American Agriculturist, August 30, 1924 
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My Fall Poultry Chores 
Mrs. C. J Doxtater Tells How She Controls Poultry Pests and Troubles 
T HIS is one of the most trying seasons 
of the year for the poultry raiser, 
especially when that party is a farm 
woman with all the extra work of haying 
and harvesting and the garden “sass” 
ready to he canned, etc.; then of course 
the weather is hot and mites breed 
especially well then, as do also the big 
turkey lice. Many a night it is past 
nine p. m. when I am “powdering” chicks, 
hens and turkeys after a full day riding a 
mowing machine and hay rake. But 
they will take their toll, so it is best to 
keep the quarters free from these things. 
Sometimes it seems almost impossible, 
so we must just fight them. We use the 
old oil from our car and tractor, and with 
a large paint brush, paint the roosts, 
coops, floors where chicks set, and th§ 
walls; we find it very satisfactory. Some¬ 
times we add the kerosene the car 
engines are cleaned with to make the 
oil a little thinner. 
Then, too, the hens are beginning to 
moult and the dry mash must be changed, 
that is, some oil meal added to it to help 
make feathers. We do not agree with 
many who say discard the early moulters 
for ours have proved to be the best layers 
when eggs are high in price, and it stands 
to reason the early moulter has her new 
coat of feathers and is ready to lay 80- 
cent eggs when her late-moulting sister 
is getting on her winter coat. The early 
moulter may not lay as many eggs in a 
year, but her eggs will bring the most 
money for a year, so what difference if 
she doesn’t lay so many? She will last 
longer and you can board her cheaper 
during the summer if she is not laying so . 
hard. Then give her that extra feed in 
late fall and winter and that hen will 
pay a profit. Of course, the lighter 
breeds may not do this, but we are 
breeders of pure bred Columbian Wyan- 
dottes, bred for winter laying and that 
one point is always kept in view. 
It is all right to cull. However, I do 
not believe any one can cull a flock as 
successfully as the party that handles 
and lives with that flock. And they 
needn’t trap-nest either. It is careful 
watching and knowing what is fed, as 
the feed plays an important part in the 
culling game. The best layer ever 
hatched will not lay eggs if she is not 
given the material to make them from. 
How often, in hot weather especially, we 
see a pan or jar the hens drink from re¬ 
filled day after day without even rinsing 
out. The same party may be buying a 
lot of expensive feed, when water is the 
largest part of the egg. But a hen will 
go without water or drink just as little 
as she can if it isn’t good the same as a 
person. It only takes a few minutes each 
day to keep these dishes clean and the 
water pure. It is cheaper to keep poultry 
well than to cure them after they are sick. 
Just as an experiment, if you happen to 
be one who does not wash out your 
drinking dishes every day, try it and refill 
with good clean water. Put it in the 
shade or building where it will be as cool 
as possible and watch biddy’s surprise 
when she comes to drink and also see how 
much longer she will drink. Surely there 
is nothing cheaper than water. 
Next, how is ventilating in the roosting 
quarters? Go through the pens every 
night. If the hens are too warm, open up 
so there is lots of air, but don’t have drafts 
in summer any more than in winter. Try 
to make the quarters comfortable, provide 
shade of some kind if it is only sun flowers 
or a vine growing over a park. Trees are 
best, but everybody does not have trees. 
All these things help save the feed bill 
and the cheaper we can produce anything 
of course the more profit there is in it. 
What the Parties Offer Farm Women 
The Democratic Platform 
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been removed. This will only be done 
when we return to a tariff for revenue only 
and decide to finish the job which we 
undertook when we entered the war. 
The present administration has al¬ 
lowed private individuals to go abroad 
and try to help. It prides itself, however, 
on keeping, as a government, out of all 
European entanglements with the result 
of keeping out of world affairs. So it 
sends off unofficial individuals for which 
it assumes no responsibility although 
they have the “sympathetic support” of 
their government in their efforts, and 
when they succeed the administration 
takes to itself the credit of a “forward 
step” in the solution of the international 
problems. 
This is not the Democratic policy. 
They believe in officially trying to elim¬ 
inate the causes of war, and in helping 
to re establish the European nations 
financially so that their markets may 
again be open to us in a profitable way. 
With this policy I feel all women in this 
country should be in sympathy, for they 
hate the thought of the useless waste of 
human life which they spend so much of 
their own lives in conserving. It seems to 
me that at the moment the farmer’s wife 
has perhaps more things that intimately 
concern her at stake than at any time in 
my memory and I hope she will think 
seriously before she casts her vote on 
Nov 3rd, weighing carefully which of 
the parties in their fundamental principles 
most nearly answer her needs. 
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The Third Party 
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from money belonging to them as from the 
control they possess over the money of 
others. If you are a small depositor in a 
bank, or a minority stockholder in a com¬ 
pany, your money is often being employed 
contrary to your interests and your will. 
This is owing to the opposition between 
our political and our economic system. 
We have universal suffrage in our political 
life, but in our economic life we still 
have the ancient and discredited system 
of plural voting. It is not one matt, one 
vote, but one share, one vote, which gives 
us minority control and dangerous power 
in the hands of a few. 
What remedies does the Third Party 
offer? First, real support of co-operative 
^terprises, which are the only demo- 
^rporations, and second. Govern¬ 
orship or control of railroads, and 
third, the submission of a constitutional 
amendment providing that Congress 
may, by a two-thirds vote, overrule a 
decision of the Supreme Court. Co¬ 
operation needs no defense, but it meets 
much dishonest opposition and needs 
public encouragement. We already have 
Government ownership in our highways, 
our schools, our post-offices and our 
water supplies. Would we return any 
of them to private ownership? Are 
teachers or postmen overpaid? Are we 
overcharged for stamps or water? 
What American Women Want 
The Supreme Court has undoubtedly 
encroached on the power of Congress in 
a way not contemplated by the framers 
of our Constitution. We are the only 
country with a written constitution, yet 
fundamental rights are as thoroughly 
respected in England or France as here. 
Theodore Roosevelt saw no danger in 
such a limitation of the judicial power. 
Two-thirds of the States can call a 
Federal Constitutional convention to 
re-write the Constitution, and in about 
1910 twenty-eight States had done so. 
Should Women Help with Farm Work? 
Further action was staved off by the 
passage of the Amendments for the In¬ 
come Tax and the direct election of 
United States senators. 
The women of the United States want 
two things before anything else, Peace 
and Prohibition. The enemies of peace 
are a minority of ambitious politicians 
and financiers, the enemies of prohibition 
are a minority of corrupt office-holders, 
who, both before and since the passage 
of the Eighteenth Amendment, have 
found their profits in the violation of the 
liquor laws. 
The great and fundamental opportunity 
we are now offered is the possibility of a 
Third Party pledged to carry out the 
will of the people. It is nearly a hundred 
years since de Tocqueville, after a visit 
to this country, warned his contempora¬ 
ries that the principle of majority rule 
was established here and would prevail 
in all countries, that the path of wisdom 
lay, not in fruitless and contentious 
opposition, but in persistent education 
of that majority. His prophecies have 
been fulfilled and wisdom and patriotism 
urge us to follow his advice. 
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not paid either socially or economically, 
but the work had to be done and theirs 
were not the hands to shirk the task. 
In my opinion, the answer to the ques¬ 
tion, should the women do farm work, is 
the same answer for a great many other 
problems of life. It is, “keep to the 
middle of the road.” If it is a question of 
laboring as peasant women have had to, 
the answer is absolutely No. It is No 
also, if working outside is an added 
burden to doing all the work in the house 
for a large family, or if it means working 
with no rest from dawn to dusk, as too 
many of women folks of the past, or even 
of the present, have done or are doing. 
But on the other hand, a good many of 
the women folks like to do a reasonable 
amount of farm work, and if it is a substi¬ 
tution for house work, and not an addi¬ 
tion, outdoor work is good. 
“That’s all right to talk about cutting 
out the heavy work,” I can hear some of 
both the men and the women say who 
read this, “but how is it to be done? 
That’s what we’d like to know.” 
I answer that by saying, more and more 
farm people are going to cut out unpro¬ 
fitable enterprises. There has been too 
much of a boast among farmers about 
keeping a larger herd each year, or raising 
a larger and larger acreage. The boast in 
the future, for both crops and animals, is 
going to be not how much, but how well; 
to grow less crops and fewer animals, but 
to grow them better. In the future those 
who farm are going to keep records and 
by these records they are going “to make 
their heads save their heels.” 
Right there is where the farm women 
are going to come in. Business men who 
employ women know that they are in¬ 
variably better than the men in keeping 
records and in working out details that 
save labor. 
My suggestion is then that the woman 
can save more labor by keeping the 
accounts and by bringing her judgment 
to bear on the farm enterprises, than she 
can by working beyond her endurance in 
physical labor all of the time. Then in 
addition to this, outdoor enterprises, such 
as keeping poultry, working some in 
raising good stock or even in driving the 
hay rake in an emergency, are all right, if 
both the man and the woman remember 
that after all what counts in the long run 
is not so much making a living as living 
itself, and that all the details and the hard 
work of life are failures if we do not get 
some happiness out of them. 
You Are Invited 
to visit 
THE JEFFERSON 
FARMS EXHIBIT 
of 
ABERDEEN-ANGUS 
CATTLE 
at 
The following fairs: 
New York State Fair, Syracuse, N. Y. 
Eastern States Exposition, 
Springfield, Mass. 
New Hampshire State Fair, 
Rochester, N. H. 
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Is there not some chance to make 
money that you are overlooking ? 
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Farm Address: Jefferson, Maine 
Dr. K. J. SEULKE, Pres, and Gen’l Mgr. 
CATTLE 
HOLSTEINS & GUERNSEYS 
250 head of fresh cows and close springers to select 
from. If you are in the market for fancy young cows 
that are large in size and heavy producers it will pay 
you to see this stock. Tuberculin test. 
A. F. SAUNDERS, Cortland, N. Y. 
Telephone 1476 
GRADE HOLSTEINS 
ISO NEW YORK STATE DAIRY COWS 
TO FRESHEN 
AUGUST and SEPTEMBER 
ALL YOUNG PERFECT GOOD SIZE MILKY 
CANDOR, N. Y. OSWALD S. WARD & SONS 
niVT OFT OTTR two-year-old Lucky Farce 
LMJA Reg. Jersey heifers has just 
made over 60 lb. fat, 30 days, official test. We have 
others just as good at $100 to $150. Federal tested 
S. B. Hunt, Hunt, N. Y. 
SWINE BREEDERS 
200—Pigs For Sale—200 
Chester and Yorkshire Cross and Berkshire and Chester Cross 
6 to 7 weeks old $4.50 8 to 9 weeks old $5.00 
Also pure bred Berkshire and Chester sows or boars. 
7 weeks old $6 each. All these pigs are healthy and 
fast growing. I will crate and ship from 1 to 100 
C. O. D. on approval. 
A. M. LUX, 206 Washington St., Woburn, Mass. 
Registered O. I. C. and Chester White pigs. 
Eugene P. Rogers, WayvlUe, N. Y. 
100 Pigs, Chester White, Duroc and Berkshire, 6 weeks old. 
$3.75; 8 weeks, $4.50. High grade and purebred pigs, not 
related, $5.00 each. Oaks Dairy Farm, Wyaluslng, Pa. 
BABY i-.v CHICKS 
5,000 PULLETS 5,000 
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS 
RHODE ISLAND REDS 
S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS 
Ready for shipment at $1.00 each 
HECLA POULTRY FARM Bellefonte, Pa. 
CHICKS 
SEPTEMBER CHICKS 
FOR WINTER FRIES 
AND SPRING LAYERS 
4,500 husky chicks per week from choice, heavy 
laying culled flocks. 4 hatches only. $ 10.00 
per hundred and up. Write for our circular 
and price list today. 
ATHENS CHICK HATCHERY 
BOX F, ATHENS, OHIO 
BABY CHICKS, 
that are hatched 
to grow. Barred 
. Rocks 15c, Buff 
Rocks 17c, Reds 16c, S. C.White and Brown Leg¬ 
horns 13c, Mixed 10c. Prepaid 100% live deliv¬ 
ery guaranteed to your door. For quick service 
order direct from this ad. or write for circular. 
J. W. KIRK, Box 55, McAlisterville, Pa. 
WE are NOW booking orders for 12 weeks’ old 
’ * White Leghorn Pullets. All Pullets farm 
raised, milk fed, hatched from extra heavy lay¬ 
ing strain. 500 yearling hens for sale. Chicks 
and Ducklings at reduced prices. 
IDYLDELL FARM, Wolcott, New York 
PULLETS AND COCKERELS 
Purebred Barron Pullets and Cockerels at $10.00 each 
and up. Also breeding hens at moderate prices. Descrip¬ 
tive catalogue free. 
C. M. LONGENECKER, Box 40 Elizabethtown, Pa. 
D A DV CUIY From heavy laying free range flocks. 
DAD I LIHA s. C. White Leghorns, 100, $7; S. C. 
Brown Leghorns, 100, $7; Barred Rocks, 100, $9; S. C. 
R. I. Reds, 100, $10; Broilers or Mixed Chix, 100, $6.50. 
Special prices on 500 and 1,000 lots. 100% prepaid safe 
delivery guaranteed. Address 
J. N. NACE, Box 30, RICHFIELD, PA. 
rhiebc S. C. Buff and White Leghorns $8 per 100. Barred 
LIlICKa Rocks $9 per 100. White Rocks $11 per|100. Reds 
$10 per 100. Light mixed $6.50 per 100; Heavy $7.50 per 
100. I pay postage. Guarantee safe delivery. Circular 
free. JACOB NEIMOND, Box A, McAlisterville, Pa. 
