Show t t coultry FIRST FOUR WEEKS VITAL TO CHICKS start of life everything in flocks success let me control a child s burrol surround ind ings teaching and care for the first seven years and I 1 wont won t worry about what nhat will happen after that a noted religious leader said the same could almost be said tor for raising chickens provided ou shorten the important period to a month of course there are numerous diseases and parasites that can kill or stunt or destroy profit after one month of age yet success with poultry Is more often made or marred during the first month than during the rest of the whole raising process there are so many things that are tremendously important during that time that lose their importance liter later teaching good habits such as roost ing where they belong eating and drinking out of clean containers only keeping busy with food and litter in stead of picking and fighting each other come easy during those first few weeks but hard afterwards fall fail ure to get the brooder house cleaned and litter renewed every few das Is vital those first few weeks but it not a serious omission after the chicks are a month old if they are properly pro trained as to eating roost ln and play ing J W in wallaces farmer All Year layer counts on Poultry mans books the average hen eata eats to to 90 pounds of feed per year according to data kept on large flocks the size of the body counts some and a heavy layer will eat more than a poor I 1 laer aa er but the poor producers don dont t eat enough less to offset the lif ference n the cost of keep the hen that lays no eggs at all through the winter requires nearly as much just for bo ly maintenance as the one that lays just enough to pay her way tay the latter may lay eggs enough during the and summer to mike make her profitable to keep while the one that lays no eggs during cold weather Is not arth board ng for half the year in order to get eggs in the spring the only hens really worth keeping are those that are able to lay all the year except during the molting period continual culling to eliminate poor NN inter la ers I 1 is a very positive effect on the yearly balance debraska Ie braska farmer soft shelled eggs soft shelled eggs may result from lack of lime in the ration a defect that can be corrected by keep ng n crushed oyster shells before the hens or it may result from some clency in the egg producing ism of the hen that Is hard to assign a cause to alfalfa or clover leaves from well cured hay supply needed lime and minerals and cod liver oil and direct sunlight that does not come through glass helps in the utilizing of the lime and other minerals in the food it if the hens are laying soft shelled eggs at this season of the year I 1 would suspect that they are not getting the crushed oyster shells that form a nee essary part of poultry rations an occasional egg of this kind may mean nothing more than an accident of production rural anew ew yorker keep birds healthy most of the destructive fowl dis eases are of bowel origin and are car ried through droppings either of do mastic fowls or wild birds and of the latter principally sparrows tl TI ese I 1 11 t tie tle pests also are impartial dis tribu tors of mites if permitted to nest about the buildings it Is possible to maintain healthy profitable flocks it if due attention Is given to the control of parasites and prevention of disease abany have found 1031 1931 a profitable season despite the low price of eggs broiler prices ard the prices of all poultry meat held up fairly N well ell all summer feed reed prices also algo were cheaper exchange dried milk with grain dried milk fed with grain rations his bas about equal alua for chicks as whole liquid milk and Is fed with less loss and less danger daner of attracting fi ft es A flaks product rather than a too fine ly ground dried milk po to i der is prefer able meat scrap and dried skim in m 11 in combination w th the stan darl I 1 wis cousin chick ration Is satisfactory bat nw raw bone may then be omitted bat v ahen hen the liau d milk Is use I 1 the r raw aw bone bugl t to be included wisconsin agriculturist control of worms C M ferguson speaking on the con arol of worms in cl ickens the ohio farmer its readers said con arol of parasites pira sites is depend nt on a I 1 knowledge now ledge of the I 1 fe cycle of the para site and breil breal ins in this cycle for this pur purpose poe confine confinement ent rane range rotation wire floors and cinder yards are bene flegal worm remedies says ferguson should not be used until one is a awe ire that a flock Is infested treatment should hould then be given according to the kind ot of worm found |