Show DAMY AND 0 L interesting CHAPTERS FOB FOR OUR RURAL READERS now farmers onerato Op rt this Dopart menk of 0 the tite aarm A bi few flints we tu to tho tu icaro cur of at ll 11 stoe stool ond ail poultry 4 vol 1120 fertility af keit from frons barnier Far nier review hatching season Is 1 either now with or suon will be with poultry raisers ral sers tilt time depending upon surroundings and the fertility of eggs la is tho the needful thing 4 the het way to secure fertile eggs is 1 a way 19 all nil wash to know comet say ear a good per cent of ot fertile eggs est la is not to be had inthe fowl are confined to a bilm fowl cited ranse put ut wo we have had and have bave known athers to have a 95 per cent ot of fertile eggs fram yarded fowls last year ours had a limited very range tue the yard in ih which six pullets two hens and offe oue froc boel kerel cerel v wre vre re confined being about two rods square and in this tae the roosting arvora and scratch shed wore were placed you may eay say the per centon cent ot fertile ferule ggs eggs was good but perhaps the whole number er of eggs was email no ro the average froni from the eight hens from the luth of 0 february to the last ot of may was 6 eggs per day a higher wyer average than we were able to get from the heba hers the average would doubtless have been beer higher it if we could have insured fresh meat at all time times for them we fed led a mabb of 0 wheat ibran amu mixed stiff with kitchen scraps and balty dishwater of 0 a morning morn lne bout a quart of 0 raach at noon wheat tar oat oats was scat scattered teed among leaves in the cratch scratch abed shed at night a quarton qu artof Is hilled corn waa was thrown amon among X th the a t leaves nothing pleases hene hens better than to dig up freeh fresh moist earth for them and I 1 think there ie Is nothing healthier green food cut amas rye and wheat was fed them thorn every day all they would cat eat but the way confined heni bents enjoy their green meal the best Is to illace a slab of sod in their pen or ievin even pull up large tutta tufts of ot grass no need to fear infertile eggs from yarded fowl fowls it you will don in only tho healthy fowls give a variety of food 1 induce exorcise exercise and keep quarters clean I 1 prewar a yearling cockerel to ian older male What whatever eyer age the head ot of tha the pen must be in the very pinic 0 of perfection as regards health and vigor one should hav havo not more than eight hene hens to one male of th tho larger breeds several more hens may be mateu mated to 0 a male rattle it of 0 the small breeds ov ov chicks avea B D P rocks i gather the eggs every day keep in lan even eyou temperature several dearrea dabove freezing turn every day and you may keep them three weeks then so and receive good hatches as far as an abr age of the eggs la to concerned it will probably take from 15 to 24 houra hours langei lon gei to hatch them the above care rare jap applies piles equally as well to setting settine eggs I 1 from range fowl fowle or any other poultry if you yon weald once try tho the plan of selecting t electing eight or a dozen of your beat best ibena hen meting with a no 1 cockerel and using theae theca eggs to batch hatch from you would never try other ways I 1 emma Clearwater a t water la in flut nater tor prof U G L mckay of iowa after a visit to europe had this to aay say about water in butter no subject interests teresta in me more than vater I 1 a lot ot of butter in england tor for molit moisture ture and the driest butter I 1 found was from new Zeala zealand md some ot of it running down to about eight per cent danish butler butter averages about atten per cent ceal russia was very irregular somo very one fine but a good deal of it bv a rank flavor A it will get over that aker arler awhile however and I 1 believe that reasia will mill come to to the front rap rapidly lOly some tot 0 o the highest selling butter was the I 1 french two pound unsalted rolle rolls my experience with the irish butter Is that it lacks body which results largely ly from the tho fact that it is churned at a high temperature it contains lots lot water some samples testing awen ity to twenty five per cent moisture this question que atlon Is now before the bog ilish parliament and it seems probable that it will be settled on the basis ut of about fifteen to sixteen per cent water it has been a great problem to me f that the danish butter haa has a higher of water than oura ours has yet at tat the same thue it has a mealy dry appearance investigation showed that their method of 0 charning and working wae was peculiar th the churning E Is done at a moderately high tempora tare ture and tue tae butter comes soft sott it is dropped at it onca into cold water and then put on the table and worked lit three quarters of a minute after which it to U again put in cod cold water for a moment then brought back and worked from ono one to ono one and a quarter minutes anix Is makes only two minutes of working when finished it is packed into kegs for th thi 3 market it is to sald that this method Is to asod to get tho buttermilk out and have it clear but it is probably intended to work the water into the butter as well danish butter win will average alre fl e per alt cat more ter th than oura cure and yet does not show it coultry eggs for hatching should be co comparatively ively fresi freal that I 1 hat la they should not bo be over ten days old though some balc bable eggsware egg sare over three weeks old when they go under the ben lien or ato into the incubator at this una ot of year it la Is easier to keep eggs la ta a condition for setting than tham it will be later in the seas season n when the heat is greater eggs should bo kept at between 40 and CO 50 degrees if they are to be kept for some weeks before being used this Is a difficult fhlug to do unless the arrangement be very perfect the natural temperature of the earth Is about 96 5 degrees and this Is probably a aa near dear an on ideal temperature as we can get for our dur eggs we can give then them to a considerable extent tah th temperature tempe of the earth 0 0 now that the spring la Is coming ani and with it all kinds of seems the tho drinking vessels of the fowls should be looked after wooden vessels are not ideal for many reasons if it they their are male of staves they shrink and swell with tho the supply ly of moisture and often drop to pieces when they are neglect ed then too they gather slime which may or may not be a detri faint iron vessels of all kinds tend to corrode and perhaps th the a rust Is not the best thing that can be given fowls drinking vessels vowels of stone are ideal they never shrink with tho the dry weather and they ther never rust moreover they are easily cleaned well glazed drinking beesel are therefore for preferable to all others 0 a 0 it Is a poor economy that leada leads to the purchase of musty and lud even moldy teed feed tor for the fowls when grain Is spoiled too much for any other use jt it la in the practice to try to save it by feeding it to the poultry it Is charged by fanciers that musty grain lit to a fruitful source ot of sickness we cannot provo prove the point but we wc are ready to accept it on its face it Is now well established that some ot 01 abo smuts and mould are poisonous in their ebar acte especially is to this the case with oat smut other smuts have been little examined with this point in jn view until they are to be innocuous let lot us feed cur fowls only healthful grain fare brods wt proa table we continually meet people who tell us that the creases crosses are far superior to the purebred cattle for dairy purposes against that we have the fact that all the great records ever made have been from rue bred cattle carefully bred tor ter many generations thus we have ehret purebred cows belonging to the dike duke of westminster that gave 1106 gallons 1110 gallons and 1448 1449 gallons respectively in twelve months this last one being at tb tho rate of almost sixteen quarts a day the whole year through all dal da rymon tryman will know as a fact as well as an all breeder breede nj of any kind of stock that if you breed from you can never tell what the result will be it may take atter after its sire dam great grandsire or even further we are not by any means advising dairymen to go to the expense of purchasing a purebred herd right off but what we would strive tc te impress upon each and all is to use only purebred pur elred bulls in their herds see that the bull is from a good milking strain even it you have hato to give a seemingly big pi price ice for him ilia coet cost will willbe be nothing compared to the herd when the heifers begin to come in the only sure way to gat get together a really good herd hard Is to breed it you will have to buy the best you can to start with thon thou pick out your cows acco according dang to how they turn out and have the heifer calves from the best making cure sure that the bull Is to from a milking strain and purebred by doing this in a few years you can get together a really good herd and by judicious ct culling every year it will be improving and the average yield agn dually rising the beat investment that can be made for a dairy farm ie is a good bull even with poor door cowe cows dostart to start with no man need neil despair of getting a fair herd to prinder if he can only obtain I 1 milking strain on the sires side it Is then only a matter of time and careful ee se lection west australian gett settlers lers handbook cora corn taller from farmers 1 IP view yiew I 1 feed my stalks whole for the reason there are not enough buskers husker and shredder shredders in this vicinity I 1 always cut my corn before the frost and before they dry up ut standing stan dinc I 1 would always hunk and shred if I 1 could get a machine 9 3 do the work at the ritha tim I 1 feed about abree bundles of foder fo der per day the bundles are about four to a shock eight hills square sometimes ave I 1 never thought there was much nourishment in the butts butte of course when they their are not cut or shredded they are re left I 1 raise 34 3 or 40 acres yearly I 1 winter from one to two hundred sheep on them yearly howard noward lobdell van buren county mich afao S |