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THE CARROLL FREE PRESS, CARROLLTON, OA.
for "Chicken "Cranks
WHITK WYANDOTTE.
THE FARMER’S FAVORITES.
Wiijf' ulua'i DllCie Suiii’a Census
taker ask, “What breed of chickens
do you keep?” and thus settle that oft
asked question, “Which Is the best
breed?” The populnr choice should
decide it.
The American Poultry association,
with this in view, had show secreta
ries report the breed having largest
DO TELL US.
Why Is It when a woman shoos a hen
j She cannot throw as straight as gentle
men?
Is It because she has too many curves
That from her hand the missile always
swerves,
Swats her poor husband in the eyes
Or through the parlor window tiles?
Why Is it when the preacher’s aslted to
dine
His kind eye sparkles like rich ancient
wine?
Does he have vision like prophetic seer
entries, and when the Barred Rock I That brings the distant chicken near?
Was reported its boomers most took a | S a V. can j ,e smell roast rooster a whole
fit, but their exultation was a hallucl-
nation, for all shows didn’t report, and
the farmer, America’s sine qua non,
isn’t well represented at shows, and
this chief factor In Uncle Sam’s billion
dollar poultry product ratber has the
last word.
A canvass of Uncle Sam’s 0,000,000
farms will show Plymouth Rocks,
White Wynndottes and Rhode Island
Reds the leuders.
White fowls are now the fad.
This with the popular aversion to
dark pinfeathers and the foolish dou
ble mating of Rocks to get parallel
bars to the skin lost first pluce to the
grand old Burred Rocks and loaves the
White Rocks and White Dottes fight
ing for first place, with the pink quill
ed Reds hustling them all.
Certain city farming poultry editors
describe the farmer us a poultry know
not.
Their chatter doesn't matter and
cannot shatter the fact that the farmer
has picked these greatest of American
breeds for the farm.
It mny also surprise these know-it-
alls to learn that the furmer originated
the world famous breeds, the Rocks
and Reds.
HATS OFF, PLEASEI
She doesn’t wear a grafted tall.
Nor has her wing been dyed.
She Isn’t bleached as white as snow
With blue and peroxide.
But If it Is the honest game
Of laying lots of eggs
Off with your hut to the old farm hen
With the big bright yellow legs.
She Isn’t trulned to show her curves
Before* poultry Judge.
Nor is eiwi fed on sirloin steak.
Dope pills, Scotch ale and fudge,
But If you seek u mother hen
That hatches dandy chicks
Just tip to the bully old farm hen
That puts m the best licks.
She isn’t stuck on even bars
Nor a faked five point comb.
She isn’t humming round at shows.
But hustling round at home.
And if you're after bully tries
And drumsticks plump and grand
Take off your hat to the old farm lien,
The best hen in the land.
C. M. BA UN ITZ.
year before
The ax has spilled the cackling victim’s
j gore ?
Why is It, now, that poor old Johnny
| Slow
Has never made the grocer business go?
| Why do big cobwebs festoon all his
shelves
And rats and mice swarm out to help
i themselves?
Now tell me why that poor soul can’t suc
ceed
Like yonder money making Billy Speed.
Weil, dear, we'll answer this for you
If you’ll reply to questions one and two.
Bill Speed believes in using printer’s ink.
And that's Just why he’s making piles of
chink.
His store and goods are Just the proper
caper
Because lie advertises in this paper.
C. M. BARN ITZ.
NOTES
BY
CM.IiAENITZ
RIVERSIDE
I'A.
IThese articles and illustrations must not
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sion.!
THE FARM HEN.
Mr. Bryau surely knows a good beu
when be sees ber. Listen to bis flight:
"I went out to tbe barnyard and took '
off my bat to tbe American ben. for
her product is ull over tbe world.”
“That’s what!" cackles Biddy. |
“You’re not like those city farmers
at Washington who have batched tbe
fake that we rural cluckers lay but
sixty eggs a year, sit most tbe time
and don't know an egg from a door
knob."
Hats off, gentlemen, to tbe farm ben.
She is Uncle Sam’s chief poultry as
set. does the most to make him a bil
lion richer a year and would do even
I better if Farmer Corntossel didn’t let
| her forage In the corncrib. visit tbe
grain mow, stuff on the thrashing
floor nud raid the granary.
wniTB hock.
speaker rapped the fakers.
When your fowls have an epidemic
of bowel trouble and you find they are
very lousy don’t be profuse in the use
of louse powder at such a time, as It
mny aggravate the trouble. Some pow
ders cause like conditions.
Much of the so called alfalfa sold In
the oast as first grade western product
smells about ns much like the original
ns tbe odor of a skunk cabbage resem
bles that of a rose.
In feeding cut clover sift out the
coarse stems, as these are apt to cause
hard crop. If liens do not have el6ver.
nlfalfa or greens they will eat straw,
lenves, long liny or even excelsior to
offset the hard grain fed. Such filler
is killer.
It Is quite interesting to rend tbe
descriptions of nlfnlfa and its easy
culture in certain seed catalogues.
Some of our eastern farmers who
bought seed«nnd sowed it on wornoitt
hillsides have found its growth a de
cidedly uphill job.
Sprouted oats is excellent green food,
but it should not be allowed to grow
too long. If not crisp nnd tender when
fed it mats In tbe crop, nnd the fowl
can only be saved by bn operation.
Little ducks do love lettuce and ten
der sprouted oats, which make them
that lively that we have never been
able to snap them with a enmern.
Late batched stock should be housed
alone. They are more susceptible to
cold and need speeinl feed to mature
them. If exposed to the weather they
are generally first'to get roup nnd. If
not separate, start an epidemic.
One failure sometimes pnralyzes an
nmbition and knocks an enterprise
dead. A dozen failures make some
other fellow more determined to suc
ceed, and in tbe end he grandly gets
there. Moral.—People wbo keep their
tear bag bandy should keep out of the
poultry business.
Feather logged fowls, such as Brah
mas, Cochins and Langslians. should
lie kept out of the snow and should be
GROWING GOSLINGS.
I If an amateur you will be surprised
bow quick after batching the gos
lings give you the cold shoulder and
cut loose from their mammy’s apron
strings.
The old cluck must wonder what’s
coming when those snnkellke beads
poke themselves from under ber, but
she gets tbe jolt of ber life when, a
few weeks after, tbe Independent little
rubbernecks give her tbe grand bounfce
for ever.
That's the charm of goose culture.
They are tbe easiest proposition In
poultry, have few diseases, need little
care and almost live on gruss.
.lust three or four weeks' feeding,
then on to the gruss for the summer.
I Am Home All The Time,
my
Not here to-day, and gone to-morrow
I am a man who did not, nor does not have to leave
home, county or state to practice my proffession.
I know my business, and have built up an enviable repu
tation all over Western Georgia,
I advertise my business to protect you from the smooth
talking yankee strangers, who go about over the country
cheating the people out of their hard earned money, leaving
them with a pair of brass glasses not worth ten cents. I
am no fakir, professing glasses are a “cure all” as some do,
but I do know how to fit the proper lenses in a frame that
fit the proper lenses in a frame that fit the face, thereby
throwing the proper light to the optic nerves, which will re
lieve a number of nerve us ailments, of which nervous head
aches are one.
Why bother with your Eye-Troules? and why entrust your
Eye-Sight with a rank stranger? „
The BEST and SAFEST as well as the cheapest way is
to leave your Eye-Troubles to me, and should the lenses
need changing, as the eye sight improves, I am right here to
do it without extra charge.
I spend my money, to ask you this question: Doesn’t
this look reasonable to you?
—DR. J. D. HAMRICK—
Eye Sight Specialist Carrollton, Georgia.
TOULOUSE GOSLING ONE DAY OLD.
then a few weeks' fattening before
Thanksgiving. You sell and have a big
profit
Most goose breeders batch with hens,
■lx to tbe set. and nre careful to keep
the gulls warm and dry at first, not
allowing them to swim until down
disappears.
At first they ennnot endure hot sun
or wetting, and a cold strong wind Is
a detriment.
They nre housed In n large box or
coop, with a grass run about it.
The feeding Is simple.
! The first few days some feed coarse
corn bread soaked In milk and mixed
With short grass or lettuce, and then
She thus often gets too fat. doesn’t kept on n dry. clean floor. Their le;
lay so well because her egg machine
is crowded wild fat nnd doesn’t, lay so
many winter eggs because fat makes
her molt late, and she spends most of
the winter growing a new gown. Most
farm flocks
cared loj.
cushion |ire:
tbe farm fli
e pure bred and well
(withstanding certain
i ; poultry editors put
in tbe hum class anil
A KIND CRITIC’S COMMENT.
A prizefight was pulled off between
a Toulouse gander and a White Leg
horn rooster in a crate in the Dauvlllo
(I J a.) market recently, and a woman
rose to remark, "(loot! heavens, don’t
you know any better than to bring a
gander and a rooster in the same
box?"
Then she and the farmer's wife
bad it.
It was simply thoughtlessness or
want of an extra box. She took her
bloody Leghorn home, its do others
often' haul their produce hack when
they don't mind their p's and q’s.
In the same market was a crate of
ducks and-turkeys. The ducks sat on
tbe floor of the crate, tbe turkeys
standing over them.
Well, you can imagine bow clean and
nice those white ducks were after a
trip to town ttttd hours in that crate.
It is law in many states that fowls
with full crops must not be sold In
market.
Buyers quickly balk at buying birds
stuffed with corn. When they see
chickens in a crate lined with corn
they suspect n put up job. nnd when
they see fowls in a filthy crate they
lift their noses high and pass by.
Chickens with filthy feet are not very
nice to put Into a clean market basket
nor for ladles to carry in their bands
from market.
People, too. are particular about eggs.
It used to he said "Aigs are jist algs,”
but not with tbe great majority today.
They not only want them fresh, hut
pure and clean, so far as eggs ratty he
so. You who sell eggs, make them so
by feeding pure stuffs, having clean
nests and keeping them in right envi
ronment. Venders and producers of
foodstuffs have much to do with the
health of the people and should so act
In these respects as to promote tho
common good.
feathers retain moisture, which, freez
ing, causes colds and frozen feet, while
filth gives them mange, which is hard
to cure on account of their leggings.
Canker is about the worst pigeon ills
ease and soon finishes a squab Parent
birds atlllcted with it give it *o their
young Iti feeding. It is peneir.lly caused
by a draft, leak in the roof, sloppy
bnthtuh or the admission of a strung!
j bird.
Honesty is nor only the best policy.
1 hut the only policy and by the signs of
I the times this priii'ip!<* must prevail.
| whether tin* business is preaching, po'-
[ ities. potatoes or poultry, and tin* man
’ who will not join the people's proces
sion will get it where the rooster got
i the ax.
I That eggs are gradually rising In
price is shown hv cost of eggs for stor
1 age the past season. In July 2,23-1,-
I 000 eases were in storage ill New
; York, an excess of 1,011.000 eases
I over last year. These eggs cost the
1 packers from -1 to r> cents more per
! dozen than last season.
| Most of the poultry netting now
• made rusts in a few years because it
is lighter mid not galvanized, ns was
call the fanner a bughouse poultry-
man.
We nilv.ise such tt city farmer to get
the kink out of his think .by a tour of
the farms, to tickle his palate anil
astonish his inner man with chicken
as only a farmer's wife can mature it
and cook it.
Then, with his constitution full of
bully bird, let him take the platform
| and pose as tt poultry star at a farm-
I ers’ institute, tell what lie knows about
poultry science and ho cross examined
by t ho “Rubes” present.
| Will ids think machine get a hot-
ilmx? Will he he knocked ■ into the
| middle of next week? Yea. verily.
I lie shall finally return to ids cushion
ja sadder hut a wiser man.
j FEATHERS AND EGGSHELLS.
When a Mount Holly (N. .!•> judge
I gave a chicken thief seven years lie
| was certainly handing down some law
to those false hair splitting judges who
make a distinction between stealing a
brass watch and a pure Silver Wyan
dotte rooster
When roasting a goose the cook need
not add fat, as they furnish their own
grease for halting. The man who
carves an old gander must furnish his
own elbow grease also, and lots of It.
Since meat products have gone so
high much of the so called pure pro
tein beef scrap has dropped down low
In quality. Real beef scrap Is brown in
color, mealy and has little odor, and
that like roast beef.
During the past year Pennsylvania
produced 75.000.000 dozen of eggs. As j ^ sok , us squab broIlePS au(1 pav
she now stnnds second in population in '
the Union it is time for her to move
up on poultry products. Think of all
those people only raising 2.000,000
WHITE WYANDOTTE EGGS
A few settings {of eggs from my best pen of ' White
Wyandottes at $2.00 per setting.
BEN IT- NEW
QUALITY
EXCLUSIVELY
EGGS. EGGS
Gray’s White Leghorn Yards.
The South’s largest winners are in my Yards. Intelligently mated to produce Birds
fir Utlity purposes as well as standard requirements. Eggs $3, $2, and $1.50 per
setting of 15. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Box 1S4.
Gray’s White Leghorn Yards
Carrollton, Ga.
EGGS
EGGS
S.
EGGS
If eggs are what you want
C BLACK MINORCA’S
Are what you are looking for, layers of large white eggs
and many of them, Get a setting and start right. Eggs for
sale at $1.00 aud 3.00 per fifteeu Call or write
E G- MORRIS
Box 493 Carrollton, Georgia
TOULOUSE GOSLING SIX WEEKS OLD.
follow with a crumbly mash, two parts
bran ami one each of raids and corn-
meal. with table scraps thrown in, anil
ull sprinkled with line grit.
Others start with bread dipped in
milk and squeezed dry or simply
crumbly corn mash aud from these
lead to coarse grain.
Grit is placed in bottom of water
vessels, aud tlnisc are rnuile so gulls
cannot splash themselves.
At first they are fed four times
( daily, just what they eat with a relish,
1 grazing between meals and then tum-
j ed on grass altogether.
| At eight weeks they tire confined
and fed on cornmenl mixed with
Let Every Farmer
Begin now to plan for an exhibit for the
A. & M. FAIR
Be sure to comply with the rules and
thus avoid all trouble in awarding
premiums
Have your acre of corn and cotton
measured in the presence of two wiM
nesses at time of preparation or plant
ing. Keep a record of plan of cultiva-y
tion and fertilizing.
Liberal premiums are offered.
tin* old. Most of it is now galvanized | 15 per cent meat scrap, and at the
before weaving, anil the weaving en( ] 0 f ( 0n we eks should weigh eight
cracks the coating, and rust finishes it to ten pounds dressed.
In a few years. To stretch such In
ferior netting very tightly only hastens
decay.
In 180S thirty dozen of eggs would
buy the farmer's wife three yards of
hrussels carpet for her parlor, hut the
same number of eggs in 1910 brought
six yards According to tho agricul
tural department, this is the laying of
five ordinary farm hens.
It does not pay to eaponize Leghorn
cockerels, for, though they increase
some In weight, it is not in them to
reach the weight required for which
Rocks. Wynndottes and Brahmas nre
j bon ton. On the big Leghorn plants
fowls!
On the first day of the Philadelphia
show, wiiere 5.000 birds were exhib
ited, there were 1,500 paid admissions.
A lecture was delivered on “The Gen
tle Art of Being Honest.” The roosters
with false rails and painted plumage
clapped aud crowed annrovul when the
well.
We remind our readers who have n
good joli ami are on the point of
changing to the poultry business that
“u bird in the hand is worth two
roosters in the bush.” Go slow rill
you know. Don’t jump from the fry
ing pun into a broiler explosion.
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DON’TS.
1 Don’t breed mixed geese. To breed
Toulouse is not to lose.
Don’t Imagine Runts, because their
squabs are large, will your and their
feed bill discharge. Three pairs of
squabs a year will surely not a penny
clear, and you’ll go In the hole, my
dear.
Don’t be so soft if you soft roasters
try to pass the Rocks, the Reds, tho
Brahmas, by.
Don’t butt in. Neither make a goat
of yourself nor allow others to do so.
Don’t be afraid of a blister. Suc
cess and blisters are twin sisters.
Don’t blush for a coxey badge. If
you apologize for a coxey, you’re
foxy.
Don’t “strike when the iron is hot.”
Make it hot with a hot shot.
Don’t sell eggs from a stolen nest
unless you give them a thorough test.
Don’t use pork cracklings when beef
and calf plucks are better and as
cheap.
(A « Vi/, p. R. R. CO.-the VI/. RY. of ala.)
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reneral Pass. Agent.