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The Georgian’s Poultry and Live Stock Page A TRIO OF GREAT PRIZE WINNERS ... ~.. , -t- 1 „ ‘J? o •" ” - '* WO '• 'A '- - ; '.AFW I Ec gB-gKaMrzy JR awL AG & mr ~ bOBI BKffiß ' SIB : ~s ■ aw tKst*' v- asML atS.--' r -.y f ' > is / Wt?" s< . . K - r "" h .. .■ . XU M, 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 *r» fl I. If 1 fcM ® wtiP B / aml . x •" •"■ I r - 4 J - 1 — " ~ -H : ■ 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 I 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- IHE AIBA A L’A G EUKItIA.N ATS DME\\ 8. 8A 1 I KI)A . A I)G ÜBT 3. IHJ Z. 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- < 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. G* «-2S-» 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 -3-6 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 -1-18 Hogs. PIGS FOR SALE—Three months ~~oi<F: Tamworth. Berkshire and Duroc-Jersev pigs: entitled to be registered Prices rea sonable. Addresfl Ga. 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