Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-05-18
FARM AND GARDEN.
Immense Profit Accruing in
the Poultry Business.
HEN COMPARED WITH THE COW.
Fifty Hens Will Pay as Much Profit
as a Cow, With Less Labor
and Expense-Etc.

But few persons realize how great is
the profit derived from poultry, and in
order to give some idea of the importance
of the hen we will compare her with the
COW. A good COW is worth not less than
500, but she will seldom pays profit over
and above all expenses amounting to $50;
but we will be liberal with the COW and
credit her with 100 per cent. profit. This
is allowed after charging her with her
feed, her quarters and the labor neces-
sary for her care. She requires about
three acres of ground, the profit being
1867 per acre. The hen is valued at rs
cents, and estimating that she lays nine
dozen eggs year, at 10 cents dozen on
an average, she returns $1.35. As it may
cost 81 to pay for her feed and quarters,
she gives profit OF only So cents, or
fraction over 46 per cent, which is really
large sum compared with the invest
ment. But she does more. She can
cover over a dozen eggs; and if we grant
that she raises only six chicks, which
will cost cents per pound until they
are two pounds in weight and sell for
only 10 cents pound, the profit on each
chick will be 20 cents, or $l.20 for the
six. This, added to the So cents from
eggs, makes Il. 30 profit from the hen, or
the COW the benefit of the high esti-
mates, and have estimated low for the
| hen in order to be within safe limits;
and, although we place her at p disad-
vantage, yet she returns twice as much
profit in proportion to capital invested
as the COW.
But stop; we have not charged labor
to the hen. Well, one hen requires prac-
tically but little expensive labor, but it
is almost as easy to care for dozen as
for one. A hundred hens can be kept on
an acre of ground; and if we deduct
from the $1.55 the sum of 55 cents for
labor, ETC., we still have 81 profit, or over
13O per cent. profit on capital invested
in the hens, or 800 profit from an acre
of ground in poultry to 1867 for an
acre devoted to the COW. Fifty hens will
pay as much profit as a COW, and with
less labor and expense, while much of
the labor may be done by those members
OF the family who could not be useful in
the management OF COWS. Thus, while
allowing only 81 year from hen, con-
sidering the small space required and the
quick returns from the chicks and eggs,
she gives large profit in proportion to
capital invested.-Poultry Keeper.
TO RELIEVE CoLIC.
Slight touches OF collie may be quickly
relieved by giving the horse table
spoonful OF salaratus or baking powder
in glass of water. If it does not Weld
to this, ten to fifteen drops of aconite
may be administered. 1t is easy to make
most horses drink by holding their heads
high and forcing the neck OF thick glass
bottle containing the liquid into the side
OF the mouth. After the liquid has all
left the bottle the head must be still
kept up for few minutes to compel the
patient to swallow it and not lose it from
his mouth.
SHORT NOTES.
The best rule is to replace a COW that
shows much lessening in yield by young
one.
1t is much the best policy to grow the
COWS needed to replace those getting old
for profit.
| We should feed home-g grown COWS with
homegrown feed, and both should be of
the best quality.
| While some cows yield well at fourteen
years OF age, Others will not pay to keep
when ten years old.
There is no reason why the roosts
should be high if the fowls are protected.
1t Injuries heavy fowls to fly down from
high roosts.
Ii your hens have sore feet, what is
known as humble foot, one of the first
things to do is to lower the roosts, thus
removing the cause.
1t is said that over 100000 eggs are
used annually in this country by three
factories which make the albumen paper
used in photography.
Poultry-keeping is a most excellent
adjunct to the dairy. Skim milk and a
good grass range are two of the best fac
tors toward making poultry profitable.
The Poultry Keeper saws: When a
hens comb becomes frosted she will not
lay until it heals. Rub a few drops of
I glyeerine in TIE comb and water two or
three times day.
For any one who is in the poultry busi-
ness as business the advantages of ar
titiclal incubation are plain. But for
tne farmer who keeps an ordinary flock
we do not believe they will often prove
profitable.
Get the crop OF chickens started early.
Late-hatched pullets are scarcely worth
their cost. They will not make winter
layers, and when they do get to work in
the spring eggs are so cheap that they
VIII not pay current expenses.
The milk business gives an opportunity
to keep up the fertility of the soil. Your
bran bill is merely renewing OF your
deposit OF fertility in your soil, which is
being drawn upon and being sold in
milk. The bran is usually worth its cost
in manure, and your extra milk from
feeding it is almost clear profit.
To keep tools from rusting take half
an ounce OF camphor; dissolve in one
pound melted lard; take off the scum,
and mix in as much fine black lead
ygraphite) as will give IL an iron color.
Clean the tools, and smear with this
mixture. After twenty-four hours rub
clean with soft linen cloth. The tools
VIII keep clean for months under ordi-
nary circumstances.
We have seen many statements of
large yields which we have considered
improbable, but never one that was i'm
possible. When we figure the number
oil square feet in an acre and what each
one OF these is capable of producing il
hlghly cultivated, we reach a total be-
side which our so-called large Yields are
a mere bagatelle. The fact is that not
many OF us understand the capacity of
an acre OF ground.