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The Georgian’s Poultry and Live Stock Page BEGINNERS MUST BUYJUDIGIOUSLY Let Some Experienced Breeder Advise You at the Start. You’ll Avoid Trouble. X visit tn the big shows in the eountr' ; give the budding fancier an idea of the points that are needed for a bird to win ' Every one must remember that the be ginner toda> is U>° experienced fancier , of the future, and g should encourage all I who contemplate taking up ’he keeping •, of live stock All have started from the j same mark. «>ne has however, the a< vantage of a big pocket, while hundred*-’ nf the keen fanciers have little capital at their command With the latter, it < tw take more time in getting to the top of the ’ree. still the place always open for ever> one who has grit and determi- j nation. Mair of the most noted breed ers of 'oday started in a small wa' . win | small means and in some cases small I ideas hut «:;c<'-ss lax .ng crowned ’heir efforts n the ears’ stages, the have gone, on and mad? fame for themselves The; id*a that the sanes is overcrowded is an i erroneous one. for there never was a time I when the enthusiastic could make more head wax than toda.' Shows are more ■ numerous than ever, hence the chances! <»f coming ’o tht front are greater, and ; th? demand for go«*d stock is an increas irg one. Novices’ Difficulties. r»ne ■ frequent!} asked advice on all' points that affect the beginner Max I ! say that the falling off and the failing of I so man> novices is that th?} pretend to j Tamw mm ' befor* av ng learned the | dr c t rudiments of the business. After vffajs of hard practical experience, both' r. breeding and exhibiting, thero is much j tn learn and when a new hand starts <ifi ' with th? idea that after twelve months! of noultrj keeping he knows all there c ’ to know, he makes th*- greatest mistake of his life He has not found his feel, j let alone practical experience lie gains. , th* 1 more he will discover that there ar*-* | still man details to bp mastered. On" j° often asked the best vay of getting into the fane' This must of course d« pend on the amount that one can expend upon the first lot of birds. To the man ■ who has onl} a small amount of cash to put down at once, he needs to be careful to see that it is spent in the most ad vantageous way Now. may 1 advise such a beginner to place himself in the hands of well known breeders and state clearly what he is and what he requires and not at the outset to go in for the best quality Xfter the first year he will have had some experience with the breed of his choice and begin to learn some of th? salient features of the bin!, and can then form a better idea as tn the needs of the breeding pen Novice#’ Success. In an earlier sentence I advise dealing with a good breeder B> this method tin eld hand is placed on his mettle, ami he will soon say what he can do for the means at disposal He is put on his bon or and the reputation of our leading men is worth more than the small amount of a moderate breeding hen If the price allowed is too low. they will say so, and will advise away out of the difficult} In some cases breeding hens have been out of question, but a sitting of eggs has changed hands That will give the new hand a reasonable start, even If the ven d?r has wanted the first nick of th? chicks. The blood of more left is good enough to go on with, and man} a time bad formed the nucleus of a famous stock Do not despise the da> of small things, but go at it with a will, and I am certain that success must follow in the wake. The old breeder is ready at all times to render advice, which from years of study and practice is very valuable. A mistake s often made through drop ping and ( hanging about XX hen once started with a good breeder stick to him till you have begun to walk by yourself, and even then, don't run until you feel certain that what you are doing is forth? best Work ami an open mind will ac complish mor? than arrogance * and self conceit Poultry Item “BOARDINGHOUSE” CHICKS HATCHED IN TOOMBS CO. VIDALIA. GA li icmaiimd for Toombs county to produce the i attern for a regular "boarding house” i hicken On< that will best till the bill of these places has been hatched in the barn yard of a resident of this place. The chicken has four legs, four wings an 1 the better part of two backs, with only one breast, neck and head Tl • chick, n is the propel ty of Representative W F Peacock. The legs are ad well fum ed and the wings are regular in shape 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 aide to advertise REN DOTTE STRAIN, and get results. Rendotte Farm p, 0, Box 300 Atlanta, Ga FQX TERRIERS, THE POULTRYMAN'S BEST FRIEND fooL. - -AW ' .«■ ■ - ' ObmLs .s&.ty #■» , JWWk 41 JwkMy' W Wo J 1 . jiff'. . rt'® JwSWP jKg I H • ‘‘“wk JEB i Ji Jr ■ •. "e X&tRB fflSMaißisSKrehßMßill ••■''atai fti " y^i q W IB B w fit F 1 aJmMHHt a -jSSUr-y l . , - W OERD BIROS VALUED ST SSOB Court Fixes That Verdict Against Express Company for Letting Them Die. E. II Lichtenwalter. <»f Girard. Pa., has just recovered a judgment in the court of common pleas of Erie county. Pennsylvania, against the American Ex press Company for carelessness and neg ligenci* in causing the death of two cock erels shipped by him one to Chicago and one to New York to the poultry shows in December. 1909 One bird was smothered and the other was injured and died from some one breaking in the shits of the coop upon the bird The judgment is for $231.12 ami costs, amounting to about S7O additional, mak ing about S3OO that the express company will have to pa? on account v 1 tbe neg ligenee of its employees Five dollars was all the express com pany was willing at first to pay for the ios.-. but after recovery of judgment be- I fore a magistrate It offered SIOO, which I was refused, and the company thereupon appealed the ease into the court of common pleas, where the judgment for $231.12 was given against it March 10. 19D The cockerel shipped to Chicago was smothered by the express company plac ing other toops on top of its coop, shut ting out the air The ca••elessrr.;-.- of the exprt'ss agents was shown to the court and jury by the plaintiff as to the cockerel shipped to Chicago b\ his own testimony - and that of D M (‘overt, of Willoughby, Ohio, who saw the bird unloaded ami discov ered that he*was breathing his last as he was taken out of the car. and that coops had been placed on top of his coop, thus shutting out the air. The coop returned from New York with a dead cockerel in it and with the top slats broken in down upon the bird showed the carelessness and negligence of the express company's employees in handling it Xlthough the express re ceipts limited the defendant s liability to $5 for each bird, the law of Pennsylvania does not permit defendant to avail it self of this limitation where negligence is proven by plaintiff as in this case - hut permits a recovery of the full value of a live stock shipment I The strong probability is that hereafter the express company will exercise great er care in handling valuable live stock shipments tor the patrons of the com pany THIS WILL. GET THE RATS. This trap has been known to catch the rodents by the barrelful. Procure a water tight barrel, put a rock in the bot tom that will reach up about a foot high and pour in sufficient water to nearly cover the rock, leaving just the upper point sticking out and it should be about large enough to hi.ld a single rat. In place of the upper head, stretch a piece of thick wrapping paper ever the top of the barrel and fasten it securely by means of the top hoop or a cord Damp en the paper slightly with a moist sponge and it will become tight when dry Feed the rats on this paper head with cheese parings and other things they like for several nights in succession, so as to get the rats accustomed to coming with.out fear or suspicion After you have gained their confidence cut a cr«»s slit in the middle of the paper and spread the feed as before The first rat that comes will drop through into the water and get on the roc-k. the next one drops throng! and there h fight f'»r a foothold and the.' argue the point with such squeals that all the rats in the neighborhood hasten in to find out what the trouble is —Kansas City Journal. THK ATLANTA GF.OT?GTAN ANT) NEWS: SATFRDAY. MAX’ 25. 1912. I FEEDING IMPORTANT ITEM IN THE RAISING OF YOUNG CHICKENS Th«' enormous development of the poultry industry through artificial hatching ami rearing of fowls has con tinually evolved new questions as to how to obtain the best results. The t up-to-date poultryman is ever on the alert with eye and brain to detect new ideas. Os course, the net result in view is to obtain the quickest returns for our money and labor. We have long ago decided and prac ticed that the Single Comb White Leg horns properly bred is the breed to do it with. Now, as to the manner. Next, . if not equal to the open front curtain . poultry house for adult fowls, we con sider the colony house system for chicks. There used to he an idea that any old thing, box or barrel, would do > for the little fellows, but the wise poul ' tryman has exploded that idea. If new methods will, at the expense of • a few dollars, take 100 chicks, bring > them to selling or laying period full 60 i days sooner, besides rearing a much better and linger per cent of chicks, surely a small outlay of a few dollars is not worth considering in the game. We cheerfully divide out experience and information with the readers of The Northwest Poultry Journal, and give you an idea how the colony houses for chicks arc built. Each bouse is six b\ ten. six feet in front, five in the rear, and they are built on skids (made i like sled runners! and th<*\ can be read i ily moved by bitching a hoise to them Such a house will accommodate at ■ hatching time |,’.u chicks. Now, chicks double and triple in size very rapidly, but in three weeks the sex in Leghorns , can be easily distinguished, and nt that age anyhow the sexes should he sep arated, which loaves the flock nearly one-half less, and plenty of room left 1 for the growing millets What do we gain by such an arrange ment.' I'itst. plenty of room foi the chick The air neve'- gets bad or over heated, and whether it rains or snows the little fellows can scamper around inside and continue to grow, same as 1 outdoors. Second, we have continual i fresh ground; as one stand gets foul, i we hitch our old mare to the skids and, tn a very few minutes the chicks have a I fresit run. . \s to results. That's what we are after, and you can judge for youlseif While other people are fooling around with antiquated methods, and the big breeds which have to be boarded free all winter before beginning to lay to ward spring, when eggs are twenty cents a dozen, our Leghorns under our management of handling, begin laying ' in September ami October, when eggs are 40 cents to 50 cents a dozen, and keep it right up all winter. Is this all mi re theory '.’ Not a hit of it. It goes on right along at the Rocky Eord Poultry farm. We have had pul lets lay at four months of age. and young cockerels weighing two pounds each at nine weeks. What brought all this about ? A quick maturing (fresh air. bred to lay strain, raised by the colony house advantages, and nremises kept in a sanitary condi tion'. Now for the liens roaming the fields at will and carefully housed at night, in the pink of condition. Chicks from such a (lock or matings come from the shell lively and strong. We have no 1 pens for special use and don't want 'I them, sot yarder fowls lack the vigor ' and stamina of the free range fowls. ini the percentage of egg fertility is ■iw. and the chick weak We ii prat In fact, there is only on ■ 11 way. according to our experience, to jV' opei ly raise young stock up to the ' i maturing point, and handle breeding ’ hens, and that is by having colony and t laying houses scattered among cherry 4 I trees, and in green alfalfa pastures, p I whe 1 , they can roam at will over the i j fields <nd pick up all the greens, bugs, t : insects, etc. necessary for develop iln-nt. .mil fertile strong hatching eggs ■; I The wav and style as just how wo H hutch and h ood chicks we hope the a j .Aitor wi'l allow us space to toll you . ! oio. tinu in the future. Northwest i Journal. Vidalia to Have One Os World's Largest Poultry Businesses VIDALIA. GA.- Vidalia is to have the largest poultry business in this section of the country, a citizen <»f this place hav ing gone into it on a large scale and hav ing already invested several thousand dol lars in stock alone over and above his in vestments in land and houses. Both fancy and plain or barnyard breeds will be given attention and the pigeon lofts "ill be the most extensive in the state. Poultry and eggs have figured as two of the highest items of produce in this section, and if the new enterprise does not have to go too far away io find a market it is a sure thing that the preach ers of this section will have to loosen their belts. FLIMSY INCUBATOR IS A POOR INVESTMENT IN POULTRY BUSINESS The success or failure of artificial in cubation depends largely - upon the ma chine selected to do the work. There fore, great care should be exercised in making the selection To be satisfactory a machine must be durable. There are many machines on the market which will hatch well when new. but which are con structed so flimsily that in a short time they become worthless, and in this con nection it should be remembered that an incubator which fails to give good hatches is worse than useless, as each time that it is operated unsuccessfully the eggs are lost, the oil used to heat it is wasted, and the opportunity to make a profit from the chickens which should have been hatched Is gone forever. Therefore, if artificial incubation is prac ticed it is wise to have good machines with which to do the work. Personally I am in favor of hot air machines, be cause there is no water to bother with, no tanks to rust out and leak or freeze and burst in cold weather when not in use. CULL OUT PULLETS AND FATTEN A FEW BROILERS FOR SALE If you are desirous of having a choice flock of pullets, you must cull closely as they are growing. Weed out every unde sirable specimen. If you can get several of them out at once you can fatten them for the broiler market It does not pay to raise the pullets that are off color or defective in any way You may think at the time that they are pullets and that you will want them for egg production, but the time will come when they will be come an eyesore to you. You will mar an otherwise fine lot of birds by having in with them some that are not right as to color, form or some special points. The best thing to do Is to watch and cull closely. In order to do this, endeavor to raise as many chicks as possible so that you will have a wider field of selection. HEN DEPOSITS EGGS IN BANK, AUSTIN, TEXAS. B L Gill, state commissioner of banking, has received an inquiry from F. F. Paschall, cashier of the First State Bank of Leesburg. Texas, which is puzzling him. It reads: "I have a new depositor, and 1 do not know how to handle the lady's account. A white hen comes in every morning and deposits an egg behind the vault door; please inform me how to handle this ac count.” It was not until the price of eggs began i to soar weeks ago that this hen selected 1 the hank vault as the place for deposit ing her eggs Mr. Paschall says she evi- I dently has a due appreciation of their ' value 1 Texas is now said tn lead all the other states of the Union tn the matter j of turkey culture. CARE VITAL POINT IN GETTING BIG PROFITS IN POULTRY CULTURE An old poultry raiser -and a wonder fully successful one was asked. “Where is the vital point of success?” His reply we give word for word: “Just a little more care—just a little attention added. Many people rest contented with a reasonable profit. Now, that is right where you should be gin to hustle. You have success son a foundation, and it is the proper time to apply all the experience that has led Up to it. and all the science that the experience has put at your command. It is the point where each little item means additional dollars, without ad ditional expense. Every step now spells p-r-o-f-i-t. Keep your fowls in health and don't wait to lock your sta ble until after the horse is stolen. Avoid disease by constant prevention, and when disease does come, have your remedies right at band. Don’t be in the position where you have to wait days to get a remedy and mean while your fowls are eopting down in bunches and the disease is getting a foothold that defies treatment. You can't resurrect a dead fowl, so cure them at the very start." LOSS IN BROKEN EGGS OVER $1,000,000 YEARLY KANSAS CITY. MO.. May 25. -Un skilled handling of poultry and iggs costs the of the United States 545.000.00 ft annually, is the conclusion of the state board -of health, after six months investigation. The price of eggs is higher than ever says the. report, and competition is keen, but the producer gains nothing. Because of the large number of farm ers who are careless in marketing their eggs, the careful farmer is forced to accept the same price as is paid bls less industrious neighbor. In Kansas alone this loss is estimated at more than a million dollars a year. RHODE ISLAND RED HEN LAYS RECORD SIZE EGG JASPER. GMay 25. A. V. Jones, a retired farmer and ex-clerk of the superior court and county treasurer, who lives in town here and keeps some poultry for table use, is today exhibit ing an egg laid by a Rhode Island Red hen, which, so far as this community is able to show, is a record breaker. The egg is 7 1-2 inches around the short way. and 9 1-2 inches around the long way. and weighs six ounces, being the weight of three lien's eggs. POULTRY ASSOCIATION FORMED. CHARLOTTE, N. C., May 25.—The Southeastern Poultry association Is the name of a newly formed organization for the promotion of elite hen flesh in this state. Stock has been subscribed liberally, both in Charlotte and through out the state, and just now plans for holding a 3,000-chicken show in Char lotte next fall are taking definite shape. Edgar Moore, proprietor of the Selwyn hotel, is president, and R. L. Simmons, well known judge, is secretary of the association. North Carolina Is experienc ing a renaissance of interest in the in dustry in Ulis state, and a new fancier Is born every day. MAKE HENS LAY More eggs Feed Wonder Egg Pro ducer and (‘hick Grower Makes you money. Write for trial. Will con vince you Enclose 19c. N L. Webb. Lamasco. Tex. Box 14. MOTTLED ANCONAS. First pen (only one entry) at great \tlanta show. January 8-13 First pen. first cockerel, first pullet big Chatta nooga show First pen. first cockerel, first pullet Bowling Green. Kv. We have n e\er failed m win the blue. Eggs, $5 per fifteen straight COPPERAS FALLS FARM Tullahoma, Tenn. HDWTDJUDGE WIRE FENCING Test in Solution of Sulphate of Copper Will Determine Last ing Qualities. For some time past there have been complaints as to the lasting qualities of wire fencing. The trouble seems to be that the galvanizing did not wear as "ell as on wire fence bought in previous years. For the benefit of our readers wh«> buy wire fencing and are compelled to accept the word of the maker as to the quality. I give a test taken from the Western Union Telegraph Company’s specifications: “The wire will be plunged into the saturated solution of sulphate of copper, permitted to remain one minute, and then wiped clean. This process will be per formed four times. If the wire appears black after the fourth immersion. it shows that the zinc has not been all removed •and that tire galvanizing is well done; but if it has a copper color the iron is exposed, showing that the zinc is too thin.” A Test Easily Made. The saturated solution of sulphate of copper (commonly called blue stone) is made by putting as much blue stone in water as will be dissolved There is no harm if some blue stone remains undis solved in the bottom of the jar. This test can be made very easily at the time of purchasing the wire fence by cutting off a piece of wire and dip ping it into a small bottle filled with the solution It might be well to try some fencing that you have on hand now. and note the difference between that which .you have had a long lime and fencing recent ly purchased. You are paying for properly galvanized fencing, so reject all inferior goods that do not come very near this test. THE LATE HATCH. If you have a late-hatched brood or two. do not house them with the older fowls A large dry goods or piano box makes an ideal home for them. Here by themselves you can give them better care and thus induce more thrifty growth. With the larger fowls they stand a poor show of getting their share of the food, and besides they are pecked at and hurried till they are too scared and nerv ous to eat. Put the backward ones by themselves, give them an extra chance, and then if they do not “make good” soon, send them to market. A pool - bird eats just as much as a good one. and the survival of the fittest should be the rnotto of every one "‘ho would succeed. 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 8000 PLENTY Os FAKES TO H BEGINNER Prominent Poultry Man Gives Some Advice to Buyers of Eggs and Fowls. (By f. F. Townsend. President Na tional Poultry Association, Weeds port, N Y.i Last season 1 gave out —as I shall do lids -a few eggs from prize birds in our testing pelts. These eggs are furnished in order that records may he had of .hatches, growth and maturity under varying circumstances. The birds in our pens are supplied by the most famous breeders in America, and each lixle flock is as thoroughly sequesteid from the others as .if an ocean rolled between them. Among those birds was a pen of Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds from the late Robert C. Tuttle, of Hartford, Conn.. who bore an untarnished reputation as . bleeder and a gentleman. Imagine, then, my amusement on receiving, late in the season, a letter in which the writer said, among other things, “Either you or Air. Tuttle let your game cocks run with the Reds, for I have a couple of regular game birds from the eggs you sent me." Think of that, now! Not Up On History. And neither Mr. Tuttle nor I had a game bird in our yards. The writer of that letter knew noth ing of the history of the Rhode Island Reds, else he would have been aware that the "game" was merely the hut cropping of the old Malay blood which gives the Reds their splendid vitality. Another instance: Recently a fancier, who has a splen did flock of White Orningtbns. em ployed me to score some of his best bids from which to select his best breeding pen. To his amazement T disr carded a couple of his biggest and whitest birds. But when I pointed out the fact that the wings of one showed a strong reversion to the Black Ham burgs, and the legs of the other to the White Leghorns—both of which were used in producing the White Orping tons—he saw a great light. The experienced poultryman knows better. If he should buy a $5 bird, which is most unlikely he would ex pect nothing better. The beginner who does not know values expects more than he gels and makes a noise in con sequence. Editors are constantly hear ing the complaints made by such peo ple: and explaining things, for the ben. eflt of beginners, is not the least of their troubles. Fakes Cause Trouble. Mind you. I don't say that there are no causes for complaint. There are plenty. Fake "books," which merely advertise some fraudulent strains," have been offered at ten times their value, and sold to the unwary by the means of flaming advertisements. Fake "egg-testers," alleged to tell not only fertile eggs, but the sex of each; hum bug “systems." covering every swin dling scheme, from “clearing 57.500 y early on a pilot 40 feet square” to. a “profit of $2,880 yearly from 24 hens:" "schools" to teach judging by mail; other “schools” to teach a city man. who never sees a live bird, unless it is an English sparrow, how to raise poul try -also "taught" by mail. The woods are full of these unhung knaves. SOFT FOOD AND DISEASE. There is a partiality for soft foods, because by their use many substances in a fine condition can be given: but ft is a mistke to feeci soft food oftener than once a day to three days in the week. Too mm b soft food causes the giz zard to he idle, and being deprived of its use the fowl becomes diseased. The gizzard is an organ that performs a cer tain duty . Just as is required of the heart or liver, and any system of feeding that takes largely from the gizzard the duty' which devolves upon it will in the end prove detrimental. It is not out of place to allow soft foods, but the larger propor tion of the food should be so as to keep the gizzard active; hence whole, grains are essential to success. When too much soft food is allowed the crop fre quently remains full and food does not pass through the gizzard. FOR SALE S. C. CRYSTAL White Orpingtons. A few trios at $lO, sls, S2O. $25. S3O, $35. Also five prize liens, one cock and one cockerel, winning at Dalton. Ga.. and Chattanooga. Tenn., shows. Write for prices. Geo. M. Moseley MENLO. GA.