■' June, 1909 



THE CANADIAN H O E T I C U L T U R I S T 



139 



POULTRY DEPT. 



Conducted bjr S. Short, Ottawa 



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Besides careful feeding, growing chickens 

 require attention to see that they do not 

 become affected with vermin at this season 

 of the year. With the warm weather and 

 plenty of good food, chickens make rapid 

 development and nothing should be allowed 

 to interfere with their progress towards 

 maturity. The two main evils are lice and 

 over-crowding. Lice may be cheeked and 

 destroyed by the use of powdered sulphur or 

 any of the insecticides recommended by the 

 poultry supply house. Sulphur is cheap 

 and effective. Dust each chick once a week 

 until they are two months old and after 

 til at if the birds have access to dry earth 

 or mud they will dust themselves often 

 enough to keep down the lice. Putting sul- 

 phur in the dust bath is a convenient way 

 to help keep the birds clean. 



Over-crowding will be evidenced by some 

 of the chicks not having down or plumage, 

 all being rubbed off in the scramble for the 

 warmest corner. An inspection of the sleeping 

 quarters occasionally is a wise precaution. 

 If the birds are all spread out side by side, 

 though close together, they are doing all 

 right, but if they are climbing one on top of 

 the other, they are cold and trying to get 

 into the inside place usually in a corner. If 

 this happens the strongest or weakest should 

 be removed and put in another pen. In 

 flocks of 25 or 30 over-crowding seldom hap- 

 pens but with half-grown orooder chicks 

 in larger flocks great care must be taken. 



The leaving open of a winaow or a door 

 a little late in the evening will sometimes do 

 a lot a harm. I remember seeing 14 Leg- 

 horn chicKs smothered to death by over- 

 crowding in a flock of about 20 owing to 

 a door being left open an hour late on a 

 June evening last year and more would have 

 been smothered had the omission not been 

 discovered in time. 



From experience, supported by the opin- 

 ions of others who have given the subject 

 some consideration, the writer recommends 



to those who hatch by incubator exclusively, 

 that they hatch the chickens intended for 

 next year's breeding stock by hens. This is 

 a practice that is being followed by most of 

 the careful breeders. It has been found that 

 incubator-hatched and brooder-raised fowl are 

 more given to barrenness or their eggs are 

 more often infertile than the eggs from fowl 

 hatched in the natural way. This is late in 

 the year to make the suggestion, but it is 

 worth remembering for future occasions. 



Arscnitc of Lime 



F. T. Sbutt, Chemiit, Dominion Experimental Farms 



From the number of letters that we have 

 received during the past few weeks from 

 orchardists, more especially in New Bruns- 

 wick and Nova Scotia, it is evident that 

 there is much confusion respecting the pre- 

 paration of arsenite of lime. As a misun- 

 derstanding in this matter might lead to a 

 very considerable loss through injury to the 

 foliage, it is well that one or two of the es- 

 sential points in the process should be ex- 

 plained and emphasized. 



The first step in the process is the prepar- 



"That telephone puts my iso- 

 lated farm in the heart of 

 things. I am next door to 

 everybody I want to talk to." 



That telephone has been a revelation to me. 

 I never thought anything I could put on my farm 

 would mean so much to me in time, worry and 

 money saving. It would have to cost me many 

 times what it does, before I would part with 

 that telephone, now I knowwhat it means to me." 



Have you ever considered all that a 

 telephone would mean to you on your 

 farm? 



Have you thought of the many times 

 it would save you a trip to town ? 



Just think over the number of times 

 you have wanted a doctor or a veterin- 

 ary surgeon in a hurry? Think what a 

 telephone would mean to you on those 

 occasions? 



If you realize that your time is worth 

 money to you then you will know that 



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you cannot afford to run your farm 

 without a telephone. 



Just think it over and you will realize 

 that a telephone is a greater necessity 

 on the farm than it is in the city. 



But it must be the right telephone. 



The wrong telephone will be nothing 

 but a source of annoyance— out of order 

 just when you want it. 



The telephone you should have — the 

 one that gives perfect service day-in 

 and day-out— -that receives and delivers 



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