The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, March 15, 1920, Page 10

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HARDING HE care of the incubator during ~ the hatching period determines the number of hatched chicks, providing_ the eggs are fertile. - Assum- ing that the poultryman has fertile eggs; the first thing to do is to see that they are clean. The embryo chick has to breathe through the porous egg- shell and if the latter is dirty the chick is apt to die a-borning. In a previous article the wisdom of running the incubator for a day or two before putting in the eggs was pointed out. Such procedure makes regulation of heat a much easier mat- ter. The bulb of the thermometer should be on a level with the top of the eggs for the heat ‘in an' incubator varies just as it does in a room. The ceiling will be hot, while the floor is cool. Directions accompany every incu- bator and these should be followed ex- actly as they are written. The direc- tions will tell you how often the eggs should be turned and give other valu- able pointers. Most poultrymen test their eggs for fertility after the seventh day of incu- bation. Infertile eggs will show up clear and these might well be taken out of the incubator, hard boiled and chopped up as feed for young chicks. At the end of three weeks the suc- cess or failure of the hatching will be realized. If the incubator has been operated intelligently and there -has been a good percentage of fertile eggs, the hatching should be excellent. If the “jinx” has been on the job and regulation of heat has been far from perfect, the hatching, such as it is, will probably consist of weakened chicks that stand little chance of life in the struggle for existence. DON'T GIVE HEN TOO MANY CHICKS TO COVER The hen is the natural brooder, of course, but many poultrymen make the mistake of giving a hen too many chicks to mother. In any event, the hen will not admit incubator chicks to her family unless she has hatched some of her own at the same time. With 200 young chicks on his hands, however, the poultryman is fortunate who ‘has enough hens to mother the entire lot. The manufactured brooder is a real- ly necessary adjunct to the incubator. Good ones are on the market, or it is comparatively easy to make one your- self. Practically the only problem concerned in the manufacture of a home-made brooder is the matter of heat regulation. Solve this difficulty, afford plenty of room for the chicks, and your brooder troubles are over. The chicks generate considerable: animal heat and it is easy to deter- mine if the temperature in the brooder is either too hot or cold. If too hot the chicks will spread out on the floor as far apart from each other as space will permit and you will notice their labored breathing. When cold, the chicks huddle together, making the- most of the heat generated by their own bodies. Poultrymen are agreed that the young chicks should not be fed within 24 hours after hatching. Nature has -provided subsistence for the newly hatched chicks and any attempt to lure them into eating ahead of time is apt to result in stomach trouble and death. The proper feeding of young chicks is a big subject, and I will not attempt to go into it here. In another article I shall attempt to give the views of men who have been successful in rais- ing incubator chicks. Every poultry- man is agreed that it is easier to hatch ’em than it is to make ’em live. COST OF RAISING HEIFERS The importance of providing cheap feed for growing heifers and practic- ing thorough culling is brought out by the results of feeding experiments re- cently completed by the dairy division, United States department of agricul- ture. . In these experiments groups of calves were fed from birth to one year and two years of age and a rec- ord kept of all feed consumed. In one experiment, 11 heifer calves were raised to the age of .one year. The amount of feed consumed by each calf was as follows: - Hay, 571.8 pounds; grain, 885.5 pounds; silage, 3,693.1 pounds; milk, 110 pounds; skim milk, 2,414 pounds. Estimating the hay at $30 per ton, grain at $60, and silage at $8 per ton, milk at 4 cents and skim milk at three-fourths of a cent per pound, the cost of raising each heifer to one year of age was $72.42. Five of the calves from the first ex- periment were then fed for one more year. During this second year each calf consumed on the average 1,117.8 pounds of hay; 1,221.6 pounds of grain; 8,031 pounds of silage. Using the same figures for computing the cost of the feeds consumed during this second year, the total cost of raising a heifer from birth until two years of age was $157.96. These figures em- phasize the necessity of providing cheap feed for heifers, such as pasture and silage, and bring out the impor- tance of carefully culling the heifers to avoid raising those which will prove to -be inferior cows. UTILIZING SEA WEED Kelp, apparently, is going to be a profitable source of potash, an impor- tant fertilizer ingredient. that the United States formerly obtained al- most wholly from Germany. . During the war an experimental kelp-potash plant was established by the United States department of agri- cultureé at Summerland, Cal. Before the second year of operation was com- pleted it had been determined not only that the plant could be made self-sus- taining,on the basis of potash alone, at $2.50 a unit, but that a number of valuable ‘by-products could be profit~ ably obtained. The chief of the bureau of soils, which operates the enterprise, estimates that if the plant turns out $300° worth of potassium chloride a day it may at the same time turn out $269 worth a day of the four principal by-products. S Among the by-products whose com- mercial obtainability has been estab- lished dre iodine, common salt, am- monia and bleaching carbon. 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