By L.A. Ammon
Chicken Day
Friday, May the 15th, the Federation truck will make the County buying all kinds of poultry. The prices for this week are: hens, 20 cents per pound; broilers, 38 cents lb; roosters, 8 cents lb; eggs in cases 23 cents dozen. The truck will reach Rosman about 10 o’clock and pass through Brevard at noon, then on down the line. The time of reaching a place depends on the amount of chickens to handle.
Wool Market
Mr. G.P. Williams, our State sheep specialist, writes me that wool is bad low now, and he is quite sure that it will go up considerably by August. The Elkin Co. offers 45 cents per pound for May.
Protein Poison in Chickens
About time for trouble with broiler size chickens if you are feeding them more than 10 percent meat scraps, and perhaps some milk with it. The dead ones usually show a dark comb, and some people call the trouble black comb. The best of the bunch and especially those that hang around the mash hopper, are the ones that die.
In one flock last year, I advised giving a dose of saltz. We learned a lesson, as every sick chicken was dead in an hour after taking the saltz. It is in a large sense appendicitis, due to slow movement of the fine smooth feed passing through the bowels, setting up an irritation.
The best thing we found last year was to give not over a five percent meat scrap mash and give more grain. The trouble soon let up. Five drops of carbolic acid to the quart of drinking water should be good.
Fairs
The Home and Farm Agent will start work on fairs soon, and the present plan is for several sectional and community fairs and perhaps a County Fair. Much depends on the support given by all concerned. If meetings are announced you can show your interest by being at the meetings and taking part in the planning of the fair machinery.
From the front page of the Brevard News, Thursday, May 14, 1925
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