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14 The Georgian’s Poultry and Live Stock Page WCH APPETITE BE YOUR FOWLS Is Best Test of Their Condition. In General. Give All They Will Eat. By CHARLES SIMMONDS. In feeding fowls for market or ogg production, their instincts or appetites are generally safe guides as to what and how much to feed. In fact, it is usually necessary to do all that is pos sible to increase or "sharpen" their op- I petltes to receive the great profits. So long as a hen has a bright red comb and a good appetite she is mak ing good use of her food and all that •he can be made to consume above j what is required to repair body waste will go to make eggs or to lay on fat, according to the nature of the hen. Nothing will force winter egg produc tion like a crumbling wet mash fed as soon in the morning as it Is light enough for the fowls to see to eat it. This mash will be eaten greedily long before the birds would venture off the roosts on a cold morning to eat cold dry mash or to scratch for whole grains. After eating the wet mash, the birds will begin working the automatic feed er and will consume about twice as much food (on a cold, short day) as If the mash were not given. If a wet mash is used for forcing in summer it will be most effective given Just before the birds go to roost at night (when dry mash Is hopper fed and the fowls may eat It an soon in the morning as they desire). A little spice added to the mash occasionally or a slight change In the ingredients of tho mash or grain feed will serve to sharp en the appetites of the birds. Don't Force the Breeders. With layers it is most profitable to force them to their utmost capacity for a year or two and then market them and fill their places with pullets, but with breeding stock this plan would work disaster, as the fertility of the eggs would be very low and what ehicks did hatch would be weak and not worth raising Birds intended for breeding should be well fed at all times, but with a view to keeping them in the most vigorous, healthy condition rather than produc ing eggs If they ate fed in this way. they will produce some eggs all the year, but not nearly as many as the birds that are forced for egg produc tion The pullet that is Intended for breed ing will require very different care If she reaches laying maturity In August or September than if not ready to lay ’before November or December. The bird that shows signs of laying in warm weather should be made to take plenty of exercise, eat nothing but dry feed and not too much meat food, or she will be well developed before beginning to lay. After she begins to lay this treatment should be continued until a little before- it is desired to use her eggs for incubating. But if the pullet does not reach maturity until the days are cold and short, she will generally post pone laying until warm weather the following spring, unless given extra good care, plenty of meat food, a warm mash in the morning, etc., until she be gins to lay, when she should be treated like the earlier hatched pullet that be gan laying in the summer. Giv« the Breeders Good Rest. As soon as the breeding season is over the hens that are to be used for breeding the following season should be moved to fresh range and given plenty of buttermilk or clabbered skim milk, but no meat foods. This will generally check egg production and they will moult early and lay on a little surplus fat before cold weather. The hens of the heavier breeds must be watched that they do not become over fat before the breeding season. If there is plenty of bran in the dry' mash that is fed and they are compelled to work for their grain they will not. A change of climate is good for fowls as well as humans, and invariably re sults in increased egg production and vigor of the birds that are removed to a different climate, but their progeny will sometimes be a disappointment after several years breeding. The rea son Is that every climate has its faults, and after a certain strain is bred for many years in a certain climate they become by 'natural selection, or the survival of the fittest," especially fitted to Withstand the severities of that par. tlcular climate. By the wear being thrown upon another part of the body the birds gain vigor upon being moved to a different climate, but not being especially fitted to combat the defects of the new climate, they may. after several generations (or sooner, if the change is great), become 'weakened in some part before natuial selection has had time to fit them for the new cli mate. Get Birds From Other Climates. For these reasons it is not wise to breed fowls in one climate continually without getting outside blood from a flock raised in a different climat. and under different conditions of feed and care, especially so when one starts by purchasing his fowls all from on< per son. When starting to raise exhibition stock it is always best to buy a pen or trio of one breeder mated by him Ti e females in the mating may be studied and a few others purchased of another breeder (if you use trap nests) and you •re then in a position to breed several years, should you desire, without hav ing to introduce blood from an un known strain. When it is desired to Introduce new blood a male may be purchased of either one of the breeders from which the original birds came with assurance that it will "nick" with the blood of your ow n strain nnd not tear down the results of any of your years of labor.—American Poultry Journal- PAIR OF BEAUTIES FROM BOYNTON PIGEON LOFT, ON FORREST AVENUE Map* - <_ —a POULTRYMEN SHOULD LEARN ADVERTISING By SAMUEL F. DE POY. What 1h advertising? Webster says, “It is publishing notice or giving infor mation.” While this is true, how much more is modern advertising! The suc cessful advertising of today must do more than publish notice; it must draw the attention of the reader and create an Interest for the tiling advertised suf ficient to land the order. Most all advertising that does not pay is either made up of very poor copy or lacks a systematic follow-up system. One is about as bad as tho other, but when we find both together wo can depend upon the money so spent as wasted. Many poultry advertisers do not know good copy from poor, and many others have no follow-up system whatever. They buy space at a high prioe, furnish some very poor copy, and then fold their arms and wait for re sults. If these results are unsatisfac tory. and they always are, the paper carrying such advertisements receives all the blame. How well the publish ers know these facts, although they dare not say much about them. Must Study It Carefully. Why do such conditions exist ? The only reason Is because poultry breed ers, as a class, do not study advertising as they should. None of them will at tempt to conduct a lawsuit if they have not studied law ; none without a medi cal education will attempt to make a diagnosis of a dangerous disease or prescribe a remedy; but nearly all will attempt to conduct an advertising cam paign whether knowing anything about advertising or not. We sometimes read of the great suc cesses made by advertising When studying these we find nearly all have been carefully planned by some adver tising man and the plan executed with as much system as is employed In the operation of any of ouMreat railroads. Os course, some of our foremost poul trymen of today are doing their own advertising They are doing it success fully because they have studied and mastered the science and art. tile theory and practice of modern trade getting. It Isn't the Paper's Fault. When I hear an advertiser say that he is getting no inquiiies from his ad in a paper with a fair circulation. I put hint down at once as a weak copy man. If he receives plenty of replies but makes few sales I lay the trouble at once to his follow-up system One or the other must he at fault. When you pay 325 or SSO for white space in any publication, you must re gard it as, only the rental for the TABLE SCRAPS IN LARGE AMOUNTS UNDESIRABLE The feeding of table scraps, especially in large quantities, is not very good for fowls. The rich foods which we have at our tables, which in many in stances are not good for us. w lien fed to liens will bring on liver trouble and indigestion. The birds will not care much about eating their grain, and will only bestir themselves when table scraps again come before them, when they will gorge themselves. They like them, even as children like cake, but in both instances a moderate quantity only should be allowed. When table scraps are fed. they should be mixed with ground grains and fed In this w ay. <>f course, where rds to* the table leavings of a small family it is of no moment. They can he thrown to them just as they come from the table without the danger that any one bird will get overloaded with tho food. . It is then but a lively chase, in which many are disappointed. This is a good diversion for them, but beware of feed ing a half-dozen hens with an almost exclusive diet of table leavings Bad Results Come From Crowding. It is inadvisable to keep more than 50 chicks together in one coop. If more are kept together they are very apt to crowd and some wilt get crushed in the press Furthermore, the ventilation must be very go. .1 where so many chicks are kept in one small house. It is better t'Xkeep but 25 or 30 to gether. Divide th. flocks from tim> to time and you will be betetr satisfied with the result/ THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY. AUGUST 31, 1912. ground. The bountifulness of the crop all depends upon tho quality of seed sown and the kind and amount of cul tivation used to bring the crop to ma turtty. If a farmer should rent a field for SSO and should not have the proper quality of seed to plant in it to insure a good crop, he would surely get some elsewhere. The same applies to •adver tising. It would be better for .some ad vertisers to spend $25 for space and $25 for good copy to run in it than to spend SSO for space and fill it with “home made" copy that will produce no re sults. But Don't Get Discouraged, What I have just said may have a tendency to discourage some beginner in advertising. 1 do not want such to be the case. I . only want to point out some of the stumbling blocks that will be found in the pathway. If I should tell you that advertising was an easy thing you would know at once that it was untrue. To tell the truth, modern advertising is a big problem. Again, if I were ty toll you that raising poultry was an easy thing tliat can be success fully carried on while lying on our flowery beds of ease, you would put me down at once as an untruthful man. be cause you know better. I may as well tell you one as the other. Each has its ups and downs; Its pleasures and its pitfalls; its advantages and its disad vantages; and the only way to accom plish anything worth while in either is to grasp every opportunity that leads us a step nearer to our goal. When you have an opportunity to study advertising make the most of that opportunity'. Study the advertising of such men as U. R. Fishel, E. B. Thomp son. A. Hawkins, J. Fisher. Wil liam Cook <<• Sons, Kellerstrass and others. Try to find the reason for their success in their advertising. You may not be able to work out the details the same as they have done, but that makes no difference. The principle which they use in advertising Is correct, and if you use the same principle you can not help but arrive at the same result. ’l\ere are a treat many factors which make up the whole of advertising. Some of them are: Honesty, continuity, con. fidenee. style, acquaintanceship and as sociation. They are the threads that make up the great business fabric and must be thoroughly understood and carefully handled to insure success in any business venture. Permit me to say. however, that tile more we learn of every factor entering Into a pub licity campaign the better prepared we will be to conduct that campaign to a successful finish. The Industrious Hen. I DON’T FEED MUCH CORN WHEN WEATHER IS WARM t’orn in any form should be fed but sparingly during hot weather. Os tile solid grains, wheat and oats are the safest and best, ami sprouted oats are especially good. Green food can be so easily procured in the summer tliat the fowls should never lack for an abundance of it. Lawn clippings, lettuce, Swiss chard and many weeds from the garden are readily eaten by fowls kept in confine ment, though some care should be taken tliat this food is not wasted by being given in large quantities at a time. Little and often, is a good motto. VENTILATE ROOSTING QUARTERS OF CHICKENS If the coop is exposed to the direct ray s of the afternoon sun especial care must be taken to see that the roosting quarters are well ventilated for if the fowls are shut up in some tight closet, with no fresh air to reach them, they will suffer during the whole night, and ! w ill be in no condition to begin the I next day. in some way provision must be m ide for their comfort during the ■ night. Even an occasional neglect at tiles, points will affect the fowls un favorably. and unless fowls have the | best of care at every point, they can I not do their best. *?< r ■ *1? K *• wwwmmbMMßß.U Pflliii • . W"' ■ ‘ .. ■•••' J) THERE'S MONEY IN RAISING OF SQUABS By JOHN A. PORTER. (Pigeon Expert of Porterdale, Ga.) I am a utility pigeon breeder and have found the business not only prof itable, but extremely interesting. The average person is disposed to smile when you state to him you are breeding pigeons as a business propo sition. but a careful investigation into the matter will convince him that as compared with poultry, pigeon breeding not only requires very much less capi tal and labor, but If properly handled is more remunerative. I am speaking from the standpoint of utility pigeon breeding. One has only to look over The Na tional Squab Magazine or any of the other utility pigeon publications to convince himself of the immense growth of the squab industry. Squab Replace Game. The large increase in the consump tion of squabs is due in a great meas ure to the scarcity of game and the stringent laws prohibiting the sale of same in the hotels and cases. Five or six years ago scarcely any of the hotels in the South offered squabs on their menu, hut today they not only occupy prominent places thereon, but are more frequently given special men tion. The people in the North awoke a long time ago to the fact that there was not a more delicious and appetizing morsel than a well prepared squab. "Extra Jumbo squab” is one of the highest priced dishes offered on the menu cards of the best cases in New York and other Northern cities. A Breeder's First Steps. Before going into sqtinb farming one should familiarize himself with the dif ferent breeds of pigeons as much as possible, and settle definitely Just what breed is best a'dapted to his require ments. After he has done this, the next thing to do is to procure plans for his plant from some one of the suc cessful pigeon breeders, as his success will depend as much on any one thing as on the proper construction of his lofts. Here in the South where insect pests are more numerous than they are in the North, it is necessary that the houses be well ventilated, but that they be kept fiee from draughts. The nest boxes should be made of ample size with sliding bottoms, so that cleaning can be done quickly and effectually. As a general rule not over 50 pairs of breeders should be confined in one pen, and it must be seen to that they haye a plentiful supply of clean drinking water at all times. It is also necessary to furnish them with a basin in which they can bathe at least twice a week. Pigeons Seldom Sick. if the lofts are properly cleaned and ventilated at regular intervals it will be found that pigeons are free from practically all diseases, provided ‘clean, sound grain is fed. The diet should consist of wheat, cracked corn, kajio corn, Canada peas and other grains and seeds—the greater the variety the bet ter. For nesting material tobacco stems are good, but nothing can equal red cedar shavings if you are where they can be procured. The writer usually takes an old tele graph pole and runs it through a plan ing machine until it is reduced to shav ings. They certainly have a tendency to keep off lice and mites. About the Best Breeds. A word as to the different utility pigeons to breed, and I will close. Some of the 'best breeds are as follows: Homeos., Carneaux. Maltese Hen. Swiss Mountain Mondaine and White Kings There are probably more Homeos in use than anx other one breed. TlXis. the writer believes, is due to the fact that they have been bred very much longer in this country, and as a rule are very much cheaper. Personally, the writer prefers eithei Carneaux. Maltese or Swiss Mondaines as they' breed almost as fast and their squabs weigh from twelve to sixteen pounds to the dozen, where the Homeos will only run from seven to nine pounds. However, there is a great dif ference of opinion among breeders on this point, as to the different breeds to raise. GOOD RECIPE THIS FOR MAKING BEST WHITEWASH A reliable method of mixing white wash is as follows (smaller proportions may be used to make the desired amount): (1) One bushel quicklime slacked with fifteen gallons of water; keep in barrel covered until steam ceases to rise; stir occasionally to pre vent scorching. (2) Two and one-half pounds of rye flour beat up in a half gallon of cold water; then add two gal lons of boiling water. (3) Two and one-half pounds of salt (rock salt is best) dissolved in two and one-half gal lons of hot water. Mix (2) and (3), then pour into (1) and stir until well mixed. Alum added will prevent it rubbing off, one ounce to each gallon of w hitewash. Molasses, a pint to every five gallons of whitewash, will ca*use it to penetrate the wood and stick bet ter. A one-pound cake of cheap soap dis solved in boiling water and added to every' five gallons of whitewash will give it a gloss like oil paint. It is best applied with a spray, as it then can be forced into all cracks and crevices. Some apply hot to kill lice, but we pre fer to add to the above about four ounces of carbolic acid, which will do the work just as well and the white wash may be applied cold. If a brush is used be careful that all cracks are filled and apply a good even coat. It looks so much better than if dobbed on The above mixture will produce a product equal to paint and will go on with a brush and look just as smooth if care is taken in applying. Ducks. WILL SELL six White Indian Runner ducks, four and five months old; prize winners; for quick sale. $4 each. T. S. Baker, Eastman. Ga. 75-8-31 FOR SALE—Eleven Fawn Indian Runner ducks, April hatched, $lO. Eight Barred Plymouth Rock hens and one Ringlet Barred rooster, $7.50. Mrs. N. H. Young, Turin, Ga.2B-8 31 FOR SALE—lndian Runner ducks, fawn and white, four and a half months old. laying strain. $1.50 each. .1. D. Cornwell. Druid Hills Station, Atlanta. 27-8-31 SAY. BILL, you can get Penciled Indian Runner ducks at $1 each. Fawn. $1.50. at. Copperas Falls Farm. Tullahoma. Tenn 8-31-4 INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS—Either pen- ciled or fawn and white at $1 each; good ones; time yet to raise stock; order today Munnimaker Poultry Farm, Normandy, Tenn.s-25-3 FOR SALE- Trio of Indian Runner ducks. white and fawn; $5. Call Main 3512-J. 39-8-24 FOR SALE —My whole stock of Indian Runner ducks; reason for selling, leav ing town. Miss L. Randall. Vinings. Ga. -30-13 INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS—Two pens; four ducks and a drake to the pen. will sell $5 per pen or $lO for the two pens. 360 North Boulevard. 39-8-29 BUFF orpi jgton ducks. I offer a few trios for present delivery from my prize winning stock at $lO to $25; show birds a matter of correspondence: eggs. $5 per 12. Carlos Lynes, 20 Walton st., Atlanta. Ga. J 8-29-9 WHITE Runner ducks, pairs and trios for sale; prices reasonable. Walter L. Wight, Cairo. Ga. 52-8-27 INDIAN RUNNER ducks, four and five months old; lay white eggs; laying: pairs $3.50. trios $5: pens of six ducks and drake $lO. eggs, twelve for sl. Oak Dean Poultry Farm. Stone Mountain, Ga. 8-20-14 Are you busy this evening? Even if you are. take a few moments off and read the great list of bargains in every line on the Want Ad Pages of this paper. You will be repaid many times. Miscellaneous Poultry. Chicken Ranch For Sale. TWO lots, 80x1721 i; seven-room house; perfect; 60-foot porch: incubator room with incubator: hot air brooder: chicken lot 80x100; fence eight feet high (board and wire): cut into five runs; roosting rooms for each run; stocked with fine White Rocks: pulled off 800 last year; fine garden; open range; some fruit. Price. 51,600 cash or half down, balance time in building and loan or mortgage. Courtesy to all real estate men. Reason for sell ing: Too much office work. Address Dr. C. D. Seely. Fitzgerald. Ga. 73-8-31 SELLING OCT—Black, White. Buff Or pingtons. Black Langshans, Pekin. Buff Orpington and Runner ducks (white and fawn and white). Prices should move them. Also collie dogs and Berkshire hogs. W. E. Lumley, Tullahoma. Tenn. 3-30-2 EGGS FOR HATCHING after Sept. 1 Baby chicks after Oct. 1. From out high-grade. vigorous. prize-winning strains of White Leghorns, Buff Orping tons and White Plymouth Rocks. Fall prices very low. Send for them. Baton A* Haywood. 166 Springfield ave., Guyton. Ga. ; B-17-4 FOR SALE--Beautiful pen Plymouth Rocks and Minorca hens, account mov ing. <’all Sunday, 18 Cunningham place, west side. 34-8-30 Dogs. FOR SALE—One well trained pointer dog, three years old. F. F. Preston. Brox ton, _< Ja. B 31-26 COLLIE puppies, high class, ready for immediate delivery; ‘black with white marking; $5 each. R. H. Burford, Gaines ville. Ga. 54-8-30 FOR SALE—Rabbit hounds, fox. coon, opossum, skunk, deer. bear, wolf, blood ‘hounds. setters. pointers, ferrets. Brown’s Kennels. York. Pa. 55-8-26 FOR SALE—Four well trained fox anti out hounds; also two No. 1 opossum and coon dogs. M. L. Crawford. Tiger. Ga. 8-24-42 Cows. FOR SALE —Fine milch cow; price right. Phone Ivy 5522. 33.-8-29 Hogs. FOR SALE —Two Berkshire boars, one and two years old: one sow two years old; one gilt and four: all registered. Will sell cheap if taken at once. F. F. Preston, Broxton, Ga. 8-31-25 Miscellaneous Poultry. H. G. HASTINGS & CO. 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. PAPER WHITE] NARCISSUS BULBS—AII large, strong, sure bloomers, 25c a dozen, postpaid 40c. WHITE ROMAN HYACINTIIS ~ be started now for early blossoms. 40c a dozen, postpaid 50c. I ? REESIA BULBS —20c a dozen, postpaid 25c. IT WILL PAY YOU to keep on hand Lee’s Germo zone. The poultry medicine. It is not only a cure, but a preventative of poultry diseases. Fine for swelled head, canker, roup, cholera, etc. Put up in liquid and tablet form. Price 50c. Tablets can be sent by mail. CONKEY’S NOX-I-C'IDE is an ideal disinfectant. You can’t get anything better for mites in your poultry houses, and for a dip for poultry. Two table spoons in two gallons of water is the mixture to be used as a dip. One pint can 35c, 1 quart 60e, 2 quarts 90c, 1 gallon $1.50. IF YOL T HAVE] DUCKS you will find that the “Red Comb’’ Meat Mash is the feed for them. It is a well balanced feed, can be fed wet or dry. If it is kept before your hens regularly you will note the increase in the egg production. Ten pounds 25c, 50 pounds $1.20, 100 pounds $2.35. CRUSHED OYSTER SH ELL and poultry grit~ FiU ty pounds 50c. 100 pounds SI.OO. ( HI( KEN M HEAT, wheat bran, shorts, charcoal, alfalfa meal, beef scraps, etc. “BUG DEATH” IS ANO NPOI SONOUS PREPA RATION put up especially for killing insects that bother vegetation. Put up in convenient size pack ages. and is easily applied. One pound package 15c, postpaid 35c; 3 pounds 35c, 5 pounds 50c *l2l-2 pounds SI.OO. ONCE TRIED the “Red Comb" Poultry Feeds are always tod. I he\ are the feeds that are all feed with no grit, shell, or waste. A trial order will con vince you that this is true. RUST’S HAVEN CLIMAX CONDITION POW DERS fed to your fowls once or twice a week will present bowel trouble and aid their digestion. One pound package 25c. 2 1-2 pounds 50c. Add one cent an ounce for postage. GOOD EGG Maker. ( onkey s Lavino- I’onic. Rust’s Egg Pro ducer and the Southern Poultrv Remedv. Either of these will give satisfactory results. 25'c and 50c size packages of each. TURNIP SEED—Georgia Rye. vqi's- Let us make you special quotations. CONKEY’S, Lee’s and Rust’s Lice Powders. ~~ and Conkey’s Liquid Lice Killers. A GOOD TIME to plant a patch of rape fYr~"th7 chickens. Ten cents a pound. 3 pounds ‘>sc Add 10c a pound for postage. GALVANIZED IRON DRINKING FOUNTS grit and shell boxes, feed pans and hoppers. ALL SIZE. E LOW ER PO I S. tern pans and pot sau cers 1 * Orpingtons. FoK SALK —My entire lot Buff Orping tons cheap; tine chance for some one to go into chicken business. 1444 DeKalb ave.lo4-8-3t BIFF ORPINGTONS —Exhibition stock a specialty. Eggs for hatching and baby chicks Reduced autumn prices. Send for catalogue. Bacon & Haywood. 168 Springfield avenue. Guyton. Ga. 8-31-1 CRYSTAL White Orpington nens; one to three dollars; young stock; bargain prices to make room Write us. Valley View Farm. North Chattanooga, Tenn. 41-8-11 Plymouth Rocks. WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS—ExhibD tion stock a specialty. Eggs for hatch ing and baby chicks. Reduced autumn prices Send for catalogue. Bacon & - Havwood, 150 Springfield avenue. Guyton. Ga.' 8-31-2 Leghorns. WHITE LEGHORNS—Highest quality, strongest vitality, unequaled utility. Exhibition stock a specialty. Eggs for hatching and baby chicks. A postal brings interesting catalogue and reduced autumn prices. Send for it. Address Ba con & Haywood, 100 Springfield avenue. Guyton. Ga. 8-31 -3 WHITE LEGHORNS-Six hens, two grown pullets and handsome cock; all for $7.50. K. L. Culver. Sparta, Ga. 8-26-21 Wyandottes. WHITE WYANDOTTES: few trios; April hatch: to make room; only $3.50. Ed L Culver. Sparta. Ga. B-26-20 GOLDEN LACED and Columbian AVyan dottes, S. C. R. I Reds; eggs. $1 and $2 per 15. W. D. Bennett. Molena, Ga. 12-13-33 Bantams. BANTAMS —Game Bantams. Sebrights, Butt Cochins. Carlisle Cobb. Athens, Ga 4-26-33 EggS. THOROUGHBRED Buff Orpington eggs. $1 per fifteen. 126 'Windsor street. Ma 1 n 3588.4-27-25 Kean ann answer the Want Ads In The Georgian. A good rule for every individ ual who reads. Make It your rule and you will be more prosperous and more contented. Miscellaneous Poultry.