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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1923-09-27, Page 2Address communications to Agronomist, 73 Adelaide 8t. West, Toronto DRESSING POULTRY TO WIN and early June as they would bring HIGII PRICES. es roasters in the fall• Hens that In selling poultry, quality counts, have practically completed their use-' d throe h the and quality is secured not only by the fulness, and nave passe g proper growth of the birds, but also breeding season, should be marketed.. s on is over.' in the manner of dressing and the as soon as the breedin g sea method of shipping. t Hens in June bring considerably more Fo successful it is irn-' than they de in October and, if mar-' Forhemarketing keted in June or July, do not compete portant that the whims of cid market with cockerels' which are marketed as be studied before it is decided what, roasters in October or November: breed to kee. Some markets call for small A S First-class market stock is..well fat - all roasting fowls, others for med-� ium, and still others for large. Ase -!`ted, so that the breast -bone does not lection must be made accordingly: t stick out like the keel of a boat; yet - Here, in Canada, -the yellow>slcinnedlow meated, well dressed, cleanly pick carcass is in demand, while in foreigned, not all roughed up or torn, no pin want � countries theylehmefeathers left in, nor the legs and feet whate- g birds. left dirty. Such stock, if packed to The market, too, is largely luau- present a neat and inviting appear- enced byadvertising. The buying pub- ance, . will command good prices nine y g g Stunted i or ten months in the year. Ifo becomes prejudiced to a consider- able extent. Our epicures will not: stock, several months old, hump- ed take to a white -:skinned table fowl backed, white meated and crooked when it conies to poultry, but they. ;;are eager for white -skinned turkeys or other fowl. What's the difference? ' I breasted, are not -wanted in market. 'WEIGFITS FOR MARKET STOCK. Broiler weights should be from one ;don't know, but the whims of the buy- and one-fourth to two pounds each, . ing public must be catered to or busi the lighter weights being in demand ness stops. from January to July, the heavier for ESTABLISHING A REPUTATION. ''the remainder of the year: Squab While the market prefers brands of broilers, weighing three-fourths of a known reputation, it is possible to cre- bund each, are in demand only ate a demand foe your own product. I through January, February and the have in mind an enterprising - pool- early part of March. terer who puts a leg -band on each fowl Roasting fowls should range from shipped to market. This band is so five pounds a pair early in the season - fastened on the leg that it can not be to ten and twelve pounds a pair in taken off, anal on it is the advertise- ment of his farm the fall and early winter. Hens weigh- ing four or five pounds each sell bet- The carcasses are put upin special ter than either larger or smaller cartons --one good, fat, yellow -skinned stock: fowl, neatly dressed wrapped in oiled : Capons weighing about aix pounds paperin a each command readiest sale, but the each carton: On this carton larger birds—nine, ten pounds and, more—bring better prices. The above weights are all for dressed popltry. MARKET NOTES. BOILED DOWN. Market male birds in separate packages. Market old hens before they start to molt. April broilers must weigh one and one-half pounds each. Market as ' soon as desired weight is gained. Packages for shipment should not weigh over 100 pounds. Monday is the best killing day of the week. A tag` on every carcass is a good advertisement Torr, skin will cripple the. price of the carcass. • There must : be uniformity of color, grade and size: Nevership in cedar boxes, as cedar taints the flesh. The soft roaster is a young fowl. weighing four pounds: Never ship to a commission house before rst writing. All poultry should be killed the day before making shipment. When possible have the color of the. skin of dressed carcasses match. A spring chicken is a young bird weighing over -:two pounds. May broilers range in weight be- tween one and one-quarter and two - pounds, dressed. To establish a regular demand and The old., style of shipping dressed income, marketing must be done on. poultry in barrels and large packing- regular fixed days. boxes is not used by the present-day roll -hatched chickens are in good poultryman. The most popular pack- demand from January 1 to April 1: age to -day for dressed poultry- is the Count on . a shrinkage of a half - box holding one dozen carcasses; pound for each bird shipped. These boxes are naeade in definite sizes All animal heat must be. out of the to contain similar -sized birds; but in carcass before packing for shipment, Picking them for shipment, it is nec- Carcasses should be dry and cold, essary to sea that the birds fit tight, but not frozen, before being 'packed else they may become bruised and for shipment spoil in the journey. Roasting fowls sell best during the The bones should be lined months from March lot to the last of • i with August parchment paper; and for fancyual� Young fowls in the same package ity, each bird• should be wrapped in g p ge the paper; before beingplaced in the with old stock, will command the pre- vailing vailing prices for the latter. box. Shipadult fowls in a box 20x18x12 The carton system is used for spe- tial trade. A carton six Inches high,inches, to hold twenty-four birds. six inches wide, and eleven inches The head of the dressed carcass long, will hold a five or six and should be tucked back under the wing, Po roaster or two broilers. If the birds when packed for shipment. wrapped .in .arc A broiler should not be' more than aro nicely pp parchment pa - sixteen weeks old, per, they open . satisfactorily at thenor weigh more end of the journey, than two pounds dressed. All carcasses to be shipped should is printed not only the name of the farm; but a brief story of the class of bird and how it was fed, housed and eared for. The buyer is prepared for a feast before it is placed on the table, and when tested it meets the require- ments. Naturally, that brand becomes the demand of that family. In time the- call for this poulterer's goods be- came so great that dealers telegraph- ed "rush orders." Much ' of the dressed poultry con- signed to commission houses in large cities sells low because the carcasses are not dressed and packed with skill. It Is of prune importance that the poultry products be placed on the market in a condition that will make them appear as, inviting as "possible. It is not enough to -turn out superior goods; muchislost if; they are not tuar:ketechin the racist careful manner. -The poultryman who receives the highest quotations for his product throughout the year is the one who studies "how, when and where" to market: He learns that during cer- tain months in the year there is a shortage of different kinds of poultry products, and he plans to produce as large a quantity as possible of these products during the season of scant supply: He then ascertains in which markets he can dispose of these goods to best advantage, and prepares and packs them according to the require- ments of those markets, TI33 PACKAGE SELLS THE GOODS. sottrlmNa TO SEL be dry picked, as,: scalded poultry will The poultryman should try to dis not stand longshi ments. T � A h home tribute his prod xce over more .of the trade, however, prefers birds scalded. tsvelee months than `he does. Instead The regulation bo. �' the, B X for a dozen of keeping spring chickens all broilers measures 17xlex4 inches, in - enamor long and'rearleetin " tneni"in i g side measurement. It is made of half - the fall, some of them at least might inch lumber. be marketed throughout the season as rot shipping one dozen roasting L. EVERY DAX broilers. Broilers command two or fowls,, the box should measure 20x19x6 three tunes as inneh per pound in May, inches, of half-inch `stuff. inspection of Imported Nursery Stock. -. On September first the new regula- tions under the"'Destr'uetive Insect end Pest Act, issued by the Depart ment of Agriculture go into offect,. All importers of nursery stock, which ire, eludes all planta for ornamental per., poses. or propagation, such as trees, shrubs, vines, bulbs, perennials, etc., except seeds, will be required to se- cure a permit before the shipments are bright into Canada Importations of nursery steels must be inspected les foie leaving the country Of origin and a certificate of inspection must sic'., company ,the invoice. Importations front eolintrlee other then the Llnitelt States can. enter Canada only ,through the porta of St John, N.P.; Montreal, cue„ Niegara Falls, Ont,, aand Irate couver, B.C. At these ports the ship- ments will be re -inspected or in the case of large consignments, they mays bepermitted to proceed to destination for inspection. The importation of certain plants has been prohibited on account of insect pests or plant dis- eases, Persons intending to bring in nursery Stack from the 'United States or other . countries, are advised to write for information to the Secretary, Destructive Insect and Pest Act Ad- visory Board, Departmettt of Agri, culture, Ottawa. es The natural r 6urces of the earth are the heritage and the property of every one and all of el. We Shall. Teeth the time When we shall not allow a man to till the earth unless he is able to leave it at least as feeble as' he found it—L4 it Hailey, THE CHI .REN'S HOUR JANE'S SE.Cft'T. "What can be the luatter,,Phyllis?" "Nothing at all is t''''' "atter." Phyllis hurried 'de, that Jane should not1 tears in her eyes S to cry, Jane followed ' Ph ie'"'walk 'so tele sudden 'd pot like deep in P thought. A secret is ;'a " tibia thing, especially when you; tell it to your best friend. , �. # e .'Jut knew' e that Phyllis felt bad and elle: was' sorry, but she couldn't tell her this secret yet. When the' children `',reached the school yard Jane was ;cuicltry sur- rounded by three or four girls. Phyllis went off by herself. ss After school Phyllis and Jane had a great deal of fun inaking paper-doll' clothes. Jane had several sheets'of tissue paper, blue and ye dev and pink. She had even. found, som'erplaid paper for trimmings. With cutting and .fit- ting arid pasting the little girls soon made the paper into p pe n dresses. "I do love paper do11s,'l'baid'Phyllis "Sometimes I think I: ha 'ether ''etther.,have then than real dolls. "''liked mother /is for illy er age. If the wing bands are '.bent too tight it will cause a sore on the it?" asked' win I think it. is usually best to. 'self, • I substitute leg - bands for the wing Iter school? markers as` soon as the birds :are half ye,; a party grown. ed some ice Useful broody coops can be made' be a cake.", by hanging the shipping crates n her face, against the poultry house ,walls near chool, Phil - 'd go over to give . me only paper birthday." 1 "That's to -morrow; r9 Jane, and she smiled 't "Will you come ove Mother said I couldn't this year._ But she's or cream, and maybe then Jane hada queer loo "I can't come right afte lis. I promised Helen there." "Helen didn't ask me." "I—I know." "But it's my birthday. "I'm sorry," said Jane, didn't look sorry. Phyllis jumped to her feet. "If you don't like me any more, I'm going home." She ran out of the yard.. AA the. next day at school Phyllis, kept away from Jane and from Helen. More than once she saw them giggling and talking together, but every time shecarne near them they grew quiet. Shefelt hurt and went home all by herself. Phyllis had a habit of sulk- ing when things did not, go to please her, and, even• though to=day was her birthday and there was lee creamat home,' she circled round thehouse to the back yard. She coudo something to make. those girls feelbad,•and she intended to do it. The paper dolls! Lightly she;; ran across- the back yard' and down a side:; stit`' to Jane's playlio ,wse She knave- Just"re every -thing was, ke pickedbox of ,,e' e e rgthat `O d.,`.idscolor d � pe,„- 1 n„ ec ,•.,d to 'bunt! or tea`'r or,. spoil it . slirne way. But wir'ri” she. took:;.' the cover off •'the: boat a scrap of white paper fluttered to the floor. She thought it was a paper -doll dress and stooped to pick it up, but then she saw that it was a note. ,Be sure to be on tune,” it said. "Won't it be a lark! Mrs. Cummins said—" The rest was torn off. Mrs, Cummins? That was Phyllis's mother. What did she know about all this? Phyllis hadn't told her that the girls had a secret. Slowly she put back the box of paper dolls. '' She would go home and risk her mother what the note meant Slowly ani thoughtfully she walked up the front walk and opened the front door. "Surprise! Surprise!" a dozen merry voices shouted. Then Phyllis realized whet the note had meant and why the girls had avoided her and why Helen had not asked her to play. A surprise party! For her! Of course! It was her birth- day. Jane was hugging her tight "Come on, Phyllis, The 'Table is all set. There's a great big cake, and you are to have the first blow at the candles." ,01 course it was 'intended that Phyl- lis Cummins should be the happiestt,, little girl there, because it was her birthday :and her party; but' she easel, n't, . because she felt ashamed of Herself.—By' 1Vlargt Brite Murphy, in Youth's Companion. POULTRY, Boiled pumpkin mixed with bran makes an appetizing mash to develop a large crop capacity in the pullets. This has 'been • successfully used by several breeders in forcing' the growth of pullet& before placing them on the. layilrg ration to produce winter eggs. When chicks have been marked with wing bands it pays 'CO examine the. wings soon after the.birds reach broil - g: but ,:.she the nesting sections. The slatted side of a shipping crate forms the bottom of the broody coop. Each crate will hold six or eight broody hens and they break up more quickly when setting on the slats because there is no chance for them to make any resemblance to a nest, as, is the case when confined in a coop on the ground. Now is the timeto prepare to store up plenty of mangels, cabbages and cull vegetables for the hens, Where a sufficient supply is lacking it is often possible to purchase ' a large quantity from neighbors at a reason- able price. In sections where the win- ters are long the poultryman cannot afford to neglect green feed. If the supply gives out early in the winter it may result in birds lacking in vigor and: hatching eggs that will not pro duce vigorous chicks. Plan on cleaning the laying -houses and filling them with clean straw on sunny fall days. Then you are ready for the cold fall rains and chilly winds which give unprotected poultry many colds. It is a satisfaction to have the birds busily scratching in clean straw and thriving in spite of bad weather. " The wglnen of the, .Holy` Land, as soon as their babies . areable to sit alone, place them astride their shoul- ders. The women of Nigeria carry their new-born babies in calabash shells. The Teri women in Africa carry their children slung in 'their. waist -cloths behind then and cover their heads with calabash shells to 1 protect them from the sun. For a year after the Miyake, babies are born they. are not washed. Forty thousand tons of tobacco are smoked in the United Kingdom every year; Prices for Comb Hone HOW to. Get BetterY BY D. C. GILHAM. Do you know why so many beekeep- ers howl about low prices and poor market for honey? I'll tell you: It is because of carelessness in:. producing or handling the honey. ket price. On account of the neglect in packing and in the handling of .comb -honey, many a section is cracked or a hole is punched in it. If tl'e merchant buys, he soon has a sticky, messy pile of goods to dispose of and is disgusted with the handling of comb -honey. For instance, I have seen beekeep- ers place sections in supers that were.. not meant for that particular type • of section. Result, the sections were diamond-shaped instead of square. Another thing that detracts' from the appearance of comb -honey is the presence of propolis (the glue used by bees for filling cracks) on toile sections. This is not hard to get off, if you take proper precautions. The best way to proceed is to coat the tops of the sections, in the supers that are expos- ed to the bees, with a thin coating of paraffin. Do this before pinch -1g the supers on the hive: Wheii the filled sections are removed from the, hive, the paraffin and any propolis that -rimy have been deposited on top of the sections is easily, scraped oft', Chas leaving a nice clean section. The dif- ference in :price that a promoter will receive for a clean section and a dirty one will well repay hint for his extra time and work. USE A BEE -ESCAPE noA•RD. When a -super is filled and ready .to be removed from the hive, a beep escape board should be used, One'bee- keeper offered me extracted honey; Ile had not used a bee -escape; beard to clean the bees out of the supers, but had smoked the bees out Retult, the honey tasted from the e eossil `e smok- ing` the combs had received. It took him longer to free the combs of the �. bees with the smoker, that it would have taken to place it bee-esca e board under the super, He could have left it on for from twenty-four to thirty - SIX hours and then gone and picked up his super of honey and carried it into honey -house, free of bees. He lost several cents a. pound on' his honey, beeaUse he didn't invest a little money in 1ss'e4scape boards;:' Soule of the careless 'beekeepers offer their honey to the retail mel - chant at a lower figure than'; the mars CARELESSNESS IN HANDLING. I have found it is not always the fault o f the producer. Many clerks are careless.: In one instance where 1 had delivered an order of comb - honey, one of the clerks dropped a section on the floor before the pro- prietor roprietor had Written out his cheque to. pay me.Within a week I received a oard asking me to call. When I did he wanted to know what was wrong with that lot of section honey. Every section had been in perfect condition in sealed wrappers when delivered I found 75 per cent, of the combs broken. and leaking through torn paraffin wrappers, due to carelessness in handling by the clerks: A section of homy on display, where customers can handle it, is often damaged by in- quisitive persons and not by prospec- tive buyers. All progressive beekeepers use a carton of some kind .to protect their comb -honey, : to keep it clean and sani- tary slime ani-tarylvhen on display in the store. The tall plain section is my favorite, as it permits the use ofa heavy paraffin - paper wrapper" and allows, the cos-, tomer to see what is inside without opening. The beeway section necessi- tates the use of a eardboard carton, which must be opened and the section. removed to see it. Some cardboard cartons have a hole in the centre so that the comb ivill show through, but' this allows the •dust and dirt to, get' upon the conib. { Some beekeepers are shipping comb - honey by parcel post without suffioient packing. The result is a ineesy pack- • the 11)0110 If theycontinue to I age in 1 keep this, up, the postal authorltiee. will soon put a stop to the shippingl of comb -honey by ptii'rel post, attd the. Careful beekeeper will have to suffer: for the acts of the careless One. ' 1 Mali the Coupon and Watch:tii: Mali It will bring you at once a copy of our booklet "Buying Bonds on the Partial Payment Plan," There- in you will find a sane, workable plan for budgeting your income and a simple method for the investment of a monthly surplus—no matter how large or small . .. —in sound securities: A systematic programme of saving and investing a determined portion of your earnings is the foundation ofan independent intone. 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If we have to drive up and then back out, the whole outfit runs idle and the waiting team and feeder of the cutter are idle.' Driving past the :.cutter enables us to keep the cut- ter working continuously. Our silo filling on each farm runs from sixty .to eighty tons. With the ustial farm chores and a thirteen -inch .cutter we find :this a nice day's work. Usually we don't work until dark We want to keep the farm chores up and. do them nearly on time. • That is as much our business as the silo filling and it is as seasonable too, I found last fall that if the unloading man will :slip off some, extra bundles and throw them back of the feeder when there is a littletime this serves as a reserve. Then when the empty -wagon moves out the feeder can, keep the cutter plugging away. We have constructed a detachable feeding table on our cutter, about four feet wide and six feet long. Throwing the bundles on this table prevents get- ting them mixed and enables the feed- er to keep an even flow of corn in the cutter -all the time. There is always a supply of one or two bundles ready to use. We have found that an extra team doesn't hurt anything when filling. Let the wagon stand loaded. Then when someone comesin tee. slowly take a man out of the silo and run this wagonload through. Last year I tried to useone man in the silo at first; two a little later and then three near the top, and when. finishing I had four men tramping. I figured that the bottom of the silo would be packed pretty well with the weight fromthe top, In feeding out I am having a little trouble with small moldy spots around lower doors. I wonder if this is because of the one pian on the tramping work at first? It looks as though this plan' was a mis- take; ,. We load our wagons with the tops first, I notice that there has been some discussion about this. I suspect that if we were raising corn &bout six feet high it wouldn't make much difference, but when it runs from ten to twelve feet on the average: that way of handlrngwould e pretty har to follow all day. We"use an ordinary low -wheeled wagon. This saves a lot of heavy lift- ing but is not so good as the suspend- ed frame racks that are used in•some places. I hope we'll get to using that form of reek in time.. We figure on two or three men in the field and about four teams to keep our cutter going. I think there is a chance to help our= selves here in having more teams, and fewer men on the job. There is no reatian why each driver shouldn't load almost half of.ehis wagon alone. For the last part and the top a little help is handy and pays, But it is useless fora mazy' to drive to the field and sit on his wagon until the pitchers come to help. The driver has the easy job in silo filling,, as he gets a nice rest lit going and ebmingfrom the field : Pitchers, the men in the silo and the feeder of the cutter work all the tittle there is anyti ing going throug*ii the machine. W lien farmers work, their tennis tteuaily stand idle. 13ecause of thio the use of two or"three eiitre teams n a filling job would hot lose anythiir " ROGERS. and might easily allow horses to do:' some of the work that men have been doing.. a' •9 Easter Saving. "Do you believe in daylight saving""`''' "Well, yes; it's easier se.ving by day light than after thecabaret light is turned ca.' Father, presiding at breakfast table, asked William,aged three, if he would like an egg. 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