Homer guardian. (Homer, La.) 1888-1890, 1890-04-25
FARMER AND pLANTER.
Chapter on Eggs.

NluS NS "iSA haSsss AsA AS~S
forms. So does a vast army OF
wild game and also the fishes OF
the sea, lakes and rivers. Cattle
and hog meat, the flesh Of various
wild animals, and that other class
Of meat, fish and oysters, and also
all kinds of wild fowl, makes a
formidable list for our domestic
poultry to complete with.
But when it comes to eggs the
field is almost entirely clear. We
gather no eggs from any Of the
sources above named. Our eggs
come from our hens, our ducks
and our turkeys, our geese and
our guineas. But the great bulk
Of them comes from the first nam
ed-our hens. For their eggs
there is q steady demands de-
mand that ia steadily increasing.
Our Southern cities are grow
ing. There are springlng up all
over the South at the present time
manufacturing centers and VII
lagos that increase the population
of our counties and our Southern
States. With this increase OF
population comes q natural in
crease in the demand for eggs.
This demand for eggs offers to the
Southern farmer q splendid op-
portunlty to increase his revenues
with but little outlay and trou-
bic.
The difficulty in raising poultry
on the farm and in getting q good
supply of eggs, lies in the want OF
system. There is a right way to
do any thing and every thing, and
to succeed with any thing it must
be done rightly and understand
ingly. }g
It should be known and borne
in mind that wild fowls will not
lay well or thrive in large fiocks.
No matter how broad our acres
Or how extensive our farms, We
can not be successful with poultry
thereon unless we sub. ii
into fiocks OF fifteen or twenty-five
each, and give each flock a separ.
ate run and hen, house. When
the fact is better understood and
acted upon, then the farmers OIL
Tennessee will make more money
out of their hens, than out OF their
hens, than out Of their hogs OF
sheep.
Nature ls great leveler oil
things, and nature says a flock Of
fifteen or twenty-five hens are Of
many as can run together and
thrive. To succeed, then, we must
heed the voice of nature. The
farm is the place for poultry, az
the farm affords US ample room
to carry out our purposes. But
only single flock Of twenty FIVE
fowls on a large farm would be
too small matter tor considera
ton In point of profit.
Each farmer should build four
or five yards, fifty to one hundred
feet wide and one hundred and
fifty feet long. In each of these
yards a small hen house about slz
feet square and ak feet high
should be built, and to each yard
say twenty-five hens assigned
These hens should be fed a cook,
ed feed In the morning and sounl
grain st night, and In the winter
Time some cooked potatoes
Ftnrmps, etc., I've or three times !.
week. Also q little meat twice !
week, The result Of such treat
ment would be eggs, and plenty
OF them, at all seasons of the year
excepting moulting time in the
tall. @a
The fencing for this purpose
may consist OF four-foot posts,
cheap stringerss and plasterers'
latb, which. cost twenty or twenty
five cents q hundred. They are
only four feet long, but by putting
the top stringer a foot and a hall
from the top Of the lath, a fowl
Ecan not fly it, and after they have
been IN their yards d short time,
they will not try to fly. { AL
We have kept Leghorn fowls in
yards Of this kind for years, aud