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Poultry Conducted by Fhmn Elliott Impottance Of Feeding Propet ly And Regulai ly Much of the disappointment with be ginners In keepins poultry is due to :nl8takes made in feeding, and it may wjth Borae, require years of experi ence to learn how to feed for the best results. It is difficult to impress upon the be ginner the fact that no matter what breed he has they ■will not laj’ unless ttiey are fed and cared for intelligent ly. Fowls are peculiar 4n their habits of. eating and when accustomed to cer tain kinds of feed have been known to p«fu?e them Kven oats and wheat vr^ll be refused for a while if they have never been treated with food of that kind. They can all be educated, how- Bver, to eat food to which they have not been accustomed which is done by placing only the one kind of food in l. ; T reach Langshans, etc., too much. They do not take as much exercise as one’s smaller breeds and should never be overfed. The large breeds are easily kept within bounds by proper feeding. It is necessary to study carefully the habits of each breed in order to know just what to do. There are hundreds of complaints that fowls do not lay even when well fed and comfortably housed, but this is due to not giving the proper kind of food or overfeeding. One pf the best tonics I have found is to change the diet of the fowls every few days; Feeding a variety will cure many of the ills that afflict fowls, providing the food is sound and wholesome. Al ways feed regularly. Regularity in feeding produces certain habits in the flock. If the birds are fed at certain s.»me breeds ara disposed to convert hours they will soon know when fond into meat rather than eggs, while expect their teed. I ’hers are not so easily made fat. The I If the fowls are allowed free range nonsitting varieties such as Leghorns, it may not be necessary at certain Anconas. Minorcas, otc., owing to their seasons to feed more than once a Active disposition do not fatten as day. at night, as the birds can keep in readily as the larger breeds. ' good condition upon foraging. It is best, therefore, to keep this in ] Chickens will soon learn who feeds view when U eding as it is easy to feed them and will at once distinguish :he large breeds, such as Brahmas,! strangers from the owner. White Indian Runnel Ducks Growing In Popular Favor jj. W. Beeson, A.M., L.I^D., President drinking. The eggs are very fertile and Woman’s College, Meridian, Miss.) | the ducklings are easily raised. They The white Indian Runner is creating wonderful intelligence; are easily a sensation among the poutrymen handled and know their feeding hour. ^Vhite Runner of which the white run- A fence two of three feet high will ner la a sport. Like many of the them. Runner is a sport. Like many of the ‘ The White Indian Runner is line for finest fancy birds, the White Runner or the back yead. Raising originated in England. It has been in *’unner ducks is an Interesting occu- £Zistenoe a verj* few years and the de- Potion for women or men, boys of girls, mand has been so great that breeders old or young. A city hotel has a large could not be^rln to supply the demand, of them on its roof to eat scaps The White Runner Duck seems to furnish fresh e^:gs. One young lady have outclassed Its parent variety in wrote me she cleared $115 on sixteen sfiatter of egg production and in the three months. Another lady wrote production of pure white eggs, so say that she made over $3,000 from 360 those who have been so fortunate as ducks in three months. These were to have some to try. I with colored ones. They do better than The White Runner breeds absolutely this with the White Runner, for their true to color. One writer says: “Not ©Sgs are even better priced than the an off-color specimen has apppeared in es?s of the colored Runner. We have over two thousands birds.” This is re- three varieties of Indian Runner Ducks markable for any variety and especially in the Woman’s College Poultry Farm; for a new one. That makes them much the old Bnglish penciled^ or the dark more satisfactory than colored varle- fawn and white, that lay pure white ties, for it is so hard to get a correct eggs; the light fawn and the white specimen for the show. Among the or American Standard Runners, that white there is scarcely ever a cull. . souMttme^ lay'a tinted egg; and the Again, they look much prettier than pure white Indian Runoer. We find all t%e colored variety. Nothing can be of them good if one ?et a good laying prettier than the pure white. They are not creamy like the Pekin, and are not rlumsy like them. They are graceful, hold their heads high, carraige upright and racy. The bill is deep orange yel- Ibw, with an occasional green spot; l^gs orange yellow; heads small and flat, like other runners. The neck Is long and thin, which adds to the sprightly appearance of the bird. The breast is full and shows more meat than other runners. The body is long, narrow, racy looking and carried al most erect and alert looking. As egg producers they are simply wonderful. They begin to lay at five or stx months and apparently never seem to tire of egg production. Some of them THE POULTRY BU8I stain. There is a great difference In different strains of the same variety. We have the largest flock in the state, numbering into many hundreds and we gather eggs each morning by baskets full. They are very little trouble, quite hardy, free from diseases. I often won der why more people have not found out their own worth. One must under stand their nature and how to manage them to get good results. Any one can succeed who followjs directions. There is no danger of over production of eggs. Try Indian Runner, colored or white.—From Southern Fancier. turned to poultry raising, as it is oi^e of the only quick methods of producing aniniial food in a short length of time and Is unloiibtedly one line that gives every one an opportunity—the rich and poor, the old and young. Therefore, "hundreds of people, who have only limited means to start with can begin in the poultry business in a small way that could never think of entering-any other line of business. From this small Investment, they can earn a few dollars for their spare jnoments put into this line of work. Thousands of families who have \Ticant back yards and more or less waste of food left from the family tables, or boarding house tables, are convert ing this food into the production of poultry and eggs, and the saving in their grocery bill amounts to many dollars that heretofore has not been saved. Another thing that has caused this great awakening is the work that many of the agricultural schools and the monthly and daily papers have been putting before the public, giving them information that will enable hundreds to succeed that otherwise could not dream of success. While many fail, hundreds succeed and continue to add a small bit to their Income by getting information from others who have succeeded and possibly could not have Succeeded themselves if they had not had the benefit of others’ e^erience. The daily papers of the south, espec ially the Georgia papers, deserve much credit for lending a helping hand in this most important work of producing more food to feed the fast growing population of this country, and it is keeping in our midst thousands of dollars that heretofore drifted away from us. I believe that one* of the most important things it has done is in keepihg many a man, woman and child at home and off the streets, and probably out of some idle mischief that they most likely would have en gaged in had they not been entertained at home by something they were in terested in. To my knowledge there are many people who have stayed at home and attended their chickens *aiid have been benefitted in dollars and cents by doing so, when thex would otherwise have been on the streets, or in.stores spending money for things that they could have done without, which they have done heretofore. It has made many a one happier and more contented than they were hereto fore, by haying their poultry not only entertaining their family and keeping them at home but to show and enter tain their friends and visitors.—At lanta Journal. Undoubtedly the inoat enthusiastic poultry Industry, meeting^ the Charlotte Poultry show has yet held^ was that this weekt TSere were a nupaber of enthusiastic new i members, including Frank .8, McNInch and Edg^r - Bfl Moore, of the Selwyn. Both of these gentlemen lined' them* selves right up on the working line and are pulling, with the (^her mem- beta for a record-breaking show here in January. FYom the minutes of Secretary Al exander the following relative to the proceedings of the meeting, will be of general interest. , v The Charlotte Poultry Association met at G. A. Page’s office Tuesday night. Present Davis, BanksV Sim mons, Hannon, Moore, E. H. PoWell, P. R. McNInch, Pritchett, Stitt, T. W. Whisnant, Alexahdw, W. B. Motion to appoint a commitijge to see executive boar] and secure if'possible the auditorium to hold a show in Jan uary. Committee, Moore, Powell, Da vis. ' A motion was made by' Banks that a committee be appointed to see the county commissioners, for the pur pose of getUng them interested In the show for tue benefit of the people of the county and the further object of educating and getting them interested in a larger production of eggs and the Committee. Mo- Ninch, Patttm, Banks, Davis, and Moore. Appointer to communicsite with commissioner of agriculture H. W. A. Graham to get his aid for the poultry Industry as well as that at cattle, hogs, etc. Some arrangement^ made to canvass the city. Secretary reported between.fiffeen out of town ads and $100 worth of ^specials sub ject of coops for the show was dis cussed and MDcie progress made alcmg that-^llne. Mr. B. B. Moore, a new member, offered for the l^neflt of the pec^le of the country only a rgis- ter^ pig valued at $40. The 'seferetary read a letter fro^ Mrs. C. B., Camp bell of 4s|ievlller a live member;of the Charlotte as^dc^tlon and 'doing' i^.od woirk for the coming show in'the Land of the Sky and elsewhere. Also a let ter from Y. E. Smith of Durham, pres ident of bank an^ cottdn mill and state senator from his county.* He will be with us with a string of his snow white Plymouth Rocks and he helped along by offering $10 in gold. The association has rpany friends in the city and with their help and encouragement a great and successful show will be pulled off and the results will be greater and better eggs and poultry production will follow. The Secretary. P«iyl^:4iiy attention to the improve- me^ and selection of the inbreed and instead of improving they do the op- poiRite, they run out. Do not'inbreed The one great object in'^ the select ion Of the best birds and the dispos ing of the unpirofltable ones is to have n)ore~ eggs produced with less cost for feed. Some do not realize that to keep one nc»-produ(^ng hen through the winter will take off the profit of the best hen that he has. Or in other words, if half of the flock were non-producers and half were go^ layers he would pay out enough for feed for to cost as much as the eggs produced by , the layers would be worth. Did you ever think of that.—Jft'om Poultry Item. , Local Briefs. (Not by Flynn Elliott.) The last issue of Mr. Simmons's pa per was the best yet. It was brim full of live poultry dope and was certainly worth the price of admission. Flynn Elliott has become so famous oyer 25c prizes won here last week that some of them are already talking of running him for office. Improvemen t By Selection The question of the improvement has only a small flock he can if he of one’s flock of fbwls is one that fs among the birds quite often tell should be borne in mind by every | best layers, by noting breeder and practiced at all times. I * To select out the best birds and dis- employ to select the better layers it pose of the apparently profitless ones is to his interest to use eggs from the for hatching purposes, breeder. Too oiten this i« nnt nr«p-.'Phna v._ _i.i_ ■. « . Ik'y continually the whole year. Both winter and summer the eggs keep com ing. They lay a beautiful white egg, fine fh flavor and larger than a hen’s egg. Six of them are equal to ten of the average size hen egg. As a table fowl their plump, well meated, fine fiavored carcasses are the delight of the epicure. They require no water except for NESS AN EPIDEMIC. Additional Prize Awards. Editor News: Will you please publish the following winnings which by an oversight I left off the list of awards published last Week. I am very sorry that this oc curred but such things will occasional ly happen in a rush. Silver Wyandottes—Lee Stitt, Char lotte, N. C., 1st cock, 1st hen. P. M. Pearson, Charlotte, N. C., 1st cockerel, 1st and 2nd pullet. Thanking you for the courtesy, I am, Yours truly, E. G. WARDIN. With eggs selling at thirty and thir ty-five centa per dozen, with prospects ef higher prices, it is not strange that. Mecklenburgers have decided to sup-j ness ly home trade instead of permitting {to produce ennessee poultrymen to do so. The writer has been over a good portion of the southern states this fall, and never before have I seen such enthusiasm or so many beginners in the poultry field. I have watched this Industry for the past 28 years, and have seen It through its ups and downs during this time, but never before has there been such an awakening as there is at present. There are hun dreds of new breeders and many large new pants are being buit near the large cities. Naturally there Is some cause for this. 1 see no reason other than the great demand for poultry knd eggs, and the scarcity of same. The city people must have food. Nothing taking the place of poultry and eggs, for the same price paid, pound for pound, it has awakened the people to this fact, and the demand is still in creasing, year by year, as the popula tion is increasing. The demand now being greater than the supply, prices have soared higher and higher every year,.^and as it is taken' an immense amotttt of capital and many years to g^f l|^-the livestock and cattle busl- oduce food, many, who wish something immediately and in a short time, have natur^ly Selecting Poultry. Entirely too little attention is given to selwting poultry for general use. One ^ght read an article that lauded the Plymouth Rock or Orpington fowls, and from that might decide to have some of that breed. The fowls are procured and turned loose on the farm to mix with those already Wyandottes, etc., and the re sult is .that the stock is poorer ever before. Those who keep poultry on farms, or elsewhere, should keep them separate during the breeding season and not intermingle or cross breed oile variety with another, ex cept to produce market poultry, and in such instances all the crossbred fowls should be sold to market and none kept for breeding. “ More attention should be given to poultry on farms than elsewhere. Some may say that they do not care to breed exhibition poultry, but it will always pay the farmer to breed his poultry just as carefully as fowls be bred for exhibition. It is not neces sary to spend large sums of money for prize winning fowls, nor to keep the poultry on the farms In the same way that they should be kept for exhi bition, yet the poultry should be cared for and properly housed; be cause such care will bring good returns. An instance pf this kind occurred during the past season. One who had kept poultry for about 20 years, be came Interested in the subject of proper breeding. Over a year ago he bought a thousand day-old chicks from which he r^red and selected 460 pullets. He sold all his other fowls and from each of these 460 pullets more'than $2 worth of eggs was sold during the month of De cember,. January, February and March, making 50 cents a month from each hen. These results were so sat isfactory that the farmer has made arrangements to have 1,200 laying hens and pullets and has his house now completed and the pullets al most ready to go into them. His statement is that when a man knows how and applies his knowledge to poultry growing, he can easily make more than $2 a year net, from each hen. Another feature for consideration is the color of the egg shell. If your, market demands white-shelled eggs, select fowls that lay white shelled eggs; if your market is suited with tinted or brown-shelled eggs select fowls that lay eggs with tinted shells. Always select the fowls from a true bred variety ard keep them pure and true. If. you want to keep fowls that lay white shelled eggs and those^that lay colored-shelled eggs, select two varie ties, and breed them separate. * Remember Greater Charlotte Poultry Show Jan. 16-19. j R S. Davis-President Alexander-Secrefary. this is not prac ticed and the breleder is the loser. To get at what I mean let me il lustrate. Here is a farmer whom wo will say last winter kept fifty hens. This season he has been hatching and raising chickens begining early and hatching along through the summer. In tb# fall he has we will say a couple hundred young birds, probably half of them are pullets. About Thanksgiving time he will dispose of the noAles and thinking that he might make a good thing out of his hens the coming winter he plans to keep the whole hundred pullets along with the fifty old hens. But tUere is where he makes amistake. Some of those pullets were late hatched and so are small, others were stunted, some are ill-shaped and possibly in the whole lot of a hundred h^ has on ly fifty or sixty desirable birds, such as look favorable to the making of good winter layers. Now here is the point I am getting at: will it not pay him better to sell all, except the good ones rather than try to winter the whole lot and thus have half of his fiock to consist of unprofitable birds? I say yes, it is not the number of birds that one can keep but how much profit can he get per hen from those that he does keep and nave practically every one a profit produc er. Of course one cannot always se lect out just exactly every bird that will be profitable but he can throw out a lot tiiat he may be quite sure will never pay^ He can tell that a late hatched bird will not be likely to begin laying until towards the next spring. So if he wants good winter layers he will throw out all those. If he wants to improve his flock and build it up Into a lot of birds better in shape, size^ and egg production, he does not keep any of these undesirable pnes but rather keeps a flock of all good Dnes. The breeder should have no use for a stunted bird except to dispose of it in the market. They,may never lay, ^surely not until next spring. It will cost fifty or seventy-five cents to winter it and it will never lay enough eggs to begin to pay for its feed, and then no one would ev.er think of breeding from a stunted Iqwl. Sell them off aa soon as you can. The same may be said.’of the ill-shaped bird. One has no use for, them in his ya^ds. Never breed from them as they are not desirable birds. I always get rid of them as they are marketable. I- have not used them in any work. Then again in making up your flocks dispose of all that show signs of any weakness. Sometimes we see bird that looks qiiite nice but shows signs of not being; strong and vigorous. A sort of a sluggish bird. One that sits around and is not ac tive. Nothing bijit strong, active and vigorous birds should be in the flock. Vivor is one thing that the breeder must place considerable stress on if he expects to build up his flock. The strong birds are the only ones that can be dei>ended upon to produce strong chicks. To breed from hens that are not vigorous is to favor running out your flocks. Keep them up. Look out for disease. Keep It out of the flock by proper meth ods of sanitation. Never, neV' er breed from a bird ^at has ever had 'any serious disene. I never should. They are not likely to be as strong as a bird that has never been sick and then they may transmit a tendency to the same disease to the chicks or perhaps some weakness. Look out for such birds and dispose of them. I do not even want them in a flock of layers which I would not breed from, for fear that the disease might break out again witii them or not being as strong perhaps they mgiht easily contract some of ther disease which in tuni may get into the flock and work serious results. A fowl Ithat gets any ailment whatever should not be bred from and I do not like to keep them in a flock at all. If one caA trapnest his birds he will have a chance ■ to better se* lect the layers in building up and im- proving theni along the line of bet- ter egg producUoa. But where one Thus he will be able to work for bet ter production. Let me state a word agiilnst the keeping of anything except good strong large male birds. I have seen cases where a farmer would keep a male bird that was late hatched and small and not worth inuch for marK- e^ and so he kept him to-use in his flock next springy saying that he would grow and be good enough by spring, and s^s large as any of the better ones. What a mistake. But yet I have iseen it done. Never keep a m^l^e^bird ^at is anything less ttie best that you have. A little extra money there may mean dollars later. If you have no good ohes it will pay you to buy one. it is wise to change males occasionall to prevent inbreed ing. Farmers often keep the same stock from year to year and without The January show of the Charlotte Poultry Association promises to be the largest ever held. Negotiations are now on for the auditorium in which to hold the show. The matter will be presented to the executive board this week, and members of the board could render a great srvice to a meri torious industry by donating the. hall to the poultry association. Increased Interest in poultry culture means in creased business for the city. With the proposition of buying coops for the show, in addition to other heavy expense, the association is hardly able to pay a big price for the auditorium. Next year,,when the association is on better footing, it could stand a charge. The poultry show will bring dozens of prominent breeders to Charlotte. Why should a charge be made4or entertain ing these gentlemen, and thir exhibi tors. more than for entertaining any other set of visitors? The writer be lieves the board will give the asso tion a lift in the form of free use the hall during show week. Fawn and White Indian Runner duek, owned by Flynn Elliott, Char lotte, winner at recent Charlotte show Mr. Elliott has won many prizes on his Runners this season. POR THE BEST in White Leghorns Rhode. Island Reds, Ihdian Runner Ducks, etc., write Loring Brown Smyrna, Ga. GOOD Rhode Island Reds $2.50 each Phone 2260-J. PURE WHITE Indian Runner duck eggs $5 and $10 per sitting; fawn anj white $2. J. C. Patton, Char lotte. Phone 2260-J. FOR SALE—White and Black Orping ton cockerels, Keller St|rass and CoQk strains. P. M. Pearson, 1011 W«st 6th St., Charlotte, N. C. FOR SALE—Black Orpingt Mrs. O. T. Hallman. (ip cockerel. Phdqie 2439-L, J POULTRY AND EGGS FOR SALE. FOR SALE—Thirteen pure white fan- tail pigeons for $5. First check gets them. E. G. Wardin, Route 7, Char lotte. FOR SALE—^Nlce flock of white Leg horn cockerels, one to five dollars each. J, C. Patton, Charlotte. Phone 2260-J. baby CHICKS—Taking orders ahead for spring delivery baby White Leg horn chicks. Write O. T. Hallman, 905 W. Fifth St, Charlotte, N. C. PLACE YOUR ORDERS FOR EGGS NOW and hatch fall chickens, whifch will give you plenty of eggs at a time when the spring-hatched hens are not laying. Eggs from Single-Comb White Leghorns, Rhode Island Reds, Barred Plymouth Rocks and Indian Runner Ducks at, $3 per 15; $5* per 3o. Five hundred choice, well-bred cockerels,) S. C. White Leghorns, Rhode Island \ Reds, Barred Rocks and Indian Runner Drakes; the kind that will improve your flock, from our heavy egg-laying strains, at $3, $5 and $10 each. Exhi bition birds, of these varieties furnish ed on short notice. Price a matter of correspondence. BELMONT FARM Loring Brown, Owner, Smyrna, Ga. 9-13-tf-wed-suD PLACE YOUR (HIDERS now tor eggs from white guineas; white and bronze turkeys; Bekin, Muscovey, White .Crested;! and Indian Runner 4ucks; Langshan and White Orping ton chickens; Bantams of all de-l 6-pound pair piflows, best ticking, Uott, Route 6, Charlie. Send for all for^lO.OO at circular. Won 300 prizes this sea-. TURNER & CORNWELL’S, ' I Feather Dealers. FEATHER BED5 AND PILLOWsJ SPECIAL OFFER I You can buy a 36-pound Feather Bed We carry a very large and complete sul>ply of everything needed by the poultry raiser. The things you buy from us will be always, fresh and of standard quality and our prices in accordance with latest market quotations —^write us for anything you need. ESSEX MODEL INCUBATORS Have a capacity of 100 egg^ or more on most modem scii^ntlfic' lines; simple and economical In operation and certain in results 100 Egg Size, $12.50. CYCLE INCUBATORS. Capacity 50 eggs. Very simple and satisfactory for small hatches, $84)0. AMANDA LEE INCUBATORS One of the newest types of In cubators, 100 egg capacity, $18, 60 egg capacity, $10. incubator THERMOME TERS. > Standard size and Quality, 50c. drinking FOUNTAINS. Made of galvanized iron, rust pr»f and durable. Insure pure ' water at all times, 20c and 40c. SPRAY PUMPS. For the extermination of vermin keep the poultry house free from lice and in sanitary condition, 50c. , FEED BOXES (Well made of heav^ galvanized iron. Regulate the feed supply, 50 and 75c. LEG BANDS AND PUNCHES A full stock of each. ■ 'I . POULTRY REMEDIES Pratt's Lice Killer, 25c. Pratt’s Cholera Cure, 25c. Pratt’s Poultry Regulator, 10c, 25c and 50c. ' Lee’s White Diarrhoae Remedy, 50c. Lee’s Germazone. 50c. Lee’s Insect Powder, 25c. Conkey’s Roup Remedy, 25c and 50c. Conkey’s Cholera Remedy 25 and 50c. Conkey’s Gape Remedy, 50c. Conkey’s Worm Remedy, 50c. Conkey’s Limber Neck Remedy, 50c. Conkey’s Scaley Leg Remedy, 50c. Conkey’s Poultry Tonic, 25c. Conkey’s ,Head Ldee . Ointment, iPc and 25c^» ' POUtlTRY FEED Como ‘Hen Como Chick Feed. Oyster Shells Grit. Bone Meal. Beef Scrap, ^ Crush^ Bone. Wheat. . Cut Altoa. V - Bran.' Corn MeaJ. ^ Com, Oats CharwsJ. We are the oldest andlargest Poultry Supply House in the Piedmont Sec ion and our reputation and responsibility are a guarantee of satisfaction to all customers, ^ompt and free Delivery to all city customers. Orders from out of town customers shipped the day they are received. 220 S. Collet St, Ghariotte, N. C, Phooe 412
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