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Title: The Eastern poultryman
Identifier: easternpoultryma35unse (find matches)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
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Subjects: Poultry Periodicals; Fruit Periodicals
Publisher: South Freeport, Me. : Geo. P. Goffin; Freeport, Me. : Geo. P. Goffin; Kent's Hill, Me. : E. E. Peacock
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
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THE EASTERN POULTRYMAN. 73 ing out the disease is to destroy all which are voiding yellow urates, care should be had to make the distinction between the urates and the bowel dejections, for the latter are frequently of a yellow color in Jiealth. The killing should not be by any metliod which allows the escape of blood, as this fluid is even more virulent than the excrement. Once killed, the bodies should be deeply buried. The drinking vessels and feeding troughs must be thoroughly disinfected, also the ground runs, buildings, etc. The liquid lice killers that are on the market are all good disinfectants, or you can use three pounds of sulphuric acid to forty gallons of water. Chiora-naptheolium is also a good disin- fectant. The liquids may be applied with a sprinkling can, or sprayer. Before dis- infecting the poultry houses, the manure must be first thoroughly cleaned up, dis- infected and removed. Sulphuric acid undiluted is a very strong and dangerous drug and will destroy clothing and cauter- ize the flesh wherever it touches it. Feathers become saturated with the con- tagion and to thorougiily disinfect every- thing, fowls and all, flour of sulphur can be put in a kettle or pan of burning coals and the fowls can remain in the house as long as the air can be breathed without danger oj suft'ocation. The best plan is to prevent cholera if possible by keeping the premises clean and to never buy or receive a fowl from a locality where chol- era has been raging, even a year after the disease has been stamped out. If you have any suspicion that a fowl has been where cholera has been, the fowl should be fumigated with the flour of sulphur before it is placed with the flock. Eggs from cholera districts should be thor- oughly cleaned of all particles of excre- ment adhering to them. It is a very im- portant thing to keep healthy fowls from infected grounds or from coming in con- tact with fowls that have cholera. Healthy fowls may carry the viris on their feathers or feet for man)' miles and people will wonder how the disease ever reached them. Manure from infected places may be purchased and spread upon land to which healthy poultry has access and has become the means of spreading the dis- ease. By careful observance of the plans mentioned cholera may never get started in your flock or it may be exterminated when it has made its appearance. Pre- ventive measures is the best thing I can recommend for cholera.—O. P. Greer in Practical Foitltryman mid Poultry Star. Some Good Light Brahmas. "Oh yes, the Plymouth Rocks and Wyandottes are all right for those who fancy them, but for me there is no breed in existence that can compare with the Light Brahma, and when one can pro- duce such birds as these of Cushman's, what is the use of bothering with the small breeds? " said an enthusiastic fan- cier as he stood before a coop of Chas. L. Cushman's prize winners at the show in Lewiston. The birds were certainly a choice lot and well deserving of the high honors which they won, and are of the sort that will hold their own in strong competition. We present some cuts of some of Mr. Cushman's birds but think they do not do justice to the birds. Mr. Cushman is breeding Light Brah- rnas and White Wyandottes quite exten- sively, raising upwards of i,ooo birds each year. He has a special trade call- ing for brown eggs and the eggs are sold in sealed boxes, each holding one dozen,
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and stating when the eggs were laid, thus each customer knows the exact age of the eggs. Mr. Cushman's plant is thoroughly up- to-date, his stock is vigorous and healthy and customers all receive courteous and just treatment. Mr. Cushman was the first president of the Maine State Poultry Association, and to his efforts is due much of the success that attended the first year's growth and work of that or- ganization. It was the unanimous wish of the mem- bers that he continue in office, but he firmly declined re election. Poultry Feed and Eggs. Some of the experiment stations have reported that they find little or no differ- ence in the food value of an egg with a yolk that is of a bright yellow and one that has a pale, cream-colored yolk. We will not dispute their statement, but be- lieve there are some things that they find it as difficult to detect by analysis as the difference between the perfume of the violet and that of the rose, but we know that with the same hens we can get a yolk of brighter yellow when feeding yellow corn and cornmeal mash with a fair pro- portion of beet scraps, than we can wlien they have oats, bran mash and cabbage leaves, and we like the flavor of the eggs made in the richer food better than those from the other, about as much as we do that of the ninety-eight per cent, of water in the melon better than we do that of the ninety-six or ninety-seven parts in the cucumber. When we buy eggs, if we can find the yolk of a bright yellow we expect them to be richer and better flavored, if fresh, than those with pale yolks, and chemists would not find it easy to con- vince us that they were jiot so.— The Cultivator. Side issue attention brings side issue results. There is only one way to reach the top in any line of endeavor, and that is by mastering the subject through thoughtful and careful work and plenty of it. Trap nests have been proven to be of great value to those who find it practica- ble to use them. They clearly indicate the prolific lavers of a flock and likewise the sluggards. Thus the breeder knows which hens to keep and which ones to dispose of.

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