The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1893-03-28
Poultry.

, pose no breed is better than the Wy
andot (silver or white y they ar
rapid growers and mature early, an,
at IL weeks old are ready for market
They have bright, yellow legs an,
skin, and when pure-bred you hav
your broilers all alike; and being al
alike they look better in the coop ant
command better prices.
In business of this kind much de
pends upon careful attention Il
details. You cannot neglect this
business. 1t demands your constant
supervision, but we assure you it will
reward you you attend to it. Poul.
try culture is sure business, because
you can control the conditions for
success, you will attend to it. In
other words, you will succeed if you
ought TO and if you fail it will be your
own fault.
The question is often asked, how
many hens should be kept on farm,
to insure respectable business? We
answer, fifty, select young hens, pure
bred they will yield from 80 to 40
eggs per day from December to June.
This would be about 245 eggs per
week; this would insure, with good
incubate for Matching, at least 175l
chicks per week after the first hatch.
This would compel you to keep on
hand, about 1000 young chicks, and
say you sold them at three months
old, one hundred and seventy-five per
week for twelve weeks, would be
2, 100 chicks, and say you keep this up
from December to June, five months,
you would have sold 1920 chicks, for
which you can average, at least, 80
cents each, making $1,26O. The cost
of raising these chicks could not posi-
bly, exceed, including cost of machin-
cry $500, hence you have a net profit of
$7C0.
We think we have estimated every
thing on the safe side, and good man
agement and good market will change
them on the profit side of the ledger.
You can establish yourself, in any
large city, a market by shipping
weekly, and handling the same
chicks all the same color, shape and
size that will show you even a better
result than the above estimates. There
is no difficulty in finding market in
New York, Chicago, st. Louis, Phil
adelphia or any large city at any time,
provided you can furnish a steady |
supply, so that your purchaser can
arrange with his wealthy patrons to
expect such supply regularly.
The young turkeys should never be
allowed to get wet.
The Poultry Keeper says nine
enths of the young turkeys die from
ice.
Tipcture Of iron in the drinking
water, it is said, will prevent disease
mong the fowls.
A correspondent in Farm Poultry
SKIS which is the best all-purpose
owl for a beginner, the Plymouth
iocks or Light Brahmas. Here is the
nswer he received: "Probably the
plymouth Rocks sare the best all-the ,
fowl, although breeders of
light Brahmas claim great merits for
leir fayorites. They are both good,
ut all things considered probably the
'scEs are the better for beginner" I
The high price OF eggs during the
old season wethave had means that t
ne henhouses are not sufficiently pro-
,cted from the outside temperature.
hose who take the hint will proba- y
ly try to make their walls thicker
efore another winter. C
1t isknot well to give the hens as
luch as they will eat of soft food in IL
le morning. Enough to satisfy the
atural appetite and warm them up, n
ut not enough to make them stupid f
nd lazy. Leave them appetite to
ratch well for their dinner.
1t is easier to get an abundance of
,gs in the winter than it is to get
inter prices in the summer, but = :.
eding only sweet, wholesome food, cI
ling the eggs while fresh, and hav-
6 them clean and neat looking, b
ises the price at any season of the
ar, if you can deliver directly to the
nsumer. "
The st. Louis Journal of Agricul-
Us that the value of the poultry and fl
gs shipped from Missouri in 1891 sc
as "a, 4,2l3,961. The shipments of Ii