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18 The Georgian’s Poultry and Live Stock Page SOME FINE PRIZE SPECIMENS OF CHICKENS AND TURKEYS ; Ww jIMHL J 9 -■■ RK- M® IMMWbSHbmKH IESSESI&! >idkfl£3Bßhk lEa|| /■"' BmHEmßb*- y *7VHBk «i E* BWF w®» BMoHMprF rTJF *9998999999 MUyw Or Ww> w Q BMt^TTS.;~ ■ jx BR,.. ; ■ —r ■ 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 I- • * 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 . ... ■ 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 i ** • • j 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.