The Independent. (Cashion, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 22, 1917 Page: 4 of 6
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A BIRO IN THE HAND
iSpecial Information Service. U 8 Department of Agriculture.)
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out the year. This test can best be
applied to the Leghorns and to the
lighter varieties, although It is also
true to some extent with the heavier
varieties.
3. The general expenditure of money
is made by the poultry raiser during
(he spring and summer when he is
growing his young stock. It has fur-
ther been demonstrated that a hen,
after reaching maturity, can be main-
tained at n profit for at least two
years and certain breeds can be main-
tained for an even longer period of
time. It is therefore suggested that
•be owner of the general purpose
breeds, such as the Rhode Island lteds
and the Plymouth Rocks, should main-
tain his flock until they are two years
old, and the man who keeps the light-
er breeds, such us the Leghorns, will
find thut they will return him ti profit
through the third laying year.
4. I'irds that are four or five years
old should be eliminated from the
farm flock. These hens have a ten-
dency to become overfat and very slug-
gish in disposition. The abdominal
wall often h pea Its down and in many
cases the feathers appear ruffled and
the birds present a very unsatisfac-
tory appearance. The scales on the
-banks of a pullet or a one-year-old
hen are smooth and regular, while
those on an older bird are larger and
more serrated and much rougher in ap-
pearance.
GET
THE FLOCK WELL EST ABLB IN i~H E11« WINTi
TERS BEFOR i£ COLD WEATHER SETS IN.
Fall Months the Time to See to
Proper Housing and Health
of Fowls.
LOOK TO THE POULTRY HOUSE
Dryness and Proper Ventilation Two
Requisites for the Comfort and
Health of Birds—How to
Pick Winter Layers.
With the arrivt
special attention
(he management
fl r*k, especially
il of the fall months
should be given to
of the fiirin poultry
with regard to the
ti on to come from the front of the
building. An inspection as to (he con-
dition of the roof may lead to the dis-
covery of leaks, which If repaired in
time will insure a dry house for the
fowls during the winter. Dryness as
well as ventilation is very Important
tis influencing the health of the fowls.
It Ik a good policy at this season of
the year to remove the dirt from
houses having earl lien floors to the
depth of about six inches and fill in
with
fresh earth. Such practices as
not only embrace good manage-
but add to the general health
•onifort of the fowls.
these
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and <
Il the surplus cockerels, not needed
for the breeding flock next spring,
have not yet been marketed,
of them now. Market the old hens as
soon as they stop laying.
HOW TO PICK WINTER LAYE1RS.
housing and health of the fowls. At
(his season of the year when the days
ure growing shorter and the nights
longer, the fowls naturally spend more
time in their quarters than during the
uununer, consequently more attention
should be given to the cleanliness of
llie poultry house, and the droppings
should be removed more frequently.
Since the fowls now spend more ttnio
in the poultry house, care should lie
taken to see that they are not crowd-
ed. Frequently the crowding of cliick-
rns has a decided detrimental effect
hi tfieir health and ofttimes it mate-
rializes into an epidemic of roup or
some other disease throughout the
flock. To prevent such a condition
and to add to their comfort, the birds
should be thinned out so as to allow
them three to four square feet of floor
space per bird, depending upon the
>ize of the fowls and on the length
of time they are confined to the house,
as influenced by the arrival of winter.
For example, a home with a floor
space of 14 by 20 t'eft provides sttfli-
cient space for about seventy fowls
of the general purpose breeds, such
as the Barred Plymouth Rocks, or
about ninety fowls of the Mediterran-
ean or smaller breeds, such as the
Leghorns.
As a general preventive against dis-
ease, such as roup, etc., poultry houses
should be well ventilated but free from
drafts; that is, the backs and sides
should Uu ti Jit. allow 111— the veiiUlu.-
Physical Characteristics Enable Poul-
try Raisers to Eliminate Loafers.
The introduction (he trap nest
has completely changed the status of
the poultry business in the past few
years. Instead of selecting our lay-
ing birds at random we now have cer-
tain and rather definite external phys-
ical characteristics which enable the
poultryman to make a rigid selection
a• /I to cull out those hens that are
not good producers, to eliminate the
loafers, and thus increase his profits
and at the same tfine materially de-
crease his feed bill.
The following named factors can be
utilized by the poultry raiser in cull-
ing out his flock of hens that have
come through one or more laying sea-
sons :
1. Sell for market purposes all hens
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Stadler
and son, Peter, went to Abaline,
Kansas the first of the week.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Stadler,
Miss Bertha Stadler and Mrs.
H. A. Reynolds made a drive
over east of Edmond the first
of the week for pecans.
Mrs. (i. F. Wood worth will re-
started to molt before September
lo. Usually early molters are poor
producers, and birds that molt lata
require a shorter space of lime in
which to regain theii -vitality than the
early molters. Late molters produce
eggs during the fall when they are
high in price, whereas August and
early September molters are loafing
aN that season of the year. They both
start laying at about the same time
the following spring.
2. Heavy producers among breeds
having yellow shanks have lost their
color pigments by the end of the lay-
ing season and the shank has become
very pale, whereas those birds thai
are not heavy producers have niJiln-
turn homo Saturday from New
Mexico where she and her
mother, Mrs. Ruby, have been
visiting Mr. and Mrs. A Hnulik.
NEED TO GUARD AGAINST ROUP.
Disease Most Frequently Caused by
Poorly Ventilated House.
One of the most common diseases
>f the farm poultry flock during the
autumn is roup. This disease is fre-
quently found in damp, poorly ven-
tilated houses and is most often con-
tracted by birds that are poorly con-
veloped and of low vitality. Fowls of
Ibis type frequently get roup anil are
he means of spreading It throughout
i he flock, Obviously, prevention should
I 'onsist of eliminating the weaklings
i from the flock and providing a house
i liat will be dry and free from drafts,
j nit well ventilated. As an additional
j prevention against this disease as
i uuch potassium permanganate as will
i -emain on the surface of a dime should
| >e added to each gallon of drinking
Aater and kept constantly before the
dispose | 'owls. This acts as an antiseptic and
A'ill help to keep the birds in good eon-
lition. An attempt to cure the Indi-
vidual of roup is not advisable, for,
although In the majority of cases,
:liere may be an apparent cure, the
binger of reinfection is great and fre-
piently such birds cause the disease
o spread throughout the flock. The
lafest policy is immediately to remove
roni the flock and kill such birds as
ihovv the first symptoms, which are
>asil,v recognized by a watery disc-
harge from the nostrils or eyes.
It is advisable at this time of the
'enr to be on the constant lookout for
be presence of mites on the fowls,
ind particularly in the poultry house.
?hese insect pests not only lower the
itality of the birds, and thus render
hem liable to disease, but their pres-
nce lias a decidedly bad effect on egg
■reduction. Frequent spraying of all
racks and crevices of the house and
lie under sid of the roosts with
erosene or 5 per cent carbolic acid
ill greatly help to eradicate mites,
ml thus add to the comfort and gen-
ral health of the birds.
HRain began falling here Sun-
day about naon and continued
thruout the day. This moisture
will cause the wheat to sprout,
but was not near enough to put
the ground in a very promising
conditions for next year's wheat
crop.
J. H. Rector, B. W. Burchett
and Mr. Tucker went to King-
fisher Wednesday afternoon.
Subscribe for the Oklahoma
News at the Independent office.
Mr. Elmer Jarvis was called
to Otego, Kansas last Thursday
morning on account of the death
of his brother who was suddenly
stricken w.th heart trouble.
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Spells
Mrs.G.P.Cartwright, of
Whitwell, Tenn., writes:
"I suffered with bearing-
down pair.s. . . The
dizzy spells got so bad
that when 1 would start to
walk, I would just pretty
nearly fall. Was very
much ruti-down. I told
my husband I thought
Cardui would help me. . .
He got me a bottle. . . It
helped me so much that
he got me another bottle.
I got a whole lot better.
The dizzy spells and the
bearing-down pains . . .
left me entirely."
If you are weak and
run-down, or suffer from
womanly pains,
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mild, vegetable, medici-
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cal books for many years,
as being of great value in
the troubles from which
only women suffer. The
enthusiastic praise of the
thousands of women who
have been helped by
Cardui in its past 40 years
of successful ifce should
assure you of its genuine
meiit, and convince you
that it would be worth
your while to try this
medicine for your trou-
bles. All druggists sell it.
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Garnett, A. J. The Independent. (Cashion, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 22, 1917, newspaper, November 22, 1917; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc107372/m1/4/: accessed April 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.