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What arc the main points to observe no one in charge of affairs at home and
in matinfr ? — J. R. H. who wants to keep fowls if he feels that
The lecture' of Prof. James E. Rice he can do them justice, — J, S. F.
as 'piiblished in this issue covers the The nest should have double walls
point'ift qtifcSt-ion very thoroughly. filled with non-conducting material, and
<.\<i<r- for this there is nothing better than
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sifted coal ashes. The front of the
u6 '""yoti advise keeping individual
daily records of laying hens ?• R. H. nest should be covered with strips of
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cloth of several thicknesses so that one
We certainly do. Our plan is quite
will overlap the other and close the
fully outlined in the Philo System book.
opening after the hen leaves.
We only keeyj four or five hens in our
Where the climate is very cold or on
best breeding pens and by close observa-
very cold days a small soapstone heated
tion can d stinguish the eggs from each
and placed in one side of the nest in the
individual hen. While we give this
morning would keep the eggs safely for
work our personal attention, we thought
from twelve to twenty hours.
best to teach our poultryman this work,
and he is now- able to tell the number
How would you produce a barred
of the hen as soon as picking up the
fowl from the black and white of the
6gg- Brown eggs are' more easily dis-
the same breed ? 1 hear that it has
tinguished than white eggs. The tex-
been done. Awaiting your next issue
ture of the shell and the shape of the
with usual interest, J. S. F.
egg are the points to study when the
Barred fowls cannot be produced in a
eggs are pure white.
few generations from black and white
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fowls cros&ed, and we are not sure that
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Denver, June i6, '08.
it would be possible, although it might
My Dear Mr. Philo:— Vou certainly
possibly be accomplished in eight or ten
have devised the best of plans to raise
generations.
poultry in limited quarters; but here is
In most cases a white cock mated to
a proposition that I believe will puzzle
black hens will produce ninety per cent,
you. Shall hope to see the solution in
white fowls and a black cock mated to
your next issue of the Review.
white hens w-ill produce ninety per cent,
How, can one who is away all day
black fowls.
manage to care 1 can
for poultry ?
With some strains and breeds such
attend to them in the morning and
crosses will produce some mottled birds
arrange the water, question in freezing while others will produce blue birds such
weather, but the, collection, of the eggs ^ii
as Andelusians. A cross between a
bothers me. Mr. Weeks has, I think, Black Minorca cock and White Leghorn
solved 'the trap-nested lien part of it,
hen will often produce all blue chickens.
b',-The thought just occurs , to
, me,— -;_ ; Many iyearS' ago we crossed a Black'
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Why could not the egg be laid close , Spanish cock with a White Leghorn" ill'
enoHgh' to' the fountain that—utilizing .<[
hen, which gave us all black chickens.
th-e: fireless cooker idea to keep it from M r
After these chickens moulted the first
freezing-—would prevent their getting
ii, season they were mottled and each sue
chilled?
J'm,-/ -. (feeding year showed more white until
This is, of course, very crude', but
, the fourth year when they were as
nowadays you are bringing up so many
pretty I.White Spanish as one would
labor saving and unique devices that it
..wish to .see. If attempting to get the
leads xme to think what remains for a (barred: birds- from- black and w-hite w-e
JriaiT'-to dcrwho i^ away all day and has -, ,-iiif Sqnjtitiued on page 27
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