Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 15, 1901, Page 7

SS aa estes. * 3 ' DAIRY AND POULTRY. NTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR] OUR RURAL READERS. Sow fEnccessful Farmers Operate This Department of the Farm — A Few Hints as to the Care of Live Stock end Poultry. May chicks, Of all months in the north May is ‘pre-eminently the best for hatching chicks with hens, writes J. H. Davis in the Poultry Tribune. The incuba- tor and brooder plays an important bart earlier in the season when early hatched birds are desired as market poultry. But during a three years’ residence in Ohio, the best birds I raised in Polish, Hamburgs, Plymouth Rocks and Rhode Island Reds, were hatched in May. My incubator Ply- mouth Rocks, hatched in March, were marketed at twelve weeks of age, SO I had no chance of knowing what they were when grown. All my May chicks were incubator hatched and brooder raised, and they made vigorous growth and were beau- ties by the time winter came. May is the best month to hatch Polish, Hou- dans of any of the non-sitters. The chicks of the non-sitting breeds are very sensitive to cold and are easily ‘chilled and die. But when hatched in May, when the weather becomes set- tled and warm, they grow fast and there is little mortality except such @s is usual— that is, the weaklings die off, whether hatched with hens or incubators. I y here that my brooder’ chicks alwa’ made a better average than the hen hatched chicks, and the average mor being much less in the brooder than with those with hens. If you hatch with hens, good nests, good eggs and good attention are the requisites for a start. Whitewash the nests inside, put in a few inches of earth, then sprinkle in plenty of sul- phur, (no, use insect powder.—Ed.) then put in your straw or chaff and you are ready to start. Do not make the nest too deep, but rather shallow, since in a deep, round nest ife eggs pile on top of each other and get broken. Sprinkle the hen once a week with insect powder, but do not dis- turb her. As often as possible, when she is off the nest, look to see if any eggs are broken, and if so, wash them with warm water, wipe dry and get the hen back on the nest as soon as possible. It is best to set several hens at the same time if possible; then divide the chicks among half the hens and reset the rest. For twenty-four hours hatch give no feed, then provide shal- fow drinking pans, fixed so the ¢ will not get wet, and give them er and an allowance of bread crumbs, cracker crumbs or corn bread. Keep up this diet for a week or more, when pin-headed oatmeal—the old-fashioned oatmeal—may be added to the ration. flock Plenty of corn bread, oatmeal, water and lettuce will keep them growing right along. Don’t neglect the lettuce. Plant a big patch of is, nothing is better for the chicks or for fowls con- fin in yards. For the chicks cut the jettuce fine with a pair of shears and feed it often. They will eat it greed- ily; see that they have a daily supply ujl through the season, Dairy Items. “The higher the temperature of the cream at churning the poorer the qual- ity of butter,” is .oming to be an ac- cepted principle of butter making. It is therefore of no use for a man to use t can churn only at high like some of the whirl- cyclone churns vely advertised. Low for churning are the ones that should be recognized. now being tem- only ‘es At the Ontario Experiment Station butter churned into granules like seed contained an average of per cent of moisture; perfect granular butter contained 11.44 per cent: large granular butter contained 10.86 per cent, and butter churned into grains like corn had an average of 11.57 per cent of moisture. This should set at rest the claim of some that the amount of water in butter is naturally from 15 to 20 per cent, as seems to be the claim in some oi the English and Irish courts. Poultry Briefs. One poultry raiser says that while the care of chicks and the feeding have much to do with the mortality, yet in tus mind the greatest cause of mortal- ity is lack of stamina in the breeding stock. He truth, but his statement of it must ba mosified to be generally accepted. Given ordinary care and full protec- tion from lice and animals of prey his etatement is near the truta. But, with the protection absent, there is no room for comparison. The writer of this bas known a couple of cats to itcher nole coop ful. of half-grown chicks bad aj) the stamina imaginable es * a thet Do not delay to put in some forage | erop fer the poui.ry if you expect to keep them confined this summer and have a yard large enough to divide and give chance for the plants to develop. ‘Try some rape. ‘The seed costs little and can be secured of any first-class nurseryman. The writer has tried it and knows that it will pay. The man | that writes about the cultivation of sape will tell you that the ground should be well-prepared. But this is not always necessary. The writer once sowed rape in his poultry yard. preparing a part of tae ground and merely scattering seed over the other oil, which was virgin and had never been disturbed. The results aston- 4sbed bim. The rape on the unpre- pared ground did far better than that. on the prepared ground. in this case the land was quite clayey and bard. after they | certainly has hold of a} There was, Newever, abundant mols- ture during tls: season. sss “Can the sex o: birds or animals be controiled?” is a subject just now claiming a good deal of attention. We notice that some of our contempora- ries are inclined to scoff at the meu that are trying to solve this question. To such we would say, “Remember that Darwin and Drummond and other great sciertists have spent time on this problem and not entirely without results.” The variations in the rela- tive birth rates indicate that there are hidden principles that govern them. Just now one of the men working on the clues he has found promulgates the theory that hard condiuons of :ife with meager food and care tends to a pro- duction of males, while an abundance of food and good surroundings and gentleness increase the number of fe- males over the males. He claims to be proving this by keeping part of his fowls under hard conditions, and car- ing for and feeding the other birds in the best possible manner. Some Forage Plants for Summer Feed The pasturage tests of a number of annual forage crops made in 1898 were with a few exceptions duplicated in 1900, the intention being to note such variation as might be induced by @ difference in climatic conaitions or in the individual preference or aversion of animals for a certain feed. The crops tested were rye, oats and peas, Indian corn, millet, sorghum, Kafir corn, and cowpeas, as representing the annuals, also alfalfa and cwnless brome-grass. Records were kept of the amount of pasturage afforded, and the effect of the feed upon the production or milk and butter fat. The following are some average re- sults for the two years: The crops giving the largest amounts of pastur- age were rye. and sorghum, Indian corn ana millet gave less pasturage than any of the other annual forage plants. Alfalfa and awnless brome-grass gave the least pasturage cs any, the former affording considerabiy more than the latter. It must be borne in mind, how- ever, that the annuals may be pas- tured during omy a certain period of each season, whi \ ag alfalfa and brome-grass furnis. \feed early and late. Cowpeas and alfalfa increased most largely the yield of milk and butter fat. Next to these came rye, oats and peas, sorghum, Kafir corn and awrless brome-grass. Cowpeas produced an actually great- er quantity of milk and butter fat from a given area of land than any other crop. A comparison was made o. the amount of feed produced and the effect upon the y-eld of milk and | butter fat when certain crops were pas- tured and when they were cut and fed. The crops so tested were alfalfa, sor- ghum, and Indian corn. In the case of each of these, from two to three times as much feed was procured from a given area of land when the crop was cut and fed as when it was pastured. The same tests indicated that the av- erage daily production of milk and but- ter fat was greater for the same feed when it was pastured than when cut and fed. This on an average amount- ed to 1.17 times greater butter tat pro- duction from the pastured than from the soiled crop.—T. L. Lyon, Nebraska Experiment Station. Certificated Dairies, Certificated dairies are among the lat- est developments of muncipal life, says “London Dairy.” The town council of Plymouth leads the way, at the in- stance of Mr. J. A. Bellamy, who in- duced the council to pass the following resolution by thirty-four votes to fif- teen: “That the medical officer of health be authorized to issue annual certificates to those dairy farmers both within and without the borders of the borough, who, being suppliers of milk, cream or butter to the inhab- itants of Plymouth, express themselves willing to permit the inspection of .neir farms by the medical officer of health whenever he shall think fit. That such certificates be granted only to such dairy farmers whose dairies, cowsheds, premises, and farms gener- ally are in a thoroughiy sanitary con- dition, and whose milk carts, cans, and | all other plant appertaining to their business shall satisfy the requirements of the medical officer of health. That a list of dairy farmers to whom cer- tificates shall have been granted be advertised for the information of the Plymouth public every three months, and that all other details as to the carrying of this scheme into effect be left to the sanitary committee.” An outbreak of typhoid fever in the town gave rise to Mr. Bellamy’s idea, and if it has the effect of preventing a similar calamity no one will have a right to complain. Yet it is not at all clear that the power to issue certi- ficates will relieve the town of all possible taint of infection, and we are disposed to question the wisdom of sending a medical officer of health hither and thither, when a large town’s supply of milk is necessarily drawn from a wide circle both within and without his jurisdiction. The power to issue implies a power to withdraw a certificate, but there is, we imagine, no intention to prohibit the sale of milk from uncertificated dairies, or those whose certificates have been cancelled. Voluntary measures of this kind may possibly contribute to the purity of the milk supply, but we con- fess not to view the proposal with much hopefulness. Examine carefully all small seeds, such as clover and timothy, before buying, to make sure that numerous weed seeds are not being smuggled in. It is claimed that alcohol can be | made from sorghum pulp—the refuse from the sorghum mill. An Oakland, Cal, man has been granted a divorce from his wife on the ground that she was addicted to smok- ' i ing cigarettes. New Born Foal. The proper care and management of the new born foal ie of great impor- tance just at present, for it is easily seen that horses are to be worth high prices for many years to come, so that every possible foal should be saved. A few years ago many farmers con- sidered foals actual nuisances, but that is changed and we are now glad that the youngsters get a warm welcome as they did of yore. It is often the case that a brood mare proves a poor milker and her owner is at a loss to know what would be the best food for her foal. If the proper food be not provided the foal grows up stunted in form and size and the possible prof- it is lost. For foals that have lost their mothers or for those that have poor milking dams cow’s milk is the | best food at first. This milk is less sweet than that of the mare, honce should be sweetened with a little su- gar, but not diluted with water. At first half a pint of milk four or five times daily will be enough for good results, but-as the colt grows strong- er the amount may be increased grad- ually until the foal is getting all he will take. If the milk disagrees with his stomach then it is a good plan to add lime water to each mess of milk in the proportion of one tablespoonful to each pint of milk. This tends to keep the milk sweet, but if consti- pation is present the first step should be to give the foal a dose of castor oil in milk to clear the irritating matters from the intestinal track. The proper dose is from two to four tablespoon- fuls for a foal from two to four weeks old, and after the physic operates no other medicine will be needed unless the feal has been suffering from scours, in which case ten grains of subnitrate of bismuth should be given three or four times daily, according to the severity of the case, until scour- ing ceases, which it will speedily do under this treatment. When the hand- fed foal reaches the age of four weeks other food should be added to the cow’s milk, and for this purpose noth- ing is better than oil meal or flaxseed jelly. A half pint of the meal is about the right amount to give a young foal twice daily, but when the jelly is used it may be given three times daily, and will keep the bowels in good order. The jelly is made by pouring two quarts of cold water upon one cupful of whole flaxseed and allowing it to soak for twenty-four hours, when a jelly will have formed. In addition to the above foods a foal should be early accustomed to eating grain, and for this reasor a box should be placed where the colt can get at it and not the mare, and this box should be kept filled with equal parts of ground oats and bran. When foal is four months old the sweet milk may be replaced | by skim milk and the ground oats by crushed oats, and the foal will have commenced to eat a little grass. When the mare is a poor nurse, having a small supply of milk for her foal, she may be made to give more milk by proper feeding of milk-forming foods. Of these there is nothing superior to green grass, but where this does not suffice she may be encouraged in milk flow by the feeding of such foods as bran and oats, and where her foal is to be a show beast, the bran and ground oats along with cut hay may be made into slop with milk. Flax- seed or even cotton Seed meal will also be found useful in stimulating a flow of milk, but great care must always be taken to change the mare’s food very gradually, else it will be likely to injuriously affect the digestion of the foal. See to it that the young foal is dropped in a clean-bedded box stall and that its belly and navel are at once washed with a 5 per cent solu- tion of some effective disinfectant, such as creolin or lysol. The washing of the navel should be repeated twice daily for a week, or until every raw spot has disappeared, for where this is done there will be no danger of loss from navel or joint disease, which are caused by the entrance of filth germs by way of the open umbilical vein in the raw navel cord. Avoid letting the foal follow the mare to work or allow- ing it to suck when mare is warm and sweaty. Poultry statistics are valuable if they are collected carefully and have in them no deceptive qualities. We iack data for observations on fowls more than on any other farm stock. We do not refer in this instance to the sta- tistics of the national trade in poultry and eggs or in the production of birds in the whole country. The statistics to which we refer are those that may be collected by every raiser of poultry regarding his own flock. Such statis- tics should show a good many things and should be in tabulatea form, so they may be readily read ind as read- ily compared from year to year. Among the items should be the num- ber of fowls in the flock, males and females, number of hens set, number of chicks hatched, number of eggs placed under hens, number of fertile eggs or percentage of fertile eggs, chicks hatched, percentage raised to maturity, percentage of deaths from diseases or accidents, and so on through a long list of things that might be mentioned. The successful man must have a mind capable of af- alyzing the facts he finds around nim. Without tne data mentioned a man or woman works in the dar«. Ernest Seton-Thompson advocates “hunting with the camera,” instead of with a gun. He says it takes more nerve, grit and courage to get pic- tures of wild animals than it does to shoot them. A man expects rounds of applause when he begins tc climb the ladder of fame. Sheep ought not to be compelled to eat dirty food or drink foul water, A Million Years Too Soon. The youth who was smoking a coffin nail near the monkey’s cage, took an- other one from his pocket. “Would it do any harm,” he asked, “if I should offer-him one of these?” “Not a bit,” responded the attendant. “He wouldn’t touch it. A monkey isn’t half as big a fool as it looks.”—Chicago Tribune, HO! FOR OKLAHOMA! New lands soon to open. Be ready! Morgan’s Manual, with supplement containing proclamation,map showing allotments, County seats, etc. $1. Supplement & Map, 50c. Agents Wanted. DICK T. MORGAN, Perry, 0. T: Didn't Like: It. “What does the teacher say when you don’t know your lessons?” asked Will- ie’s father. “She says I must be-a chip of the old blockhead,” replied Willie. And then eet happened—Philadelphia Rec- ord, Mrs. Winsiow’s Soothing Syrup. For children teething, sorens the gums, reduces {rr ion, allays pain. cures wind colic.’ 2c bottle He Appreciated the Warning. “If I see you going into a saloon again I ‘will discharge you. Do you under- stand this warning?” “Yes, sir. I'll wait until after dark before I go in again.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer. 1 do not believe Piso’s Cure for Consumption bas an equal for coughs and colds._Jonn F Bors, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900 ~~ Down in the Stogie Belt. Visitor—Do you ever have any smoke consumers in Pittsburg? Pittsburger—Yes; each resident con- sumes his own share.—Pittsburg Dis- patch. | __Many good Physicians and nurses use Wizard Oil for obstinate rheumatism aud neuralgia. It’s the righc thing to jo, | Good for Surgery. | Riggs—Strange how eminent authori- | ties differ. Now, Dr. Bolus disapproves | of automobiling, while Dr .Kutz strong- ly favors. it. Briggs—My dear man, Dr. Kutz is a specialist in surgery, and Dr. Bolus is not, that’s why.—Catholic Standard and Times. FOR SYSTEMIC CATARRH © Peculiar to Summer Pe-ru-na Gives Prompt ; and Permanent Relief. Clem G. Moore, Editor of the Advocate-Democrat of Crawfordsville, Ge., writes the Peruna Medicine Company as follows: Gentlemen—“‘After four years of intense suffering, caused by systemis catarrh, which I contracted while editing, and traveling for my paper, I have been greatly relieved by the use of Peruna. I gave up work during these years of torture, tried various remedies and many doctors, but all the permanent relief came from the use of Peruna. 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