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SOME FINE PRIZE SPECIMENS OF CHICKENS AND TURKEYS
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Mr. W. !• Fry, proprietor of Pine Ridge Poultry Karin. Bir White Holland Turkeys. Hen and Tom bred and raised by Ed L. Sutton (Forty Oaks This Black Orpington hen was winner of a ribbon in the
imngham. Ala., has for the past three or four vears showed Ins ~ /,, , , ~ ~,, • c ~, tr n irr > . , ~ , , .. , , larcre class at the danuarv show of Atlanta owned bv
oi-i. nJ; . ... , 1 - . , ,•• , . , harm), Clarkston. (>a. I his pair of white Holland Turkevs captured the blue ribbon at the .. pingwn < iass ai mi .januaiy snow ui .-m iduta. on ntu ny
Black Orpingtons in Atlanta, always having birds good enough • p jz Mack, Thomasville. Ga., vice president ot (hi Georgia
to be in Ihe money. DeKalb County Poultry show December, 1912.. and at other prominent shows. Poultry association
DUST OR POWDER
TO KILE VERMIN
Spraying Roost Does Not De
stroy Body Lice on Hens.
Some Good Advice.
Spraying the roo't does not destroy
body lire on hens. it takes dust or
lice powder applied to the bird.
The wallowing process is the natural
means the lien has Io destroy and rid
herself of lice and vermin. It is the
means nature provided for this purpose
and her instinct impels her to take this
method to cleanse herself. She will
not attempt this in told, wet earth,
and as H result she does not use the
means that nature has developed in
her, without perchance she may find a
dry place under the barn 01 a shed,
and then site obeys the promptings of
nature to take her bath tn the dry
earth, Ju£J ase readily as does the caji
ary take Its bath In the water pro
vided for the purpose
Moreover. poultry Hee breathe
through pores in their sides, and it is
the inhaling of the fine dust that de
stroys them. A hen wallowing in damp
earth can not force the eart it to the
skin in fine particles, and therefore can
not accomplish the object desired.
Many poultrymen are of the Im
pression that spraying the roosts with
liquid lice killer or some disinfectant
kills the live on the birds We are
not in .accord with this idea, except
possibly where the spray contains some
Ingredient that emits an odor that will
destroy them. Not that we would dis
courage in the least the use of liquid
on the roosts, for it is a very necessary
practice, and prevents and destroys
mites* and other vermin, but for the
destruction of body lice we believe the
powder preparation far the more <tfi
cfent
FEED FRESH MEAT SPARINGLY.
Re cautious about giving too much fresh |
meat to young chicks in warm weather, j
Feed only in small quantities and be sure
the meat is strictly fresh Tainted
cracked corn is another thing to look out
for If it Is the least sour or musty,
don't feed it to chickens. Good heavy oats
are excellent for hens, especially if you
want eggs
MAKE HENS LAY
Moro eggs Feed Wonder Egg Pro
ducer and Chick Grower Makes you
money Write for trial Will con
vince you Enclose 10c N L Webb,
Tjamasco. Tex Box 14
MOTTLED ANCONAS.
First pen <only one entry i at great
Atlanta show, January S-l" First pen,
first cockerel, first pullet big Chatta
nooga show First pen. first cockerel,
firs: pullet Rowling Green. Ky. We have
. never failed to win the blue. Eggs, $5
per fifteen .straight.
COPPERAS FALLS FARM.
Tuitahoma. Tenn.
HOGS FOR SALK.
I HAVE SuJIE extra tin? O I C pigs from well mwlnied sows, registered
bleeding stock Will sell tlie«e pigs al JIO each Satisfaction guaranteed
ot moi,. ■ refunded. <me Io i...- lersex registered sow. Indiana Queen, with tive
tig buys SOW an.l i gs The p.gs are worth the money Brown Leghorn
eggs '<■ set t ingot i" i
WALTER T. KENNER, spring Place. Ga.
LET YOUR EOWLS
TAKE THEIR <»\\ \ MEPh’JXE ,\| i all diseases nmfinai? from impure wa
ter and
<a|i prepare*; and the ■: < r of ■ ,< lo <iesuo\ germs and organisms in th?
f*'* If= drmL m t n.,• < i u"> ■. <-1 < t' c di<»eas? germa in fowls.
BLS' H ■ i*'l l/rm i \Rl,i rs arc guaranteed m prevent Limberneck Can
k®r, < ■ ■ i.pt: r. A SufC’iijg H* r t.ier,- Roup. Gapes. Colds. Rowel Coni
plaint Infiam'>’r4' )<•' I ’•
EA 5 I'* • I -i 1‘- 'a< ,1 tablet r • eir .if inking wer tisfactl'-n guar-
anteed or t> pm rv i. p*. <>heerfulh refunded Prb'e .’»or
THE BUSCH REMEDY COMPANY.
EVA.NfiVILJ IM t’epL I
YOUR FOWLS NEED AIR
AND LOTS OF IT; KEEP
HOUSES VENTILATED
A hen is a queer creature. I«et us
tell you a thing or two. Fowls never
sweat they' have no sweat glands
Don’t know It'.’ Well, you've lots of
company. A fowl's natural tempera
ture is way above the fever heat in all
other living s-reatures. and that makes a
draft of air 'heir death warrant X
fowl’s body is a tegular little engine:
the heart beats like a trip-hammer and
pumps blood like a fire engine. The
fowl itas nine extra air sacs to help
force oxygen to the lungs, and it needs
many times more oxygen, for its size,
■ titan your horse, which pulls heavy
loads and travels fast. All this means
that fowls need more air than ordinary
stock for '■.<> reasons—they consume
mote ox •_ . anil they give off all mols
luie by he breath. Moisture by the
breath is Very warm ami very moist
and condenses more quickly titan mois
ture from perspiration, and you must
ventilate to the limit to carry it oft
instead of lotting it form a hoar fiost
on tile inside walls of your poultry
house. If you don't carry It off. look
for trouble in your flock. Houses with
open front covered witli burlap or oiled
muslin, instead of glass, are all right
because it means ventilation; Imuses
with cracks and knot holes are al!
wrong, because they mean drafts which
are fatal.
Take it in your own case. Open your
bed toom windows wide, and you wake
up In the morning feeling like a fight lug
cock. You have had ventilation Open
your window an inch, and morning will
find you feeling like 3o cents badly'
spent. You have had a draft, and you
sniffle and sneeze like an old plug with
the heaves. A draft is a thin stream of
void air, sneaking in through a warmer
body without mixing. Ventilation Is a
body of air that, however cold, comes
in a bunch and has volume enough to
regulate its own temperature Drafts
are fatal to healeth in your flock, and
health means profit.
TIPS THAT WILL HELP
MAKE CHICKS THRIVE
AND SELL EGGS FAST
Do your chicks grow as rapidly as
they should"
Are you feeding them the proper food
at regular intervals?
Arc you giving them free range, plen
ty of exercise, water and shade"
Are the coops or brooders modern,
large and cool?
Approach and assist Mother Nature
as near as you can, if you wish to raise
chicks successfully
Do you advertise to sell stock and
eggs" You must bring your goods to
the attention of the buying public if
y ou expo, t them to know where to sup
ply their wants.
You should always be careful to make
vour shipments attractive to the, eye.
Ship your stock in light, roomy coops.
Ship your eggs in neat, clean baskets
paefleil with excelsior and covered with
clean white cloth. Have your ad on the
shipment.
Those little things bring other cus-
:omei s.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS: SATURDAY. MAY 1« T 912.
WHITE HOLLANDS
MUCH IN DEMAND
Turkey Breeder Thinks Young
Fowls Should Range in the
Fields—Never Use Coops.
<>f the 4it varieties of thoroughbred
fowls that I have had experience witli. 1
have found the White Holland turkey
most valuable, none more hardy, mote
easily handled, nor mote remunerative.
1 have frequently been asked: Are they’
a hardy breed? It will suffice to say
that out of 170 poults hatched last sea
son 150 were brought to maturity.
We keep from 20 to 24 choice hens set
bleeders. ;o which we mate three of tile
best males we can get, all run at large
on tile farm and have .-Very advantage
nature can give. We have never failed
to gel a good hatch in this way When
they begin laying they ate driven into
tile driveway of the barn at 9 a. m. and
tin ned out at sp. m. Nests are provid
ed in the barn, and they lay their eggs,
and they are no fin tiler trouble. Soon
they become accustomed to their nests
and are no mote trouble.
One advantage in this method is that
there is no searching for nests; another
1 Is that orders for eggs can be tilled eas
ily and promptly with fresh eggs just
from the nest. No crows or dogs feast
mi our While Holland eggs. When the
hens become broody we set yvhat we
want of the flock, and they are trans
ferred to the barn loft, where they ate
inred for until they hatch. They are
given fifteen eggs each, and we seldom
fail on a good hatch. The rest of the
flock are broken up and retained for
layers as before.
Avoid Yards and Coops.
When poults hatch they are taken
witli their mother into a large pasture
field, where they are put down and are
fed three times a day for three weeks;
afterward two times is sufficient. They
arc never yarded or cooped, but .ir
given natural freedom of the field, j
White Holland hens ate great mothers,
and yy ill care for their .voting. In out |
years of breeding by this method we
have never had a little lurk drowned tn
the rain or dew. and seldom one both
ered with lice. We never use chicken
liens or incubators and * brooders in
raising turkeys, as they are both mi
ce tain factors in successful turkey
raising.
As soon as poults are a month old
they are laugh: to come home at night
and roost in large catalpa trees, which
stand in our bainyard These are tur
key trees, as twelve months in the year
they ate the roosting' place for out
flock; the young are then practically no
mote trouble. By Thanksgiving young
toms weigh from sixteen to twenty
pound-, hens ten to fourteen pounds. At
this time we select our best young
stock to supply customers for breeders,
and the remainder is butchered for the
Thanksgiving market They ate beau
tiful when dressed, ami are eagerly
sought by people who want a grand
Thanksgi v ing dinner.
Breed Commands Top Prices.
We have never failed to obtain the
top of the nia ket in either New York
or Chicago, ami have received one-half
to one cent above market for some con
signments Anotiler good feature of
White Holland as market turkeys is
that we always save the feathers, which
readily bring 50 to SO cents per pound ;
for body, and 25 cents for tail and
pointers Tile feathets from the aver
age White Holland will bring about 35
cents. Multiply this by 100 and you I
will hate $35 advantage over other i
breeds, which is no small item. Al- I
though The Standard makes them the
smallest breed of turkeys, we say that |
few breeders of am breed will raise lue ■
and place them on the Thanksgiving j
market will: bet t < weights than thes ■!
quoted above.
I Another good fea’u ei? their laying:!
■ lil.C ’i. We hayc fi-td White Holland ■
it. i,. ,|t. h q i»d -» « i tut» hrnoJs- -j 1
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Chickens Need Plenty
Os Bone-Forming Food
If They Are to Thrive
\ recent experiment by the Rhode Is
land experiment station with poultry feed
emphasizes the great need of permitting
the fowls to have plenty of l>one-forming
material To compare the effect of the
addition of hone ash and different amounts
of ground limestone to the ration of poul
tr\ three lots each of fourteen two
weks-old Cornish (lame-White Wyandotte
chicks were ted the same basal ration
of corn meal, cracked corn, mixed feed
and alfalfa, supplemented with cotton
seed meal on an equal protein basis wit.ii
animal meal Lot 1 received no added ash
constituents, lot 2 enough bone ash and
ground limestone to supply phosphorus
and calcium equal to the animal ration
and the ration of lot 3 the same ra
tion. hut with ihree times as much lime
stone The experiment was begun the
latter part of October and by the first
week in December all the chicks in lot 1
had died. The chicks in lot 2 began to
show signs of leg weakness the middle
of December and three afterwards died.
None of lot 3 died.
NEW YORK CITY ANNUALLY
EATS 1.300,000.000 EGGS
NKW YORK.—Some startling figures
as to the appetite of this-’ city 'nave been
gathered by the marketing committee
of the state food investigating commit
tee.
Each year New York consumes be
tween 1.296,000,000 and 1,440.000.000
eggs, tlie investigators learned. Each
week the inhabitants eat over 1.350.-
000 pounds of butter, and. in the course
of the year they make away with <2.-
000.000 pounds.
Last year the market for cheese was
considered unusually poor, but in spite
of that the amount consumed in the
city yvas 30,000,000 pounds.
In fact, they will lav from early spring
until late in autumn, will usually lay in
tlie bain or in barrels or boxes near the
house, if let run at large. We. would
! not intrust chicken liens with the cate
j of poults, as they are apt to become in
I fected with lice and are robbed of the
freedom and natural elements of the
field. Turkeys do not do well around
the house or confined to coops or boxes
When cared for by their natural
mother they grow larger, healthier and
mature quicker. White Hollands ar.-
easily hied to standard requirements
with good breeding stock. No trouble
will be had to bring them up to and
above standard weight. In type they
are uniform; in color pure white. Sure
ly this great and beautiful breed is
coming tn the front and is destined to
become the popular turkey for the
farmer and the fancier, and the crown
ing morsel of the Thanksgiving feast. -
F. S. Mahaney in Poultry Tribune.
FOR SALE
S. C. KRYSTAL White
Orpingtons. A few
trios at $lO. sls, S2O.
$25. S3O. $35. Also five
prize hens, one cork and
one cockerel, winning
at Dalton. Ga.. and
i Chattanooga. Tenn.,
shows. Write for
I prices.
Geo. M. Moseley
i MEXLO. GA.
A_' ’ ,
HENS READ THE NEWS
WHILE ON THE NEST
CEDAR GROVE. N. .1. -Oliver Frost
announces a new discovery of his to make
the heijs happy and bard working.
Mr. frost used to use stereotyper’s
mats for roofing his hen houses. These
are the stiff boards, one for a page of a
newspaper, and the printing and pictures
come out positively on them He soon
discovered tiiat the hens were nearly
twisting their necks off trying to see the
pictures and read the news on the mats.
Then he began to use the mats with
great success as sideboards in his hen
houses. The result was that the hens
instead of gadding about the hen yards
all day. would be interested in sitting on
their nests reading the news
Gradually as the hens began to visit
around they found other sides of hen
houses which interested them, and they
would swap houses for an afternoon with
each other. The result was then two
eggs a hen a day. of course it takes a
lien a long time to read a page of a
newspaper, and Mr. Frogt figures that his
present supply of mats ought to last him
about ten years.
DISCOURAGE BAD
HABITS IN FOWLS
<’old weather, close confinement and
not enough exercise may start had hab
its. Look our for egg eaters and feather
pullers. Dark nests, enough nests to
avoid crowding, chan nests, and some
china eggs scattered on the floor for the
birds to pick ar and tire of it will help
discourage egg eating To prevent feath
er pulling and also to aid in discouraging
other bad habits, try hanging a well
seasoned salt codfish just high enough
so that birds have to reach to pick at it;
feed an abundance of fresh raw vege
table food and sprouted oats, supply beef
scrap in ‘he mash and see that the sup
ply of crushed oyster shells does not run
short.
THE OLDEST EGG.
Not so long ago a party of explorers,
members of the Archaeological society of
Mayence. found, during their excavations
in the ancient Moguntiacum, a hen's egg
which was estimated to have been buried
for something like nineteen centuries.
Moguntiacum was built by L»rusus. the
son of the Roman Emperor Augustus, in ■
the year 14 B. Upon the site of the I
Rendotte Farm
White Runner Duck
Eggs. $5.00 for 12.
The best investment
in the poultry indus
try. Every "White
Runner duck hatched
and raised will be
worth a ten dollar
note next fall. Be able
to advertise REX
DO’I'TE ST R A IX.
and get results.
Rendotte Farm
P. 0. Box 300 Atlanta. Ga
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EXERCISE, SHADE AND
WATER ESSENTIAL IN
SUMMER PIG-RAISING
Pigs must be well cared for during
the summer If the proper gains are ex
pected. .Much yvill depend upon the
growth the animals intake during the
first few months of their lives.
Pigs intended for pork next fall
should have grazing, if possible. They
will need shade, water and reasonable
exercise and the pasture is the best
place to get these advantages.
Some grain yvill he required, but if
they have access to a good pasture no
large quantity of grain will be needed.
When they are taken from the dam and
even before weaned, some concentrates,
such as cotton seed meal, shorts, tank
age. etc., yvill be needed to accelerate
growth.
The pens and feeding receptacles
must be kept clean and all precautions
against pollution of drinking water ob
served. Bad drinking water is often
responsible for spreading c holera, and
too much pains can not be taken to
avoid it.
Remember that the cheapest pork is
from tlie pigs that grow the fastest and
make tlie best gains. Give them every
advantage to prove their worth.
ancient Roman castrum or encampment
near the city the excavations in question
brought to light many interesting relics,
including some water cisterns of Roman
make. It was in one of these, which was
located 20 feet below the ground, that a
damaged Roman clay pot was found con
taining the shell of a broken egg and also
a whole egg that had been kept from
being smashed by a sherd of tlie dam
aged pot. which covered it. The ancient
egg yvas turned over to the municipal
museum.
WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPLY
NIGHT LETTER
The Atlanta Georgian,
Atlanta, Ga,
Offer for sale one thousand ofnur
i amous LAJKAWANNA WHITE LEGHORNS, we hsre
{been most successful this season. Must
I have room. Ten females, one male, tweny
dollars; four females, one male, ten
dollars. Snow white, strong, beautiful
Laying; this blood will improve any slot
in America.
THE LACKAWANNA POULTRY FARMS,
Jacksonville, Fla
I GAYMONT FARM
Box 1711 Atlanta, G:
REGISTERED JERSEY CATTLE AND BERKSHIRE PIGS
Eggs for hatching. Dark Cornish fowl, $3.00 and $5.00 per setting; Whit
i Laced Red Cornish, $5.00 per setting; Black Minorca, $3.00 per settinj
j White Runner ducks, $5 per setting of twelve.
We can furnish eggs for hatching from mixed breeds for broilers at 51
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. 0. HARWELL, Atlanta, Ga.
113 North Pryor Street. Phone 8000
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SOUTH IS SUITED
TO SHEEP RISING
Flocks Can Be led Out of
Doors All Througlthe Win
ter Seaso.
The mildness of Souther winters en
ables the farmer who kips sheep to
feed them out of doors thevhole winter,
with its corresponding advitage in re
gard to economy and pro, hence the
English method of feedlngtheep, which
is found so profitable and nnvenlent in
more ways than that of th mere money
profit made, inay he adopd with con
venience everywhere tn te Southern
states. Here sheep may fe« in the open
fields under such favorabl circumstan
ces as would make English .rmers green
with envy. The damp, moi, unpleasant
winter climate of England i very unfa
vorable for outdoor feedir of sheep,
which are often obliged tavade in the
soft mud <>r slush up to thelknees. with,
of course, disastrous resultjo the flock,
and yet the English farnjrs call the
sheep the rent payers, the nney makers
of the farm. The winter eding there
consists of turnips and rape The latter
is mostly eaten from the lar and richly
fertilizes it. writes .1. Harry In Cole
man's Rural World.