Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-03-20


Poultry Raising IN New Hampshire
The farmers in the Granite State are
just beginning to realize that poultry
pays larger per cent on the capital in
vested, than any other kind of stock on
the farm. Carefully conducted expert
ments show that poultry, well managed,
pays from 100 to l50 per cent profit, and
in few instances much more. Merrill
Robie, of this town, kept an account with
his hens for 1873; he kept II hens,
Brahmas and white Leghorns, mostly
the latter, but not pure bred he sold
s3230 worth of eggs; chickens sold,
50 %; Z chickens kept, $3.50; manure
sold, s1.95. OF all the eggs used in the
family no account was kept. 1t cost S12
to keep the hens. Now you can reckon
the per cent for yourself. The eggs were
sold at prices ranging from 35c down to
16c per dozen. | could name several
others that have paid as we'll.
G. E. L. Hayward, of Peterboro, N.
H., Cor rather HaDcock, but he does
business at Peterboro,) has large es-
tablishment for breeding poultry on
large scale. He keeps over 500 fowls in
all, of the following varieties: White
Leghorns, Light Brahmas, Partridge Co
chins, Dark Brahmas, B. r. Game Ban
tams, Golden and Silver Sebright Ban.
tams, japan Bantams, White and Notified
Gnineas, Ronen and Aylesbury Ducks,
Bremen Geese, Pea Fowls, and about 400
common grade fowls. He also has the
following named varieties of Pigeons:
Black Fantails, White Calcutta Fantails,
Jacobins, Red Pouters, Black Carriers,
Cinnamon Tumblers, Ringneck Doves,
and about 80 common pigeons. OF rab.
bits, he has Lop-eared, Augoras, Dutch,
Himalayans, French Greys, and pair
of White Rabbits. Guinea Pigs, make
out the list.
He scatters his fowls over his farm in
small, cheap houses Most of them are
built 9x13, one roof; from 25 to so are
kept in one flock. Many of his houses
are located in the apple orchards. The
fowls have unlimited range, and are
healthy, and pay large profit. Eggs
sent out for Matching, by him, do remark
ably well in some cases every egg
hatched after travelling over 1000 miles
by express. | think it owing in great
measure to the hens having large range,
instead of being confined to small pens,
in the breeding season, as many breeders
keep their fowls. have been more mi
mute in my description than / otherwise
should, if this was not the only establish
ment on large scale that l know to be
a success.
The reason why most attempts to keep
a large lot of poultry have failed, has
been that too many fowls were crowded
together under one roof, and were con-
fined to small yards without green
thing in them. l think any one can
keep hens on large scale. and make
them pay at least 100 per cent profit, by
giving them room enough and keeping
but few together, and giving them the
same care we give our cattle and sheep.
Many farmers make "a speciality of
turkeys. On farms that are not too near
neighbors, they pay better than hens. /
sold gobblers last fall for SO, that cost
75 cents in feed. Col. Symonds says a
good hen turkey in the fall, will pay more
profit in a year than common COW.
And sharp farmer in Vermont, says he
can raise a pound of turkey cheaper than
he can pound of beef or pork.
JOHN G. McKEEN.
| South Acworth, N. H., Feb. 1874.