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FEEDING BABY CHICKS. The first two or three weeks is per haps the most critical time in a chick en’s life. If you can get the chicks safely over this period, then your problem is nearly solved. Then any feed which will give best results, which will tend to decrease the mor tality, is not expensive even if you have to buy it and pay a good price. You cannot afford to let anything stand in the way of providing the best feed obtainable to feed your chicks for at least the first three weeks after hatching. We have found that particularly every farmer and poultry raiser has a little different method of feeding. If you are getting good results, I should not advise you to change it. While the method mentioned here is perhaps not the best, yet it has proved to be sim ple and safe in most cases. Provide a hover for the hen and chickens, or a comfortable brooder for the incubator hatched chicks. Cover the fioor with clover chaff, fine cut straw or other litter free from mold or mustiness. Sprinkle a little fine grit over the floor and provide a fountain of pure water. Place the chicks in the brooder but do not feed them for 48 to 72 hours after they are hatched. Th^ first food we give is a little good grade commercial chick feed sprinkled in a clean place on the floor. This is fed morning, noon and night. As soon as they have learned to eat, we sprinkle this feed in the lit ter and let them have the fun of scratching for it. Between meals, about 10 o clock in the morning and 2:30 in the afternoon, we sprinkle a little rolled, pinhead or steel cut oats on the floor. We provide all the sour milk or buttermilk we can get the chicks to drink from the first day un til the stock is fully matured. We pre fer this to feeding them beef scraps. ^Ve also cut up an onion occasionally and give to the youngsters. This fur nishes them with green food and also seems to aid in keeping them healthy. After the chicks are about ten days old, we begin to feed a dry mash mix ture made as follows: Two parts bran, one corn meal, one shorts or middlings. We mix in a little bone meal and a little fine charcoal and also include half a pound of fine salt with every 100 pounds of this dry mash. This is kept in a hopper or box where the chickens can eat it any time they become hungry. The same dry mash is used until the chickens have fully matured. If you cannot get sour milk or but ter milk, it will be necessary to add one-half part of dry beef scraps to the dry mash mixture. After the chicks are from two to three weeks old, we gradually change their grain food from the commercial chick feed to a mixture of two parts wheat and one part cracked corn or kafir corn. After the chicks are a month old, their grain food is all fed from hop pers. Try this method of fee*dlng if you wish, but don’t give up your own if you are already succeeding with it. —T. E. Quisenberry, in American Agricuiturist. three days old, it sinks only just be low the surface. From five days up ward it floats; the older it is the more it protrudes out of the water. It would be better to wash eggs sent to market than to send them in a dirty condition. But washed eggs have no keeping qualities. The wa ter appears to dissolve the gelatin ous substance which seals the pores of the shell, and air is thus admitted and soon starts decomposition The better way to treat dirty eggs is to take a woolen rag only slightly moistened with water and gently rub off the dirt. S. C. BLACK MINORCA eggs for sale. Irize winning pen and free range flock. Also Barred Plymouth Rocks. Write for pldrn 'va^^' ^^^O^^KMORTON, Ra- * a-24 I Olt SALE.—Ringlet Barred Rock eees from E B Thompson’s best New York wln- ning blood: also a few Barred Rock and “‘s.le birds.—nj. S. WHITE, Wakefield, Va. a-24 W^E ORPINGTON, White Minorca eggs, Minori?«White Wyandotte, Blick hnv» 1 *1-00. Five prizes won by Corn Wall’s Prolific v^orn last vear! ad » — year; $2.00 per WALL, Stonevllle, N. C. bushel.—J. T. a-24 PMg9 8dV§B farm and garden seed. Long staple Cotton- fhlt' I 2 W 6 cents higher Duke, N.°a TURLINGTON, * m-S SWEET POTAToTPLANTS of the White Yams, $1.60 a thousand. We are J’*'**®*'® 'IS liave yours — uSbfii? * POULTRY FARM, Ca- ’ a-17 “sweet potato plants—Leading va- rletles—16,000,000. Price, $1.60 per thou sand. Plants Of first quality. Count and s^e arrival guaranteed.—C. W. WAUGH TEL, Homeland, Ga. aJT Classified Advertisements Advertisements will be inserted in column at the rate of 2 cents ner wn?d fnn Minimum^aS^e.^Snte Advertisements of Local and County Unions (not individual members) will ree, provided seal is on all copy furnished. BUFF ORPINGTONS.-Won at Ashevnin Charlotte Raleigh, and Columbia. lit ef ims season’s breeders for sale; Eggs now WriVf H. KENDALE'lhX; -CLaSce” gran" Mo.Svm? EGGS.-^tonaway Farm, Bennettsvllle. S C., offers White Runners, $3.00 per 11; Topi louse Goose, 30 cents each. Heavy laying blue ribbon; S. C. Reds. $2.00 per ^.--mr|' ■ • MATTHEWS, Bennettsvllle, S. C. m-1 Barred Rocks, $160 a-17 INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS tl "ky’ ct. SrothV;s-;SS%™™ MORRiT‘ci.e?dmoorf n“c." stock for sale V ®® Select you want.—W. M CAR’TER^'^CHft tax County, Virginia. mas^Buff^‘eht Brah- Wilson, N. C ■— a-24 MAMMOTH YELLOW SOY BEANS. co7- peas, seed sweet potatoes, good stock any quantity. Write for prices. Prompt shin m.n..._BUERUS S COMPANY, N.w l""; tf NANCY HALL, TRIUMPH RED YAMS and potato plants, $1.60 per A and other plants^ OAKLIN FARM, Salisbury, N. C. m-l S. C. W’HITE LEGHORN Frr'o -inw. lottesvllle, Va. ' Char- J ra-8 MATTHEwI; °rU‘.’I. r.’.fjjsrri; •’k.S SICILIAN BUTTERCUPS. The hp«t wfds *^^^Stoc^^^for°*^f^1^‘^d*"®^ selected POOiTRY TABDR thorough-bred stock, White Orpington, Mottled Anconas T iVht ?i#ERS-cra: ®i;®^dhurst. Farm, R. p d NoT « Box 36, Greenville, N. c. ” * &*17 mohobn .„a olive, rS '■ “-L. a •Ks“?3“oo ®“''®*‘ Spangled Hamburg^ land 8. C. BUODE isl ^^3.26 orS^No^r^ifrS S).%^.^r?e^"l6; ^ff' plngro*n*° (ke’ne^t^L^s ^ ra‘in)rV2.00‘'pe^r %' htt®t'^ Crystal White cockerels, $2.00.—A G HILL, Trevlllans. Va. ORPINGTON Eggs, 16 for Greai ^^'‘^^’^vlgorous farm-raised. w^^llete ®”® '^hlch we the most profitable one.—MRS. R. PATRICK, Rustling, Va. a-24 Brown^^h Single-Comb Leghwns, champion layers, pure preM- $1^2*6 hv“® ^®'' by ex- ?R?YiR4VtarN.T‘-~°‘’‘^° NOW IS THE TIME to hatch your fall and winter layers and buy your eggs of us Exclusive breeders of Single-Comb White fifteen, $1.60 to $3.00. Eight dollars per hundred. Two hundred sale.—WARD BROS’. leghorn farms. Box 288, Greensboro, a-24 A EL VET BEANS from grower to grower Save the Jobbers profit. $2.60 per\ushei f. o. b., Quincy, Florida. One-half peck 90 cents, delivered.—OWL COMMERCIAL CO., Quincy, Florida. hull^^'foHp®®’^* Beggarweed Seed, hulled, recleaned and graded. Recleaned S2°Kn^ Insures higher germination. Beans n^'f ®®«^8^a'-weed, 36 cents per pound, f. o. b.—SIDNEY V. COXETTPR Grower, Lloyd, Florida. dxetteh MEXICAN BIG BOLL COTTON SEFfl *i per bushel In 10 bushel lots or mor! ? o’ b Made twenty 600-pound bales on 16 acres of Of fertilizer per acre. Free from disease- matures early. Five locks.—W. L. FELTON,’ Apr. 17 nrtof. ’ Single thousand. Special prices on May shipments. Send your order to-day.—MISS BESSIE Z RAMSFV t . colnton. N. C -kamsby, Lln- m-1 ueans $2.76, Spanish peanuts, $1.26 Ask fn,. lot prlces.-P. A. BUSH, Richland, Qa ^j!®j FA RAT ® Gotton Seed. — GLENDALF farm, Llncolnton, N. C., R. A Aiovf.. Proprietor, member Local, No. 1017. " m-8 ;SWEET POTATO PLANTS—"Nancv Hmi'- thorn, Florida -WUORE, Haw- m-8 - ~ I CRYSTAL WHITE ORPINGTON eggs S3 EGGS FOR HATCHING—^Whlte PartrldJk I RJinnir .White eggs from Indian and Columbia Wyandotte, $126- ’wh!t« I ^^-25 per dozen.—SEVEN Black Orpington, D.60; WWte a^d Bro^^ 1 2! POULTRY YARD, Greenville, S. C. Leghorn. 11.00: PArf-w-l » “I.® f??. Brown | a-24 DUROC JERSEY PlOd J Wir^xchS’e m- the cash.-L. L. DRAUGHON,® Whulker? m-1 BERKSHIRE PIGS—ki—Z try; four bred Jersey' hfie hooded poul- ™°°me 33 SONS, a *7':;; S, " ^ Hi * S registered JERSPV r- 4 r f-w, ~ rT ^R-d™- ~ p“‘^ock a"n“J Toulouse goose eggs $2 60 ner^H *1 = bowe ^ CO., i?fa’„',Sbr4,7.'" ~"..?, -17 a-17 The following method for deter mining the age of eggs is said to be practiced in the markets of Paris. About six ounces of common cooking salt is put into a large glass, which Is then filled with water. When the salt is in the solution an egg is drop ped Into the glass. If the egg is only one day old it immediately sinks to the bottom; if any older it does not reach the bottom of the glass. If , WHITE WYANDOTTKS exclusively flno S;”i3!'?.7ir":sr',v5i j-n K?T 0'®™"’'“’'°°’" Min -* a-17 »fio"o"ind |’To%e? faction guaranteed. w C ^ Greenville, N. C • C. VINCENT,, a-24 . WHITE ORPINGTON EGGS-Z »B entitled to the W “™'~-The farmer fine quality egg. *‘'’® y®** THE SNOWl’LAKE YARDS.-Whlte to the skin. Sunnyslde strain. Best blood In Amerl^ Come from Flshel, Kellerstrass. Young. Eggs packed not to break, and satisfaction guaranteed or your money refunded. White Holland turkey toms, $5; eggs, 30 cents. Embden Goose eggs, 40 cents. White African guineas. “Horror of C^,r1l??o p^ooV n® F’'i visited the most fio’uH^^nk est farming districts in fhI tnd laid them to wActo States self-sacrificing is told by kye'^wltne pages, many Illustrations; prl^e $1 ®®® est opportunity since Great- free on ^eeAT^. „ Titanic. Outfit sent ^gs. 40 cents. White African guineas, est opportunltv Great- WyandotteA Rocks, Orpingtons, and Leg- I free on receiptTitanic. Outfit sent special mating yards, $2 for I terms; act at one ^ "r®"‘® Postage. Best ioULTR^'^vllV^R^®'' »l-25.-SUNNysiDB outfit 'from nearest'om® «®''* 0«-der POULTRY YARD. Windsor. N. C. a-17 I PUBLISHING YD cr'.c COTTON GRadE^ Cof 1.6t Us Stsrt You iu Business tlOO.OO to OA you now to 80U from 6ri?,5flS between the age: &vr£;rr„ra'sS“nEA5"M letten answered unless refarAneA. No '“•^‘bs neared office ^ given. Address PCBUSUINQ COMPANY AUsnU, O... DMUs. Tex..^^„d Little Rook. Ar- PATENTS are the secret of success Send sketch or model to-day. Pattorservice In^ profit.-HARRY PATTON CO 8 McGill Building, Washington, D C m-1 ii;,,;;'™ 'v>==ks mam sales, big profli Fve,!; etc. Easy you write QUICK county rights If Wien writing advertisers, pleas'^ mention this paper. ^ if if) ;li ■ tl: :!i- ■li!. 'i; [ ill: f r ifi
The Carolina Union Farmer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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