anaheim-daily-herald 1921-12-03

HERE'S SOME POINTERS FOR THE BACK YARD POULTRYMAN Keep the hens confined to your own land. Don't keep a rooster. Hens lay just as well without a male bird. Don't overstock your land. Purchase well-matured pullets rather than hens. Don't expect great success in hatching and raising chicks unless you have had some experience, and have a grass plat, separate from the yard for the hens. Build a cheap house or shelter. Make the house dry and free from drafts, but allow for ventilation. Fowls stand cold better than dampness. You can build a good henhouse with two piano boxes, the backs taken off, and set back to back. Small windows, screened for summer, and provided with glass or cloth for winter, should be provided. It is wise, also, to have these boxes raised off the ground if few inches to prevent rats making their homes under the house. This kind of house should do for 20 hens. Keep house and yard clean. Provide roosts and droppings boards. Save the manure. It is worth money if treated properly. Provide nest for each four or five hens. Grow some green crop in the yard. Spade up the yard frequently. Feed table scraps and kitchen waste. Feed grain once or twice a day. Feed a dry mash. Keep hens free from lice and the house free from mites. Kill and eat the poorest hens in the fall when they begin to molt and cease to lay. Preserve the surplus eggs produced during the summer for use during the fall and winter when eggs are scarce and high in price. The size of the flock which can be kept most efficiently will depend upon the space available and upon the amount of table scraps and other waste available for feed. It is a mistake to overstock your land. Better results will be obtained from a few hens in a small yard than from a large number. The back-yard flock rarely should consist of more than 20 or 25 hens, and often of not more than 8 or 10. For 20 or 25 hens you should have a yard 25 by 30 feet in size. A famous bishop was to officiate at an important service in London, and a great space was roped off so that the dignitaries might alight from their equipages unmolested. When a dusty four-wheeler crossed the square, driven by a fat, red cabby, police tried to him off. "Get out of 'ere," one of them called briskly. "This entrance is reserved for the bishop." With a wink and a backward jerk of his thumb the cabby replied, cheerfully: "I've the old duffer inside." Borrowed umbrellas cast the shadow of suspicion. THE STUDIO OF Rolla W. Cornell Photographer 146 W. Center St. Angheim, Calif. Electric Daylight For Your Picture How to tote The pullets that doing their bit this winter should winter quarters and fed the sort supply plenty of production. Every tend to stimulate by the public at the early start may habit of laying they should be. 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Dropping boards and nests need cleaning and disinfection occasionally, and it goes almost without saying that there must be frequent changes of litter and always an abundant supply of clean water. A sick hen is about as poor a piece of property as a man can own, and many experienced poultry raisers go so far as to say that a sick one is less desirable than a dead one. So it is up to the flock owner to place prevention of disease far ahead of cure. If pullets are a little slow in coming into laying it is sometimes possible to stimulate them by some changes in the feeding schedule. If the quantity of scratch feed allowed in the morning is cut down by one-half, it will make the birds hungier during the day and they will consume more of the dry mash, which will frequently start them laying a week earlier than otherwise would be the case. Another help is to feed a little of the mash wet at noon, as even this little variation seems to whet their appetites. The use of buttermilk in mixing this moist mash is one of the best stimulants to help start egg production. If the poultry keeper feels that he does not want to force the birds too hard he may cut down on this moistened mash. It is possible that forcing too much on the feed may cause the fowls to be weakened in fertility, but few farmers and backyard chicken raisers will be inclined to overdo this matter of feeding. A little stimulus in the beginning may have a great deal to do with getting the hens started in their work, and when this is done they will generally get plenty of exercise. When the birds must be kept in, feeding the grain in deep litter is the best way to get them to take the needed exercise. It is possible, however, to overdo such a good thing as exercise. Too much scratching and running around keeps the layers always hungry, and the demands of the body are so great that egg making may be interfered with. The hens should go to roost every night with a crop full of feed, and usually a handful of grain for each hen will be equivalent to a cropful. Green feed is one of the essentials for laying hens and no good poultry man will neglect to supply it in some form or other. There is a great variety of this kind of feed, including cabbage, mangels, sprouted oats and cut green rye. It may be fed at noon, or such green stuff as cabbage and mangels may be nailed to the wall so that the birds may peck at it whenever they want it. To a great many persons it will seem like going to extremes, but nevertheless, it is true that interference with the nervous system is frequently great enough to cause a serious drain on the vitality of the birds. Various things that interfere with the ordinary daily life of the hens may be put in this class. Hens are often disturbed, especially those of the more nervous breeds, by the presence of strangers. Changing them about frequently from one pen to another is also a disturbing factor and will set the layers back, as will the mixing together of birds that have been separated for some time. Hens and Pullets in Separate Pens It is often desirable to keep the pullets and the older hens separate. It may be that the flock owner will want to use more of the tested hens for breeders, and by keeping them apart from the rest of the flock they can be handled a little differently. The yearling hens, or sometimes older ones, add the well-developed pullets are better for the breeding block because the larger eggs produced will bring out larger and stronger chicks. Some poultry raisers think that the older hens are better than even well-grown pullets that are laying full- little variation seems to whet their appetites. The use of buttermilk in mixing this moist mash is one of the best stimulants to help start egg production. If the poultry keeper feels that he does not want to force the birds too hard he may cut down on this moistened mash. It is possible that forcing too much on the feed may cause the fowls to be weakened in fertility, but few farmers and backyard chicken raisers will be inclined to overdo this matter of feeding. A little stimulus in the beginning may have a great deal to do with getting the hens started in their work, and once on their way it is probable that they will keep on if well fed and cared for. If the weather is mild it may be possible to feed the hens outside, and Hens and Pullets in Separate Pens It is often desirable to keep the pullets and the older hens separate. It may be that the flock owner will want to use more of the tested hens for breeders, and by keeping them apart from the rest of the flock they can be handled a little differently. The yearling hens, or sometimes older ones, and the well-developed pullets are better for the breeding block because the larger eggs produced will bring out larger and stronger chicks. Some poultry raisers think that the older hens are better than even well-grown pullets that are laying full-sized eggs. They say that the germ cell in the egg from the older bird is stronger. However, eggs from the best pullets ordinarily will produce satisfactory chicks. Autumn Is Best Time to Select Breeding Stock The improvident man who sold his heating stove in July because the circus was near and the winter far off differs only in the degree of his shortsightedness from the poultry raiser who waits until spring to select the breeding stock that is to be used to replenish his flock. This important work of picking out the superior birds must be done in the fall to get the best results, says the United States department of agriculture, for it is then that the greatest contrast between the profitable birds and the poor ones shows up. Of course the culling out of the poor layers should go on all through the summer and fall, but at last the top-notchers should be selected as foundation for the coming flock, which ought to be better each year. Never Breed from Immature Pullets One good rule to follow is to keep the pullets out of the breeding flock until they are fully mature. An immature bird may be a good layer and may be from the best stock, but still it is undesirable. Eggs from pullets not yet fully developed will not produce as large or as strong chicks as those from older hens or fully grown pullets. There is no difficulty in knowing when a bird is mature enough to be used as a breeder, as at that time the eggs laid will have reached the size of the average produced by the general run of hens in the flock. Young pullets always lay a rather small egg; sometimes very small at the start. Those that mature early may be picked out by keeping track of the birds that start laying first in the fall. These birds may be marked with leg bands, so that they will not become mixed during the winter with those that started their work later. The late molters are the birds that stick to the job longer, and consequently they make up another group that should be used in forming the breeding flock next spring. Leg bands may be used to distinguish these profitable birds, or better, the early molts. Young pullets always lay a rather small egg, sometimes very small at the start. Those that mature early may be picked out by keeping track of the birds that start laying first in the fall. These birds may be marked with leg bands, so that they will not become mixed during the winter with those that started their work later. The late molters are the birds that stick to the job longer, and consequently they make up another group that should be used in forming the breeding flock next spring. Leg bands may be used to distinguish these profitable birds, or, better, the early molters may be marked so that they will no longer have an opportunity to keep down the average egg production of the flock. The general purpose breeds, which include the Plymouth Rock's Rhode Island Reds, and Wyandottes, as a rule are not profitable after the second year. It is therefore advisable to cull out all of the older birds of this class. Of these, the late molters are the ones to select for breeders, just as in the case of fowls of any other breed. But the selection of birds on the basis of age and time of molting is not all the preparation that need be made for raising the foundation for the new flock. The health and thrift of the fowls must be looked after carefully during the winter. After selecting the breeding birds the poultry house needs close attention. Keeping it in sanitary condition is one of the important points; also the comfort of the house, which is closely connected with the health of the birds. Fowls are very sensitive to moisture conditions, and these should be controlled carefully by ventilation. When moisture from the fowls gathers on the ceiling and walls there is apt to be trouble soon. In cold weather this moisture may collect in the form of frost, but the heat from the sun in the middle of the day will melt the frost, and the water, dripping down, will make the litter wet. Hens are a good deal like sheep in their sensitiveness to wet feet, either in the house or when outside, and they can not be kept in good health on damp litter. A sick hen is a hard proposition to deal with if you expect to get out with a profit on her. It is a lot cheaper to depend on dry litter than on medicine to cure colds and roup. Roup is the sequel of colds, and when it gets into a flock, as one poultry-man puts it, you are on the rocks. NASH SIX PRICES 5-passenger touring car..... $1835 2-passenger roadster..... 1815 4-passenger sport model..... 1990 7-passenger touring car..... 1990 4-passenger coupe..... 2730 7-passenger sedan..... 3045 Above prices are delivered in Orange County, freight and war tax paid. All Nash models, both open and closed, have cord tires as standal equipment. SOMETHING BROKE LOOSE He—Did you tell your father over the 'phone that we were engaged? She—Yes. He—What did he reply? 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