Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-03-02

little meat, you have given them a good
ration and your labors will soon be
crowned with their rewards in the shape
of plenty eggs. l also found that by
crowding the crop full of soft food ! had
weakened my fowls digestive organs.
Their gizzards were made to grind their
food and had been depriving them of
their Office thereby bringing on disease.
The fowls became fat and stupid and
occasionly one would tumble off the
perch in the night, dead. Pick such
fowl up, and you will be surprised. 1t
is fat and heavy and you wonder how
fowl like that could die. You look
carefully and you find too much fat and
torpid liver. On the other hand the
sprightly hen that makes the straw fly,
and is continually on the move is the
hen that lays the eggs. In other words
hungry hen is always healthy hen.
and who ever heard of sick chickens
laying eggs.
Some say if YOU crowd your hens and
make them lay all winter, they will not
do nearly so well the next summer.
Even if this was correct it would cut
no figure, because YOU want the eggs in
the season they are worth the most
money, and if hen should Jay SO many
eggs in a season that she would become
worthless, let her 90, il only takes Six
months ta raise another to take her
place.
Hatch your chicks early and keep
them growing and BY the middle Of
October hey will be contributing their
share toward filling your egg basket
and if they are properly fed and housed
they will keep it right up until the next
fall, when they begin to moult. At
this season at the year, il you have
raised a goodly number OF nice pullets,
it is great deal better to let the year
ling hens 90 TO market while they are
yet in far flesh and plumage. II they
were good hens they have layed $50
eggs each, Is dozen, 20 cts per dozen
50 90, Sl.00 off for her feed and it
leaves YOU $500 profit on each hen for
eggs alone. OF course the profit will
be greater if you use part of the eggs
for Matching purposes but then you
have more trouble and mole expense
feeding the chicks, housing them nights
and looking after them generally.
If you have made your selection OF
breeds and your object in view is eggs
alone, you have probably chosen one of
the Leghorn or Hamburg varieties. If
on the other hand you have made up
your mind to breed for eggs, and fowls
to sell, you will be obliged to choose
some ono OF the larger breeds. My |
choice to ill this bill is the Hudsn. AS
said before, any of them will please |
you if you have fancy for that partic-
ular variety.
Now as regards profits compared with |
other pursuits, notice Labor Commits
siOner Hall has issued an official map
of Missouri showing the commodities |
marketed by mail, river and express
during tho year 1891. from which / |
learn that the amount received from |
the sale Of poultry s4,s04, 9l6 and from
eggs alone l.409. 048, making total
from these two products of 81, 213. 1854. |
learn from the California poultry
keeper. thai Belgium little country
with mn eTea about half as much as
Grant County, exported %. 600. 900 doz.
Of eggs in 1891, worth nearly as much
NJ the combined orange crops OF Cali
Iornia and Florida for the same year.
also learn that the convention of |
he butter. cheese and egg association
1t Chicago. had before 1t reliable Stats |
.icAl records from which the fact WAS
gathered hat the value of the egg pro-
iuct of the United States last year
reached 5000. 0O0. 600 and the value of
poultry about 500. 600. 900 grand to-
sl OF $500, 100000 value in single
year. and yet there are plenty OF people
who think the chicken and egg business
mighty small for person to engage
in.