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THE POULTRY YARD
THE OPPORTUNITIES IN POULTRY RAISING.
The Poultry Crop of Missouri Probably Exceeds the Value of the
Cotton Crop of Alabama—How the Average Fanner Could Make
Money With Poultry.
Messrs. Editors. The South is the
natural poultry section of this coun
try. A mild climate, cheap lands,
porous soils, abundant rainfall to
carry off impurities, the possibility of
raising the necessary food supply at
the minimum cost, all go to make
conditions that mean success and re
ward for intelligent effort and per
sistent industry.
From Alabama there are millions
of dollars sent annually to other
States for poultry products that could
be and should be produced at home,
and the conditions in other Southern
States are very much the same.
Too many of our farmers class
poultry raising with washing dishes
or making mud pies, a job for wo
men and children, when in fact it is
really one of the great industries of
the nation. Missouri is the only
Southern State that has really
“caught on” and last year she had a
surplus of chickens, eggs and other
fowls on her farms that was sold
for more than forty million dollars.
Add to this what the farmers them
selves consumed while they sold their
pork to Alabama and Mississippi cot
ton raisers and the total will be in
excess of the value of the cotton cro'p
in Alabama. Pretty good side line,
wasn’t it?
But to do this Missouri farmers
gave their poultry the same special
study and care that was given other
crops. The hens were not allowed
to roost in the trees, hatch under
the barn, made to forage for all they
got to eat and young aud old stock j
left to the tender mercies of the i
hawks, rats, weasels, lice, mites and i
other vermin. They were given the I
same intelligent care bestowed on •
the dairy cow, the beef steer or the
hog intended for prime bacon.
And these are the things that our
people must learn before they can
meet with the measure of success
that makes poultry keeping return a
profit. Whenever we give our fowls
proper housing, keep them free from
vermin, and feed a growing ration
to young stock and an egg ration to
the mature pullets and hens, the
profits will not be long in coming.
i»u uunureu puneis, or yearling1
hens, if properly cared for, will pro
duce at least one hundred eggs a day
and when these are selling all winter
at 30 to 40 cents a dozen, they bring
in a revenue that will rare for the
current expenses on any ordinary
farm and keep the farmer from going
in debt to make a cotton crop. But
to do this one must have wiuter lay
ers, and to get winter layers requires
early hatched chicks so that the pul
lets may begin laying in October
when prices first begin to go up in
the fall. Of course, blood from a
good laying strain is essential, but
no matter how good layers the ances
tors may be, late hatches invariably
mean that the pullets must be carried
over the winter at big expense to
lay eggs in spring when these are
cheap. To have winter layers we
must not only hatch early but we
must feed for quick growth and early
rnautrity. And right here we want to
say that that the greatest advance in
poultry culture in the last twenty
five years is the use of hoppers for
the feeding of dry mashes. A dry
mash of wheat bran, corn meal and
beef scrap kept in hoppers before the
growing stock is a great bone and
muscle builder and produces the stur
dy, well-matured pullet that will
stand up under a heavy egg ration
and shell out the product without
breaking down.
Give the young stock an abund
ance of green feed and keep the dry
mash in hoppers constantly before
them, and they will not need much
grain until they near maturity. Sep
arate the sexes at from three to five
months of age, depending on the
breed, and then feed the pullets es
pecially well, all they will *oat, to
hasten maturity, and the eggs will
come in the early fall and continue
right through ihe winter, when they
command a pi ce, and pay a profit
you have read about but never ex
perienced.
If the busin s is handled on the
lines here sug sted, the flock need
not be larger tl n the average farm
er can care for conveniently for the
chickens alone » realize for you the
‘1500 More a Y> r” which the editors
of this paper be eve is due South
ern farmers anu to secure which for
them The Progressive Farmer and
Gazette lias conducted one of the
most remarkable campaigns ever
conceived and executed by any farm
publication In America. The oj or
tunlty is yours. Mr. Farmer. Will
you reach out and avail yourself of
it? W. 1*. HOPPEKBEKT.
Gadsden, Ala.
1JOT-WKATI1KU Wllltk IX Till:
POULTRY YARDS.
Some of Hu* Things That Demand
Special Attention Just Nos.
Messrs. Kditors: By the time this
is In print we will have ceased hatch
ing chicks for this season, the work
that now lies before us or rather
that Is now in hand, is the success
fully rearing to maturity the chicks
hatched. During the extremely hot
days be more watchful than ever, and
give the fowls and chicks more atten
tion than before along this line. If
possible, supply the growing chicks
with a drink of fresh milk any way
once in every week it will prevent
sickness and promote strength,
health and growth.
Another vital point in successfully
rearing the chicks 1b plenty of shade.
Of course, to those who have plenty
of natural shade this need not con
cern, but to those who have none or
whose supply Is limited, I would say,
build It and do bo at once.
Four posts placed In the ground
with a frame built around the top
and covered over with a few boards,
straw or an old carpet, Is about the
best way to furnish It quickly.
By this time most of the chicks ure
well feathered out, and are beginning
to round up or have grown up on
their limbs and look at the awk
ward stage. It Is during these stages
in the hot weather that they seem to
content themselves by eating, and
then lounging around in the shade,
and despite the fact that they seem
to he able to consume food at a mar
velous rate, they do not seem to grow
on or finish as they should. Hut bear
in mind that the chick by now or the
middle of July requires as much feed
a* the older fowls did during the
breeding season. Feed them two or
throe times a day all that they wUJ
• lean up In twenty minutes.
One thing that causes the large
percentage of chick mortality among
those half grown, also causing weak
legged, puny and unhealthy chicks,
Is their being over-crowded during
the months of July. August and Sep
tember. a brood of chicks that
thrived and did well during the
month of June, should now he cut
m two anil placed In two separate
brood coops. Never have over tweuty
in any one of these Brood coops
should now he as open ns possible
1 his w||| allow plenty of air, and If
chicks are not over-crowded, no
sweating will result. Sweating saps
the Strength and vitality out of them
I>o not catch yourself saying, "I am
sure my stock Is not lousy.” for if It’s
a fact at this season of the year, you
are one in a thousand. Do not wall,
however, tint- the stock is In misery
from lice before you act, but remem
ber there is no time like the present,
and ad now. Clean out the coops
thoroughly, burning as much of the
refuse jib possible, also burn sulphur
°n Boni,‘ hot coals from the cook
stove. Sprinkle lime on the floors
fnd tho Interior and roosts with
kerosene oil.
UNCLE JO.
Meridian, Mbs., poultry Show.
I he Meridian Poultry und Pet Stock
Association has secured the services
”ft -V 1- Hutchison of Crystal
» pniu'h, M1bh.# to place the awards at
,K a,muul show. Which Will be held
in Meridian, December 12th to 17lh
inclusive. The Meridian show has
become permanently organized und
Incorporated and will always be held
H.e second full week In December of
each year. Arrangements are now
><*inK made to furnish coops for the
next big exhibition. F. U. Zlller Is
Secretary.
r Indian Runner t
£ DUCKS £
for 8»le to make room for growing stock, will rpare
only about fifty head. Rare bargains My ducks
lay 200 eggs per duck esch year Send 4 cents in
stamps for catalog. FRED R. ZILLER.
. _2315 6th St. Meridian. Miss
White Wyandotte* and S. C.
White Leghorns
Am offering my breeders at a sacrifice In order
to make room for 2,000 young chicks also Eggs
from best stock in the South at prices no higher
than ears from inferior stock. Let me pay the
postage on a lujndsime^rK'ajojjue to you.
815 Capitol St., : Jackson, Miss.
Eggs in season. A few hens
D Of U Q to *«11- One fine pedigreed
I1* OvftiJ male Collie, 10 months, 126.
E. W. TR AUTM AN.Box A. Long Beach. Miss.
20 E88S U00
Ifi Alack Langtkm* Egot $1.80. Good hatch,
satisfaction guaranteed. 4 *» Hmmmr Pig— at
a bargain to reduce stock quick. Write today.
DIXIE POULTRY YARDS, - - Leighton. Ala.
LOOK I
Buyyoor Bund Rock and White Wyandotte
Eut from stock that have a show record. Eggi
from my beet pens will batch winners.
Jaekaon. 1906. I entered 6 bird*, winning two
Aret. ana leeond. ana fourth.
^*f^*°*V 1®®®. watered 15; won 12 regular »«<<
I’*'™ nrtaea. and wai paid more cash by the As*
•ociatian than any other Miesieeippl breeder.
Kgr. from wblbitian mating* *8.00 pre 15. UtU
Ity Wyanlottea only *1 BO per 15. Satiafaction
nwated. E. H. BIRDSONG. Tarry. Mia*.
BOSE COMB RBODB ISLAND USD*. Bred te
*«***«»* '’«»•-» choice Hen* for quick
Egga. *1.60 per 15; *4.00 per 46.
^“tectlon guaranteed. Write us.
J. D. MARSHALL. Georgetown. Copiah Co.. Mi**
,lrtf He® IKm task (row.
foTmte e£i>,L60 f0r 151 *8'50 f0r “• 0M ,tock
F. M. BREWER. Crystal Springs. Miaa.
SINGLE . ^ou te*5 ket eggs now from Am
- tfwsM'eChesvteaftwf* at greaf
fOMR I7 r**luc*d prices. In lot* of 100 for
Incubator u*e from *5.00 to *100)0.
DUAnr ^•“‘ringof 16egg»from*1.50
RHODE te*6.00 Two excellent cockerel*
f« »ale at reasonable prices. My
ISLAND "fw catalogue U free. Getone.lt
gives full information, matings
prnc »i"oingB.
RCDo E. F. ANDERSON.
Clinton, Mississippi.
QUALITY FIRST, EGGS SECOND
My 84 S. C. White Leghorn* laid 1,702 eggs in
Jnn.. Feb and March. Egga ILK) and *2.00 per 16.
D- T. SIMPSON, - Terry, MIrh.
Homer Pigeon* Mated For Sale.
Foundation .tock the beat. Improved by aelec
tton. Fast breeders of large squabs.
E. N. HIGHAM, - Pontotoc, Mlsa.
Flora Poultry Farm
8. C. Rhode leland Rede: Incubator Egga *5 00
Kr 100; Incubator Cblcka *6.00 per 60/19.00 per
tch of 76 to 96. Egct for balioce of itwon •
First yard. *2.00 per 16. *8.60 per 80; second yard."
*1.25 par 15, *2.00 per 80.
E. A. DOWNS. Flora. Mlaa.
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