Show V 2 FRYING PAN MAY HURT HEN FLOCK too frequent use of vigorous chicks harmful pried fried chicken la is a delicious dish when prepared as only a good north carolina housewife can prepare it but too frequent use of the most vigor ous spring chickens for this dish will hurt the flock next year do not let the tie best of the early hatched cockerels go to the trying frying pan this spring as they are the ones to use as breeding males next season cautions 0 F parrish poultry exten slon sion worker at the north carolina state college the first selections of breeding males should be made from the early haicl ed chicks save only those wl ich mature early and have the size constitutional vigor and the other desirable traits of the breed being grown the late hatched cock berels will in all probability cause weak and undersized chicks for breed ng purposes those cock berels showing early sexual maturity are desirable this Is indicated by Y the rapid development of the comb and wattles and the age at which they crow the size of the body Is an im characteristic of a g good breed er says mr 1 arrish and may be determined ter mined by handl ng the bird tl TI obe u cockerels with a long wide back great depth of body and a long straight keel bone should be chosen mr parrish sais high constitutional vigor Is essential an and affects the gen eral era I 1 appearance size and shape of the bird such cockerels are alert active refined and well developed the head of the vigo vigorous roas male Is wide across the skull set with full prominent eyes and has a strong well arched be beak ilc the body Is deN developed eloped with a full round breast and a full abdomen the shanks are large containing a large amount of pigmentation and are set well under the body birds of poor vitality are the opposite being III shaped under developed small and pale shade quite important during heat of summer it Is not always going to rain nor are all the coming dais dabs going to be cloudy and dark during the early part of the season when the sunshine Is so limited it is R well ell to talk of the advantages of the tie direct rays of I 1 tl e sun and they are important but it R wont on t be long now until R e are com 1 laining of the heat it la Is then well to remember ber that there is such a thing as too much direct bunsh ne and that shade Is just as biml octant and we should provide some for those grow ing chicks if their yards have no nat ural shade then provide some artificial shade far them also remember they relish fresh clean water rater as well as you do do not allow if their air drinking vessels to become dirty and slimy keep them clean and supplied with fresh water also see that their roosting quarters are kept cleaned and disinfected they will not only brood but hatch lice ilce and mites as well rell as they will brood chicks it Is much easier to keep rid of the pests than it Is to get rid of them A little elbow grease and back bend ing exercise will do your chicks a lot of good if rightly applied new wrinkle for mites Is black leaf 40 old timers who lived in the days when bedbugs were abroad in the land will remember the ancient protection against these pests used by the old settlers when they set the foot of each bed post in a pan of kerosene thus setting up a barrier against the on coming hoard which would appear with the setting of the sun poultry men of today are using similar devices defees to keep mites from visiting their flocks tl TI ese poultry men are fasten ing a piece of cloth around each end of each roost then they saturate the cloth v ith black leaf 40 the mites that hide away during the day time in crevices in the house find themselves blocked off from their feeding ground by this simple device denice feeding goslings after the goslings are two or three weeks A it if good grass clover cloer or al falfa range Is available they will rill seed need only one I 1 feeding daily of a mash made up of two parts of shorts and one part of fine ground corn or ground oats or barley after tl ey are six weeks old if they still need extra teed feed change the mash to equal parts of shorts ground corn and ground oats with 5 per cent of meat scraps added with good grass range the amount of feed needed will be small crowded houses bad slow development of feathers on a pullet indicates a poor layer and one of the chief causes of poor feathering oti er than the inheritance of the bird Is overcrowd ng during the summer months in brooder houses one way to eliminate crowding is to use sum mer shelters for housing tl if e young youn pullets in crowded brooder I 1 louses ouse too frequently the ch chickens lehens develop the habit of roosting on the floor then as cold weather comes they crowd and colds and roup take a heavy heany toll 1 I f w josf V A |