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POULTRY
H. L. BI^ANCHARD
Communications for this department are
solicited. Personal experiences detailed and
questions prove of great benefit. Write to
H. L. Blanchaid at Hadlook, Wash., or
direct to The Ranch, Seattle.
Hens that Break Eggs.
A correspondent asks: "Is there
any way of preventing a sitting hen
breaking eggs; have got one sitting
now and every few days I find a broken
egg. Is this preventable or is it due
to natural and unavoidable clumsi
ness on the part of the hen?"
There are several points to consider
in this case. (1) The eggs may have
very tender shell; (2) the nest may
be shaped so that the eggs pile up and
are more easily broken; (3) the nest
may be too deep, so that the hen is
obliged to jump down on the eggs;
(.4) the hen may be naturally clumsy.
The latter is the most frequent cause
as broody hens seldom break eggs in
order to eat them. A hen always moves
her eggs daily into different positions,
and if tender in the shell and the nest
is crowded there is danger of treak
age. If vermin are present they may
make a hen restless and even cause
ncr to leave the nest.
Lice on Little Chicks.
A Canadian reader writes: "How
can one tell if chickens are free from
lice or not, and how many kinds of
insect pests is one likely to find on
them, and where?"
Bright, smart, brisk looking birds
seldom have lice on them, but if sus
pected a close examination accompan
ied with a good dusting of lice killing
powder well worked in among the
feathers will tell the tale. If lice are
present you will probaby see them,
and the powder will soon drive them
into the open air. There are more
than one variety of lice on the birds
usually in the close feathers of the
head and neck, under the wings,
around the tail and legs; in fact seek
out the cosy spots for their habitation.
When very bad you can find them
almost anywhere. All the varieties
succumb to any good louse-killer. The
red mites do their work at night and
inhabit nests, perches and cracks by
day Coal oil is very dir-tastetul to
them. Clean quarters, a good dust
bath and eternal vigilance aro neces
sary.
Proportion of Males to Hens.
How many birds should be mated
with a male bird to secure fertile eggs
and strong chickens? This is a most
important question and is dependent
for a correct answer on several collat
eral facts. One of these is that a
male bird will fertilize the eggs of
many more hens when the fowls have
unlimited range, where they can ob
tain an abundance of insects, slugs
and worms, than when the fowls are
kept confined. We have known in
stances where twenty-five or more
hens were run with one male bird and
eggs were remarkably fertile, but
when the birds are confined a much
smaller number of hens must be al
loted to each male in order to insure
fertility Another fact that has to
be considered is the breed of fowls
Asiatic and heavy breeds are much
less active than the smaller kinds and
fewer hens must be given to these big
male birds if the eggs are to be well
fertilized. If a leghorn male will care
for fifteen hens, one should not give
an Asiatic male more than eight or
nine hens or pullets.
Poultry at Portland Fair.
Harry H. Collier, of Taeoma, Wash.,
has been appointed superintendent to
pet up and have charge of a state
poultry exhibit at the Lewis and Clark
fair. The commission will pay all
charges on transportation of iwultry
from this state to Portland and return.
Mr Collier is working hard to make
Wa?hington "the big thing" at the
fair when it comes to poultry. Those
who contemplate making an exhibit
should write to Mr. Collier and he
will make a trip over the state and
will pick out the birds for the breed
ers that they want to show at the
fair. The poultry exhibition will be
held about the first week in October.
This state imported last year over
four minion dollars' worth of eggs
and about one million dollars' worth
of turkeys and chickens; if we could
get the boys to breed more birds we
could be exporters instead of im
porters. It is expected that the fair
at Portland will have the largest ex
hibit of poultry ever brought together
on the coast. California, Idaho, Mon
tana and British Columbia will help
Washington and Oregon make this the
big fair when it comes to the poultry
department, and it behooves the chick
enmen of Washington to get their birds
out early and be ready for the show
by the 15th of September.
New Process of Selecting Poultry.
Poultry raisers will be glad to know
that a new process of selecting poultry
had been discovered by which the good,
bad and indifferent laying hens in a
flock can be separated without the use
of trap nest or any similar device. By
the Walter Hogan system advertised
in this issue, you can not only do this,
but you can pick out the rooster and
cockerels whose urogency will have
the laying faculty. A little reflection
will show the enormous value of this
system. You can cull your flocks
more skilfully than was ever done be
fore. You can retain the hens that
will pay and dispose of the others.
You can select the pullets worth keep
ing and kill the others. You can breed
a race of hens that will become record
breakers in the way of egg production.
It is not a matter of breed or care.
This new system is effective with any
breed. It is one of the greatest dis
coveries ever made in regard to poul
try and marks a new era in the busi
ness. A small fee is charged for this
information, when convinced that it is
all right, but you are allowed 60 days
in which to test it. If at the end of
that time you are not satisfied it costs
you nothing. During the 60 days' trial
you have complete control of the
money, so that no chances are taken.
Interested persons can get full par
ticulars free by addressing The Walter
Hogan Co., No. 33 National Bank build
ing, Fergus Falls, Minn. See their
advertisement elsewhere.
Breeders of Mammoth Bronze tur
keys who want the business of the
many poultry raisers going into tur
koy raising as a side line should place
their announcements in The Ranch.
We have inquiries for the names and
addresses of people who have turkey
eggs to sell, also for those who have
Golden Laced Wyandotte eggs, Silver
Laced Wyandotte eggs, etc. Advertis
ing your stock will effect many a sale
not otherwise made.
Poultry Paragraphs.
Keep the drinking fountains clean
and filled with fresh water.
The mongrel is fast becoming a
thing of the past in profitable poultry
keeping.
If a hen lays soft-shelled eggs give
her plenty of gravel, oyster shells and
crushed bones..
Roosts for poultry should be placed
on a level, so that there can be no
preferred positions.
Lice always attack poultry more
when they are in an unthrifty condi
tion than when they are well fed and
properly cared for.
Laying hens do better when kept
in small flocks, say 20 to 25 hens to
each yard, than they do if greater
numbers are run together.
The poultryman who attempts to
make the production of eggs and lice
twin industries, will fail. Either one
will flourish without the other.
While the Leghorns mature earlier
it is contended that the hens of the
THE RANCH
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which hens in his flock are the paying hens—the layers, and which are the
drones—non-layers. It would enable him to atop the biggest leak in poultry
culture and pile up a prollt instead of loss. How can it be done? We tell you
how and guarantee not only to teach you to select the layers, but how to select
the cockerels that will breed the best layers—the pullets that will lay the
curliest and the most eggs by
The Walter Itogan System of Selection
Think what a great advantage this affords. It is a discovery resulting from
35 years of study and experimenting, and has lately been tested by practical
pouitrymen and pronounced an unqualified success. A recent test at the Mum.
bota Experiment Station by Air. tiogan proves the reliability of his system. He
divided the fowls into three pens, the best, ihe medium and the poor. In a 15-day
test pen No. 1 averaged 50^ eggs per day; pen No. 55, 37 eggs, and pen No. 3
did not lay an egg. It is easy to learn—we guarantee you can do equally as well
with a little practice. Can you afford to continue wasting time and feed on non
producing hens? —it's like throwing money away. Change loss into profit by
learning this system and earn money selecting for others. If we fail to teach you
it won't cost you a cent. Full particulars and proof free.
THE
WALTER HOG AN CO,
33 NAT'L BANK BLDG., FERGUS FALLS, MINN.
mongrel flocks in the average country
farm yard may lay just as many eggs
the entire year, but as an egg in
January is worth three in June, it
will be seen that the Leghorns are
more profitable.
Scalding hot water and a big hand
ful of shot are recommended as ex
cellent for cleaning fountains that
cannot be opened inside. Fill the
fountain about one-quarter full of hot
water and then pour in the shot.
Shake the vessel briskly so that the
shot will scrape along the bottom
and sides of the fountain. This will
remove the scum and leave the foun
tain sweet and clean.
Homers for Sale
I am booking now a limited number
of orders for Homers. Raised right
and bred right; no better squab breed
ers In the country. B. L. Keber, The
Times, Seattle.
INDIAN RUNNER DICK
I Eggs for Hatching j
Premiums with Early Orders.
Send today for Circular.
D-e-1-a-y spells disappointment.
F. A. COWELL, - LAKEBAY, WASH.
FIRST PRIZE BUFF COCHINS
FIRST PRIZE HOUDANS
FIRST PRIZE WHITE INDIAN
92.00 •ettlns, delivered.
ALL IMPORTED BIRDS -BEST IN THE WORLD
Nelson Macpherson
311 Olympic Plmom, Soattlm
Sound-End Bluff
Poultry Yards
Olympia, Wash. P. 0. Box 1002
One pen (16) each: S. C. B. Mlnorcaa
(Northrup Strain), 8. C. W. Leghorns
(Collln's 200-egg Strain), S. C. Rhode
Island Reds, (Line Bred by ourselves
for heavy winter layers). Setting $2.
We use trap nests, and breed for eggs
u.i well as ihow-room specimens.
Four pens B. P. Rocks, trapped and
bred for highest poaslble egg production,
$1 per setting; $5 per hundred. The
farmer's strain of farmer's fowla.
Ten 8. C. W. Leghorn and 8 8. C. B.
Minorca Cockerels, ready for breeding
pens, f1.60 each while they last.
White Wy an dots and White Leghorns
FUSE BRED
No better stock in the west. Eggs for
hatching, $2 for 15; *3 for 26. Choice
selected Cockerels, $1.50 to $3 each.
WM. Me C ABE, - - REARDAN, WASH.
THE HIGHLANDS
Barred and White Plymouth Rock Eggs,
$2.00 per Setting.
Twenty Pure Bred Scotch Collie Pup
pies, now ready to ship, at $10 and up,
either sex.
H. W. ■■■ mm B. IT. D. No. 1,
. W. ILLMHH,BV£UI£TT, WASH
Eggs 50 Cents a Dozen
That is the price in Seattle in the winter
time. Get your eggs from a good winter
laying strain, so you can have winter eggs.
Eggs and fine breeding stock for sale. B. ?■
Rocks, White Rocks, Light and Dark Brab
mas, Langshans, White and Brown Leg
horns, White Wyandottes, Black Minorcaa.
Eggs, $2 for 16; $8 for 100; Brahmas, $3
for $15; Peking ducks, S2 tor 8
TENTOI.KENA POULTRY CO., Toledo, Wn.
Blanchard's Poultry
A high average egg record baa t>e«n
the chief aim in building up this poul
try plant. Some ot the pens are netuug
us as high as $3.00 per hen per annum,
at market rates for eggs.
An exceptionally fine lot of Cockerel*
and trios of the following breeds tor
sale at reasonable prices:
B. P. Rocks, White Rocks. S. C. Brown
Leghorns and Black Minorcaa.—Satin fac
tion guaranteed.— Eggs in season. Tne
Blanchard Poultry Book free with eacn
order. nti
Eggs for Incubator hatching, $»-uu
per hundred. Sittings ef 18, 51.60.
H. L. Blanchard, Had lock, Wash.
$300 000 000*^
IN FOUI/EBY.
Do you know that the government <->-» (n
of 1900 gives the value of the pouU'y
that year at very nearly $300,000,000.
Poultry Success, the twentieth cent""
poultry magazine, is absolutely lndlstJ^" nSr
ble to every one Interested In c. ace &
whether they be beginners, experi <•'»
poultry raisers, or only keep a few
It is without question the foremost pou flf
monthly in this country, and read* r .
its articles on pure bred chicks ana g
better care and keeping have co>« )s
realize that it is plain truth that tn _
money in a hen." Regular sobacriptlou v^ gv
50 cents a year. Special offer: If >'ou
chickens or are in any way interest
them, we will send Poultry Success *' {]
for one year, for introduction, ana ltr>
free, a large illustrated, practical I>» nts
book; or three months' trial, 1°
Sample copy free. fl
Poultry Sacceaa Co., Dept. n»« ohJo .
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