The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 18, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, June 21, 1912 Page: 3 of 8
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SUMMER HOUSE FOR POULTRY
Coop Shown In tho Illustration Will
Provide Comfortable Place for
Hene in Hot Weather.
Qood poultry quarters are needed,
and for warm weather the house
shown In the accompanying picture
will answer the purpqte exceedingly
well. It la built; eight feet wide, 12
feet long, seveg feet high in front
and 4% feet at the rear. It should
have a light framework, consisting of
2x4's, for the sills and caps, and sid-
ing of inch stuff, preferably matched,
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nailed on perpendicular as Indicated,
writes Fred O. Sibley In the Farm and
Home.
The front, which la to fa:e toward
the south, has a good-sized window,
and at each corner are two openings,
12xlS Inches, for the hens to pass. In
the end opposite the door there 1s a
wooden shutter about two feet square
for air and ventilation, and this, as
well as the window, should have
strong, fine meshed wire nailed on the
outside.
The roosts are located In the rear,
up under the roof, with a platform
below to catch the droppings, 3% feet
wide, extending the whole length of
the house. Beneath this Is another
platform, three feet wide, for the
nests. For hens on the range such a
house is Just the thing, and needs no
floor if the location is well drained
and dry. It will shelter from 50 to 60
fowls comfortably. The Interior ought
to be kept well whitewashed, and if
the house 1s set in the sh&de of a large
tree it will be all the more pleasant
for the hens to go Into on a hot day.
The cost of building this kind of
summer "cottage" will be from $12
to $15. It pays to use good lumber,
two or three good coats of paint
be applied. . ,
PREPARE FOWLS FOR MARKET
BROODER FOR LITTLE CHICKS
Illustration and. Directions Given for
Constructing Comfortable Place
for Youngsters.
This tireless brooder will accommo-
date 25 to 50 chicks, according to the
weather. If the hover is removed it
makes an excellent brood coop for hen
and chicks. Make the bottom Of brood-
er 2 feet 8 inches by 1 foot 10 inch-
es of boards, nailed on 2 by 2-inch
scantllnjp For the upper part use 2
by 2-inch posts for the uprights, those
in front 17 inches long, and the rear
11 Inches. Make the coop 2 feet 10
Inches long, 2 feet wide, 18 inches
high in front and 12 Inches at the
back, writes Arthur S. Weng4r (A
Dayton, Va., in the Missouri Valley
Farmer. This will allow the coop to
set down over the floor, the posts rest-
ing Upon the floor boards. Make two
openings in front, one 8 by 8 inches,
the other 12 by 20. For the smaller
opening make a sliding door, and cov-
er the other with fine mesh wire net-
ting. Make a frame and cover with
muslin to slide over tills netting dur-
ing cold or stormy weather. For the
roof take two pieces of %-inch board
2 inches wide and 3 feet long, and
three pieces of the same dimension 2
feet 2 inches long. Notch the long
pieces at end and center to 1 incb
wide, so the crosspieces can be nailed
In—to make a flat frame. Cover thi«
frame with three-ply roofing stretched
tight and nailed around edge and
through center. Hinge the cover to
back of coop and put a small hook is
front to hold It shut.
Foi the hover hake a box 18 inches
square and 8 inches high with a hole
4 inches square in one side for chicks
to go in and out. Put in a bottom but
no top. Make a wooden frame to fit
rather loosely in this box and tack
Explanatory Sketch.
muslin on one side of frame with a
pleat In each corner so it will 'sag
about 2 Inches. Put a nail in each
corner of box 4 Inches from bottom
for frame to rest tapon. Have about
1 inch of fine hay chaff in bottom of
box. Put in chicks and cover top of
muslin with burlap sacks or any soft
material. In warm weather they will
need very little cover.
BEDBUGS IN CHICKEN HOUSE
Roots and Nests Should Be Removed
From Building and Whitewash
ly Thoroughly Applied.
Invented by Indiana Men
ftr Injecting Water Into Body
Killing.
have discovered that fowls
animals are better fit for food If
8 per cent of their weight In
be injected into their bodies
just after they are killed. This must
be done before the animal heat has
left the body, and the water, which
Pipe Pierces Fowl's Breast.
must be at a temperature of between
W and 70 degrees Fahrenheit, is kept
there for an hour or more. Two In-
diana men have Invented an attach-
ment for a water spigot, or which
may have its own pipe leading Into
It. The attachment consists of a
length of hose with a sharp, hollow
metal point on the free end. This
point can be thrust through the
breast Of the chicken or whatever
fowl or animal it may be, and the re-
quisite amount of water injected Into
it in this fashion.
System In the Feeding.
Fowls should have empty crops In
tfee morning and the crop should never
be quite full until It is time to go to
roost For the first feed grain scat-
tered in the litter in the morning is
preferred, the sooner the better. This
Induces them to exercise. In the mid-
dle of the day a warm, moistened
mash should be given, about what
they will eat And at night before
they go to roost a liberal feed of
grain should be scattered In the lit-
ter. Fiowls should be kept busy.
Oyster 8helfs for Fowls.*
The feeding of oyster shells is
claimed to supply the birds with grit
but experiments show that under cir-
cumstances In any other manner oys-
ter shells may be utilized by the hena
to supply shells for the eggs. It is
not necessary to feed shells, however,
when the fowls are supplied with
varied food, as the food of poultry
contains lime sufficient for all pur-
y poultry houses are Infested
with bed bugs and it is not an easy
matter to dislodge them.
Some people say that turning the
sheep into the poultry houses will in-
duce the bugs to attack the sheep
where they win be lost in the wool,
but this is a poor remedy.
Remove all the roosts and nests
from the house and spray with boiling
hot whitewash to which hss been
added a pint of turpentine to a pail-
ful.
Another good remedy is to burn the
interior of the house with tarollne
mixture which can be bought at any
drug store. Another effective remedy
is half a pint each of turpentine,
ammonia and kerosene to which add
about four ounces of gum camphor.
If more is needed double the quan Jty.
Apply with a brush.
* The nests should be burned out over
a blazing fire and the roosts should
also be held over the fire and all
should be thoroughly whitewashed and
painted before putting them back.
Insect Powder for FoWls.
Here is a receipt for an insect pow-
der and it can be made a great deal
Cheaper than it can be bought
Take one pint of crude carbolic
acid and three pints of gasoline. Mix
in an earthen crock or granite ware
dish. Sprinkle in plaster of Paris
and thoroughly stir so that every par-
ticle of it will be wet. Use enough
plaster of Paris to absorb all the li-
quid. Spread out on a paper for ex-
tra gasoline to evaporate, then run
through a sieve and the powder Is
ready for use.
PoultryNotes
Don't raise scrub chickens.
Don't use too heavy a cock bird with
your females.
Poultry constitutes a very good min-
or source of farm profit
Early turkeys are what pay and
these can only be had from early laid
eggs.
Condiments that stimulate egg pro-
duction are very much like anything
that stimulates a human being.
Some tell the sex of the guinea fowl
by its wattles. Those of the male are
double the size of the female.
A chicken's stomach is not made of
iron, and the same diet day after day
harms them as much as it does a hu-
man.
Running the incubator is like most
other things, we get results largely in
proportion to the work we do our-
selves.
Ventilation in the chicken house is
a very Important consideration, and
the health of the fowls, in a great
measure, depends on it.
The breast of the Indian game is
very much li!*e that of the pheasant
or the prairie chicken. The heft o2
the meat lies on the breast
IMPORTANCE OF PROPER CARE
FOR HORSE OFTEN OVERLOOKED
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Most Dangerous Time to Give Animal Water Is When He Has
Cooled Down From Hard Work and Has Partaken
of Hearty- Meal -— Large Open Shed
Is Recommended for Skelter.
Excellent Farm Draft Horses.
A horse should be watered before
feeding, and never given a large quan-
tity of water after a meal, for the
simple reason that the water will wash
the food out of the stomach before
stomach digestion has taken place,
and the food Wall not be well prepared
for absorption; and besides it Is some-
times the cause of colic.
There is a popular idea that a warm
horse should not be allowed to drink
and, unlike a great many other popu-
lar Ideas, there is a little truth in it.
If you water a warm horse in the or-
dinary way, letting him drink all that
he will, you are likely to have a foun-
dered horse on your hands. This i^
especially so if, at the time, the horse
is fatigued. Nevertheless, it is always
safe to allow him from six to ten swal-
lows, no matter how warm he is. If
this be given on going into the stable
and he be allowed to stand and eat
hay for an hour and is then offered
water, he will not drink nearly so
much as he would had none been
given before.
The danger is not in the first swal-
low, as we often hear it asserted, but
in the excessive quantities he will
drink if not restrained.
John Splan, the great trainer,
writes:
''As to water, 2 think that a horse
"should have all that he wants at all
times. A man says: 'Why; will you
give your horse water before a race?*
Yes, before the race, in the race, and
after the race, and any other time
that he wants to drink. When I say
give your horse all the water he wants
before the race, I do not mean that
you shall tie him in a warm stall
where he cannot get a drink for five
or six hours on a hot day, and then
take him to the pump and give him all
that he wants. What I mean is to
give him water often and, in that way,
he will only take a small quantity at
a time."
After long, continuous exertion the
system is greatly depleted of fluid.
Nature calls for Its replacement, and
this is the cause of a thirst which
is so Intense that If the animal is not
restrained at this time, he may drink
much more than he needs.
PRODUCING GOOD
CREAM AND MILK
Farmers Hoi so Much to Blame
for Their Carelessness as
Pric* Paid for *he
Poor Article.
The education of dairymen in the
way of producing good cream and
milk Is progressing. • Some of the
large creameries, particularly those
of the west, are paying for cream ac-
cording to Its real value and are care-
fully grading it.
Time was under sharp competition
when the creameries took all kinds of
cream just as It came and paid the
same price for good, bad and Indiffer-
ent It was not long before the
creameries found out that this did
not pay and now many of them are
separating the cream and grading it
according to condition. For instance,
number one consists of separator
cream which is delivered twice a
week in winter and three times a
week in summer. This must be rea-
sonably sweet and in good condition
and test at least 30 per cent butter
fat.
Cream graded as number two in-
cludes all hand separator cream de-
livered not less than once a week In
winter and twice in summer. It must
be reasonably clean, in good condition
and test not less than 20 per cent,
in butter fat. The lowest grade, num-
ber three, includes all gravity cream
and all hand separator cream which
tests less than 20 per cent. This
grade also Includes all cream that is
In poor condition even if it should test
more than 20 per cent.
The creameries ought to have adopt-
ed some system of this kind long ago
and It is their fault largely that they
have not been able to produce better
butter than they have. Much of the
creamery butter on the market Is
m'ghty poor stuff and It comes from
mixing good and bad cream.
Farmers are not so much to blame
The custom, almost universally fol-
lowed, of giving the morning meal be-
fore water, is not very objectionable,
either theoretically or practically. At
this time there is no depletion of fluid,
consequently the horse is not very
thirsty and does not drink rapidly or
excessively and apparently very little
evil results from this method. How-
ever, the writer much prefers that the
horse should have an opportunity to
drink what is good for him before the
morning meal.
Personally, I much prefer keeping
horses, both summer and winter, in
an open shed, with a large water tank
in the yard, to tying them by the
head in a barn.
Not only in giving water to horses
must care be exercised but in every
other way.
Many a good driving horse has his
years of usefulness cut short by being
left in the hands of some person who
does not know how to take care of a
horse or does not care what happens
to the horse that happens to come in-
to his hands.
One of the most common ways of
Injuring a driving horse is by driving
him hard in cool weather, and when
the horse has been brought into a
sweat,, leaving him uncovered , and ex-
posed to cold winds or to drafts in
a stable.
It is seldom necessary to drive a
horse so hard on a cool day that he
will be in a sweat In warm weather
it is different as the horse, then
sweats with lfttle exertion.
When the horse has been driven un-
til he is covered with foam and sweat,
he should be taken into a stable, rub-
bed down with whisps of hay or piece
of rough cloth,, and then blanketed.
The neglect of such precautions has
resulted in many a horse catching a
cold that has proved serious.
Driving is a science itself, and there
are many mature people who have not
learned how to dlrve a horse. They
have no idea as to_the amount of work
he is able to perform without lessen-
ing his vitality.
It must be remembered that a horse
as well as a man, is limited as to what
he can do.
for their carelessness, as they have
been paid as much for poor cream as
good. Of course this sort of business
did not offer any Inducement to send
good sweet, clean cream to market
and to send It often. Now that many
of the big creameries have started
into this campaign of education the
farmer who produces the best cream
will have the advantage over the care-
less and Indifferent dairyman that he
should have, as It puts a premium on
good cream.
QUALITIES OF
ARABIAN HORSE
Beet Authorities Claim There
Nev«r Was On* of That
Breed Spotted or Calico
in Color.
The best authorities on the Arabian
horse claim there never was a really
pure one of that breed that was spot-
ted or calico in color. Even the cir-
cus men, however, have not nearly so
much use for the skewbald horse as
they once had. The small supply fills
their demand. They find that horses
of the draft breeds pull their wagons
better, while for ring uses the tougher
bone and sinew of the thoroughbred
or trotter recommend them. Still
gome attractions die hard and a few
spotted freaks are always to be found
beneath every big canvass. The
Arabian horse may briefly be describ-
ed as a thoroughbred on a small scale.
There are many fine specimens of the
breed in this country but more in
England. It is difficult to get really
good specimens out of the Sultan's do-
mains. Not only Is their exportation
prohibited by imperial decree, but
rivalry among the sheiks of the no-
madic Arabians which own the best
bands is so keen that good stallions
can hardly be bought at first hands
and no one wants to pay much money
for a poor individual and then go deep
down in pocket two or three times
more to dace it on shiD board.
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