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BETTER FRUIT 



February, 1921 



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POULTRY PROBLEMS. 



It has been demonstrated time and again that 

 no part of the farm work pays so well for the 

 time and money spent upon it as does the 

 poultry when efficiently managed. This is 

 particularly true when the poultry are raised 

 in connection with orchard work. It has 

 been found that scrub hens, with but little 

 care, will pay a profit. How much better then 

 must the good hen with good care pay? A 

 good hen will pay so much better that no 

 reasonable person would be willing to go 

 back to scrub hens after handling the good 

 ones two or three years. If they laid no more 

 eggs, they are so much more pleasant to 

 handle, that we would rather keep them for 

 that reason alone. 



With the advent of purebred stock, the 

 wives and daughters of many fruit growers 

 have become interested in the care of poultry, 

 mainly on account of the beauty of a uniform 

 flock, and they have found the profits coming 

 in. As a result, poultry raising has become 

 a fixed industry on many fruit ranches. 



Most women are well qualified for the work 

 because they are accustomed to looking after 

 details and' the poultry business is one that 

 makes much of the little things. The breed 

 of poultry that may be raised with greatest 

 success depends largely on the individual and 

 local conditions. Some fruit ranches are 

 ideally located for a large flock of Leghorns, 

 where they can have unlimited range and 

 there is nothing that they can harm in their 

 foraging. In other localities, where gardening 

 is carried on to a considerable extent, a heav- 

 ier or general purpose breed is best because 

 they can be easily yarded or confined to lim- 

 ited ranges during certain seasons when, if 

 running loose, they would harm growing veg- 

 etables. Then, too, such breeds produce much 

 more and better market poultry when that 

 phase of the matter is considered. 



There is no question about good poultry pay- 

 ing well in connection with orchard work. It 

 is for each individual fruit grower to decide 

 what breed is best suited to his needs. 



POULTRY POINTERS. 



Now you will have use for those roosters 

 you have kept all the year and lost money on. 



The incubator is the hen that never leaves 

 the nest. 



It is more difficult to raise than it is to 

 hatch chicks. Isn't that you experience? 



Don't feed the chicks for 24 or 36 hours after 

 hatching; then give chick food. 



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Fresh green cut bone is great food for 

 growing chicks. Feed sparingly of it, though. 



this same green bone is also good for the 

 hens that fill the egg basket. 



Skim milk is a good feed for the growing 

 chicks. It takes the place of meat. 



.More chicks are killed by over-feeding than 

 by starvation. Feed a little frequently rather 

 than too much. 



Good brooders may be made at home, but 

 it is usually cheaper to get the manufactured 

 ones. 



SELECTING BREEDERS. 

 Summer-hatched chicks won't do for the 

 early breeding pen. If you must use late- 

 hatched birds for breeding purposes, give them 

 time to mature and do not try to hatch extra 

 early chicks. Even when a late-hatched male 

 bird gives promise of exceptional merit, he 

 will not be as potent as the fully matured 

 bird if he is used too young and his chicks 

 will be lacking in size and vigor, and the 

 chicks from an immature pullet will never 

 amount to much. The habitual use of im- 

 mature breeders will injure the size and con- 

 stitution of any flock. 



GETTING WINTER EGGS. 

 Any kind of food adapted to egg production 

 will do if the poultry houses are warm enough. 

 Warm mash or cooked vegetables, thickened 

 with bran should be given the fowls occasion- 

 ally, but the necessity for furnishing warm 

 food will be in proportion to the warmth of 

 the quarters. A plentiful supply of water 

 should always be kept before the hens. If 

 the quarters are not warm enough to prevent 

 the water from freezing, better carry out warm 

 water two or three times a day. 



MEAT FOR POULTRY. 



An excellent substitute for meat is cottage 

 cheese. It may be fed to fowls of any age 

 and will be found to be very nutritious. We 

 would recommend about three feeds each 

 week of the cheese. We have often heard the 

 inquiry, "Can I not use fresh cooked meat in 

 the place of beef scraps?*' In our opinion, 

 yes. If fresh cooked meat may be fed as 

 cheaply as, or better still, cheaper than beef 

 scrap, it will answer every purpose. It should 

 be fed in the same manner and will yield 

 about the same results. Either may be fed 

 to young chicks or to older ones. It is a pay- 

 ing investment to give laying hens about three 

 meals a week of such food. Be sure to ob- 

 tain a good grade of scrap, for if you use 

 the fresh meat, cooked, it must be fresh and 

 not old or putrid. 



If it is desirable to feed animal food in the 

 form of a mash, use the beef meal; use the 

 scraps as dry food. Good beef scraps should 

 contain about 50 or 60 per cent protein, never 

 more than 15 or 20 per cent fat. 



About the best and cheapest mineral food 

 obtainable is crushed oyster-shell. Do not, 

 however, make the mistake of using this for 

 grit. Do you know that small, round smooth 

 stones or pebbles are not grit? Use hard, 

 rough crushed stone or broken crockery, some- 

 thing to act as teeth for the fowls to grind 

 up their food. If the fowls run at large they 

 will find grit, but if confined, it must be sup- 

 plied to them, for it is indispensable to their 

 good health. 



POULTRY YARDS. 



The fruit grower can get along very well 

 without a poultry yard; but he can get along 

 better if he provides at least two small yards 

 about the poultry house. There are always 

 chickens to be shut off from others nearly 

 all through the year. When once you have 

 provided yourself with an extra enclosure or 

 two, you wonder how you ever got along with- 

 out them and will be inclined to add a couple 



FEEDING CLOVER TO POULTRY. 

 Use second-growth hay, cut into very short 

 lengths, one-quarter inch if possible. Scald 

 and let stand until next morning. Add a tea- 

 spoonful of salt to every gallon of water 

 used in moistening the clover. Before feed- 

 ing, sprinkle with a mixture of bran, turning 

 over occasionally until the whole is well mixed 

 with the grain food. Fowls will eat this read- 

 ilv and it will prove an excellent change in 

 the diet. 



DESTROYING REFUSE. 

 Refuse material that is taken from nests 

 should always be destroyed by fire. Nests arc 

 the real breeding places for lice when kept at 



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