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12 The Georgian’s Poultry and Live Stock Page ME PLANS ■ FOR THE WEB Clean Up Your Plant and Get Everything Tight Before Cool Weather Arrives. Bv LYNN C. TOWNSEND. is a busy month in the poultryman's calendar. At this tin,, of the year his duties are manifold, for be sides the regular routine of work, he must begin to prepare for win; r The moult must be carried through sm cess full- and t'.;e birds gotten in shape for the prote< tlon of winter eggs If in . business for the fancy end at all, the i futuro show bi.-.1.- must be put In shape, for this month u- mill.-murks the open ing of the fall poultr. shows. .'.loiiltit,-- ■. th. us 11 ui ■ t o- : cess, is very weakening on the fowl’s vitality m l grer . are should be given I the birds at this lino While w do no; idvoi 1 starving" the birds to I f. r e in e irly nimilt. >. • . Gm following ni'-ti od r.: i. :<• found . f v line. If the bi'.iis ar. fed on bait ration-, for al s'- ■! time a the b. ginning of the moult and then feed hni' ily. the re- | si )i will be th it they at h st« n< d , tl- o’ ,o tl” ; roe. s and are lux in , and : in ■- ><»d h tilth. «hlh thi ■.. . . ‘ ! IS j :-t II U< • I I " ' . .. ; th» nit I ii’iiiily foi about two wetk.*. , eg kiuction ”ad low • j t i *\ eip i', and th u Ihjv\ 1’ aijng '\i'’ tau.' . .i' l- inouli and a general upbu hl mg o iln sv in v.l this 1< »•<! only limt which is go <’ *!’ i Cv I' »r...atlon f i’< thers. As p. u tit ails Uv same I 1 will pro duct cgt;s. your |h < K«t!.»•)"!. houhl not suffer in •or < qti< n« v. Wheat b<»m meal and fit m di. i xeeilctit ”><l for the moulting fowls. S dir ndik and a gem rotis -tipply of -.l’ 011 t o<" should also be giv. 11. It I . I’ good Idea to re move the male bird trom '.he pen dur- j ifig the moi. Iting sem. . 1 Now is Time To Cle. : n Up. Now is a p od time t > clean up -.nd get everything in rcadlm • for win',. Lay in a plentiful supply of good dry sand for tin dust baths. Give the houses a thorough cleaning and fumi gate them well Get busy with the rak* and clean out the summers output of rubbish around th- yards. Store away all the broo iers ami coops that you are not using, after giving them a good coating of some strong disinfectant. September is a good month In which to whit, aaslt the lion <s. In addition to being an enemy of lice and mites, wliitewa’ lied walls w ill make the house mui h more light and clieeiy during, tin dark winter days Apply the white wash with a sprayer for then you xx 111 be sure in reaching the crevices. <>i - dinary whitewash is made more off., live by using carbolic a. Id in connec tion with it. Slake the lime in an old tub with a sufficient quantity of wa ter to make a wash of the desired consistency, adding a little water nt a time. Then add 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 sprayer. If you expect to exhibit at'the fall Bhtows, 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 that 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 he thoroughly overhaul ed and whitewashed. The pullets should lie moved from the colony coops to the laying pens the last of this month This will enable them to get settled nicely and in 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 esjieciaily 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 it becomes musty or damp. Beware of drouths and tile cold rain storms, for now the birds will catch cold easily. Fee-din;; Is an ever-interesting sub ject and deserves more than passing Interest N< xt to a vurl( ty of soune.. wholesome grains ranks plenty of green food. Tin feed bills can be greatlx lowered by the free use of green foods heme 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 staph foods, with meat and green food as accessories. The all-grain diet is Injurious; bulky material is needed to give variety. Milk in any form Is ac ceptable and i« greatly relished by the flock Industrious Hen. LA. SHOW SET FOR OCTOBER 30. The Louisiana State fair will be held at Shreveport. La.. October 30 to No vembei tl. 1912 The poultry depart ment will receive special attention The judgt will be W. Theo. Wittman, Al lentown. Pa Secretary, I. N Hrug gernoft. Shreveport, La. S. M. Wat son. superintendent ' 11 • ■■■■■ ! , . —... , . __ c '4 -jfe. ■ X-W .W’ HaragT «'* jfefeyx-. '/ .W. - < y ■ i.-. m. c-. ~ ‘ r-'rcrflMh rn* • ■ —— TURKEYS NEED RANGE; LET THEM HAVE PLENTY It i I mi tuk in confine turkeys in small Inelnsiiii s. Hx nature they are roving birds and get their feed an a v. Ide r u.gf. Turkeys .-hould be raised w ith turkey hi ns, b' i .rm-' the young poults w ith ■ hivki n mothers will not rant’ 4s far is they naturally should do. T ■ turkeys can usually be made to 'ay white you want them to by milk in': m v ts in boxes or barrel: of clean. ; dry h iy, in t In Iten d. quiet places about ' the farm Do not use anything new.’ 't wi'l m-’ke the a suspicious it is [ m> u.-’ to attempt to raise turkeys un- i less they art kept free from lice. Bel - if’ to iM'mlne them verx ten days.: Tin y oung : a kevs should be turned out I into tit* tv les just soon as the dew is i off the gruss and allows d to roam till 1 about dark. Give ihe turkey lien a set d of grain I at night If fed heavily in the morn ing, she will not range as far with tin youngsters as if she starts out to tlnd ' her own bri’.ikfast. DO NOT ECONOMIZE ON STRAW IN THE NESTS St:n\\ Is cheap compared to the loss! of broken ’ gks in the nest. Keep plen- | ty of straw in the nests. If you havt | ev» si <•!! ;t chicken la/ an egg y<>u can ; appreciate the feeling of the egg when 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 net 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 ■uwder f»'?d and make grass do. for everything. TRAP NESTS HELP TO MAKE HENS PROFITABLE The poultryman of today ought to make the most of the trap nest. If you have never tried it. you will be likely to tlnd 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 1s to the poul tryman what 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 to the finish of her career. She Is “not for sale.” It ought not to take long to I test a bird. A bird that will lay six eggs in seven days and do it for a month has proven her superior value. A thousand hens Ilk. that next Janu ary' would soon pay for a farm. Find them out! TURKEYS ARE HARD TO RAISE. BUT PROFITABLE Raising turkey- requires skill and . patience, but any woman who has a fondness for them can successfully care I for a flock of turkeys with profit. The farm woman who can command I a wide range for her turkeys and is d> - termlned to nuiki money in the busi ness. will And turkey raking a most profitable part of poultry raising. The bronze variety is v>ry deslruble for market, on ticeount 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 I South will be the one held bv the Virginia Poultry association, January 14-18, at Richmond, Va. Charles T. Cornmat and J H. Wolsieffcr will be the judges, and G E. Guvenator is secretary. Their premium list is full of attractive specials tuid will be promptly sent by the secretary to all 'ppllcant« j HDAJ I,A.\ J A ttibUit’jiAJN AJ\ D .NEWS SA IL’ KDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 1912. THREE BIRDS OF QUALITY 3- i- * i ■K . ■ At the left is one of the superb White Orpington hens at the Kimballville farm: at the right, Charley Dobbsj’ great Rhode Island Red cock, which lias won half a dozen blues: below, one of .1, M. Karwiseh’s many excellent White Plymouth Rocks. DUCK RAISING PROVES EASY AND PROFITABLE By H. H. FEHRENSCHILD. The raising of ducks for market is, tn my opinion, the most profitable branch of poultry keeping. A sandy soli 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. 1 keep one drake to every five ducks. The majority of duck breeders keep their breeders in flocks of 30. Nine years ago 1 started to keep all my breeders in one flock and on free range. I With the ixeeptlon of sepatating 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 I pr< fgt 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 tile hens will shake up the bedding and mix dirt with the droppings, which will make them less offensive. When sawdust used the droppings should be raked up daily No matter how clean you keep the quarters, some of the eggs will be soiled. They should be washed as soon •is they are gathered. Eggs should be Incubated as soon ns 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 10() degrees. For the first two weeks feed and water are 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 of 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, ami those same ducklings two weeks (ter were put into coops with the front and back partly open. We had about three inches of snow at 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 few. r you keep in a pen the faster they 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 well accus tomed to the houses 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 effort. Hut 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 Io place the fully developed pul lets and the well moulted hens in their permanent, roosting and laying quar ters. Pallets 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, and 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 WHI EWASH; IT IS • CHEAP AND EFFECTIVE It’s to the henhouses now! Are they clean? Make them so clean and so w’holesome and so liceless 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 off. 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 o dicers. Evading the royal guards, the women tore up all the golf dags upon the royal 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 his majesty when he walked upon the grounds to day. MACON POLICE WANT 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 would 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 lias a wife and three chil dren He spent about six weeks in Orpingtons. BI’FF ORPINGTONo— Exhibition stock a specialty. Eggs for hatching and baby chicks. Reduced autumn prices. Send for catalogue. Bacon & Havwood, 166 Springfield avenue, Guyton. Ga. 8-31-1 Plymouth Rocks. WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS—Exhibi tlon stock a specialty. Eggs for hatch ing and baby chicks. Reduced autumn ? rices. Send for catalogue. Bacon & faywood, 166 Springfield avenue. Guyton. Ga. 8-31-2 Leghorns. 6.000 EARLY HATCIIJirT' Brown Leghorn pullets bred for eggs In numbers to suit. Also Airedale 'ter rlers. American Poultry Plant. Collins Ohio. J 3-9-7 SINGLE COMB Brown Leghorns. » hens and handsome young cockerel. This is proper mating: all for $5 Ed. L Culver Sparta. Ga. ’ 9-7-2 It HIT!. LEGHORNS—Highest quality, 8 l??P? est vi,a llty. 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, 166 Springfield avenue Guyton. Ga. 8-31-3 R. I. Reds. FOR SALE—Thoroughbred Rhode Island Red pullets; fine color and markings; April hatched; $1 apiece. Mrs. .1. 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, Ga. 9-7-3 Wyandottes. FOR SALE, Partridge Wyandotte chick ens. Guarantee fair winners H M. Ross, Tullahoma. Tenn. 9-7-9 GOLDEN LACED and Columbian Wvan- dottes, S. C. R. I. Reds; eggs. $1 and 12 per 15. W. D. Bennett, Molena. Ga Ducks. SAY, BILL, you can get Runner ducks at JI each. Fawn. 81.50, at Copperas Falls Farm, Tullahoma. Tenn 8-31-4 INI, A AN died or saw n and white at $1 each good ones; time yet to raise stock; order today Munnimaker Poultry Farm, Normandv Tenn - 5-25-3 BUFF Orpington 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. 8-29-9 . Miscellaneous Poultry. Miscellaneous Poultry. H. G HASTINGS & CO SEEDSMEN FOR THE SOUTH. 16 WEST MITCHELL STREET FOUR CITY DELIVERIES DAILY. NORTH AND SOI TH SIDE 9 A. M., INMAN PARK AND WEST END 2 P M BELL PHONE M. 2368, ATLANTA 2568. LIT HER OF THESE will start your hens to laying. Conkey’s Laying Tonic, Rust's Egg Producer, Lee’s Egg Maker or The Southern Poultry Remedy 25c and 50c sizes of each. DON'T WAIT TOO LATE, start a few bulbs indoors now for early blossoms. We can supply vou with large, strong, surebloomers of the following varieties: Paper White Narcissus 25c a dozen, postpaid 40c; White Roman Hyacinths 40c 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. LEE’S 50 c (1 ERMOZONE THE Poultry Medicine for roup, canker, cholera, swelled head, etc. It is not only a cure, hut a pre ventative of poultry diseases. Liquid and tablet form. Tablets can be sent by mail. NO FROUBLE 10 CURE scaly leg fowls with Con key’s Sealy Leg Remedy. Price 50c. A BEAUTIFY L COLLECTION of flowering plants. Call in and let us show them to you. “RED (.OMB POULTRY FEEDS alwavs give en tire satisfaction. LEE’S OR CONKEY’S WHITE DIARRHOEA l?E\l EDY will cure chicks that are troubled with white diarrhoea. Price of each 50c. PURE PRESSED geons 15c each or two for 25c. Medicated Salt Brick for stock 25c each. MOCKING BIRD. Canary. Parrot and Squirrel Cages. YLYI.E CANARIES—AII little beauties, and guaran teed singers, $2.50 each. If it is not convenient toi \ou 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 Vox-i-Cide is used legularlx. 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 35e, 1 quart 00c. 2 quarts 90c, 1 gallon $1.50. ISE Bl G DEATH on vegetables that are bother ed with bugs and worms. It is a nonpoisonous preparation, put up in convenient size packages. Can be put on in the morning when dew is on the plants, or can be mixed with water. Ono pound package 15c. postpaid 35e; 3 pounds 35c. 5 pounds 50c. 12 1-2 pounds SI.OO. ALL SIZE FLOMER POTS, fern pans and pot saueers. BEEF SCRAPS, alfalfa meal, wheat bran, short', chicken wheat, charcoal, grit, crushed oyster shell, etc. Bantams. B n N <v A A tS ;M Gam ® Bantams, sTbrlar-,' Buff cochins. Carlisle Cobb. AthsnJ' 4-M-il T ¥ 1 0r:0r;G ”? Rr - ri M#n flfteen ' 126 Wlnds ° r Miscellaneous Poultry. SELLING < pingtons. Black Langshans, Pekin n. Orpington ano Runner ducks (white ar fawn and white). Prices should them. Also collie dogs and Berffi hogs. B. E. Lumley. Tullahoma. Tenn 3-30-2 Horses and Carriages Mlin Very gen, ’ e RC ' C "ANTED—A-No. 1 city broke surrev horse to wetgn 1.100 pouads or more hl good. Call I. N. Ragsdale, Main u 9] b ’ ■ ... I 4 • 5 - n Cows. TWO fine cows, fresh in milk mV will be sold cheap if taken at once 'Car be seen at 107 Garden st. : -7-m Dogs. Ij { e, nale French pYYdc LLC 40 Aflce K s" m ° nthS '’ l<i; " r ' ’ FOR SALE—Scotch (,'ollier p U|) . pies, beautifully marked ami richly marked. Come and see them any time. Atlanta lS3(i. 137 Lake avenue. 9-7-13 FOR SALE - Two extra good toy Fret poodles; eight weeks old: both ma« pule white; $lO each. George Austii i - East Georgia avenue. Atlanta " 35-:,.; It was back in the olden times that th - to have a person go crying it out it 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 the only one available. It’s different now. Your wants can be told to an audience of over 50,000 In this section through a Want Ad in The Georgian. No matter what your want is an ad in The Georgian wul fill ft for vou. Georgian Want Ads Ouv, sell, exchange, rent, secure help, find lost articles and countless other things.