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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



March, 1909 



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fee. Others advertise egg layers and utility 

 fowl of the same breeds at $1.50 to $2.00 per 

 13. You can therefore "pay your money 

 and take your choice." By asking for in- 

 formation from neighbors who have had ex- 

 perience with thoroughbreds and breeders 

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 liable breeders and the best breeds for the 

 required purpose may easily be obtained. 

 The writer recommends White Wyandottes 

 as a thoroughly reliable utility breed and 

 one very easy to introduce as they are gen- 

 erally bred in this province. 



The question of "thoroughbred versus 

 mongrel" has been so often enlarged upon 

 that space will not now be taken up to prove 

 what has so often been proved that, if fowls 

 are worth keeping at all, thoroughbreds 

 should be kept. 



If the poultry-keeper has already laying 

 pens of fowls and he intends setting eggs 

 from his own fowls, observations through 

 January and February will have shown him 

 some of the best layers which should be mar- 

 ked by leg bands of some sort and these put 

 in a pen by themselves until sufficient eggs 

 have been procured for setting. 



The simplest way to hatch is by incuba- 

 tor in a basement or room of even tempera- 

 ture. If hens are used, a dark room is best 

 free from interference by other fowl. Late 

 March and April are the best months for 

 hatching for next winter's laying pullets. 



Crop-Binding in Fowl 



Editor, The Canadian Horticulturist: 

 I have read Mr. Short's remarks in the 

 November issue in respect to crop-binding 



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in fowls. In my experience with this trou- 

 ble, I employ no surgical operation. Try my 

 way. Put the fowl's legs between your 

 knees, hold firmly, keep the mouth up and 

 open with left hand. Put the forefinger in 

 the mouth and pour luke-warm water from 

 a dipper into the crop until full. Then 

 knead the crop until soft and stand up, 

 holding the fowl, head down, in the right 

 hand. With the left hand squeeze the crop. 

 If the bird does not give up its load readily 

 choke it somewhat and you will soon sec 

 the wheat, corn, oat.s and water scatter. 

 Fill the crop again with water and empty 

 the same way. If any grain still remain.'! 

 in the crop, repeat the operation a third 

 time and then put a third of a tea spoonful 

 of Rochelle's salts in a couple of taMe- 

 spoonfuls of warm water and pour that 

 down the throat. Put the bird in a coop 

 by itself and in a few hours it will bp the 

 hungriest one in the flock. Feed soft food 

 at first. 



In filling the crop with water, don't pour 

 for too long a period at a time. While 

 treating a rooster in thia way, he tried to 

 breathe with the result that some water 

 got into his lungs. There was a gasp and 

 a gurgle, a kick and a struggle and there 

 was nothing left for me to do but to plant 

 him near a grape vine. — A. W. Graham, 

 Elgin Co., Ont. 



Naming New Strawberries 



Editor, The Canadian Horticultur- 

 ist : — I read your editorial in the January 

 issue entitled "Name according to Sex." 

 I think your idea is an excellent one. The 

 only wonder to me is that somebody has not 

 thought of it before. It certainly would be 

 a means by which we could know the sex 

 of strawberries without making special in- 

 quiry in the case of varieties that we were 

 judcing for the first time. 



The idea is certainly worth being pushed 

 horticulturally. As some of our other fruits 

 also are proving to be self-sterile, the same 

 idea might in the future, perhaps, be car- 

 ried out in other self-sterile groups. — -T. C. 

 Whitten, Professor of Horticulture, College 

 of Agriculture, Columbia, Mo. 



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