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HOW TO MAKE A FIRELESS
COOKER.
Continued from Page 419.)
tack first the upper edge of the nar
row strip, and then the lower, mak
ing sure that the large piece of cloth
holding the pockets is very taut.
Quite an important part of the
construction of the cooker is the pil
lows. Cut four squares of cloth
14x15 inches. Stitch into each two
squares a strip of cloth 3 inches w ide,
which will give them square edges to
fit together and fill the space above
the kettles. Do not stuff the pillows
too hard.
The cover of this box must close
tight, so great care must be taken in
fitting the hinges. Two hasps or
hooks hold the cover down. It should
take some pressure to crowd down
the pillows.
The box may be made of any size
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amount of cooking to be done, any
where from 1 to 10 spaces for ket
tles.
Summer Care of the Lawn.
I prepared my front yard as
you directed, and sowed blue
grass seed in December. I have
a very pretty lawn now, which I
mow weekly. Please tell me how
to keep it green when the dry,
hot days in June come. Is there
anything to top-dress it with,
and shall I continue to mow?
R. P. H.
(Answer by Prof. W. F. Massey.)
If the weather turns off hot and
dry you must not mow so closely or
so often as in showery weather. But
by mowine often in ernnd weather
and letting the cut grass lie to decay
and disappear, you will do the best
thing for dry weather, and the dead
grass will mulch it. Many wait till
the grass is too long and then have
to rake it off. Some judgment in
this matter of mowing must be used
and a little ordinary common sense.
Top dressing In growing weather
will do good, but not in dry weather.
Some nitrate of soda may be sprinkl
ed over when the leaves are perfect
ly dry, and this will encourage
growth. Lime is good to apply late
in fall. Rake it in well.
Chrysanthemum Culture.
1 am much interested in grow
ing fine chrysanthemums. Have
been growing some in pots for
two or three years. Last year
I had some fine flowers, some
would measure 8 inches in diam
eter, but want to grow finer ones
yet, so I would like to know
more about their cultivation,
and the best manures or fertil
izers to use and the best time
to apply them, etc. J. A. W.
(Answer by Prof. W. F. Massey.)
To grow fine chrysanthemum
flowers, you need a moist and fertile
soil. That is, a soil that will retain
moisture in dry weather from having
plenty of vegetable matter in it. The
best fertilizer is plenty of well decay
ed cow manure, thoroughly mixed
with the soil. Then you want a sun
ny situation for the bed. You can
grow the finest in the open ground,
and in the fall, as the flowers expand,
put a shelter of cotton cloth over
the bed, high enough to walk under,
and of course, pinch out the surplus
buds. As the buds expand and a little
before, an application of liquid ma
nure once a week will help to make
large flowers.
1 have taken several farm papers,
but like The Progressive Farmer and
Gazette the best of any. Always read
it first. W. E. McBryde, Lynchburg,
d. C.
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THE POULTRY YARD
PREVENTING POULTRY DISEASES.
A Breeder Who Does Not Believe in Chicken Cholera and Who
Is Not Afraid of Overfeeding—Cholera Does Exist, However.
Messrs. Editors: With the warm
days with us, it behooves the poultry
breeuer to be careful with his stock
in regard to their health. Like
every oilier breeder who has been at
it for four or live years, 1 have been
through the mill, and found out
from experience that prevention is
the best cure for all diseases of the
feathered tribe.
Once upon a time 1 kept a sort of
chicken hospital, but after a year or
so 1 found out that it was a losing
game to doctor chickens, so now 1
just keep the hatchet good and
sharp, and when a bird doesn't yield
quickly to simple treatment, off
comes his head.
The great bugbear for the spring
aud summer-hatched chicken is sore
neau. i Here are any numoer oi
cures for it, but 1 don't like to
monkey with a sore-headed chick, so,
instead of doctoring, 1 prevent it
thus: The first week in April and
thereafter all summer 1 take one
pound of epsom salts, dissolve it in
a half-gallon of hot water and add
sufficient wheat bran to this water to
make a crumbly mash. By this time
the water will have cooled enough
to give to the chickens, this amount
being for 100 head of stock of all
sizes.
I give this as the morning feed,
all they will clean up, and every bird
on the place gets its share. I have
followed this plan for the past three
years and am never troubled with
sorehead.
If at any time my little chicks
show signs of loose bowels, 1 put a
little Venentian red in j.heir drink
ing water, just enough to make the
water fairly red, and keep it before
them one day. Next day put about
twenty crops uncture or iron to each
quart of their water. The red cor
rects the bowel trouble and the iron
strengthens the little fellows. In
two or three days they are chasing
around as if nothing had ever hap
pened.
Cholera is another dreaded dis
ease among poultry keepers, but 1
doubt if such a thing really exists.
Cholera, in my estimation, is a com
bination of indigestion and filth,
principally indigestion brought on
from the lack of good sharp grit. 11
the birds are not supplied with the
means to grind their food, the food
cannot be handled properly by them
after they have eaten it, and pretty
soon you have a sick hen. This, in
combination with filthy quarters and
vermin, is, in my estimation, the
much-dreaded cholera.
I have a neighbor whose poultry
yard is less than two hundred yards
aiBtant from mine. I waB at hia
place two years ago, and his chicks
had been dying every day for two
weeks: had lost 90 birds out of a
flock of 125. We went out to look
at what was left, and I asked him if
lie kept the house clean and grit be
fore them. Ho said he never both
ered with that sort of thing, just let
them find their gravel and was too
busy to clean out hen houses. Hia
hen house showed that he was a
“busy” man, for it looked like it
might have been cleaned about the
time it was built, several years be
fore. Droppings lay on the floor
over a foot deep, and It smelled to
heaven.
Nevertheless, my birds have not
leveloped a case of cholera as yet,
md they won’t from my neighbor’s
Hock, because he lost the whole of
it. That’s my best reason for be
lieving there's no such thing as
cholera.
When chicks are hatched 1 with
hold all feed until they are 50 to 60
hours old. I give them water and
grit, but no feed, no matter bow they
chirp, until I am satisfied that they
have absorbed all of the egg yolk.
The first feed is a half-and-half mix
ture of one of the standard chick
feeds and oatmeal. They usually get
the first feed in the morning, and five
or six hours later 1 fill up their fiat
feed trough. All this talk about not
over-feeding may bo all right for
nb i/ibo t )> n t n m b in n iff! riinunV
but 1 don't want any of it in mine.
It is possible to overfeed old birds,
but young stock, never.
When the youngsters are old
enough to go on the perch they are
placed in open-front houses, the hop
per feeding kept up, and my young
sters never fail to develop into early
layers, and both pullets and cocker
eis are vigorous and strong.
The houses are scraped out clean
once a week and air-slaked lime
scattered on the tloor. Every two
weeks the perches are wet with ker
osene oil. It is pul on in the late af
ternoon so that the chickens' shanks
will get the benefit of tho fumes
from the oil, which prevents scaly
leg. A bed of loose sand in tho
corner of the yard provides the dust
ing place, and when tho bird can
dust itself at will, it can keep the lice
under control. So, by keeping the
houses fairly clean, using oil on the
perches and lime under them, pro
viding clean, fresh water and plenty
of good sharp grit, I have had to lay
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chicken dinner is In order.
E. W. TRAUTMAN.
Long Beach, Mlsa.
Editorial Comment: Our corre
spondent has fallen into the error of
many another who. because he has
never seen a particular condition
concludes that it does not exist.
No doubt, nearly all of the so
called cholera of chickens is what
Mr. Trautman suggests — simply
other common ailments—but this
has no bearing on the existence of
cholera. Cholera exists, even though
Mr. Trautman baa never seen It.
1 hat what bis neighbors and many
others have called cholcrn, is really
not cholera, may be true; for, ns
stated, much of the so-called cholera
is not cholera at all. The same may
be stated of many other diseases of
animals, but It will require some
thing more than the doubts of those
who have never Been a disease to
nrnifn Is*. — —_ _i . » _
.-- Mwu-cAwuume, i ne writer
has never seen bubonic plague nor
leprosy, but there Is no doubt of
their existence. The existence of
rabies Is doubted by Borne, but rabies
continues to exist. Fortunately
chicken cholera Is comparatively
rare, but It Is a real disease and when
once present In a flock there Is ample
evidence of Its serious and Infectious
nature.
FANCY
WHITE WYANDOTTE S
FOR SALE
°“e £°fker«1- Ei^h‘ Hen«, one year
o d. Price, $18.00 Easily worth $30.00.
H. t MONTGOMERY. »21 Bragg An . Hindu* Mlu.
EH*** Single Comb Brown
r. U. IIUEWEK. Crriul Springs, MIm.
BARRED Egg*. 1100 for |(
ROCKS A. Satiafartirn guaranteed I »
| E. W. TRAUTMAN, . Lon* Reach, Mi^
20 E66S $1.00 To8,n^m4u^
IS Klaek la*0‘hnn Kgpa Si 5-. <;,*„) jV1
Mtiafartlon guaranteed 409 llnmrr **tgrmL .
a bargain to induce atoek quick. Write t<d«» **
DIXIE IOULTRY YARDS, - . Igighton^la.
LOOK 1
Bur jroor Rarrad Rock and White Wrandntt
Egga from atoek that hare a a how record ]BwI
from mr beet pen* will batch winner*.
Jarkaon. 190H. I entered. f> bird a. winning >«.
firat. ■ ne aemnd. one fourth. ”
Jack.on. 1909. entered IS; won JJ regular — •
■pedal nrtxea. and waa paid more raah by tha Aik
aodat<on than any other Miaatedppi breadie
►gr from exhibition mating* la nn pre IS. tba.'
ity Wyantotiea cmt> fl SO per IS. Satl.fa—
guaranteed. E It. BIRDSONG. Tarry. Mlat
mm BROOK EGG CO.
Incorporated
# Jefferwsn Avenue. Gar. front
MEMPHIS. TENN.
Breeder* of Barred P Rock*, Buff
P Hock a, a C K I. Red*. Silver
Laced Wrandnttei
At tha (ml Trt State Fair. Memphta wm wm
10 Artta. Z rar-onda 1 third on ]» entries Our brad
to lay Barred Plymouth Rorka ftuAT ,,Vm«all
Itorka Kllrer Laoed Wyandotiaa and S C °L h
(•land Rad* are no ci pertmenla: are beery vtetw
lay art and keep at It ail rammer We xuaruatra
quality In both ear** and breedtnc *lnrk. Kara
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tome extra One one* A 00 Mark Ymr-old Hra*
and Pallet* A t> each Ktdeeu ltrno« Poe Com
pany. Incorporated OfAee and Harm a Jdtp.
•on Arena*. Mumphlt Team.
We offer $10 00 in gold l^lOTri Sutt
K»ir for best Cockerel from our egg*
BUFF WYANDOTTES
Beet Mood line* In America. Winter layer*: quick
maturera Brat funeral purpura foe I brad today.
Unrk all aold. f'err* from hlfh-erortn* crhiblUOB
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White Leghorn*.
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to mo ha rmo for r.irn fomm rhlrhn. aim Rot
rrwn oral .Inch In tha South at pttro* Bo Hr bar
th*n «•** from lafarlor <n4. » l^t me 107 tha
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S. C. Rhode Island Red*
Barred P. Rock*
EH* '• ^Arbia*. that hatch r-d pur* Uowiad.
haalthr, rlaorxru* chirk ana
Pike Poultry Farm, West Point Miss.
SINGLE .You ran tfwt «■*,» now from 4 a
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Vivo. fu|| Information, nvalirv*
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^ K. Y. ANDERSON,
Clinton, MlaalMippl.
QUALITY FIRST, EGGS SECOND
i , *??• C- Wblta Ixwhom. laid 1.703 naan In
Jan.. I- .b and Marrh. Kmgm It.&0 and 13 00 par IA.
1* T. Almpaon, - - Terry Mina.
Homer Pigeon* Mated For Sale.
Foundation stork th. baat Improved by —l~"
! rant breadon of InrvraquAbi.
K. N Dighim, . - Pontotoc, Mlaa.
Buff Leghorn Eggs
Th" beat Uylnir rhlckena on earth. 11.60 par aat
l6‘ , ro,*'P> delivery.
M1S8 GRACE WAI.KKR. Huonevllle. Mlaa
Flora Poultry Farm
B. Khad. /.land had.: InruUtor fcarir* 16.00
per 100; Inrulmlur Chirk* It, 00 per 6oTw.OO P«r
^aU-h of 76 U» W6. Kiras for haianea of season:
Zx vard- t2 n0 b* r *8 W-60 per SO; eacond yard.
11.26 per 16, *2.00 per SO.
K. A. DOWNS. Flora. Mlaa.
R()SR (nun KDODR ISLAND HKDS - Brad !•
'*"• «"d rau. Thlily hen* at *1.60 U*
r Kr«‘h Evn II 6o per 16; U 00 per 46.
it, u}1,™. guaranteed. Write u*.
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