The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, April 13, 1922, Image 7
CARE OF BABY CHICKS.
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iggestions Retarding Natural and
Artificial Brooding.
The season is at hand when we
just give careful attention to the
Iby chicks. Whether we buy them
^Wfc^hatch then ourselves, he baby
clKks must be vigorous, active, strong
on their feet, and must have high
vitality, says N. R. Mehrhof, Extension
Poultry Specialist. If the chicks
P come from good stock they will have
these qualities. Only from such
chicks can we expect to get heavy
egg-production and good breeding
stock for the future. Proper managef
ment of good young stock calls fori
[ ^attention to housing, feeding and sanitation.
[ Natural Brooding.?If the mother
| ben is going to bring up the chicks,
one does not have to worry much
Mrar hww?in<r rnnditions. but it is
L necessary that there be a good clean
pfc crop, that the mother hen herself be
clean and free from lice, and that
the chicks be locked up at night as
protection from rats and other enemies.
Artificial Brooding.?If large num1
hers are to be hatched and brooded
it is advisable and practically necessary
to use artificial brooding. With
this method the brooder is the first
real home of the baby chicks, and
suitable conditions are very essential,
since during the first three weeks
environment is of the greatest importance.
Success and economy in growing!
r baby chicks are determined largely
by (1) careful operation of brooder,
<2) methods of feeding. The gener
al principles of artificial brooding are
. practically Cue same whether for
large or small brooders. The principal
functions of the brooder is to
supply heat and the ideal brooder
suplies the proper degree -of temperature
but is sc constructed that
the baby chicks can find any tem-1
perature they desire. Beneath the
hover the temperature for the first
few days should be approximately
100 degrees Farhenheit The baby
chicks should be closely confined
under the hover of the brooder for
the first day or two. This can be
accomplished by using a circle of oneinch
mesh poultry wire 8 inches high
I about two feet from the other edge
I of the hover proper. After the secI
ond or third day this wire may be
fc removed and the chicks allowed the
run of the entire house, but towards!
Weight each day this wire should be
^Bused again until the chicks learn to
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From reports and letters received
daily by the Extension Service, Clem-,
son college, it seems likely that the.
acreage planted in truck crops in
South Carolina this season will be
materially increased. But what of
the markets? That is the question
that every cnc is asking. Much of
this truck will be ungraded and improperly
handled as in the past and
there will be no market for such,
is the warning given by F. L Harkey,
agent in marketing.
While it is true that the buying
power of the public is diminished, it
is also true that the product properly
handled and graded will receive first
attention on the market But how
do we get these results? Through
a co-operative fanners' selling organization
in carlots is tha ideal way.
There are other ways generally less
satisfactory and altogether unsatisfactory
when the demand is weak.
The advice of the marketing specialists,
therefore, would be for farmers
to go slow with truck unless (
marketing is cared for. Buyers look ,
to the old truck sections for their
supplies, because from these sections
their chances are better for securing
a graded product
The new sections, especially if unorganized,
are at several disadvantages.
First, they are unknown on
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have a supply; third; there will be
a? ma .y grades as there are shippers;
fourth, Many will have less than
carlots, and express shipments in
jless than carlots shipments have a
'very limited outlet.
It is wise, therefore, for those who
fare thinking about truck crops to
have a thought about the markets.
If truckers are in need of grading
rules, packing and loading rules for
any of the truck crops, the information
will be gladly furnished by the
marketing agents of the Extension
Service of Clemson college.
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) Spring
Millinery
) It is in Millinery
that fashion's creators
most display
their ingeniousy. Our
Millinery display
\this season portrays
fashion's most choice
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invite yon to call
and inspect them.
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The Way To Success.
The idea advanced by Dr. H. A.
Morgan, president of the University
of Tennessee, of a program for the
readjustment of agricultural conditions
based on regional, rather than
national distribution of products, may
lead to the solution of some of the
problems of the farmers of the south.
He refers to high freight rates as
a barrier to wide distribution and
calls attention to the facts that the
south has not met its obligations in
the production of meats and other
food essentials for home consumption,
and to the construction of modern
highways which will tend to
facilitate regional distribution and the
development of home markets for
home grown beef, dairy products,
poultry, hay, corn and other things
that the south should raise for its
own use.
There can be no question about
the importance of raising on the
farm nearly everything the farmer
requires, with a surplus for nearby
markets, where freight rates will not
be burdensome to the producer and
where money will be put in local
circulation to stimulate business and
supply the needs of all classes of
workers ;< and, as for a change to
regional systems of distribution providing
a way for the adjustment of
present inequalities, the trend is undoubtedly
in that direction. A change
may come in the system of distributing
farm products before the farmers
in the south are prepared to take
full advantage of it. The important
Vi a/A W\ ??M ?II M A??* ?n A#1AM^
tiling L/CiUIC UO JUOb IIv W IS IAJ OUU^l
the slogan suggested by Dr. Morgan
for the Southern Cattlemen's Association:
"Home Production of Livestock,"
with this addition for general
farmers: "and everything else required
to enable the farmer to live at
home."
The one-crop system may be profitable
on large plantations, but even
on such big farms money is lost during
periods of deflation in prices for
the crops produced, because supplies
must be. purchased, with profits of
producers, shippers and transportation
companies added to the cost.
But, on small farms of the south, the
raising of livestock and the diversification
of crops along with improved
methods of soil improvement and conservation
is the only system that will
pay.
Let's lime our lands, raise clover
and other legumes, raise livestock?
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anve iarm products to uie market
on foot and return fertility in the
form of manure to the soils of fields
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' everything to sell. Under such i
I system, farms will increase in fertfl
ity year after year, and the farme:
will have something to put in thi
bonk, whether the money received fo:
his products be much or little.
Let us read again the statemen
made by Henry W. Grady in 1888
and profit by the truths which in
spiration and clear knowledge of fact
enabled him to teach:
"When every farmer in the soutl
shall eat bread from hit own field
and meat from his own pastures an
disturbed by no creditors, and enslave*
by no debt, shall sit amid his tee mini
gardens, and orchards, and vineyard*
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go in the brooder for warmth.
The chicks should have sufficient
run if they are to develop into good
breeding stock. In the colony sys- ;
tem of breeding a run about 12 feet <
by 14 feet may be used to accommo- ]
(late 250 to 300 chicks.
The temperature the first week j
should be held at the same degree ]
and then gradually reduced. A sue- ]
cessful poultryman will watch the ;
chicks closely and govern the temperature
according to conditions. <
Ihe constant aim should be to keep | j
the chicks comfortable, especially at
night when not exercised.
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