those
which never stop growing from the
time they are hatched to the time
they are fully developed.
2. All retardation of growth
means a loss of food. The food con
sumed by a chicken while it stands
still in growth or goes backward is
a total loss. Insignificant in amount
it may be, where there are only a
few chickens, but not insignificant
where there are many chickens.
3. If the retardation in growth is
for any considerable period, such de
velopment as the chick makes will
b© later in time. Pullets whose
growth has been retarded may not
be sufficiently developed in the fall
to begin laying, and subject to some
exceptions, pullets which do not be
gin to lay in the fall lay few or no
eggs in the winter. A few weeks’
cessation in growth may thus mean
several months of delay in begin
ning to lay, during which time they
make no return for the food they
consume.
4. This fourth reason may be re
garded as a sentimental one, but
sentiment plays an important part
in all our lives. Chickens which do
not make steady and continuous
growth do not give the pleasure in
raising that is desirable from those
which do. One takes comfort in
watching the unretarded develop
ment of a flock of chickens, but a
flock which makes no progress
furnishes only anxiety.
For all of the above reasons,
practical and sentimental, It is wise
to keep the chickens growing by
giving them proper surroundings,
food and care. If one hatches chick
ens at all, he should keep them
growing. UNCLE JO.
BOWEL TROUBLE IN LITTLE
CHICKS.
The Cause and Method of Pre
vention.
Messrs. Editors: The first day’s
life of a chick to us is the most im
portant one. We must treat them
as we would a new-born babe.
Would we think of taking a baby
out of a room with a temperature of
say 75 degrees to one of 50 or 55?
Chilling and dampness afreets the
stomach of a baby, causing colds and
colic. It’s the same way with the
stomach of a chick, this chilling
causes bowel trnnhle n-v,n
itself in from 3 to 4 days, and given
3 or 4 days with this trouble, we
reach the fatal 7th, where we will
find the greatest mortality among
our chicks.
Another great factor in the pro
duction of bowel trouble is the habit
that a great many of us practice of
giving our newly hatched chicks feed
too early in life. We prefer to let
our chicks remain in the machine
for 4 8 to 60 hours. After they ap
pear to be well dried we open the
door and remove the chicks to the
bottom of the incubator, as well as
i
remove the remainder of the eggs
unhatched and the discarded shells.
During this period of confinement in
the machine we will allow the tem
perature to drop to about 90 to 95
degrees and also open all venti
lators so as to supply all the fresh
air that the construction of the ma
chine will admit. After a period of
from 48 to 60 hours from the time
they begin to hatch we remove them
to the brooder, which has been pre
viously heated to a temperature of
say 95 degrees. This we prefer to
do at night so they will be ready for
their first food the following morn
ing. We now begin to feed com
mercial chick feed, varying this with
a small portion of oatfiakes and mil
let for a change. This method we
continue for a period of three days.
C. P. MILLER.
FORTY THOUSAND BOYS IN ONE
BIG FARM SCHOOL.
(Continued from Page 383.)
The father of one of the last year’s
prize winners told me not long ago
that his boy would get up at daylight
in order to see how much his corn
had grown the night before. He
also said that boy kept the hen-house
about as clean as a croquet ground
in order to get manure for a side
dressing for his com. It is positive
ly inspiring to hear about the efforts
of these boys to learn and to use
what they learn. Surely a boy like
this will not fail.
How the Boys Are Learning to Read.
The members of the boys’ corn
clubs are making better use of agri
cultural reading matter than has
ever been made in their communi
ties before. They write for circulars
ROBERT GRAHAM,
Waco, Texas.
and bulletins and they preserve them
carefully for constant reference. They
read agricultural papers, they search
through the home and school libra
ries, and confer and advise with
fathers and neighbors about prepara
tion of soil, kinds of seed, methods
of planting, best ways of cultivation,
etc. It is worthy of note that school
officers and teachers are rapidly se
lecting and placing books on agri
culture in the school libraries. It Is
a good thing to have such books
where an earnest boy can find them
when he is seeking information and
help.
All of the 40,000 boys are interest
ed now in harrows, weeders, shal
low cultivation, de-tasseling, cross
breeding, side dressing, etc. They
have been studying about good seed
deep plowing, thorough preparation,’
fertilizers, humus, etc. They have all
planted their corn, and they are anx
ious to learn all there is to know
about cultivation. A bulletin show
ing the root system of a stalk of
corn will impress these boys now
with the importance of shallow culti
vation. They will never forget it.
Rig Prizes for Boys This Year.
The interest in the corn club work
this year by public spirited citizens
has been encouraging. The co-oper
ation has been inspiring. Altogeth
er about $25,000 worth of prizes has
been raised in the various localities.
ARTHUR HUDGINS,
Dennison, Texas.
Nearly all the State Departments of
Agriculture have special contests in
which good prizes are offered. State
fairs offer liberal prizes. Various
boards of trade, associations of bank
ers, and other business men have
given generously, and editors have
rendered valuable aid. The Bplendid
list of prizes offered by The Pro
gressive Farmer and Farm Gazette
can be compared only to the intelli
gent and effective support given to
the work by this paper. The Govern
ors and State Superintendents of
Public Instruction in every Southern
State will give certificates of merit
upon conditions about as fol
lows: "The yield must not be below
75 bushels, and the cost per bushel
must not exceed 30 cents. Each boy
must submit a 10-ear exhibit and a
written record of his work.” These
certificates will be most valuable
prizes, because they will be certifi
cates of distinction and honor.
Doctor S. A. Knapp offered a prize
trip to Washington to the Mississippi
boys last year. The Bankers' Asso
ciation of Arkansas duplicated the
offer in that State; interested citi
zens did likewise in South Carolina
and Virginia. The Secretary of Ag
riculture gave diplomas to the four
boy® and they received other marked
attentions during the week they
spent in the Nation’s capital ThlB
fall every Southern State will send
a boy on the prize trip. Of course,
each one will win a Governor's cer
tificate. He will start to Washington
with good credentials. Hundreds of
boys will get prlzeB of some kind.
A boys with grit and perseverance
will get benefits. They will also be
benefactors.
$. C. R. I. REDS
Alabama’s prize winners. Coclc
erels #2 oo and up; Eggs, $3 00
and down. Write your wants.
IH THOMAS, r Prattville, Ala.
[Si'-*1" ^ StefteCMlIrsw,,
&£! lS;,Leo iot U: tor ou .took
F. M. BECWKK.
LOOK!
Bay your Barred Rock and White Wyandott,
Eggs from stock that have a show record Kg,,
from my best pens will hatch winners.
Jackson. 1908, I entered 6 birds, wlnnin* two
first, one second, one fourth.
Jackson. 1909. entered 16: won 12 regular and
special prizes, and was paid more cash by the As
sociation than any other Mississippi breedsr.
E*«r* from exhibition marines fS.OO pre 16. VJtfl.
ity Wyandottes only 61-60 per 16. Satisfaction
guaranteed. E. H. BIRDSONG, Terry. Mist.
RIDE All BROOK EGG CO.
Incorporated
tt Jefferson Avenue. Car, Front
MEMPHIS. TENN.
Breeden of Barred P. Rocka, Buff
P. Rocks, S. C. R. I. Reds, Sliver
Laced Wyandottea.
At tha great Tri-Stats Fair. Memphis. we won
10 firsts, 2 seconds, 1 third on 16 entries. Our bred
to lay Barred Plymouth Rocka, Buff Plymouth
Rocks. Silver Laced Wyandotte# and 8. C. Rhode
island Reds are no experiments: are heavy winter
layers and keep at it all summer. We guarantee
quality In both eggs and breeding stork. Eggs
68 00 per 16; 610.00 par 100. Cockerels 68.00 sack;
some extra fine ones |6 00 each. Year-old Hans
and Pullets 62.60 each. Kideau Brook Egg Com
pany. Incorporated. Office and store 66 Jeffer
son Avsnue. Memphis Tenn.
We offer $10.00 in (fold 1910 Tri-State
Pair for beat Cockerel from oar e(f(ft.
BUFF WYANDOTTES
Beat blood lines In America. Winter layers; quick
maturera. Boat general purpose fowl bred today.
Stock all sold. Errs from high-scoring exhibition
pens. ES; utility pen*. ll.f«n /or fifteen. After May
let. E2.00 and 11.00 per arlting. Prompt shipment.
Fair hatch guaranteed. Writ* for free mating list.
J. C. GREENE, • Gadsden, Ala.
White Wyandotte* and S. G.
White Leghorns.
Am offering my brew!era at a sacrifice In order
to make room for 2.000 young chick*, also Egg*
from boat steak In the South at prices no higher
“•*> *tf' from inferior stock. Let me pay the
postage on a handsome catalog to you.
W. C. TAYLOR,
81E Capitol St. ....... Jackson. MU*.
S. C. White Leghorns
S. C Rhode Island Reds
Barred P. Rocks
Ecc* for halfhlog. that hatch food (>ur« bioahd.
haailhy, Tt#uroug chicken..
Ptka Poultry Firm, West Point. Miss.
SINGLE . '"ou c*° tfrt W« now from Am
■ dmoom'r CAampla* MW. mt rrwat*
rnUD >r ">durW prion. In lot. of 100 tor
J^AtnO> incubator um> from fc.00 to 110.00.
nu/M\r By^Ujr Mit in? of If. oar.from 11.60
RHODE *• a.OO Two >tr*llm| corker. 1.
■ for aalr at rnaaonahta priraa. My
ISI AND n*rw ratakar©. U fmw Gat ona. it
IJLJtll U 8Itm full Information. maUnca
op uad winning.
REDS E. F. ANDERSON.
Clinton. MUaiaaJppt
9ingle Comb Rhode Island Red Erga
..No etock for eak but plant? of tba boat ana for
•wtuai prtaa winnln* cock In bot rompatitkin. I
[~ar you to bundrada of plaaaad ru.tom.rt, write
Sw A£“r. J .1'- *•». of A.IH.
Collaea.. about «T R^V*1* kaTm'- •» >«•
■* *"• *howm. +h*y taka ribbon, and lay
2?
F. P, PHILLIPS, ..... feinn.^ Mlaa
QUALITY FIRST, EGGS SECOND
Jt vi saattsijKjaBs &
D. T. Bimpaon, . - Terry. Mlaa.
Homer Pigeons Meted For Sele.
foundation etork tba baet. Improrad by aalae
Efcet hrwdan of Igrgf equobe.
E- N. Blgham, - . Pontotoc, Mlaa.
Buff Leghorn Eggs
MI8S GRACE WALKER. BoooarUIa, Mira.
S cFi2L^°.u,try Farm
*• *«d.i Incubator Krn *6.00
Ktch0^f 7dC^h^°r ^htek• *6 <» P*>r M."RSo *ar
natch of 76 to 96. I.II for balance of —T~~
uSS!u.Vo0v^uo *" *• ~"‘d '*"*•
K. A. DOWNS. Flora. Ml...
*?2f ISLAND RKD8. Brml to
BmLa f f*«p Thirty hen. at II.60 to
S-VlicTSr * r*"h Kk“»- »>-60 per 16; W.UU per 46.
If u.rnnUexl. Write u».
J. D. MARSHALL, Ueorvetown. Copiah Co., MIm.
Buff Rocks J h*re the grande.! lot of bird.
-■ ,h*1 1 hare ever brad, and will
hatch prize winner*. If WriU toll
circular. MRS. R. D. WOODSON. Hturgl.. Ml...
Single Comb Brown Leghorn EgK».
75 Cent* per Setting.
J. C. DEASON, . Rout* 8, . Centerville. Ala.
Light Brahma Eggs, $1.50
„ per 15.
MBS. J. A. LORD, ... Herman v ill*. MIm.