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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST 



May, 1907 



i POULTRY DEPT. | 



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Q S. SKort, Otta-wa if 



Intended improvements in the flocks should 

 be made in May. This is the best season to 

 take out the mongrels and replace them with 

 pure-breds. In the first place, for the sake of 

 economy it is cheaper to get one or more settings 

 of eggs from a reliable source than to buy a pen 

 of pure-bred birds. At this time of year pens of 

 fowls are very hard to purchase, for breeders 

 have disposed of all their surplus stock and do 

 not care to break up their breeding pen unless 

 a good cash offer is made. It should not be hard 

 to get good hatches this month; that is, 10 

 chicks out of every setting of eggs. 



It is better to purchase from a well-known 

 breeder, as you are surer of better results. 

 When a breeder has been years establishing his 

 reputation, he is not going to throw it away by 

 selling poor eggs for hatching, but on the other 

 hand is going to sell eggs from good stock and 



IF YOU HAVE APPLES 

 OR POULTRY TO CONSIGN 



we can handle them for you to 

 advantage. If apples are in car 

 lots, write us and we can sell 

 them for you f.o.b. your station 



THE DAWSON COMMISSION CO. 



Cor. West Market and Colborne St. 



TORONTO 



ONTARIO 



from fowls mated together by an expert. He. 

 wants to sell eggs that will hatch strong chicks, 

 that will not only be a pleasure and satisfaction 

 to the owner, but will also be a credit, and add 

 to the reputation of the breeds from which 

 the eggs were obtained. 



In past years, poultry raisers have borne 

 rather doubtful reputations more or less deserved. 

 Nowadays, the fanciers are men of different 

 character, more intelligent and with better 

 plants and facilities. No one but the experi- 

 enced poultry raiser knows what possibilities 

 there are in skilful breeding, especially to pro- 

 duce a winner in the popular breeds. Owing to 

 the prevailing high prices of poultry and eggs, 

 brainy men of good repute have been attracted 

 to the field of thoroughbred poultry raising, 

 and no one need refrain from investing in eggs 

 from high-class stock through fear of being 

 duped. 



As a rule, eggs hatch an equal number of both 

 sexes. It will be necessary, therefore, to hatch 

 twice the number of chicks as females required 

 for the laying pens next winter. 



Fruit growing and poultry keeping should go 

 together. With little additional labor, 2 crops 

 can be raised from the same land, one of fruit, 

 and another of fowls There is no better place 

 for young chicks than in the orchard or berry 

 patch. The following facts, though, have to 

 be considered: Young and old fowl will pick at 

 strawberries as soon as they begin to color. 

 They will eat green grapes and green goose- 

 berries if they get the opportunity. They will 

 eat ripe raspberries and red currants. They 

 will not eat black currants until the currants 

 are so ripe that they fall from the bushes. 

 They will eat windfalls from the fruit trees, 

 also all moths and bugs that abound in the 

 orchard. The following plan is followed by 

 the writer without the slightest inconvenience. 

 The poultry rims are planted with black currant 

 bushes and apple trees. About the middle of 

 August, when the currants and early apples 



are ripe, the fowls are removed to the raspberry 

 and red currant plantations, the crop being over 

 and the patch being enclosed with poultry 

 netting and provided with temporary roosting 

 quarters. 



K.eepin^ Hens for Profit 



Alfred Andrews, Burlington, Ont 



In the April number of The Canadian Horti- 

 culturist I contributed a brief article on 

 "Keeping Hens for Profit." From what was 

 said, one might ask: Why do I remain in the 

 business? My answer is that I want to be sure 

 of having first quality of eggs for our own use, 

 without the torment of looking after a supply 

 outside, and often utterly failing in oiu" efforts. 

 Then, a number of friends who cannot keep 

 fowls get their supply from us They volun- 

 teer the statement that they "get no stock such 

 as we supply them." 



Eggs may be fresh and yet not of good quality 

 otherwise. The quality and particularly a rich, 

 agreeable flavor, cannot be assured without care- 

 fully providing for it. This depends on clean, 

 pure, rich food, fed at proper times and in proper 

 quantity; on clean water, fresh at least every 

 morning and in good supply; and on clean, 

 wholesome apartments. 



Our dropping boards are scraped clean every 

 morning and then sprinkled with dry, clean 

 sand, making it easy to keep the hens from 

 carrying into their nests any filth to soil the 

 eggs. This could be washed off, but the beauti- 

 ful bloom on a first-class egg should never be 

 washed off. At least once a week all the litter 

 on the floors must be removed. 



Next in importance, is to see that the eggs 

 are gathered frequently, especially when the 

 fowls are broody. When gathered, they should 

 not be allowed to stand in a warm, close, or 

 damp room, before they are marketed The 

 runs should never contain pools of filthy water, 

 or other decaying matter. 



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