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THE CAROLINA UNION PARMER
[Thursday, July 18, 1912-
BISULPHITE KILLS MITES.
Get a 25-cent can of bisulphite of
carbon and divide into bottles, one
for each room in which the chicks
and hens are housed. Twist a wire
about the neck of each bottle, take
out the cork and hang to a rafter,
giving an opportunity for plenty of
air over the fowls at night. Shut out
all fowls in the day time until the
mites disappear. Leave the bottle
till the carbon has evaporated, then
refill. Do not go into the house with
a light.—Poultry Life.
A GOOD FORMULA FOR LICE ON
LITTLE CHICKS.
The following formula will be
found an effective one for prevent
ing and killing lice on little chicks:
Lard, three parts.
Sulphur, one part.
Kerosene oil, one part.
Grease the mother hen’s feathers
with this, not too freely.
This must not be used on setting
hens as it will get on the eggs, clog
up the pores and prevent their hatch-
ing.
A small bit of it rubbed on the
head of little chicks won’t hurt, but
it must be used very carefully and
in small quantities.—Southern Poul
try Journal.
The egg question is a serious mat
ter. Eggs in the nearby cities last
summer retailed from the stores at
double what the farmers realized at
the door. By developing the busi
ness and of the situation, producers
can get as much for their mode of
selling as they get for producing
them. Getting a start is the hard
part. If you know any consumers in
your nearby city, and can sell one lot
of perfectly fresh eggs, your trouble
will be over.—Farmer’s Voice.
HOT WEATHER REMINDERS FOR
POULTRY YARD.
Hot weather is with us once again
and I for one welcome it. Still it is
not the most pleasant thing in the
world to work in the hot summer
sun, but when the chicks have the
proper care they grow very fast in
warm weather.
Remember that the hotter the
weather the more water the chickens
require, and it is very injurious to
them for the drinking vessels to stay
dry for even a few hours. It is real
ly astonishing how often they will
run for a sup of water. The water
vessels must be in the shade, as hot
water on a hot day would not be very
agreeable. The drinking vessels
should be well washed and disinfect
ed often, as many diseases are con
tracted in this manner; more or less
filth of one kind and another is al
ways getting into the drinking ves
sels. It would not come amiss to
give a good tonic in the drinking wa
ter now and then; copperas and ep-
som salts are both good, but I believe
the Douglas mixture would be better
than either. It is made of 1 oz. of
Sulphuric acid, 1 pound of copperas,
In one gallon of water. Use one
tablespoonful of this to each gallon
of drinking water. Of course this is
not new to most breeders, but there
are the new beginners and sometimes
the older ones forget, and these are
Just reminders any way.
Green food must not be forgotten
as it forms an important item for
fowls of all ages, and where plenty of
green food is supplied it lessens the
feed bill and is essential to the wel
fare of the fowls.
Hot weather is the season for ver
min of all kinds and preventive
measures should be resorted to. I
give my poultry houses a semi-annual
cleaning and renovating and make it
a point to attend to this thoroughly
at the beginning of hot weather.
Everything is overhauled and clean
ed, whitewashed and disinfected
thoroughly, being careful to leave no
cracks or crevices where vermin can
harbor untouched. I put my disin
fectant in the whitewash, thus doing
the whole job at one application.
Nests should be whitewashed and
new material put in, all brood coops
should be treated to the same, and if
the runs have not been plowed and
planted in something, it should be
attended to at once. No difference if
the chickens do eat it up as fast as it
comes up, the turning of the ground
purifies it and gives the fowls good
exercise scratching for the grain
planted, which is well worth the time
and trouble.
After the houses, nests, and coops
have all been attended to, the fowls,
themselves should be looked after,
as it would only take more feed to
keep fowls that are overrun with
body lice. Where one has only a few,
the very best thing I know of is to
dust them by hand with a good pow
der, but where the flocks run up in
the hundreds and often thousands,
this would be quite an undertaking,
and there are other ways of ridding
them. Some use the lice killing ma
chine where a half dozen or more can
be dusted at one time; however, I
never could favor this method, as it
seems to me rather rough treatment
for biddies. I find that if the hens
are given a good dusting place they
will attend to the dusting and keep
themselves practically free from lice.
During a rather dry time, when the
ground is hard and ry, spade up a
good size place, make it moist and
thoroughly work into this some to
bacco dust, sulphur, and a little crude
carbolic acid. Be sure and not get
too much in or it will smell so strong
they will not use it. Fowls of all
ages will dust themselves well in
such a prepared place. I often see it
written in different papers to provide
dry earth for the fowls to dust in
Other people’s fowls may like the dry
dust but mine prefer the moist soil,
and I proceed to give it to them with
an addition of lice killing ingred
lents. ’
After these semi-annual clean-ups
I only have to clean out droppings
often enough to prevent bad odors,
and I still use disinfectant often, but
it is all buncomb about houses hav
ing to be cleaned each week. My
fowls are healthy and vigorous and I
only clean when necessary.
Plenty of shade is a very import
ant item in the hot weather bill of
fare, and when there is no natura
shade artificial shade of some kind
should be provided. I noticeed a
construction recenlty by a city lot fan
cier which could be easily copied by
those having to resort to artificia
shade. A frame work was made by
setting posts in the ground so they
would be about two or three feet
high, and on this, poles or anything
that would serve to hold up the
weeds around the fences or elsewhere
were cut, raked, and piled on this
while green and make a very cheap
and effective shade, for both old and
young stock.
Early summer is the time to be
gin culling; this gives the best speci
mens a chance to develop into fine
birds and it is only an added expense
to feed them when one is sure that
they are culls.
The moulting season is now upon
us and the old fowls that have been
retained for next season’s breeders
or layers should be well cared for
as the growing of a new coat of
feathers is a great strain on them
and it is not economy to neglect them
or let them root hog or die, for it
might be die, and it might be one of
the best, which is more apt to be the
case than otherwise. Sunflower seed,
inseed meal and a variety of good
sound grain should be fed. Keep the
young stock growing rapidly by at
tending to all their wants.—Mrs. H.
P. Hinton, Dallas, Texas.
en and consume them? ^
ter, rebuking them, said: Ye ^
not what spirit ye are oE.” Now.
can’t conceive of a Christian I
ing in the damnation and tor
of any one, even though it be
greatest oppressor.
Sincerely and fraternally yours-
C. E. BOSl-
Cornelius, N. C.
As an egg is more than nine-tenths
water, the importance of supplying
the hens with all the water they re
quire cannot be too strongly urged.
Water not only enters into the com
position of an egg as the leading sub
stance, but it fulfills other purposes.
It is as essential to the bird as a sol
vent to the food when hard grains are
fed, as the gizzard that grinds the
grain to powder, but the water is thus
necessary to assist the digestion and
to convert the food into blood. It is
generally supposed that birds are not
partial to clean water and will drink
from filthy pools in preference to
pure water. But the fact is the hen
is rather fastidious and will always
prefer pure water and clean food
when they are accessible to her. If
there is no clean water in sight she
is compelled to drink what is in
sight. A laying hen requires more
water than food.—Farm News.
BLAME WHERE BLAME BELONGS.
Mr. Editor:—I noticed an article
by Mr. J. S. Dean, which appeared in
the Issue of June 20th of The Caro
lina Union Farmer, page 4, educa
tional column. Mr. Dean’s letter was
entertaining, but is he justified In
attaching blame to religion or the
churches for existing conditions In
the business w'alks? He says: ‘
regret to have to refer to religion at
all. And for fear I am misunderstood,
I will state I have tried to be a faith
ful member of the church for about
twenty-eight yeats.” He further
says: “Now, what I wish to say is
this—the churches (all I have stud
ied) are teaching that we must be
patient, humble, and submissive to
the powers that be,’’ etc. In my no
tice of Mr. Dean’s letter, will have
to he somewhat personal, but will try
not to be harsh.
In the first place, I will say he did
not “have to refer to religion’’ at all.
No blame can rest in that quarter.
Neither can he blame the churches.
Can they teach less than the Mas
ter taught? And if it be ordained of
God (and the Scriptures teach this)
that men should be obedient to the
powers that be, especially is it en
joined of the churches, then how can
they teach otherwise? Our brother
says he has tried to be a faithful
member of the church for about
twenty-eight years, but didn’t say
how long he has tried to be a faithfu
Christian. If he means by faithfu
member, that he has attended the
meetings and has paid the preacher,
why, anybody can do that much, and
It is to be hoped that our brother
Is not depending on these things for
his salvation.
Now, I would admonish this broth
er, who has a grievance, to study the
situation and find out if he is not in
a measure to blame, and is Indivld-
ualy responsible for the Inequal
ities and hardships w’hich burden us
because of his lack of duty to coun
try in the exercise of his right to
vote for the right men and measures
to make and execute our law’s. Get
right, brother.
The saying of Mr. Dean’s letter
that strikes me hardest of all is the
following: “But we have one great
consolation—that those who are
working this scheme, or the leaders
of it, will g oto torment.’’ It is out
of harmony with the Christ Spirit
and savors of the spirit of certain
of the disciples, when they said:
“Master, wilt thou that we com
mand fire to come down from heav
TORRENS LAND SYSTEM.
Following the initiative of the A|
& M. College Local, the Earners ^
Wake County and neighboring
tory will meet in the court-hous
Raleigh at 11 o’clock a. m.. Aub ^
17th, for the purpose of Rearms
thorough discussion of the lo -
Land System of registration
titles, as it will effect this St
Among the speakers who have
sented to deliver addresses are: ^
J. M. Templeton, of Cary; Capt- ^
R. Cotten, of Pitt County; Mr. J-
Little, of the Raleigh bar,
Henry E. Litchford, of the Citiz ^
National Bank of Raleigh. L
farmer in the county as well as
ers Interested in this subject are
quested to come to this meeting-
FOXY.
In a snug little grotto beneath ^
high bank covered with foxg‘
ferns lived a sly old fox. He
very old that he could not go .
to search for food, so he was obne
to play many tricks to get it.
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night as he sat at the mouth oi
hiding place feeling very huns
from having nothing to eat I
long time, he observed a fine, yo
hare lazily fedeing on the juicy
nip tops. “Oh, dear,’’ sighed
fox, “if I were a little younger^
a rare supper I could make off ^
young thing! But I can’t catch d.
Then an idea struck him. ^
hem! hem!’’ said he in a loud vo ^
The hare was startled and
around. “Sweet Miss,’’ said
coaxingly, I’m old and feeble,
can’t fetch my supper. Will yo
it for me?’’
Oh, yes!’’ said the hare, who
a giddy, thoughtless thing, but .
good natured. “What would
like? Some fresh, dewy clover-^^^
“Dear me, no!’’ said tb®
“That would not suit me at all
“O, it is delicious!’’ said the
“But what would you like?” ,,
“Just walk into my house, ^
swered the fox. “and I will sb®
the sort of things I like.”
Now, his den was strewn a^
with bones of rabbits and due
pheasants and chickens.
“Walt a minute,” said the^
“until I finish this turnip top-
she skipped gayly up to th
“Now, I’m ready,” said she.
And so was the fox. He jn
her backbone one nip, and she
dead as dead could be. o'
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strangers, whoever they may j
do not choose your friends
know something about them-
dren’s Friend.
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factory season?
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(though it naturally does)
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painful worry to others ^
are worried ourselves.
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