Oklahoma Farmer (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 9, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 1, 1912 Page: 7 of 20
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September 1, 1D12.
OKLAHOMA FARMER,
GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA.
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Farm Poultry
Contributor's Prizes.
(Awarded Each Issue.)
Oklahoma Farmer, one year.
Poultry Culture, one year.
Map of Oklahoma.
Household Magazine, one year.
Piles of old boards, posts, brush or
rubbish of any kind near the poultry
house should be investigated. They
furnish the best kind of homes for rats
and other poultry thieves.
It is not much of a trick to get young
ducks on the broiler market in seven
or eight weeks; in fact, there is no
fowl that can be gotten ready for mar-
ket so quickly as a duck. The wonder
is that more people do not raise them.
One of our folks is somewhat up in
the air on the subject of raiaing young
turkeys. He tried the best recom-
mended methods with little success
and as a last resort turned a bunch
of them out with a brood of chickens,
with the result that the old hen did
the best Job by far.
Some people think it is pretty much
of a Job to fumigate a poultry house
for lice, but it is really a simple mat
ter. Simply close all doors and win
dows after turning all the poultry out,
put some chips in an old iron vessel
and on this place about a pound of
sulphur wrapped in a newspaper. Set
a match to the paper and get out.
Keep the house closed for several hours
and then give a thorough airing of an
hour or more.
good results, producing gains which
ccst from 6.45 cents to 7.74 cents per
pound. Low-grade wheat flour is a
more economical feed than oat flour
at the present prices of grain.
The results of extensive fattening
tests conducted in the Middle West,
showing the methods of feeding and
the costs of gains, are given in Bul-
letin 140 of the Bureau of Animal In-
dustry, United States Department of
Agriculture.
The Wyandotte in Poetry.
If you want a hen that lives.
Get a Wyandotte.
If you want a hen that gives,
Get a Wyandotte.
Satisfaction every day;
The amount of eggs they lay,
Makes the poultry business pay.
Get a Wyandotte.
Mrs. Nancy De Moss.
El Reno, Okla.
Still Room For Improvement.
Mr. Editor—Never before was there
as much interest manifested in poul-
try, and never before was the profit so
great. Yet there is room for improve-
ment. Best results do not come fron
.^crub poultry any more than from
scrub stock. If a fowl cannot show a
gcod accounting from her egg yield
or from the grocer's scales she should
be disposed of at once and a more pro-
fitable one put in her place. The egg
basket can be better filled if we keep
better chickens and feed and care for
them in a better way.
Mrs. T. C. Benedict.
Selling Okla ,
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your tongue!
A poultryman writes that he has
been feeding mixed nux vomica at the
rate of 2 tablespoonsful to 75 old fowls
in the morning mash twice a week. He
did this to keep the hawks from get-
ting his hens and says it works fine,
and that the hawk that eats a chicken
treated this way is a dead one. By
the wav, if any of our folks know of
some effective schemes to keep hawks
or crows away let us hear of them
for the benefit of the rest.
Fattening Poultry.
The method used by most of the
large establishments engaged in fat-
tening poultrv in this country is to
feed the chickens in crates from
troughs, according to information col-
lected by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture. From six to ten
birds are placed in each division of
the battery or feeding coop, depending
on the size of the birds and the idea®
of the feeder Two or three chicken:
do better in a division together than
when only on' bird is placed in each
compartment, and the cost of equip-
ment and labor per bird varies inverse-
ly with the number of birds in each
division. Another method wthich Is
used to a considerable extent on a
small scale in this country is pen fat-
tening. This method is adapted for
use on the farm where the farmer
does not care to go to the trouble of
crate fattening or where the price re
ceived for well-fed birds does not war
rant the extra labor and feed cost of
th<j crate method.
Most "milk-fed" chickens are fed for
fourteen days, but results indicate that
a more profitable gain can be secured
in a shorter feeding period, provided
the same price per pound can be ob-
tained for the finished product. Prac-
tically all of the special feeding in this
country involves the use of milk thus
producing "milk-fed" chickens. Milk,
while the least expensive, seems to
be the most essential constituent of
the ration, and when a feeder can-
lot get milk in some form he gener-
ally does not attempt to fatten poul-
try commercially. Fresh buttermilk,
condensed buttermilk and skim milk
are preferred in this relative order.
The feed is mixed to the consistency
of thick cream, or so that it will drip
from-the tip of a wooden spoon. Ra-
tions of 50 per cent, corn meal, 40 per
- cent, low-grade wheat flour and 10
per cent, fine shorts; or of 58 per cent,
corn meal, 36 per cent, oat flour and
Slaked Lime and Mites
Mr Editor—The best thing I have
ever tried for mites is lime. I begin
early in the spring before they get a
start and put plenty of air-slaked lime
in the nests, enough that the hens get
dusty with it when laj'ing. Don't use
any hay. Whitewash the house, walls
ind roosts and you will have a great
battle saved. Keep the floor clean.
Put in a thin layer of hay every week
or two and burn it. Throw plenty of
sulphur on while it is burning, then
shut the house up tight and keep all
the smoke in possible.
Mrs. S. J. Winder.
Taupa, Okla.
Warhorse Pit Game Chickens.
Mr. Editor—In your issue of Aug. 1st
you say you do not know of any Okla-
homa breeder of Warhorse Pit Game
chickens. I beg to inform you that I
raise these chickens. I claim to have
the higihest bred Warhorses in the
southwest. I have been breeding them
here for a number of years.
The Warhorse chicken is not popular
because people have not become ac-
quainted with it. It is one of .he
best general utility breeds in the world
and will some day come to the front.
T have induced many farmers and
their wives to try the Warhorse and
my customers are highly pleased.
Monroe Jones.
Hastings, Okla.
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Crowther, M. L. Oklahoma Farmer (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 22, No. 9, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 1, 1912, newspaper, September 1, 1912; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc88351/m1/7/: accessed May 3, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.