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Zurich Herald, 1926-01-21, Page 6t=?Ztt,,,m7,114i!Tmmw MAKING A SUCCESS WITH POULTRY BY L, E. CARD. t is during January that the farm poulityrean who wants to get early chicks begins to mate his breeding pens. The commercial poultryman also. is likely to mate most of his flocks this month, In many cases the females will have been culled some months before, so there is little selection still to be prac- ticed except for the purpose of mating a small special pen from which to pro- duce cockerels for use in next year's breeding flocks. When possible such a special mating is always to be ad- vised, as it insures more rapid pro- gress than can be made from general flock matings. One should see to it that only the very cream of the breeding flock is chosen for this special pen. It is bet- ter to have only half a dozen females of excellent quality than to use a dozen or fifteen, when by so doing several of only fair quality must be included. The male to head such a pen should be an outstanding individual .among those raised at home or may be pur- chased from stock of known per- formance. Remember that the influence of this male will not be fully seen until the fall of 1927, when the pullets sired by his sons come into laying. With this in mind it is well, to spend can iderable time, effort, and money if r •-essary, to get the right kind of male for the special breeding flock of 1926. THE BREEDING LABYRINTH. When selecting males to be used iii! the general breeding flock it is well to keep in mind that as far as possible the cockerels put into any pen should! be males that have been running to- gether for some time. If this is done there is little likelihood. ef their fight- ing enough to injure one another seriously. If conditions are such that strange, males must be used in the same flock, or if considerable fighting is in evi- dence, theme are at least two ways out of the difficult? One is the plan of alternating males. By this plan half the males are allowed with the flock for one, two or three days, at the end of which time they are cooped for a correspond- • ing period, during which the rest of the males are turned loose with the hens. This usually means that a com- bination can be found which will re- sult in a minimum of fighting. The other method in the case of fairly large flocks is to use what is known as a breading, labyrinth. It consists of boards or panels twelve to eiglitean inches wide end long enough to reach about three-quarters of the way across the pan. These are set on edge and supported so there is six inches clearance between the litter and the bottom of the boards. The number of such boards or pan- els to be used will depend on the size • of the pen or house. The effect of the panels is to divide the floor area into a number of units while still permitting the birds to have the free- Improvement in Horse Breeding. Statistics show not exactly that the horse is coming back, but rather that recognition is obtaining more and more ground that its usefulness, de- spite the advance of machines, has by no means disappeared. Its presence even in cities and towns is becoming more noticeable, especially for de- livery purposes as well as for riding and for entertainment at shows; say- ing nothing of the agricultural aspect, which is the greatest and most import- ant of all. Field Marshall Lord Haig in his reports and his unofficial writings testifies to the fact that for military service the horse is more than ever indispensable on account of its great mobility, for its ability to overcome difficulties that the intricacy of ma- chinery can never surmount. To encourage the horse -breeding in- dustry the federal Dept. of Agricul- ture through the Live Stock Branch has adopted a policy for the encour- agement of club formation by which the use of pure-bred, heathy stallions is ensured. By this policy clubs, pro- viding they fulfill the conditions set forth, receive back one-third of the total amount paid by their members That the policy is attaining its ob-1 for the service of such stallions. feet is proven by the statement that, the Minister is able to make in his Re- port for 1924-25, that during the year there was an increase of over thirty- three per cent. of clubs operating under the Federal Assistance Policy and that greatly, increased interest was shown by horse -breeders, particu- larly in the western provinces. Horse- menhe says, areawakening to the fact that in order to meet, the needs of future years, they mut begin breeding now. The policy not only guarantees the use of healthy pure-bred stallions, but also that their services shall he obtalt- able at reasonable fees, the conditions providing that stick fees shall be not , • less than twelve dollars and not more • than twenty-five. This, continues the report, coupled with ' the use of the best mares, together with better feed - trig, eare and management of sires, dams and colts, is surely making for the impromeent of. Canadian homes, both heavy and light. . rc,ight be added that the policy is leading to a dented for our native a gees .fes service abroad, as is provesi dom of the entire house. The result is more ot less seclusion for the males during mating, and coneequently lees fighting and much less interference. CARE Os' THE 'MALES. It often happens that the male bird$ do not get sufficient grain feed be- eause the hens are fed :relatively small quantities in proportion to *What the males should eat, and beeauee many males will spen&so much time calling the hens to eat that the grain is gone before they themselves have eaten anywhere near enough. Under the plan of alternating males this is avoided because the males can be fed liberally on grain on the days they are confined to the coops. When the males are running with the flock continuously it is well to provide a special feeding place to which only the males have access and in which is kept a constant supply of grain. A .small hopper set high enough to be out of reach of the hens will solve the problem in many eases. Many poultrymen train the males to fly up to the dropping board or other sup- port for a special allowance of grain at the time the hens are given their evening feed. This plan is not always practical in the case of busy farm folks, but is highly effective when it can be put into use. When a long breeding sea- son is planned some such scheme -must! be followed in order to keep the males in good flesh and to insure al high degree of fertility throughout the hatching season. JANUARY PRODUCTION. Some time this month, in most sec- tions of Southern Ontario, the egg - production curve may be expected to start its climb toward the spring peak. This is equally true of hens that have molted and of healthy pullets that were hatched a little too late to begin laying before winter set in. So it can hardly be considered good business to sell off hens or pullets now, unless they are obviously too crowded' in their winter quarters. Hens or pul- lets that are going to lay at all in the. year 1925-26 will do so between now, and July first. They may not have: paid for their keep from November, first to date, but there is a much bet-! ter chance of making their account; come out even if they are kept through the spring season than if they, are marketed now. 1 The flock owner cannot afford, therefore:, to become unduly dissatis- fied with feed or egg prices, or with' present egg production, until the flock has had an opportunity to, show a pro- fit by reasonably good production from' February to June. In the vast majority of flocks the period of greatest cash income is also, the period of highest egg yield in spite of the fact that the price of. eggs per dozen is lower then than at any other time during the year. It naturally. follows, therefore, that high spring and summer egg production is well worth working for. 1 - I by resent enquiries received from' Europe. My Bread is Always Good. My bread -making • troubles ended when I started using a home-made WILL BE PARSEE HIGH PRIEST Dr. Jai Dastur Q Pavry, wtbo, his father's death, -will become spiritual bead of the Zee:mseters, comprising a million of India'smost ,cultueed natives.. On receiving hi a degree from Columbia University he sitarted for home: He is only 26. Forage Crops in Northern Ontario. - Most forage crops thrive in North - . , . . says the Superintendent, serve their best purpose when sown in .a mixture with oats or oats and vetch. Results indicate that vetch as a r WINTER GAMES FOR YOUNG CHILDREN Children can be interested in quiet mese and creative occupetiens, The following ideae., Were suggested at a meeting Of a svornen's clab. The making of a paper town is an interesting occupation made possible by the use of old enveheees, These the father may be able to save far the children if he is careful to slit the envelopes in his incoming mail care- fully across the end with a knife or scissors. Plain plecee of white paper can be pasted over the name and ads dress, making A, plain white envelope which will stand up on end if you open it a little -way. By using different -sized envelopes the houses svill be of different sizes, and the larger ones can be used for the stores, post Office, schools and churches. With a ruler and pencil, inark windows and doors oh, the en- ve'opes and then cut them out care- fuly. Little curtains of tissue -paper might be hung at the windows by pasting carefully on the inside of the envelope, and across the windows. With colored pencils, "paint" the houses different colors. Brick and. stone -houses can also be made in this manner. Colored pictures of vegetables can be cut from old magazines and pasted in the grocery store windows, a row • of shoes in the shoe store window, or books for the' book store. Strips of brown paper should be used for the streets and brightly colored flowers and trees should be pasted along the sides. There could be a city park with fountain (cut from a magazine and pasted to a stiff cardboard back. Automobiles could be parked in front of the houses, and paper children might make their way to a paper schoolhouse. A railroad station with , freight cars and locomotives would , appeal to boys. I I ANIMATED DOLLS. i When the children tired of the paper1 town, one family tried the "animated, doll family." For this take several! 1 heavy wire hairpins, straighten them out and then bend one end over until it resembles a shepherd's crookeHang, the pins on the edge of a table, lap- ' ern Ontario. Clovers, alfalfa, sue- crop gives fairly large yields, but flowers, annual hays, turnips and the that like peas, its best use is for sow - common grasses have given good re- ing in mixtures for either hay or sults to date. Corn and mangels have siloge not done as well, according to the re- In 1924 White Blossom, Yellow port of the Superintendent, Mr. Smith Blossom and Hubam sweet clover sown Ballantyne, of the Kapuskasing Do- on June 5 at 20 lbs. per acre yielded minion Experimental Station. 1respectively: 7 tons, 650 lbs., 3 tons, In 1923 and 1924 the average -teem' 980 lbs., and 5 tons, 1,820 lbs. green weight of Russian Giant sunflowers weight and 1 ton, 1,587 lbs., 1,953 lbs., was 18 tons, 340 lbs. and of dry and 1 ton, 1,092 lbs. dry weight. 'weight 2 tons, 1,045 lbs. Of corn the , .--- Superintendent speaks hopefully, w pointing out that although the crop was not heavy, the fact that each of interEgg:and the Feed seventeen varieties gave a ,yield of As all experiencedpoultry keepers over 5 tone to the acre of green ma -t know, the feed bill makes heavy in- terial indicate i that some day, corn., roads on the returns from the egg may become a fairly reliable crop. basket during the winter months. Eggs A variety test of oats for annual , cannot be produced without nourish - hay has been carried on for three: ing food and that provided in suitable years at the Station. The average' mixture. The feeding of poultry has yield of Abundance dnring that time' been under experiment at the Experi- of green weight was 5 tons, 1,780 Ibs.imental Farms for many years and and of dry weight 2 tons, 346 lbs per from the knowledge gained in this acre. In 1923-24 the average yield of work very safe conclusions. can .be O.A.C. No. 72, the only years in svhicht reached. In a bulletin entitled "Poul - it, was tested, was 5 tons, 190 lbs.; try Feeds and Feeding" recently is - greet weight. and 2 tons, 385 lbs. dry' sued by the Dept. of Agriculture at. weight per acre. Thirteen varieties Ottawa, the subject of poultry feeds of .oats were seeded, on June 9 and, and the methods of their use are very yielded from 5 tons, 290 lbs. by Dail- ftale reviewed. Mr. Geo. Robertson, benesaup to 6 tons, 940 lbs. by Abun- the assistant Dominion Poultry Hus- dance, green weight per acre, and ba.nclinan, has been very closely attach - from 1 ton, 1,489 lbs. by Daubeney to ed to the feeding experiments carried 2 tons, 765 lbs. by Victory, dry weight. on, particularly at the Central Farm. In a test of four varieties of peas The various classes of grain, animal as annual hay in three years the aver- and green foods as well as mineral age of green weight . by Canadian foods are discussed in a practical way Beauty was 9 tons, 823 lbs. and 2 tons, and the compounding of rations from 468 lbs. dry weight. Arthur did bet- these is given due consideration in ter in green weight but not so well in the bulletin which is available at the dry weight. The average of Golden Publications Branch of the Dept. of Vine was less in green weight and Agriculture at Ottawa. On the feed - better in dry. Black Eyed Marronfat ing of. pullets for heavy egg produc- topped all in the -two-year average but tion, the bulletin states that grit, fell off rather badly in 1924. Peas,' oyster shell, charcoal, and dry mash raiser. The manager of a chain of - • • bakeries told me that temperature is the secret of good bread. "The aver- age baking doesn't have enough heat during the raising process," he ex- plained. "Bread dough in the pan needs an even 80. degrees." That started me to thinking and with my husband's help I built a rais- er. In principle it's similar to a wholesale baker's proof box—a square cabinet about the size of a small ice box made from matched lumber. On two sides, just above the bottom and directly beneath the top, holes are bored for ventilation. The box is divided into three com- partments. The upper • and largest compartment holds a big bread pan full of dough—eight loaves tucked side by side. A narrow shelf in the middle is for a pie pan of warm water to provide humidity. Humidity pre- vents a crust from forming on the dough and also helps to give the bread better color when,baked. The lower section has one of those little kero- sene stoves that burn two weeks with one filling of oil. This stove is usedi principally to "raise" -baby chicks, but it also serves to raise the staff of life, With this raiser I always have exact-, ly the right temperature for my bread without regard to the weathen—F. P. Chestnut Pudding. One pound chestnnts, % pint fresh cream, rtablespootfuls of Inc sugar, Peel the chestnuts. To take off the inner skin boil them in hot salted water far about 5 minutes; be careful to keep the water hot, otherwise it is very difficult to remove the second skin. While the chestnuts are still warm, put them through the potato masher and then place them in a glass dish. Add the sugar ,to the erearn, beat it until stiff and cover the chest - tuts with it. Have the ewe gain at least 16 pounds while pregriant--20 pounds is better. Short of wood or eoal? Clean up some of the trash it the fenee corners arid burn it, There is no economy in a ttinibledowe fente, BAROMETER HOUSE Two quaint little people lived in a quaint little house. There were two little doors, one for each, and very particular they were never to go in and out at each other's doors, The little man would come to his door and look out. "Dear me," he would say, "what dismal -weather! What a lot of clouds there are!" Then he would go a little farther out, and a little farther. "The farther I look, the more clouds I see!" he would .exclaim, and the Strange part was that the more clouds there were, and the more rain there fell, the more the little man would stay outside his door, until he was so wet that he had to go in again, While, the little man was loot-stng. out of his door, the little woman was as busy as could be indoors, cleaning] the house, and polishing everything, that cod be polished, until it was ae cozy as possible when the little man came in again. Then the little woman would say: "Now, I am going to have a look, out of doors." So she would go to her little door and peep out. "It is going to be quite fine, I ani sure," she would say. "Why, there, is a little bit of blue sky between the clouds! I'm just, going Out a bit far- ther, to see if there is any more blue." , And the strange part- was that the farther the little woman went outside her doot the more blue sky there was to be seen, and she smiled and enjoyed; the sunshine until it was time to go indoors again. The little man would sit in his chair drying himself by the fire, and: nodding his head until he fell asleep. It generally happened that the little man and the little woman were not at home ,at the same time. Sometimes, however, When the little woman was , coming in from her outing in the, sun- shine, she would meet the little mail just wining to hie door to have a look! out of doore, Then they would stand in their own doorways and have a little chat. "It's always wet when I come outp said the little man one day, when he met the little woman coming in. "I declare, I've hardly ever seen any blue sky or sunshine, unless it is in the spring when there are sudden show- ers." "Oh, nonsense!" exclaimed the little woman. "It seems to me that it is al- ways fine. The sky is so often a beaue tiful blue, and the kind sun shining." . "That is what I cannot make out," said the little man. "Whenever I see you to talk to, you say, 'What lovely weather we are having!' and I go out to have a look and find it gray and (ha and raining." "Now that's very strange," said the little woman, "I wonder wh-at- san be?" "When I come indoors," said the little man, "I just sit by the fira aleil go to sleep to forget about the clouds, and when I wake again, 1 go out to •see if they are still there—and thiy always are," he sighed. • ,The little womari was sileet. "What do you do indoors?' asked the little Man. - The little woman smiled and said: "Why, I feel.,so happy and bright after seeing all. the sunshine, that I try to make it look the same way in- doors! I rub and polish meal every- thing shines like the sun, and 12 as e clean as the blue sky! You see," she added gently, "the sun is always shin- f ing away behind the -Clouds, and it seems to me that it only needs some- a 'one to clean away the clouds to sea' the sunshine and blue sky ail the time. I love to clean away the indoor clouds, too, and have everything shin- ing." "Well, the clouds are there to be (cleared away," grumbled the little man 'heaps and heaps of them." "And I just won't look at them," laughed the little vsoinan, "I keep tbokieg right through them until 1 p see the sunshine and thee is not a 0 cloud left!'" • board or 'eh* (Wherever they can swing freely) and they Will swing back and forth many times with just the slightest toucher tar of the table. Then from old magazines and papers cut- men, women and children, Ana, with a little glue, paste the "cut,outs" to the wire hairpins. Animals, birds and butterflies can also be used in this way. Blowing gently across the fig- ures will cause the hairpins to bob around in a way that is very amusing to small children. Plastic clay sculpture is another papular pastime, Plastic clay in dif- ferent colors can be obtained in boxes of different eizes, ranging in price from 10 to 5,0 cents a box: Pictures of different objects that can be molded are also inoluded in the box. Eyen a • very young child enjoys work With clay. Making necklaces appeals to girle. A few cheap glass beads and some melon, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, dried and saved from the year before by the thoughtful mother, will provide quiet entertainment for several happy evenings. The seeds can be strung through the small end, placing a bead between every two or three seeds. They can also be strung through each end,making two threads through the entire string,. first placing a bead and then a seed, and so on. A PICTURE GAME. The matching game can be made with -old seed and flower catalogues. Allow the children to choose and cut out es many pictures of differenticinds of flowers and vegetables as they can. The children then aP gather around a table with their pictures. The first player puts down a picture from his pile—a picture of a tomato, perhaps —and all the other players try to match this by putting down pictures of tomatoes from their hands. When all have played, the first player gath- ers up .811 the pictures that have been played on his pile and the next player lays down a picture of a vegetable or flower, which all try again to match; the second player gets all the, pictures that follow his lead. The loser is the one who holds the largest number of pictures at the end of the game. should be kept in the hoppers con- — stantly before the flock. 'Fresh water is equally necessary at all times and when it is available sour milk should als'o be supplied. In .the morning a light feed is recommended •and in the evening a full meal of mixed scratch grain should be given in the litter. For green feed alfalfa or cover hay constantly supplied is of great value and sprouted oats or roots ,should be given daily. Of the roots mat -peels are most acceptable to the birds. These , are stuck on nails' about the house and 's the hens pick them as they desire. If tdrnips or carrots are used they have to be pulped and mixed in .a moist mash. Additional foods that will help the egg yield include green cut bone or raw liver mined in the moist mash at the- rate of about one-half ounce per bird from time to time. The bul- letin ,:eleas equally clearly with the feeding of chicks as well as stock birds and those that are being fat- tened for the -market. 1C11 moo•mg.....••• Use a Pinch of Salt. Salt is something we just couldn't get along without as seasoning for our food. But this mineral also has ninny other uses about the home that many housewives have not yet dis- covered. Ivory or, celluloid objects may be cleaned and whitened with a slice of lemon dipped in salt. After this rub- bing is done, they may be washed in the usual way. A cement for filling in floor cracks may be made by using equal parts of salt and alum mixed ,to a paste with! boiling water, We all know how withered apples! beeome during the late winter, especi- ally if they have been out of the cellar long. Their freshness may be restor- ed by soaking them in a crock of brina. nade by mixing two rounding table- spoons of salt with a gallon of water. Change the brine every six hours until the apples have become fresh and. plump. tubbing the pan or kettle in which onions have been cooked, with salt, will remove all disagreeable edon Tho smell of gasoline may easily be removed by the same, method. Iron rust stain may be taken from fabrics by rubbing the spats with salt and !omen juice and laying it in the sun to bleach. Salt will remove tea stains, and other discolorations from china- ware., Salt sprinkled on a fine woolen tloth makes an excellent Toadies for undoes. Equal parts of salt and flout, mixed to a paste with vinegar, melees a fine polish for brass or cop- per. Rub it on with a soft cloth, then wash with a soft brush, dry and °:ishp. Ainch of sat added to the sugar or icing wFl prevent the king from raining. A pinch of salt in a pot of cocoa will greatly improve the flavor. handful of salt thrown on the stove vliere fruit has boiled over, will greatly lessee tha odor, and will also Make it easily cleaned.—N. P. Pretty - Pretty late to put the machinery unties' cover, but better late than never, Trappers attention Taking an un - rinse pelt is a deliberate waste of one f Nature's most valuable sled beauti- ION MOLDED AND FLARED LINES DOMINANT. 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