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COUNTYfAGENT’S
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Feeding Baby Chicks.
(This article, which was printed In
last week's News, is reprinted by
request. )
Feeding baby chicks from the time
they are removed from the incubator
until they are at least four weeks
old has a great deal to do with the
success of raisins the little fellows.
Many different methods of feeding
have been put forth by different
feeders and they all may be correct,
but common sense is one of the
greatest factors in feeding. No set
rule can be followed exactly. Follow
the instructions of some feeder and
supplement with your own common
sense and experience.
Nature lias provided that the baby
chick lie supplied with food long
onough to maintain its body until it
is old enough to hunt food for itself.
About half of th e entire yolk of the
egg is absorbed into the body of the
chick before hatching. This is na
ture’s food for the chick. We must
help nature in feeding chicks rather
than retard it. Feeding any foods
to the chicks before the yolk is di
gested nnd used is almost murder in
the first degree. It requires at
least 72 hours for a complete diges
tion of this yolk; consequently, neve
feed until about 48 hours after the
last chicks hatch. This is fairly
safe.
When the chicks are removed from
the incubator to the brooder, a drink
of warm water and a few crystals
of clean, bright chick grit, or sand,
is satisfactory. Warm buttermilk is
also a very good thing to be given
at this time.
The first feed may be given as
follows: Take the infertile eggs that
have been removed rrom the Incuba
tor and boil hard. Crush one of
these with wheat bran —one egg for
every 20 or 25 chicks. Feed this
five times a day—all that the chiskrt
can clean up in ten minutes.
Keep fresh, clean buttermilk be
fore the chicks at all times. Bread
crumbs dipped in milk will supple
ment the eggs and bran. Skimmed
milk, slightly sour, is just as good
as buttermilk. Whatever your meth
od of feeding may be, the first feeds
should contain grit, charcoal, ground
bone meal, or ground egg shells.
Continue to feed five times a day
until the chicks are about ten days
old, then the full ration can be
given them. Dry mash can then be
placed in the hopper and scratch
grain fed: twice daily—about ten
o'clock in the morning and five
o’clock in the evening. It is a very
good idea to take the mash from
them in the evening about 2 p. m.
bofore feeding the scratch at five.
This will make them ready for the
scratch that takes them through the
night.
There are a number of good com
mercial starting feeds and many poul
try growers use them because of
the case of obtaining them.
Several mighty good starting
mashes can be made as follows:
Starting Food.
Boiled eggs crumbled with wheat
bran. 1 egg for 20 chicks. Bread
crumbs dipped In milk.
Grain Mixture.
10 lbs. Cracked Corn, 10 lbs.
Cracked Wheat.
IVfash Mixture.
10 lbs. Corn Meal, 10 lbs. Wheat
Middlings, or Shorts. 30 lbs. Wheat
Bran.
Buttermilk should be kept before
chicks with this ration. If no but
termilk Is available, add to the mash
12 pounds of sifted beef scrap and
one pound of bone meal.
In addition to the above, grefin
feed, Buch as cut oats, rye, rape,
alfalfa or some clover is essential
to best results. Keep charcoal, grit
and clean water before them at all
times.
W. A. FUQUA, County Agent.
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TAX COLLECTOR’
“ ISSUESIWARNING
The Comptroller General has in
structed me to Issue fl. fas. against
all parties who have not paid the
special taxes provided by law, and
these fi. fas. will be issued against
all who do not pay these taxes by
April Ist, 1924.
The state revenue man will be here
again In April to round up defaulters.
It will cost you 20 percent, extra to
pay him, and I will have to turn my
records over to him.
It will also be necessary for me to
report delinquents to the grand jury
for indictment for misdemeanor and
on conviction those who have not
paid these taxes will not only be
double taxed, but may be imprisoned
or fined, as prescribed in section
10C5 of volume 2of the Code of
1910.
This course will be very embar
rassing to me and I am giving those
who nave not paid these taxes this
additional notice and warning in or
der to save them from the conse
quences their neglect will bring upon
them.
Those engaged in the following
lines of business are subject to this
special tax and must also register
with tie Ordinary:
Abstracts, Adding Machine Agents,
Automobile Dealers, Automobile
Tires and Accessories (wholesale and
retail), Advertising, Advertising Bill
Boards, Barber Shops, Bicycle Deal
e.s, Bill Posters, Bottling Works,
Brokers —Merchandise, Brokers —Real
Estate, Bowling Alleys, Bill Distrib
utors, Beauty Parlors, Bicycle Deal
ers, Dealers in Coal, Coke, Wood, Com
mercial Agencies, Corporations, Con
tractors, Construction Companies,
Cases and Restaurants, Dance Halls,
Dry Cleaning, Electrical Contractors,
Gasoline and Oil Wagons, Garages,
Hotels, Insurance Agents, Ice Cream
(wholesale dealers and manufactur
ers), Junk Dealers. Livestock Dealers,
Laundries, Dyeing, etc., Musical In
struments, Monument Dealers, Mov
ing Pictures, Motorcycle Dealers and
attachments for bicycles; Packing
Houses. Pawn Shops, Pistols and
Cartridges, Playing Cards, Pool Ta
bles, Punch Boards, Pressing Clubs,
Shooting Galleries, Slot Machines,
Soda Fountains, Sewing Machine
Dealers, Swimming Pools, • Traveling
Insurance Agents, Managers, etc.;
Typewriter Dealers, Taxicabs, Cars
for Hire, Theatres and Opera Hous
es, Weighing Scales, Warehouses
(Cotton), Undertakers.
J. C. LOYLESS,
Tax Collector Early County.
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GRAND OPERA, ATLANTA, GA.,
APRIL 21-26, 1924.
Hound trip tickets will Be on Bale
to the public April 20-26. Final limit
April 29. For total fares, schedules,
reservations, etc., apply to any ticket
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CENTRAL OF GA. RY. CO.
ROAD TAX DATES
I will be at the following places
on the dates named fer the pur
pose of collecting Road Tax for
1924. Please meet me promptly.
Arlington April 4
Colomokee April 9, a. ni.
Mansfield’s Mill ... April 9. p. m.
Naramore’s Store.. April 10. a. in.
Cain’s Stoie April 10, p. m.
Cuba April 11, a. m.
Bundy’s Store .... April 11, p. m.
Olive’s Store April 14. a. m.
Davis' Store .... April 14, p. m.
Cedar Springs April 15
Rt.wena April 16
I Grimsley'B Mill April 17
Lucile 18
Rock Hill T-^P*2l
Hilton April 22
Killarney April 23
Jakin April 24
Kestler April 25
J. C. LOYLESS.
Tax Collector Early County, Ga.
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