Show PONY QUIT confinement IDEA FOR PULLETS raising on range Is 13 best Poultry men say raising pullets in close confinement a method recently tried by leading ohio poultry men Is now largely a discarded system the tha spin spins Is toward the former method of 0 growing pullets on good range experience has shown that birds raised on are better feathered and more likely to produce well during the fall and winter months according to poultry pointers published monthly by the department of poultry husbandry the ohio state university another practice urged by the tha publication calls for the separation of the older birds from the pullets when old and young birds occupy the same range the hens are a source of fit infection of coccId losis tuberculosis bercu losis and cholera and other disease as well as for infestations of intestinal rotation of range one year with another Is recommended old range is a source ot of worm infestation worm pills in the tall fall are a poor substitute tor lor prevention states the publication feeders and water wa terera ers should be moved every few days to prevent contamination ot of the range and killing of the poultry men hold the belief reads the publication that it if pullets let are fed a ration that Is too hilgh in protein they will begin lay ing before they attain a proper weight As a result eggs will be small and it will be difficult to maintain production without a fall molt on the other hand experiments have shown that if the protein content Is limited too much the pullets will be stunted A very satisfactory method of feeding Is to continue the birds on the mash on which they are started and supplement with hopper feeding of grain from the time they are six to eight weeks old until maturity for this purpose it Is more desirable to feed a grain mixture than to use corn alone eggs in storage eat themselves tests testa show an a ess deteriorates in storage because it la Is digesting itself itsek work by food chemists of the united states department of af agriculture shows that one of the en an aymes present in the pan pancreatic breatt C juice of the human body Is present in egg white and Is quite probably responsible for the changes that occur in eggs when they are stored tor for several months the function of in the human body Is to digest protein foods presumably that Is just what it does in the egg eg white for years scientists have suspected hect that or some other pro enzyme was responsible for two of the important changes that take like place under storage a weakening of the membrane around the yolk causing it to break more easily and an increase in the amount of thin white As i check on their conclusions the investigators took a fresh egg punched a small hole in the end and injected into the thick white with a hypodermic needle fresh eggs so 80 treated took on in a few hours the characteristics of eggs held in storage for many mouths months the whites became thin and watery find and the yolks talks became fragile within two days it was almost impossible to break the egg without breaking the yolk types of geese in a choice of geese most prefer one of the heavy breeds such as the toulouse emden or african standard wel weights ailts for the noble toulouse largest of all are adult gander 20 26 pounds adult goose 20 young gander 20 young goose 10 pounds other standard breeds abcox according din to an authority in the wisconsin agriculturist ri are the chinese canadian ani egyptian none ot of aillem them so popular as the old favorite the big gray toulouse poultry helps the raising of poultry ry fourth financially among the a agricultural ri industries of florida eggs may be carld candled led to remove abnormal and inedible eg ggs eggs those with blod clots blots meat spots bloody white etc in order to have success with geese they should be divided in pairs and one pair separated from the others geese mate in pairs or trios 0 0 it if lims start feather pulling or egg eating and the flock management seems all right the best remedy Is to turn them on range even it if the weather Is not ideal the value of the poultry industry says a report in the london dally daily mall kail Is much the largest single item in northern ireland a ag rl culture it la Is worth out of |