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The Georgian’s Poultry and Live Stock Page BUFFWWIETYIS EASY ID BREED fancier Who Brought First of Strain to This Country Gives Some Facts. It Is now more than eleven years since I brought into this country the first Orp ingtons. all fine varieties, says Mr tVal lace P. Willett, of East Orange. N. J. I published the "Orpington" for two or three years and later helped form the American Orpington club and to boom the Orpington into notice, in spite of . some of the criticisms of an Eastern ed>- ' tor at that time, that the Orpington, a ! white leg and flesh fowl, could never sup plant the "generations back, yellow-leg | fowl of Massachusetts " As 1 read the i poultry papers today, after ten years ex- ! ploiting of the Orping’on. 1 feel that they I have fought a good fight thus far, and I have by no means finished their course. I admire the pluck and push of Mr Kel- , lerstrass. who. with printers ink mainly.! has brought the White Orpingtons to the I front The Real Breed. The Black and Buff Orpingtons were I the real Orpingtons, originated by Wil- ’ Ham Cook. Sr. for best all-around quali : ties and with me they hold that position > today His later originations of the Jubi- i lee and Spangled varieties have not met with such favor as he anticipated they would Each year I raise a few of all varieties, but my main stock Is now Buffs, which suit my eye and satisfy my ambition best, and they have proved quite as hardy as the Barred Plymouth Rocks, which, in my opinion, are their only worthy competitors Having bred all the varieties of Orping tons during the past ten years, my ex perience with them has led me first to discard the Whites, followed by the Blacks, and to raise only a pen or two of Diamond .Jubilees and Spangled for fur ther development 1 now pin my faith to the Buffs, which grow more in my favor each year, and I believe I can foresee that the Buff Orpington will prove the variety that will outclass all other va rieties and breeds In the end. I have little faith in the long continuance of the boom in White Orpingtons. I note that my view here expressed appears to have worked Itself out across the water. A recent article in the poultry press says: "The Orpingtons (at Paris. Erance. Poultry Show) far exceeded any other breed in numbers and the Buffs were in the lead of any other variety. There were 293 Orpingtons < Ruffs 112. Blacks 9S. Whites 77. Jubilee or Spangled «> The Orpingtons had a room all to them selves and made quite a creditable dis play " A similar pro rata classification of Orpingtons in America is not far in the future The Buffs are now very easy for breed ing perfection in the pullets, but the males still lag behind and "cracker jacks" for the show's are lacking in quan tity and bring big prices The breeding of pure buff color males In any breed is a question in which lovers of the beauti ful in poultry are all Interested Mating to Secure Color. Unfortunately it does not follow In ex perience that a pure huff male mated with a pure buff female will produce pure buff chicks, especially cockerels. In most cases there are more or less part white feathers in wing or tall. Some other mating seems necessary to secure best results This new method may be the "Mendel Law" system, so-called 1 will not attempt here to give the whys and wherefores of the Mendel system, but simply its process, which 1 am non' trying with a few pairs of Buff Begin by mating a pure buff male with a few hens that show white feathers, and if the progeny show' white feathers, dis card the male, but if they do not show white feathers keep the male for breed ing Male also a pure buff female with a male that shows feathers and discard the hen If the progeny show white, but if the progeny show no white feathers keep the hen for breeding. The tested male ts then mated to the tested female and tt Is claimed that the basis for a flock of pure buff males and females is thus started I believe, however, that it may necessitate a number of trials be fore the required male and female are found. —Willett In A. I* J. Rendotte Farm White Runner Duck Eggs, $5.00 for 12. * The best investment in the poultry indus try. Every White Runner duek hatched and raised will be worth a ten dollar note next fall. Be able to advertise REN DOTTE STRAIN, and get results. Rendotte Farm P. 0. Box 300 Atlanta, Ga TWO GEORGIA PRIZE WINNERS JU iHfll g ■ .G W PURE BRED FOWLS THE I ONLY SORT THAT WILL PAY IN THE LONG RUN Since the earliest days of history it ha? beon the custom for the farmer and his wife to own a flock of chickens, mongrel or common stock, just to supply the fam ily with chickens and eggs to eat and maybe a few to sell occasionally. But since the Wonderful revival pf interest in country life, and indeed a veritable twentieth century renaissance of* rural oc cupations, conditions throughout the country are rapidly changing The pure bred fowl is gaining favor, and at many homes in the country where only imxed chickens were wont to be kept, there may now be seen a nice flock of standard bred hfrds, and sometimes two or three varie ties nicely penned and housed. With about one hundred varieties to choose from everybody can surely secure their preference, hut If one looks nt the poultry business in a practical way this choice should be made with a definite pur pose in view, since the variety that suits for nne purpose may not be so well adapt ed to some other. Thus if one has In mind an egg Industry some variety from the great Mediterranean class should be chosen If the production of broilers, fryers and roasters Is the object in view then the choice had probablx best be Strong Colonies in Apiaries Declared Essential For Honey H. F. Coleman, in The Southern Agri culturalist, gives the following advice to bee keepers: "If we would succeed to the fullest extent in keeping bees we must have strong colonies at the propet time, or when the honey flow comes. We can not control the flow as to time and Its extent, but by cate and attention we can have strong colonies at the usual time of the flow, and be prepared on our part to reap the maximum results of the flow, whether It be great or small. Providence provides the flow, and about that we need have hut little concern, hut we must be concerned about the bees to gat het the flow when it cornea. In order to have strong colonies stores are of the greatest consideration A colony with scanty stores in the early spring, if not otherwise provided for, is destined to be a weak colony, if it sur vives until late in the season, if not I lie w hole season. To secure large colonies In the spring the bees should have stores sufficient to carry them through the w inter and until the flowers are well in bloom the following spring, but it is sometimes difficult to determine the quantity of stores necessary for that purpose. "It Is the experience of all bee keepers who have given the matter close atten tion, that some colonies will consume many more stores In the winter than others seemingly of the same size, and It Is the safer plan to examine each and every colony as soon as the weather w ill permit in the new years, to see the conditions of its stores, and to supply the deficiency. If any deficiency exists. "In the latitude of Tennessee the bees begin m raise broods In January, and this increases the demand on the stores, and this demand increases as the sea son advances until the colony has reached .Its greatest numbers, and we must not fall to see that the stores are not exhausted, or curtailed in quantity to such an extent as to retard the proc ess <>f brood rearing. "By the last days of February or the first days of March it is pretty certain that some colonies will need additional stores, and it then becomes a question as to how they are to be supplied. If we have combs of honey of the previous season this Is an easy matter. W.e can take an empty comb or two from the hive and supply their places with the filled combs, and the work for the pres ent Is done. But we do not always have j these filled combs, and then we have to resort to artificial feeding, pure and I simple and this Is not the trouble that !it is sometimes thought to be. A syrup j made of three measures of granulated sugar to two of water is all the feed that is necessary in such cases, and this can be Riven in various ways A very good and efficient way of giving it is to put 1t In the empty combs to be removed and stored away by the bees. To do this take the empty cbmbs into the kitchen or some other suitable place and fill them and return them to the hive from which the'- were taken By holding the combs at an angle of 40 or 45 degrees the syrup when-poured on THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: SATURDAY. MAY 4. 1912 made from the heavy weight Am’erlcan breeds. It Is a noteworthy fact that the large poultry farms of the country are stocked with pure bred fowls and have. I proven safe investments, and why should I farmer folk hesitate to follow when it has I been demonstrated beyond the shadow of I a doubt that pure bred fowls are as far ■ ahead of scrubs as the pure bred Jersey | cow Is ahead of the scrub cow. The - pleasing appearance of a fine flock of pure bred chickens is a strong point in i their favor, all just alike, not a mixture ' of sizes and colors to mar the beauty of the picture, then the eggs are all of uni- I form color either pure white or rich , dark shelled, which counts a point for the seller and is pleasing to the buyer. Buyers, too, are fast getting to the place where they prefer the crate of broilers all of the same color. The person who owns a flock of pure bred fowls and is willing to go to the trouble and expense of placing them In the leading shows and winning some of the prizes, and then to advertise judi ciously. will not fall of cutsomers who want just such high-class stock to raise from and are perfectly willing to pay a good price for what they want. EXPERIENCE SHOWS THERE’S BIG MONEY IN RAISING COLTS I will contribute a little of my expe rience with brood mares Tjie first team 1 ever owned, nine years ago, was mules At the suggestion of my landlord I ex changed the mules for a pair of good mares and began to raise colts. In the last eight years I have raised thirteen colts, some fillies, some horses, but most of them mules, writes W. Il Cockrell, in Farm and Ranch. I sold some of these colts at weaning time, but have kept most of them until old enough to work. 1 have sold eleven, for which 1 received $1,050. and have two fillies yet. two and three years old. that are well worth $250. More than this, in the last six years I have raised and sold six good cows I never sell a heifer, and if the calf happens to be a bull I sell it and buy a heifer, raise It. breed It. and when it comes in sell It for SSO. One can scarcely miss the expense Five years ago (at the suggestion of this same landlord) I bought 53 acres of land, paying $65 an acre, and only paying down $6.25. While this land is not entirely paid out. yet I am proud to say I can see the end. We have been improving our home little by little all the while, and enjoy it more each year. I am thankful for the suggestions of a good landlord ami the help of good b»ood mares Bet us all remember that life is just what we make it. them will run down and fill the cells, anti when a comb is filled in this way It is ready to be returned to the hive. A pan can be used to catch the drippings from the combs as they are filled and prevent the smearing of the syrup that might otherwise occur. “The feeding of the bees tn this way, at this season of the year, answers a two-fold purpose. It supplies the feed necessary and stimulates brood rearing. To stimulate brood rearing, with no other purpose in view, a different plan of feeding would perhaps be better In this plan the same kind of syrup is used, but the mode of giving it to th° bees is different. It requires but small quantities of feed to stimulate brood rearing, but it must be given regularly at least once every day as long as it is necessary. In cool weather, such as we usually have at this season of the year, the feed should be given to the bees with as little disturbance as possible. By putting an empty story on the hive containing the bees and a story to keep the warmth In the bees, and cutting a hole at one corner or in the side of this cloth, the feed can be placed in this story and the bees will do the rest. A small vessel, such as a saucer, is all that is necessary to feed in this way. and for this purpose. After the syrup is put in the vessel a thin cloth should be put over it so as to allow tlje bees to take the syrup, and at the same time keep them from immersing themselves in it. "A hive once prepared tn this way can be used the whole season, or as long as it is needed, and if the feed is given as herein directed, it is surprising how rapidly the bees will increase in num bers. To feed bees to stimulate brood rearing at this season of the year, care should be *aken that the'- are not ex posed to coo! or damp draughts of ai’ The brood is young and very tender and is easily chilled and destroyed." * .... ~ | i - z * ' - z ~. 1 -i - Tamworth Hog Bacon. Breed and Will Not Be Popular in Corn Belt An lowa correspondent writes': "What is the history, origin and the comparative value of the Tamworth hog? Are they extensively grown in < 'anada or England The Tamworth is.a bacon breed, and like all hogs of that type is but little grown or appreciated in the corn belt. It is more appreciat'd in Canada and England. but even there is surpassed in popularity by another bacon breed -the large Yorkshire. Not much is known about the origin of the Tamworth. Some think that it came to England from Ireland in the early part of the last century. At any late, along in the '7o’s, a high-set, long faced, thin-backed,, long-sided, red hog was recognized in the central counties of England as being able to forage well for itself and to furnish prime sides of bacon. At about this time in Eng land the consuming public became dis satisfied witii the quality of bacon and demanded a sort with, more lean and less fat. As a result the Tamworth increased tn popularity and during the 'Bo‘s much attention was paid to its breeding and the. type improved great ly. Several herds were' imported into the United States and Canada, but the breed has never spread much in either of these countries. The Tamworth is a typical bacon hog. and as such will probably never become popular in the coin belt ex cept on alfalfa and dairy farms. Two of the strongest arguments in favor of the Tamworth are the large size of lit ters and the ability to make large gains on pasture. Prominent objec tions are slow maturity, thinness throughout, and light hams. We think the Tamworth may find a place in the corn belt on dairy farms, or where large dependence is placed on pasture in making hog gains. It is not likely that the breed will become popular un til the packers pay more of a premium for bacon hogs. MEAT. EGGS AND BUTTER WILL GO STILL HIGHER NEW YORK, May 4.—The next twelve months will see some new rec ords in high prices for meats, eggs and butter, in the belief of H L. Pres ton. editor of The Produce News. The cold season has put the hens far be hind in their work, the expert de clares. and the supply of butter in sight is not likely to balance with the public demand. The price for potatoes would go to $8 a barrel, he adds, if it were not for Irish and Belgian importations The cabbage crop is . short and cabbages, '.ike artichokes, are becoming luxuries Poultry is the one product, he declares, that has not risen in price by leaps and bounds ARTOF BUTTER MAKING HAS MADE BIG STRIDES IN PAST FORTY YEARS The cow takes fat from her back and puts it in the milk. Man separates the fat from milk and secures butter. It was more than 30 centuries ago that he first learned the secret. Some man was prob ably- carrying whole milk in si skin on a v arm day. The motion caused the fat globules to stick together and so resulted the first butter. At any rate the ancient peoples made butter by putting milk in a skin and pounding nr shaking it. Later they* shook cream up and down in bot tles. and finally, discovered the churn The Hindus were probably the first but ter makers. But the Greeks. Persians and Romans all used butter several cen turies before Christ Curiously, the chief use of butter in the early days was not as food, but as ointment and hair dress ing. The Scandinavians were the first really tn develop butter making. A thousand rears ago they’ w’ere exporting butter to northern Europe. They knew little about the science of butter making, but had learned much by long practice During the last 40 years we have learned more about butter making than was discovered in the preceding 30 cen turies Microscopes had been invented and with their aid the science of dairy bacteriology was established. At the time of the close of our Civil war a German learned how to separate cream from milk by the first crude separator. Fifteen years ago a Dane and a Swede invented the first practical centrifugal separator. At first separators were mostly used in creameries. But during the last fifteen HOW TO PACK EGGS FOR SAFE SHIPPING AND GOOD HATCHES It requires considerable skill and good knowledge of details to pack eggs for hatching. I have had good results with baskets. Eggs shipped in boxes are liable to he roughly handled by the ex press companies, while baskets will be handled more carefully. Then. too. they are much cheaper. Good baskets can be bought for forty or fifty cents a dozen, and you can get covers and labels for a trifle. The best basket for the purpose is one with a good strong handle, upright* so as to guard the package if other matter is laid upon It. I exercise the same care and fol low the same rule for packing one set ting as for one hundred or more eggs, except as to the size of the basket: I always have thfl package just large enough to hold the eggs and the neces sary packing material. If your order calls for one hundred or one hundred and twenty eggs a bushel basket Is needed. First line the basket with newspapers, and then put about an inch of excelsior in the bottom. Now you are ready for the first layer of eggs. After wrapping each egg in soft palter put them in one by one. leaving one inch spaces to he filled with excelsior crowded in firmly so as to keep the eggs from the sides of the basket and prevent them from shaking. This first layer of eggs is then covered in the same manner as the bottom, and all the other layers packed and covered likewise, with the exception of the top layer, which should be thicker and rounded up so that when the canvas cover is sewed on and drawn down tight the eggs can not. shake round in the basket. Sew the label to the can vas cover, or if the cover is of paste board use gummed labels. Print on vour labels in good-sized type: EGGS FOR HATCHING. HANDLE WITH CARE! Use a darning needle and strong cotton string and sew the can vas to the rim of the basket, drawing it down tightly so that the packing will spring up when pressed with the hand. A basket about the size of a ten pound grape basket will hold a setting of eggs For two settings an eight quart basket is necessary, and for fifty eggs a half-bushel basket. Excelsior for packing the eggs can usually be procured at alt grocers or furniture stores. For wrapping the eggs a soft grade of newspaper Is used. Always place the small end down in the as ket. The air cell is in the large end, and in shipping may be displaced by rough handling. Thus the egg becomes addled, which kills the germ. It is also a gdod plan to instruct the buyer to unpack and lay the eggs in their nat ural position for at least twenty-four hours before setting. MOTTLED ANCONAS. First pen (only one entry) at great Atlanta show, January 8-13. First pen, first cockerel, first pullet big Chatta nooga show. First pen. first cockerel, first pullet Bowling Green. Ky. We have never failed to win the blue Eggs, $5 per fifteen straight. COPPERAS FALLS FARM, Tullahoma. Tonn. years the separating of milk on the farm has come more and more into general practice. Twenty years ago the Scandi navian peninsula and our own Eastern states made most of butter of the world. Today Denmark afid the Scandi navian peninsula are still producing great quantities of butter. But in the United States the center of butter production has shifted to lowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Min nesota, Nebraska. Kansas and Missouri — our great corn belt states. From the corn belt comes most of the $200,000,000 w’orth of buter consumed annually by the peo ple of the United States. The history’ of butter is interesting, but of slight value unless it teaches us to keep our eyes open, fully expecting that as in the past methods of butter making changed so in the future they will change. But of course the change will be a dif ferent kind of a change. Methods of sep arating milk will become more and more perfected. Scientific knowdedge of bac teria will more and more be applied to properly ripening cream. Creameries will necessarily adopt a more and more im proved type of machinery. They will per fect their organization. They will get better transportation facilities. And all the while the demand for butter will be increasing. There will be many things to modify the advance in butter making. There is oleomargarine and similar but ter substitutes. Possibly the laboring man of the United States will in the fu ture be unable to afford butter. It is in teresting to speculate. Kentucky University To Teach Pupils the Art of Chick Raising The Kentucky State university has announced that poultry breeding will be added to its curriculum. This will be a decided feature for a university of this section to undertake. Cornell has had a poultry course for years. The public schools of Memphis are to add poultry to their course another season. The South will soon take its right ful place as a poultry section with the educational Institutes and the poultry associations educating the people how and Mhat to feed poultry to produce eggs. COOP FOR BROODY HENS. At the Kellerstrass farm we noticed a swinging coop with slatted bottom, under a tree, and were told that broods’ hens were placed in this coop the first night they were found on the nest. Since the hens can not sleep comfortably in a coop with an open bottom, the>' are quickly broken up. LET YOUR FOWLS TAKE THEIR OWN MEDICINE. Most all diseases originate from Impure wa ter and insanitary premises. BUSCH'S POULTRY TABLETS are scientifi cally prepared, and their chief function is to destroy germs and organisms in the fowl's drinking water and to destroy the disease germs In fowls. BUSCH’S POULTRY TABLETS are guaranteed tn prevent Limberneck, Can ker. Chicken-Pox. Swelling Head, Cholera. Roup, Gapes, Colds. Bowel Com plaint. Inflammation. Discharges. Etc. EASY TO USE. Dissolve a tablet in their drinking water. Satisfaction guar anteed or the price will be cheerfully refunded. Trice 50c. THE BUSCH REMEDY COMPANY, EVANSVILE, IND. Dept. A. GAYMONT FARM Box 1711 Atlanta, Ga. REGISTERED JERSEY CATTLE AND BERKSHIRE PIGS Eggs for hatching. Dark Cornish fowl, $3.00 and $5.00 per setting: White Laced Red Cornish. $5.00 per setting: Black Minorca, $3.00 per setting. White Runner ducks, $5 per setting of twelve. We can furnish eggs for hatching from mixed breeds for broilers at 50 cents per setting straight or $3.00 per 100 eggs. WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS DOWN GO THE PRICES ON STOCK AND EGGS! Fine Males and Females, $3.00. Eggs, $2.00 per 15, $lO per 100. C. O. HARWELL, Atlanta, Ga. 113 North Pryor Street. Phone 8090 THE PREVENTION OF HOG CHOLEM Strict Sanitation and Separa tion of Sick From Well Es sential in Checking It. The germ of hog cholera Is often of sufficient virulence to cause a fatal outbreak of cholera in the best cared - for herd. Good hygienic and sanitary conditions may, and frequently do, no doubt, operate to make the animal more resistant to disease and its at tack. but should never be depended upon alone to ward off disease. By separating the sick and keeping the premises free from filth, stagnant wa ter and otherwise in the best possible condition, the spread of an outbreak through the herd may be much retard ed; but the fact should ever be kept in mind that the germs of disease should never be allowed to gain a. foothold on the premises. Sanitation Essential. The man most successful in prevent ing disease in his herd is the one who takes the utmost pains to exclude dis ease-producing bacteria and at the same time observes necessary hygiene and sanitation. I will give vou my way of preventing disease in my herd of hogs. I have never in mv whole ca reer of swine breeding had a singla case of hog cholera or other conta gious disease in my herd. The O. I. C. hog Is said by some breeders to bet Immune from cholera. I do not be lieve that. I breed them and have bred them for twelve years and have never lost one. but believe if they coma in contact with cholera thev will die. It has been claimed bv a writer in one of the South's leading agricultural papers that the Duroc Jersey Is im mune also. I have a few of them, and I know they are not. I have never lost one. However. 1 sold Mr. F. C. Jones, at Albany. Ga.. eleven head, shipped all at one time, disinfected them thoroughly and thev were turned In on infected premises, and they all died In one month. So do not be mis led by any breeder that says- he has ar breed immune from cholera. An Ounce of Prevention. The only successful wav to combat? and steer clear of cholera is to treat: vour herd for it all the time, whether you have it in your county or not. Do not allow too manv hogs to bed together. Change bedding every week; spray al! hog houses, hogs, bedding. etc., every week with a good coal tar dis-< infectant; use plenty of lime in your houses, lots etc. Keep a mixture of salt, charcoal, wood, ashes, sulphur and soda, before them where thev can get if at will. Do not feed on the ground. Have a board floor or concrete floor to feed on Good clean water. Do not feed anv musty or damaged food, and never allow anv one else's hog? to bed with vours. Keep lice killed Lice are injurious to hogs. Menace to South. If the hog cholera is allowed to pro-' CAfJ In the South as tt has in the past year, meat wilt onlv be used as des-< sort or on Sunday In the homes of the maioritv of Georgia farmers. There is no necessity for such a high death rate of hogs in the South. We must pre-> pare forth» hog and keen him clean and healthy. Take an interest |n the business and raise enough for Georgia* We have the hogs, brains and energy, and let’s put it all to .use and take a new start and make this the ban.net* year for Genre-la In the hog business. WAI TER T. KENNER. Spring Place. Ga. STICK TO AN OUTLINED PLAN. Keen no more stock than can be givert proper care Make up . your mind what you had better do, and do it. A pros pective poultry breeder started out tn get duck eggs for hatching On the way be met a friend who advised him to take geese instead. Not having sufficient pas ture for geese, and knowing nothing of their requirements—be lost all he hatched. Doubtless he would have lost the ducks. A breeder who is influenced by all his friends, and has no views of his own, is never a success. Outline a plan and stick to it until you have good reason to change. MAKE HENS LAY More eggs. Feed Wonder Egg Pro ducer and Chick Grower. Makes you money. Write for trial. Will con vince you. Enclose 10c. N. L. Webb, Lamasco, Tex. 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