OCR Text |
Show Poultry Briefs A bantam rooster hatched at Lees-burg, Lees-burg, Ga., is so small its owner keeps it in a bird cage. Grain is fed primarily for maintaining maintain-ing the body, whereas the mash contains con-tains the nutrients necessary for' egg production. The largest Asiatic roosters are the abnormal giants of races in which the males that are best in flesh development develop-ment weigh about 12 pounds. Massachusetts Extension Poultry-man Poultry-man W. C. Monahan offers as the best substitute for "luck" In growing chickens chick-ens "clean chicks, clean brooders, clean lands, clean feeding and watering, water-ing, and clean management" a worthwhile worth-while program. t The tobacco plant contributes still another valuable product to the poultry poul-try keeper. It is a new' nicotine compound com-pound that If; effective as a single dose flock treatment fur intestinal parasites. para-sites. Don't coni'iise this with tobacco dust, which Is a repeat proposition. |