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GULL CLOSE IS
WISEST MOTTO
Get Rid of Birds Lacking in
Health, Vigor and Practical
Value.
By EUNICE READ WRIGHT.
The first consideration in the care of
poultry is health, and in following out
his idea I have found that trap-nesting
my birds has been of very great assist,
ance to me along this line. Most of the
hens that do not lay are drowsy, over
fat drones, and frequently diseased. If
these are culled out as soon as discov
ered by means of the trap-nest, it will
make a great difference in the profits
to be gained from a small tloc|< of birds.
Only the strongest, most active birds
should grace the small flock breeder's
yards, in the first place, the space
available must not be covered with
birds which do not pay their board, and
in order to make a fair profit on a few
bin’s all the little things must be taken
into consideration. A bird that has
been sick or ailing during the fall <>
winter will make a poor breeder in the
spring, and for this reason 1 get rid of
all such as soon as 1 discover them.
In the matter of culling out the lay
ing stock, I aim to keep those birds
with tile steadiest and most uniform
laying qualities, and have found that
such birds will produce a greater num
ber of eggs and more fertile eggs in
the lohg run than the hen that lays
well by "jumps and jerks,” and spends
the rest of her time talking about it
and flying over the back fepce into the
neighbor's garden.
After I have considered health
(which includes shape, since a de
formed bird is not a healthy one! ami
laying qualities, then I begin to select
birds as regards their plumage, but
always after a bird's health and laying
qualifies have been fully determined.
My aim is to have the flock as uniform
in coloring and appearance aj possible
and yet not lose sight of their utility
qualities. Since my aim is for the pro
duction of a goodly number of eggs
from a small number of birds and for
prime quality table poultry. I can not
see wherein I. am to be benefited by
having a bird without a tick in the hac
kle. or fleck of discoloring any where In
its plumage. The point Is, that very
few of us can hope to be a Jack-of
ai’-trades in the business and evolve a
strain of birds sufficiently beautiful in
form and feature to capture the blue
ribbons at Madison Square Garden and
yet be capable of producing 200 eggs
(guaranteed fertile) per year per bird.
Yet, that is practically what some
breeders are claiming in their ads. and
sooner or later I think we shall two a
change along this line.
When the majority of people want to
buy eggs for batching or breeding
stock, what do they hope to get? Either
they want fancy stock or they want
utility. Few. indeed, hope to get both
goods done up in the same package,
and for the price they are willing to
pay. The real fancier can get what is
known as a fancy price for his birds,
and for the years of work put into it.
the difficulty in production and the
knowledge necessary for proper breed
ing, he seldom gets more than he has
justly earned. A strain of birds, beau
tiful in form and coloring, capable of
reproducing themselves generation aft
er generation, is only obtained by care
ful and consistent breeding. Tin same
holds true of first quality utility stock.
It is my opinion that the man or
woman with the goods to deliver, who
starts out on an advertising campaign
of his poultry wares, will get the best
results if he does not claim to have
a paragon strain of poultry, such as
we all know does not exist, but the
utility breeder who advertises solely
utility birds or utility eggs for hatch
ing will gel a far greater trade by
’claiming these qualities, and these only,
for his stock. The same holds true of
the fancier.—American Poultry Jour
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Al the right on top is a White Orpington pullet of superb
shape anti tine color, owned by O. L. Chandler, of Newnan: the
Black Orpington eock at the left is owned by Ed. L. Sutton, of
Clarkston, whose yards contain many fine birds. At the bottom
is one of the score of blue ribbon winners E. E. Mack, of Thom
asville, has exhibited.
SOME HINTS ABOUT
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SHIPPING OFCHICKS
By BERT CONNOLLY.
Tn the uninitia; ecl, boxing up little
chicks and sending them out on long
journeys of two or three days' duration,
seems like rank barbarism. 1 well re
member the first 1 sent out. I felt like a
, cold-blooded tyrant putting little living
balls of down in their coffin. I expe
rienced all the pangs of remorse of
Macbeth until I heard of their safe ar
rival. every one alive and strong This
was somewhat the experience of the first
purchasers. In every community there
are always a few people to whom an
untried, risky venture especially appeals,
and they ordered a few chicks, just for
the daring novelty, never once really
thinking the chicks would arrive alive.
To their surprise they not only came
came through all right, but did better
than those hatched right at home.
Now you will find them by the hun
dreds in every wayside station and ex
press office through the spring and sum
mer months, billed to all parts of our
country The consensus of opinion is
that baby chicks are an economical and
satisfactory way of getting new stock.
The most -important requisites for ship
ping baby chicks successfully are vig
orous. healthy chicks, boxed in a proper
manner. I have shipped chicks at all
ages, but the day-old chicks stand a
long journey much the better
It Suits the Chicks.
The first two or three days of a chick’s
life it prefers a life uneventful almost to
the point of dullness, and the food ques
tion has no interest for him. If he had
all the surroundings to delight a chick
epicure, he would partake of but little.
1 and that little would probably be grit and
water. Indeed, a baby chick’s desires are
very modest Warmth and a quiet place
to hover being all that is required to
make him contented, ami these can be
given him kt the same time he is being
whirled over hundreds of miles of coun
try. 1 have had the best success when
taking them from the incubator about
twenty-four hours after coming from the
shell. At any rate, give them time to
thoroughly dry off and get rested from
their struggle to get free of their egg
shell prison.
It is not a good plan to have hatches
come off the latter part < r the week
< m some roads there might be a delay
un Sunday, thus making the chick's jour-
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ney unnecessarily long. While the rail
roads are very painstaking and prompt in
delivering chicks, it is best to send no
tice of exact date of shipment and by
what express route. The purchaser will
then be looking for them and have the
brooder warmed and ready.
Whether you use the corrugated paper
or wood boxes, do not crowd the chicks.
I allow about 504 square inches to each
hundred, and never put more than twen
ty-five in a section, making four or five
sections for each hundred-chick-size box.
In using the wood boxes, cover the top
with burlap, allowing the burlap to be
amply large to drop down in each sec
tion, so the chicks can feel it and hover
under it.
Slats must be nailed on top of burlap,
besides, of course, firmly tacking the bur
lap closely around the edges of the box.
Have no openings in your burlap or your
chicks will be out making voyages of dis
covery around some express office. This
would not be conducive to the welfare of
the chicks or the dignity of the express
agent, and might result in as sudden a
retirement from public life as did Cook
of polar fame.
Less Covering When It’s Warm.
The amount of covering when using
wood and burlap boxes varies according
to the season. During the winter months
put one thickness of burlap on the bot
tom and two over the top. As the sea
son advances the covering should be less,
chaff or bran substituted for the bottom
burlap and holes bored in each side of
each section for air. The temperature
oft he da.v must be the guide as to the
necessary covering
Corrugated paper, which comes in
sheets about 4 feet square, makes a
lighter box than the wood’, and if the
corners are strengthened by muslin and
glue they are as strong us need be One
sheet will make a box for a hundred
chicks, using the same number of sec
tions as in the wood boxes Air holes
must be provided to suit the temperature
of the day. A home-made glue is the
cheapest and best, but should be made
strong and not used when hot.
The address of the purchaser should
be correctly and plainly written In full:
also the name of the sender and ad
dress In this, as in eevry part of poul
try work, attention io every small detail
is ihe only royal road to success.
By reading and observation one may
HERE IS Mitt
FOB THE NOVICE
Diseases of Egg-Producing Or
gans Usually the Result of
Badly Managed Diet.
By JOSEPH SHAKESPEARE
Ailments of the egg-producing organs
are found more frequently in pullets than
in older fowls, and the ailing birds are
more frequently met among the fowls of
the novice poultry keepers than in the
docks of older and more experienced
breeders. The reason for this is easily
found. The novice generally keeps his
I fowls on a limited area of land and the
t quantity of food given to them is far
I above, rather than below, the quantity
! requisite to maintain normal health and
• development.
| The young pullets are fed with a too
I generous hand, and consequently their
' egg-producing organs are stimulated into
I action long before the muscular system is
I fully developed. It requires muscular
I power to produce eggs, and when it is
| lacking, fowls are liable to suffer u-hen
! vainly endeavoring to deliver their first
contributions to the egg basket.
Egg binding is not so prevalent among
pullets as among the older birds, owing
to the disposition of the latter to pro
duce internal fat and abnormally large
eggs, still, the ailment is occasionally
found among the younger fowls, and it is
more often than not traceable to imma
turity and lack of muscular power
Egg Cramp.
W hat is commonly known as egg cramp
is frequently met among immature stock
that has been forced along with a view’
to early egg production. In the case of
cramp or paralysis the affected birds lose
the use of their legs and squat about
the ground. There is no doubt that the
ailment results from the resistance of the
walls of the undistended oviduct to the
passage of the first egg produced. Not
only are immature pullets liable to suffer
with egg cramp, but the fully developed
birds are equally liable to contract the
ailment if the walls of the oviducts are
coated with fat, the result of erratic feed
ing.
All that can be done for a fowl suffer
ing with egg cramp is to keep her per
fectly quiet, and to dose her castor
oil, with the object of clearing her system.
The success of the treatment depends
upon its timely application when the bird
is first stacked. If the bird is left to re
cover as best she can nature may right
itself for a time only, and other and more
serious stacks may follow owing io rhe
dilation of the nerves surrounding the
oviduct.
Egg- Binding.
Well developed and rationally fed pul-
Gets are seldom troubled with egg-bin<l
ing It is the overfat hen or the immature
and over-stimulated pullet that is liable
to suffer with this ailment. When fowls
that apparently are in good laying con
dition become egg bound it is a sign of
over activity on the part of the ovary,
due to an excess of animal or other stim
ulating matter In the rations.
When a fowl becomes egg bound there
•s evidence of much distress: she wan
ders to and from the nest and sings in
a plaintiff manner, or else she stays for
hours at a time on the nest and she
may be seen to rise occasionally and
strain herself in an endeavor to be rid
of the cause of her trouble. When a bird
is known to be egg-bound its vent should
be exposed to the steam arising from the
mouth of a hot water jug. and the inner
walls of the egg passage should be ell
lubricated with sweet oil by aid of the
forefinger. The bird may then be left
to herself for a few hours when, if the
♦gg is not delivered, the steaming and
oiling operation should be repeated.
have a thorough knowledge of the busi
ness, and then if one is ns ready to apply
the wisdom as is my small friend Johnny
Pickle, all will be well.
Johnny being questioned in regard to a
strong fisfoy smell which came from his
clothes w'hen he was supposed to have
come direct from Sunday school, replied,
“I don’t know, mother, how I can smell
of fish. unFttss it was because the Sun
da> school lesson was about Jonah and
the whale. Poultry Success.
FIGHT STEAOILT
AGAINST MITES
Be on the Lookout for Them at
All Times- Now Is a Good
Season to Whitewash.
The moulting season Is here and th''
young fowls are growing like weeds.
Take time to look very carefully under
the roosts and about the side walls
ami etacks of the coops for mites. A
day should not go by when a chirk
from each brood is picked up and thor
oughly examined for head lice, body
lice or mites.
Now Is the time to whitewash the
interior of all houses and coops if you
have no: done so previously, and too
lunch emphasis can not be laid upon
Ihe importance of keeping every coop
and feed hopper and drinking vessel
set upulopsly clean
Now is the time to begin culling the
young flock, t’ull out by killing all
the chicks with wty tails or crooked
breast bones or other defot mities. The
qttiekei Ihe poorly marked specimens
are eliminated the better
Sell all the old stock you are plan
ning to dispose of this season before
they begin to moult and lose flesh
and feathers.
To have hens moult quickly confine
them in small airy place with plenty
of grain a day for each hen. In ten
days or two weeks the feathers will
start to drop oIT in a lively manner.
After the feathers are loosened up and
falling off the hens may be given free
free range or their regular runs again.
Before turning them loose, though, it
is well to feed them a liberal feed of
lawn clippings or other green feed and
then a feed of grain after this. Then
with their regular feed in liberal quan
tities after this fast it should be less
than two weeks before they are laying
again. Otherwise some of your hens
will moult early in August while others
will prolong it until late in November.
Spade or plow up all the extra runs
and sow to dwarf Essex rape. It
will be only two or three weeks until
it will be in readiness to turn the fowls
on it qnce a day. The cultivation of
your runs will not only keep them fresh
and clean, but no better green food for
your fowls can be found.—Poultry In
dex.
POULTRY NOTES.
This is the season of the year when a
poultryman's enthusiasm begins to ooze
out. Hens are moulting, only a few. if
I any, pullets have, begun to lay. the lice
and mites are likely to be trousblesome
and it’s hot.
The best antidote is to set a couple of
hens. You may not get anything out of
August hatched stuff, but there's nothing
like some young stock running around the
place to keep the enthusiasm up.
Toledo is making a bid for tlie new
headquarters building of the American
Poultry association.
The thirty-seventh annual meeting of
the American Poultry association will be
held in Nashville. Tenn . August 9 to 15.
Matty Atlantans will go to Nashville
for the A. P. A. meeting—among them a
representative of The Atlanta Georgian.
One of the features of the meeting will
be an illustrated lecture on "Progressive
Poultry Culture." by Prof. A. A. Brigham,
of the South Dakota Agricultural col
lege.
The value of the poultry products in the
staate of Tennessee is estimated at $17.-
000,000 a year.
Breeders often consider the question ••f
whether they can afford the time and
trouble to use trap nests. With those who
have tried them the wonder is that any
body can afford to be without them.
A lot of fine magazine articles and not
a few books have been written about the
profits of the big poultry farms. What
the industry needs is a little more in
formation about what the little fellows
the 50 to 200 bird men are cleaning up.
If your competitor talks about you. send
him a present
Don I eat any eggs from your best
hens They ought to be hatched. Per
petuate the best in yo«» flock. If you do.
it makes little difference what becomes
of the rest of them
TWO MEN DROWN. BUT
MOTHER SAVES BABIES
TACOMA. WASH. Aug 3.—Ma
rooned in a snag-imprisoned launch,
Mrs. F A. Lucas and Mrs.
H. C. Courier stood for more than
an hour neck deep in water and held
above their heads the two children of
the latter. When the launch struck.
I. A. Lucas and J. W. Rennells were
thrown overboard and drowned, while
F. A. Lucas swam ashore in search of
assistance. Lucas had to run three
miles before he found a boat and had
to row it alone to the scene of the acci
dent. In the meantime the tide had
come In and he arrived at a moment
when the strength of the women was
about to refuse to respond to their will.
LIGHTNING KILLS 1, STUNS 2
AND SHOCKS 20 WORKMEN
SAVANNAH. GA.. Aug. 3 Caleb Win
ters. an employee of Hie New York Phos
phate Mining company, was killed, It It
Lyle and .lack Dooley, who were with him
in the acid chamber of the plant, were
stunned, and 20 workmen about the build
ing were shocked by lightning dur
ing an electrical storm. Winters died in
stantly He was a native of Lunrn
burg. Canada The lightning entered
through the roof and zig-zagged through
the interior of the building.
Orpingtons.
FOR SALE One <-ock and fourteen hens;
full blood Buff Orpingtons; $1 each.
Party leaving city Call Main 5371-J
M-fZ
FOR quick sale. 1 pen four yearling hens
and one rooster, Kellerstrass White Or
pingtons; fine layers. $lO. Call after 1
P in. R. K Swartz, W Pavilion St
BLACK Orpingtons, young and old stock,
now at special prices. Hal Riviere. Kirk-
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HII R < dIPI.XCTi i.\s. Kellerstrass; ex
cellent breeders; trio. $8; young birds
of excellent type. $5 trio; eggs, fifteen, $2;
fifty, $5; cockerels. $2. Write us. We
guarantee satisfaction Shipp Bros . Fin
leyson. Ga. 40-7-30
Leghorns.
FOR SALE Cheap, about fifteen good
yearling hens; if you want some foiin
<iation stock this is your opt?ortiinitv.
Phone West 7041. 110-8-3
Bantams.
BANTAMS Game Bantams, Sebrlghtz.
Buff Cochins Carlisle Cohb. Athens.
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Wyandottes.
GOLDEN LACED and Columbian Wyan
dottes, S. C. R. I. Reds; eggs, $1 and
$2 per 15. W. D. Bennett, Molena, Ga.
12-18-33
Ducks.
TWO Indian Runner, one beautiful Mus
covie and five large White Peklns. only
$6 for the lot. .1. Warren Howard, room
006 Candler Bldg Phone Ivy 5283
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INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS Either pen
ciled or fawm and white at $1 each; good
ones; time yet to raise stock; order today
Munniniaker Poultry Farm. Normandy,
Tenn. 5-25-3
Eggs.
THOROI’GHBRED Buff Orpington eggs.
$1 per fifteen. $5 per hundred. 126 Wind
sor street. Main 3088 4-27-25
Incubators.
FOR SALE - Cheap. Cyphers 144-egg ma
chine; practically new and a sure hatch
er. Phone West 704-J. ltl-8-3
Miscellaneous Poultry.
FOR SALE- Thoroughbred S. C. White
Leghorn pullets; hens and cockerels;
Young's strain; first class; also White
Wyandotte pullets: best in the South
E. B. Harvey, Box 81, Lithonia. Ga.
GEORGIA Duck Fain?, South Kirkwrtod
station odds and ends for sale. Ducks,
chickens, guineas and pigeons. Your price.
30-8-3
"niI.ORO-N A PTHOLEVM DIK
AND
LIVE STOCK DISINFECTANT.
GET RID of chicken IJcp and keep your
poultry healthy. Chloro-Naptholeum
doeJt the work, prevents roup, gape and
other diseases; one quart, 50c; one-half
gallon, 90c; one gallon. $1.50 West Dis
infecting Company, 26 South Forsyth
street, Atlanta 7-23-22
Miscellaneous Poultry.
H. G. HASTINGS & CO.
16 W. Mitchell Street, Phones 2568.
SEEDSMEN FOR THE SOUTH. 16 WEST MITCHELL STREET
FOUR CITY DELIVERIES DAILY. NORTH AND SOUTH
SIDE 9 A M., INMAN PARK AND WEST END 2 P. M.
BELL PHONE M. 2568. ATLANTA 2568.
ATTENTION PIGEON RAIDERS—We have just re
ceived a shipment of the OGEMARO PIGEON
FEED. This feed is free from corn. It is composed of
the following: Wheat, hemp, buckwheat, Canadian
peas, millet and kaffir corn, all mixed in proper pro
portions. If you want a good, clean feed, we are sure
that this will give entire satisfaction. Price $3.25 a
I<M) pounds f. o. b. Atlanta.
NOW IS THE TIME to sow turnip seed. We can sup
ply you with all varieties. Write for a copy of our
1912 Summer and Fall Seed Catalogue.
LEE'S (JERMOZONE —The Poultry Medicine. For
roup, canker, cholera and swelled . head. Both
liquid and tablet form 50c. Tablets can be sent by mail.
SAGO PALM BI’LBS —A few left at 10c a pound, 3
pounds 25c. Add 10c a pound for postage.
YOUHfi MALE CANARIES. All guaranteed singers.
$2.50 each. Bird seed, gravel, manna, cuttie bone
and bitters.
CONKEVS HEAD LICE ()INTMEN , r will rid the lit
tle chicks of these deadly pests. 10c and 25c.
PIIOS’E I S \’()('R ORDERS for Hower pots, fern
pans and pot saucers. We have them in all sizes.
"RED COMB" MEAT MASH is a well balanced feed
being composed of wheat bran, alfalfa meal, shorts,
corn meal, beef scraps and a small amount of charcoal.
For young and old fowls if can't he beat. It is also a
tine feed for ducks. Price 10 pounds 25c, 50 pounds
$1.20, 100 pounds $2.35.
WHITE CLIPPED OATS, wheat bran, beef scraps,
alfalfa meal. etc.
MOCKING BIRD, canary, parrot and squirrel cages.
CAN’T BEAT COX K EY : S XOX-I-CIDE as a .lip f/.r
poultry. One pint 35c. 1 quart 60c. 2 quarts 90c, 1
gallon $1.50.
I‘l'l’TY P()( LTRY PUNCJ?EB 25c each. Leg bands,
drinking founts, grit and shell boxes, feed pans and
hoppers.
RID THE PI'PSOF WORMS with Dr. Johnson’s
Vermifuge. Both liquid and tablet form 50c.
FLIES CAN’T STAY ABOUND where Conkey’s Fly
Knocker is used regularly. You don't have to
dilute it. just spray directly on the horse or cow and
in the stable. A trial will convince you. One quart
35c. 2 quarts 60c, 1 gallon SI.OO.
Miscellaneous Poultry.
FOR SALE —Have purchased Northern
breeder s entire flock L.ack Orpingtons
My prices will move them rapidly 300
old and young W. E. Lumley, Tulia
homa. Tenn. 3-30-°
POULTRY KEEPERS.
All Need Rust’s Havens
Climax Powder
It keeps your chickens well. It is the
only reliable cure for GAPES and CHOL
ERA.
It is so different from other poultry
powders.
YOUR MONEY BACK QUICK
If you don't like Rust’s Havens Climax
Powder
Secretary Mifflin County Poultry Show,
Mr. .1. A. Carodiskey, says;
"After trying various 'tonics' and ’con
ditioners' I find nothing to equal Rust’s
Havens Climax Powders.”
GET A BOX TODAY.
25c. 50c. SI.OO. $1.50 and $3.50.
H. G. HASTINGS & CO.,
16 W. Mitchell St.
ATLANTA, GA.
We want a DEALER in each town.
Write for exclusive agency for your town
Get Rust's Poultry Book and Egg Rec
ord Both mailed FREE Address Wm
Rust & Sons Co.. Dept. G, New Bruns
tyick, N. J. 5-4-1
BILTMORE strain Barred Rocks and S?
'Vhlte Leghorns; eggs for hatching;
fifteen for $1.50. BILTMORE Jerwv
calves for sale. Address BILTMORE
Farms. BILTMORE, N. C. 1-27-78
Cows
F()R EXCHANGE $l2O organ In good con
dition for milch cow. Address J. W
Rollins, 218 Ira street. 8-2-1
Dogs.
BEAUTIFUL marked male fox terrier
five months old; $5, 65 Crew st. 91-SJ
FOR SALE—Two poodle puppies, one
male, one female Phone Ivy 3194
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Hogs.
PIGS FOR SALE—Three months ~~oi<F:
Tamworth. Berkshire and Duroc-Jersev
pigs: entitled to be registered Prices rea
sonable. Addresfl Ga. Experiment Rta
tlon. Experiment. Ga. 1-3-
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