Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-12-09
How To Make Hens Pay.

| | shall try to prove that n fair prof.
can be made, says n Newton Mass
correspondent of the BOSTON HeI
aid
To start with, you must have
good ffcck Of the breed you prefer
good hen hp;i~~ anl au,d judy
nlent. One r.asuu that 50 MN,
people give u, poultry ~ bccaus
they crowd a,.d overt, eli their hens
or else they d-n', clean sat thei
houses oficn enough. A complet,
iaiiurr ~ the result and another foo
Is nddeo TO the list who will 81,
poultry keeping for money Is I
failure, ms we have tried it,"
Anot her reason for failure Is in thu
feeding Of corn to laying fiOck O
hens. 1t will soon faiten q EN- st
that no eggs will be laid at all and
the man will go right along and
keep feeding corn. aud wonder why
he gets no eggs.
Don't feed corn to laying hens, but
feed oats and bran. Feed bran Will
table scraps AN don't feed yellow
meal.
In winter give plenty of meat and
green food and always give LUX.
warm water In the morning.
Meyer feed bad meat, unless you
want to loose a few hens, but feed
goad sound food.
Have the hen house built well and
be sure no roofs leak in winter 1t IN h
goog plan to have the hen house full
Of leaves.
The hens will scratch among them,
and This will keep them happy and
and they will lay.
Havea platform u.der tile roos,.
ing places, and clean the droppings
oil every morning and not once u
year.
Guod nests can lie made out Of Old
orange boxes. Change once in Ii
while and make new nests.
BE sure aud give good clean, fresh
water every morning, AS this il
of the greatest Importance.
Leghorns and lungshaps are the
best breeds, aud If you are going to
keep only "a few hens have half OF
them leghorns and half langslian~.
They are both fine layers, aud lh
leghorns are said 20 never sci, though
last summer | had II pure Ies horn Sci
aud hatch three chickens.
Some poultry men advise feeding
hard boiled eggs to young chickens
though know more harm ia done
than good by this method. Feed
anything soft AID never feed soft
feed Oh the ground unless you
want n smell that will kill your
chickens.
III case your chickens have lice,
never put lard or oil OH them. Last
year lad ~ fe v chickens that had
lice, so ! put some lard on them.
They soOn died, aud when later Oh
| was troubled this way agian, ]
used Kerosene, and killed some very
line white PlymouthRuck chickens.
l examined the chickens, aud found
that the oil had been 30 powerful
that il had eaten away the skin
around the wings and neck and So
l had killed both the lice and the
chickens with the oil.
Always use insect powder and you
will kill all the lice and no chickens.
My chickens from the time they
were Matched until they began lay.
ing, get more hard food than soft
Wheat and corn are my favuritc
foods for chickens and chickens
brought up on this diet always live
and are healthy.
l have in my yard some chickens
hatched last April laying now.
give my hens only tw" meals II day,
aud that keeps them IN proper con.
1ition.
Last year hy keeping some old
hens through the winter | lost near.
ly $40. So don't keep your old liens
unless you want to lose money
also.
In selling my eggs l always get
five cents more dozen than sloIe
prices and at present. am getting Ior-
y cents II dozen, while eggs are bat
thirty and thirtyiive cents d'zen,
,ud ! have more orders than / can
al.
am not an old hand at the busi-
ness aud only keep hens 81 as 10
have little pocket money. ] have
made my poultry pay, and this
winter expect to make good deal,
u my rulleis will be nearly all
aging.
II you would be successful feed
iour hens moderately; don't over
crowd them:keep their houses clean;
ion't depend on hired Aelp; keep
lie old reliable hens to do your
Matching for you aud don't use III
,ubatOrs aud breeders.
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