The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-18
Poultry and Egg Raising.

OF course, there are no statistics pos
sesslng any value and that can give
any satisfactory information relative to
the great industry of poultry or egg rails
ing in this country. We wish there
was some way by which we could APP
pr02imate fairly the amount of eggs and
chickens grown in this one state of
Georgia annually. No kind hearted
reader, with your good intentions you
need note all our attention to the fact,
that some sort of an attempt has been
made to furnish such Information by the
national department. oil agriculture. We
are not looking for that kind of informa-
ton. We would like some that is slightly
satisfying. For the present let US (you
and II content ourselves with the simple
and unpretentious announcement that the
poultry and egg business in this compara-
lively youthful country is immense with
every prospect of magnihying its i'm
meusity. We have just begun to give
serious considera. ion 10 the matter We
propose now to apply the rule of '.Hoyle''
10 the business and stop the child's play
that we have been indulging in for so
long. This utterance, OF course, applies
chiefly to the south. The New England
ana northern grower has made
Roadway incomparably beyond what
We have made, But we cannot
avoid the conviction that the southern
people will, ere long, commence to make
use OF the splendid opportunities that
they possess in the way OF raising eggs
ana "brollers" more cheaply than any
other people on the face of the earth
This Is strong statement. Some may
regard it as a wild one. But it is not.
Even the careless haphazard way that
prevailed for so long, was productive of
Ia rdnlff of ,.l,s
the aggregate though there was not much
pront 10 the Individual, the outcome in
respect to poultry keeping, resem bling
pretty much that of cotton grOwing-a
tremendous show in the aggregate, but
very little Cle2r'profit to the individual
grower. The outside and superficial OBJ
server concluded that country must be
growing rich that was. turning out so
many millions of bales of cotton. His
conclusion was erroneous, as develop
ments have shown. Proof; Our cotton
ands have little value, can be mortgaged
ior little or nothing.
Our lands are TO be appreciated in value
only by changing the use to which they
are put. Much of our land is to be devo-
'eu TO grass and sock growing-hOrses,
sleep, cattle, hogs, in which division
eggs and poultry must have fair show
ing. Does not the history of France
each US that the humble hen can be
made great Wealth-producer2 Will
some one tell US what the aggregate
vdlQe OF tie poultry and egg production
OItrance is? The latest statistics are not
within our reach. ,..-..
Al the rate new varieties have been
ored and introduced during the past ten
ears, IL Will not be very many years be-
tOIe hundred different breeds are cata-
ogUed 49,. :
as It is, the beginner is sorely puzzled
70 decide what variety or varieties he
adu better adopt. OF course, he must
IIlSV decide the simple matter of VIII ether
NC VIII grow only. eggs or only 'broilers,"
VI oolh, or whether he will produce
poses. .t
;, FOR laying purposes TO supply eggs for
f fue table 1t is hard to deciue between the
t-5shorns, Hamburgs, Minorcas and Span
IN 1hese varieties, under the mosJ in
sGI 'lgent management, yield from l15 to
~, e+gS per year, but il requires unre-
.aLI'!!ng care and judicious attention TO
0USdln such result.
n breed and feed combined is essential in
n 1ae most successful poultry keeping. I'm
yioPeIIy leu hens of the Gest breed ex-
s s-ay cannot produce 80 eggs a year, or
i, w.! loO Mos any kind OF q hen will
hoy "a the spring and summer, but 10 have
a aer lay eggs in the winter, when they
G'e worth something, it needs be that she
al a. properly protectedfrom cold weather,
s 1uu Is led with food that will make
iss4sS She must not be allowed to get too
me winter2
t, 90 lar as the grain or feed part goes,
lev -o nearer nearer we come to mixture of bar
INV M, wheat and oats equal parts), fed
o roree times daily, the nearer perfect
e-s -.Fs that part of their food, and little
inf rs ~ required. A little charred grain
dar "neatl should be given every other
Way 4 shallow box of gravel and like
IN 1 ~ OF bone meal should be accessible
isb Ine fowls. Pure water should be furn-
tba IN y. ia an iron vessel. In the winter, at
s5oIIiS Wight feed, kettle of warm water
y,as,llIi De furnished, and this must be re-
rs s'--ou at noon and night In their feed
sini or part of it, clean straw of some
the should be put TO the depth of two or
Over tHlches, and their grain broadcasted
'ue straw. This will demand the