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12 TheGeorgian’s Poultry and Live Stock Page MAKE PUNS NOW FOR THE WINTER Clean Up Your Plant and Get Everything Tight Before Cool Weather Arrives. By LYNN C. TOWNSEND. September is a busy month in the poultryman's calendar. At this time of the year his duties are manifold, for be sides the regular routine of work, he must begin to prepare for winter The moult must be carried through success fully and the birds gotten in shape for the protection of winter eggs. If in business for the fancy end at all, the future show birds must be put in shape, for this month usually marks th# open ing of the fall poultry -hows Moulting although a natural pro cess. is very’ weakening on the fowl’s vitality, and great care should he given the birds at this time While we do not advocate 'starving” the birds to force an early moult, yet the following method may be found of value. If the birds are fed on half rations for a short time at the beginning of the moult, and then feed heavily, the re sult will be that they are hastened through the process and are laying and In good health, while the ordinary fowl Is just undergoing the process. l-’.-d the bird lightly for about two weeks.. This stops the egg production tin i low - | era the weight, and then heavy lending I will cause a quick moult and a general upbuilding of the system At this time feed only that which la good for the formation of feathers. As practically the same feed will pro duce#eggs, your* pocket! should not suffer in consequence. Wheat, tone meal and oats make excellent food tor the moulting fowls Sour milk and a generous supply of green food should also be given. It Is a good Idea to re move the male bird from the pen dur ing the moulting season. Now Is Time To Clean Up. Now is a good time to clean up and get everything in readme- for winter. Lay In a plentiful supply of good dry sand for the dust baths. Give the houses a thorough cleaning and fumi gate them well Get busy with the rake and clean out the summer’s output of rubbish around the yards. Store away all the brooders and < oops that you are not using, after giving them a good coating of some strong disinfectant. September is a good month in w hieh to whitewash the houses. In addition to bring an enemy of lice and mites, whitewashed walls will make the house much more light and cheery during the dark winter days. Apply the white wash with a sprayer, for then you will be sure In teaching the crevices. Or dinary whitewash is made more effec tive by using carbolic acid in connec tion with it Slake the litne in an old tub with a sufficient quantity of wa ter to make a wash of the desired consistency, adding a little water at a time. Then arid a fluid ounce of crude carbolic acid to every bucket of water. Put it on hot and get it into the cracks by means of a spray er. If you expect to exhibit at the fall shows, the specimens should be placed In the training coops now. Handle the birds as much as possible, so that they will be perfectly tame when in the show room. If you expect to exhibit fowls th*at will need washing, you had better begin to practice up now. Take some dirty bird that isn’t as valuable as the show bird and try your hand at washing him. While seemingly very simple, the Job isn’t as easy as it looks. The winter quarters for the young pullets should be thoroughly overhaul ed and whitewashed. The pullets should be moved from the colony coops to the laying pens the last of this month. This ■will enable them to get settled nicely and tn working order before winter be gins. Take Care of the Pullets. If the pullets are hatched in March or April, they should be laying in Oc tober. and then good care and food will keep them laying steadily right through winter. The food and especially' the care are the most important factors. The first essential is In having the pens cleaned up. whitewashed and every thing in good working order. Remem ber that the pullets have been on free range, and housing them up entirely re verses the conditions. Keep the scratching litter always on the floor and change it whenever ft becomes musty or damp. Beware of drouths and the cold rain storms, for now the birds v ill catch cold easily. Feeding Is an ever-interesting sub ject and deserves more than passing interest. Next to a variety of sound, wholesome grains ranks plenty of green food. The feed bills can be greatly lowered by the free use of green foods hence the breeder who fails to supply this want Is certainly short-sighted. Never feed musty or dirty feed. Get the best;, wheat, corn or oats are the staple foods, with meat and green food as accessories. The diet is injurious; bulky material is needed to give variety. Milk in any form Is ac ceptable and is greatly relished by the flock.—lndustrious Hen. LA SHOW SET FOR OCTOBER 30. The Louisiana State fair will be held at Shreveport. La., October 30 to No vember 6. 1912. The poultry depart ment will receive special attention The judge will be W. Theo. Wittman. Al lentown. Pa Secretary, L. N. Brug gernoff. Shreveport, La. S. M. Wat son, superintendent. I nr ■ - firWir naff TURKEYS NEED RANGE; LET THEM HAVE PLENTY It is a mistake to confine turkeys in small inclosures. By nature they are roving birds and gel their feed on a wide range. Turkeys should In raised with turkey hens, b< ■ attse the j oingi poults with chicken mothers will not i range as fur as they natui illy should ; do. The turkeys can usually be made to , lay where you want them to by mak ing nests in boxes or barrels; of clean, dty hay. in sheltered, quiet places about the farm. Do not use anything new. , as it will make them suspicious. It is : no use to attempt to raise turkeys tin- ; less they are kept free from lice. Re , sure to ex inline them every ten days The young t urkeys should be turn'd out I into the fields just soon a» he dew is off the grass and allowed to roam tlil 1 about dark. i Give the turkey hen a feed of grain I nt night. If fed heavily in the morn ing, she will not range as far with the youngsters: ns if she starts out to find ! her ow n breakfast. DO NOT ECONOMIZE ON STRAW IN THE NESTS i Straw is cheap compared to the loss i of broken eggs In the nest. Keep plen- I ty of straw in the nests. If you hav< ever seen a chicken lag an egg you can | appreciate the feeling of the egg whet. | it alights. It is worse still when they are from the breeding pen. Don’t be tight on handing out the feed, especially to the growing young sters. You will come out on the worst end if you do. Deny yourself a few pleasures. and not the chicks a few comforts About 99 per cent of the minus quantity In eggs is lack of feed and poor feeding, and then people won der why pullets don’t lay until spring. Don't soak corn In water to make it swell up to save a little bit or. forget to order feed and make grass do, for every thing TRAP NESTS HELP TO MAKE HENS PROFITABLE The poultryman of toflay ought to make the most of the trap nest. If you have never tried it. you will be likely to find it clumsy business at first. Rut if you get the right kind of nests and handle them with care and faithful ness. the results will be a revelation to you. The trap nest is to the poul tryman wlu\t the most scientific milk test Is to the dairyman. When you discover that you have a fowl that is capable of making a great egg rec ord. mark her carefully and follow her trf the finish of her career. She Is "not for sale.’’ it ought not to take long to test a bird. A bird that will lay six eggs In seven days and do ft for a month has proven her superior value. A thousand hens like that next Janu ary would soon pay for a farm. Find them out! TURKEYS ARE HARD TO RAISE. BUT PROFITABLE Raising turkeys requires skill and patience, but any woman who has a fondness for them can successfully care for a flock of turkeys with profit The farm woman, who can command a w ide range for her turkeys and is de termined to make money in the busi ness. will find turkey raising a most ' profitable part of poultry raising. The bronze variety is very desirable for market, on account of its size and the sweet flavor of its meat. But they are hard to raise, on account of their rov ing disposition RICHMOND PLANS SHOW. One of the banner shows of the South will be the one held by the Virginia Poultry association, January 14-18, at Richmond, Va. Charles T. Cornman and J H. Wolsieffer will be the judgt s. and G. F. Guvenator is secretary. Their premium list is full of attractive specials anti will be promptly sent by the secretary to all applicant* QUE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AM) NEWS. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 1912. THREE BIRDS OF QUALITY faTX’* 1; : ' K ‘ W txncii: 4 ' At the left is one of the superb White Orpington hens at the Kiinballville farm; at the right. Charley Dobbs’ great Rhode Island Red eoek. vvhit’h has won half a dozen blues; below, one of J. M. Karwiseh’s many excellent White Plymouth Rocks. DUCK RAISING PROVES EASY AND PROFITABLE 3y H. H. FEH RENSCHILD. The raising of ducks for market is, in my opinion, the most profitable branch of poultry keeping. A sandy soil and somewhat sloping location is the best; an unfailing supply of water is also es sential. It is always advisable to buy breeding stock or eggs for hatching from a reliable market duck raiser in preference to one of the so-called fan ciers. Keep your breeders in tiptop condition and you will have no trouble In hatching their eggs and raising the ducklings. Give them clean and airy sleeping quarters, clean water to drink and plenty of green food to eat. A good laying ration for ducks consists of 300 pounds of bran, 300 of cornmeal, 100 of No. 2 flour. 100 of beefscrap and 150 of alfalfa meal. I keep one drake to every five ducks. The majority of duck breeders keep their breeders in flocks of 30. Nine years ago I started to keep all my breeders in one flobk and on free range. With the exception of separating at times a tew birds for experiment, I have never changed this practice. I now keep over 500 breeders in one flock and on free range. Keep Hens With Breeders. For bedding 1 use sawdust, but dur ing very cold weather and when there is snow 1 prefer dry leaves, straw or hay By keeping some hens with your breeders and throwing some small grain into leaves or straw, you will gain two points—it will give your breeders needed exercise, and the hens will shake ui the bedding and mix dirt with the droppings, which will make them less offensive. When sawdust Is used the droppings should be raked up daily. No matter how clean you keep the quarters, some of the eggs will be Boiled. They should be washed as soon as they are gathered. Eggs should be incubated as soon as possible. The fresher the eggs the bet ter they will hatch, especially in warm weather. The temperature in the incu bators is kept at 102 for the first four or live days, is gradually increased to 103, and during the last three days of the hatch is kept at from 104 to 105 degrees. After the eggs have been in cubated a week I cool them once a day by leaving them out of the incubator long enough to become pretty cool, which may take from ten minutes to over an hour, ’ according to the length of time the eggs have been incubated and the temperature of the incubator cellar. I also moisten the eggs from one to three times a week. As soon as the ducklings are hatched and dried off they are removed to brooders, which are heated to from 95 to 100 degrees. For the first two weeks feed and water ane constantly kept be fore them. If ducklings come from healthy stock, there should be no trou ble in raising 98 per cent. They should be fed a crumbly mash containing plenty of bone-forming material. A good ration consists of 300 pounds of bran. 500 of cornmeal, 250 o,f No. 2 flour, 300 of beefscrap and 150 of al falfa meal. Three times a day I feed to the ducklings all of this ration they will eat up clean. Keep Brooders Clean. The brooders should be kept clean. Be sure you keep them warm enough so that the ducklings can spread all over the floor and will not have to huddle up in a bunch to keep warm. Ducklings should be removed from the brooders at from one to two weeks of age. ac cording to the time of year. I have taken ducklings from brooders when they were only twelve days old and put them In a house without hovers where the water was frozen every morning, and those same ducklings two weeks later were put into coops with the front and back partly open. We had about three inches of snow tit the time and freezing temperature every night. Those ducklings were marketed at the age of nine weeks and six days, and the returns for them showed that they had averaged 6 pounds and 14 ounces each. In order to do well, ducklings must have plenty of fresh air. which they can not get as long as they are kept in stuffy brooders and under hov ers. Don’t crowd your ducklings. The lewir you keep in a pen the faster thet will grow .—Country Gentleman. GET POULTRY HOUSED BY OCT. 1 AT THE LATES By the first of October most poultry men will want their fowls we’l accus tomed to the hou-es in which they are to live and lay all through the winter. If you wish to keep your hens from laying, change them about frequently from one roosting and laying house to another. That is the way we do when we wish to save their strength for later rffort. But if you really desire to get eggs and get them regularly, get your hens Just where you will want to keep them permanently. Now is the time to place the fully developed pul lets and the well-moulted hens in their permanent, roosting and laying quar ters. Pullets yet undeveloped may be permitted yet to run as usual. But the permanent housing should come sev eral weeks before the laying is ex pected to begin, if not. it will put them off that much longer. KEEP FOWLS IN ORCHARD IF ONE IS AVAILABLE The hot days of August and Septem ber are very trying to poultry, young and old. and great pains should be taken to make them as comfortable as possible. The ideal place for poultry in the summer Is in an orchard, or grove, where the trees furnish shade; but in most instances such a place can not be had, ami we must provide artificial shelter, of boards or muslin. Sunflowers with pole beans growing around them, or morning glory, or other quick growing vines, will be a great help. USE WHIEWASH; IT IS CHEAP AND EFFECTIVE It's to the henhouses now! Are they clean? Make them so clean and so wholesome and so llceless that you yourself would be willing to go right into them and sleep night after night. Whitewash is "cheap as dirt." Spend a day with the brush, and you will be tickled as a child when you see the result. What if you do get white washed yourself? It will rinse ofi. It isn't dangerous. SUFFRAGETTE flags PLACED BY STORM ON GOLF LINKS OF KING EDINBURGH, Sept. 7.—Militant suf fragettes today struck their boldest blow by invading the estate at Bal moral castle. King George's Scottish residence, where his majesty is at pres ent entertaining a number of cabinet officers. Evading the royal guards, the women tore up all the golf flags upon the voyal links, substituting purple banners bear ing the Inscription: ‘‘Cabinet ministers must stop forci bly feeding women!" “Votes for women means peace for cabinet ministers." Fearing that King George might suf fer at the hands of the women, special guards were provided for hfs majesty when he walked upon the grounds to day. MACON POLICE W ANT BANDIT WHO HELD UP NEW ORLEANS TRAIN MACON. GA., Sept. 7.—E. Edwards, the bandit who held up the express train near New Orleans Wednesday night, is wanted by the Macon police on charges of cheating and swindling. The proprietor of a local hotel is in possession of a suit case left by Ed wards when he departed from Macon several months ago without paying his board bill, and a number of merchants w ould like to consult him about the dis position of money given toward a fake advertising scheme into which they were inveigled. The letters in the suit case prove that, as he states now in New Orleans. Edwards' home Is in Jupiter, Fla., where he has a wife and three chil dren He spent about six weeks in Mae on. Orpingtons. BUFF ORPlNGTONS—Exhibition stock a specialty. Eggs for hatching and baby chicks. Reduced autumn prices. Send for catalogue. Bacon & Haywood, 166 Springfield avenue, Guyton. Ga. 8-31-1 Plymouth Rocks. WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS—Exhibi tion stock a specialty. Eggs for hatch ing and baby chicks. Reduced autumn prices. Send for catalogue. Bacon & Haywood. 166 Springfield avenue. Guvton, Ga. 8-31-2 Leghorns. 5,000 EARLY HATCHErT'whitT~and Brown Leghorn pullets bred for eggs. In numbers to suit. Also Airedale ter riers. American Poultry Plant. Collins. Ohio. 43-9-7 SINGLE COMB Brown Leghorns. 5 hens and handsome young cockerel. This is proper mating; all for 85. Ed L. Culver. Sparta, Ga. , 9-7-2 WHITE LEGHORNS—Highest quality, strongest vitality, uncqualed 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 A- Haywood, 166 Springfield avenue. Guyton. Ga. 8-31-3 R. I. Reds. FOR SALE—Thoroughbred Rhode Island Red pullets; fine color and markings; April hatched; $L apiece. Mrs. J. C. Wilkes, Molena, Ga. 67-9-7 SINGLE COMB Rhode Island Reds. 4 hens and unrelated cock, all raised last year; to make room, only $5. Ed. L. Cul ver, Sparta, (Ja. 9-7-3 Wy and ottes. FOR SALE, Partridge Wyandotte chick ens. Guarantee fair winners. H. M. Ross, Tullahoma. Tenn. 9-7-9 GOLDEN LACED and Columbian Wyan dottes. S. C. R. I. Reds; eggs, $1 and 82 per 15. W. D. Bennett. Molena, Ga Ducks. SAY. BILL, you can get Penciled Indian Runner ducks at $1 each. Fawn, 81.50. at Copperas Falls Farm, Tullahoma. Tenn. 8-31-4 Indian RUNNERTtucKS— Either pen ciled or fawn and white at 81 each; good ones; time yet to raise stock: order today. Munnimaker Poultry Farm, Normandy. Tenn. 5-25-3 BI FF Orpington ducks. I offer a few trios for present delivery from my prize winning stock at $lO to 825; show birds a matter of correspondence; eggs. $5 per 12. Carlos Lynes, 20 Walton st., Atlanta, Ga. 8-29-9 Miscellaneous Poultry. Miscellaneous Poultry. SEEDSMEN FOR THE SOUTH. 16 WEST MITCHELL STREET. FOI’R CITY DELIVERIES DAILY. NORTH AND SOI TH SIDE 9 A M.. INMAN PARK AND WEST END P. M BELL PHONE M. 2568. ATLANTA 2568. F3ITHER OF THESE will start your hens to la\ ing. Conkey's Laying Tonic. Rust’s Egg Producer. Lee’s Egg Maker or The Southern Poultry h’eniedv. 25c and 50c sizes of each. DON'T WAIT TOO LATE, start a few bulbs indoors now for early blossoms. We can supply you with large, strong, surebloomers of the following varieties: Paper White Narcissus 25c a dozen, postpaid 40c: White Roman Hyacinths 4Ou a dozen, postpaid 50c Freesias 20c a dozen, postpaid 25c. LEE’S. Conkey’s and Rust's Lice Powders are all good. Price 25c a box. I-FEJS 50 c GERMOZONE. THE Poultry Modi cine for roup, canker, cholera, swelled head, etc. It is not only a cure, but a pre ventative of poultry diseases. Liquid and tablet form. Tablets can be sent by mail. NO TROI BLE TO CURE scaly leg fowls with Con key’s Scaly Leg Remedy. Price 50c. A BEAUTIFUL COLLECTION of flowering plants. Call in and let us show them to you. “red COMB”""POULTRy3 ? F4EDS alwa> •s give en tire satisfaction. LEE’S OR CONK EY’B W HITE DIARRHOEA RE Ab EDY will cure chicks that are troubled with white diarrhoea. Price of each 50c. PI RE PRESSED SALT BRICK for stock and pi geons 15c each or two for 25c. Medicated Salt Brick for stock 25c each. MOCKING BIRD, Canary, Parrot and Squirrel Cages. Bird Seed, Gravel. Manna, Bitters, Cuttie Bone, etc. MALE CANARIES—AII little beauties, and guaran teed singers. $2.50 each. If it is not convenient for you to call at our store and make a selection, we will take pleasure in selecting you a singer. MITES CAN T STAY where Conkey’s Nox-i-Cide is used regularly. No trouble to use. Just mix it with water and spray the poultry houses. Two table spoons mixed with two gallons of water can’t be beat as a dip for poultry. Price. 1 pint 35c, 1 quart 60c, 2 quarts 90c. 1 gallon $1.50. I SE "Bl G DEATH” on vegetables that are bother ed with bugs and worms. It is a nonpoisonous preparation, put up in convenient size packages. <an be put on in the morning when dew is on the plants or can be mixed with water. One pound package 1 postpaid 35c; 3 pounds 35c. 5 pounds 50c, 12 1- pounds SI.OO. ALL SIZE FLOW ER POTS, fern pans and p°l saucers. BEET SCtIAPS, alfalfa meal, wheat bran, short* 5 ' chicken wheat, charcoal, grit, crushed ovster shell, etc Bantams. BANTAMS—Game Bantams, Buff Cochins. Carlisle Cobb,’ Athen ’ —'« - u THOROUGHBRED Buff ' - ?'- -37-25 Miscellaneous Poultry. S ELI ~lN gTmV^ BI a pingtons. Black Langshans, Pekir Orpington and Runner ducks (white fawn and white). Prices shoo a nd them. Also collie dogs and Blrks'ld? hogs w. E. Lumley, Tullahoma Ten’ 3-30-2 Horses and Carriages - J? rey very gentle. R . C . | WANTED—A-No 1 dty broke snrrev horse to weign 1.150 pounds or mor. good. Call I. N. Ragsdale, Main 119’ be Cows. TWO fine cows, fresh in miik?'7bT; a 7 e '' will be sold cheap jf taken at once Can be seen at 107 Garden st. 9-7-’" Dogs. BEAUTIFUL female French noozllr. m n . , v n ' gent: five mon ths |lr , e 40 Alice st. u-7 » ( FOR SALE—Scotch Collier pup. pies, beautifully marked and richly marked. Come and sec them any time. Atlanta 1830. 137 Lake avenue. 9-715 FOR SALE -Two extra good tov Fr«nc h poodles; eight weeks old; both miles pure white: $lO each. George Austin ut East Georgia avenue. Atlanta. It was back in the olden times that they had to have a person go crying it out I; any one had, anything to sell or wanted to buy, or to notify'the people that so and so had lost this and that. The way was »he only one available. It's different now Your wants can be told to an audience cl over 50,000 in this section through a Want Ad in The Georgian. No matter whaf your want is an ad In The Georgian will fill it for vou. 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