Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-02-21
OUR POULTRY DEPARTMENT.


We have the siZs. All pfscucai mhI"el
poullry growers conccde that Plymouth
Rock anu Leshorn cross give the
quickest growing c1ckorols aud the
beet LAYING Of pullets. Our market
toutslde Of spring ohictcul requires
fowl. OF 5to months old weighing 3
t,5pounds dressed. There are other
breeds that can be crossed with good
results, but not a. probably. Our
market demands that oil POULTRY
dressed shall be minus head aui lega,
hence they must be raled with the
smallest amount Of DIAL possible, aud
the cfos, recommend will give you
that Those pulluls u fci right Will be-
prolific layers and good e.zed birds
birds to sell In almos. % mluins from
the time they are matched. This il The
routine for profits Hatch your chicks
out in April; mako, your cockerols in
June, July ami August have ytut
pulleis laying In Nuvomuuh ID fccmbgr'
January, February, Match aud Apfi'i
fatten your pulluis ior May sud early
June: kcep none Of tham over nilor ihr
fret year NJ they will NJ u1 time lhy
like thcy willthu ffst year " their live.
When YOU ith 90 intteu fogd q little
heavier, BY adding more shorts Or corn
mrai, which will stop ugg'prliuriipl
Ivhtn twelve ant haf cent pff
dtzHr1 and you will have line iut nld
young i1wis Tor sails when thr market
h practically bare, which Will mean
increase in price. THIS can all DO done
by Intelligent feeding and care. 10
this business, o. ~ all Othufs, 81 you uJ
nothing, nothing VIII be the result
You SEQ by this cross that you Will
have to ptocirc thoioughtrei Brown
Lughofn rooster 10 put with that Ply
mouth Il ck stock; snd Try aui procure
one from an ugg.lAying htfain. WINE
1 recommend this cross DON'T you
make tue Laghntn your foundation, 10
you DO you Will hny, mail hons
aud when you tut ga Piym nth
cockefcl hu viii b. TOO heavy fuf them
AID will break down tho wings and
you will have crippled fowls, aus ia-
stead o their laying uggs, nAiuio Will
be Tying 10 replace short wlngs.
N you will read close you Will zee
that In case your st0us waa iisnt
colofed anu you wished g. Improve
them, 10 put n Wyandoito male with
them. l have noticed that where
tho fowls are Of HIGHT color
they run TO Leghorn, but the
selected would 10 OF course the lhfrrr
ones, aud the Wyandoih, telling larger
bird than tho plymouth Rock, would
bring your blris up 10 the standard
siEn the first year.
Now, this fail buy or raise your leg
horn r0oHtet-ufowu or white wni'n
ever way your color runs. D1n't put
white with your coiofni, or brown
with your white stock. II you do your
colofa will not be uniform. Keep
that young rooster from the other rex
till February let. Look wrli alter
those pulleis; aud II you have fed Tor
eggs, by February they will have
thrown Oh their ohiokouhood and ~.
Humed tho ways OF good.huilt he 10
and b. this time you will have become
acquainted with them aud will know
about twelve TO fifteen that arc
prolific layers. They hrc the birds 10
breed from. Put them Into their breed
lug quarters with that vigorous young
rooster and you viii have young
chicks that will make you Jump
around TO keep them fed, they
will grow 80 fnsl AMI Will
sign " thrift when every time Che
attendant comes IN sight 10 500 the
chickens run 10 sec 10 there IL any
thing around TO eat. Force aud crowd
them along for growth. IL viii DO
argued by H0me--ycs, but IN this cross
you Increase tho bizs OF tho comb aud
that Is a drawback IN hardness.
want 10 say right here, you had no
business b put fowls into quarters
whore their large combs would he a
delflmont ~ them by being frozen,
My mind Tovotls TO n pom Of seven
single comb brown LcghUtns that were
Matched out In May last aud began to
lay m November; they had exceeding.
ly large combs that foil over before
they began 90 lay, aud thcir combs
were not touched by the frost; but they
paid tho owners for the good care, TOT
they laid over an average Of 80 per
cent OF the total number each day.
THIS was done by work, wuTEl hut
you muft breed those combs down, aul
the thitd year OF your cross iu rejecting
your breeding birds, other things being
equal, select those with lowest combs,
not from hardy standpoint uarliUg.
lDfly, but ir8m uu oual one
you uhnuu, sell combs. But Keep the
egg Yield Ia view, 80 the o.sa from
suuh - grown fowl, iayins good for
ak months, should bo worth 90 tue
Toast SO but II would bu more; aud hur
dressed CaTCas 90 cents; % would cost 90
buy f0od) 10 keep, not 90 exceed %
oouta fOrtnOtu CoUkurvls-Wuulu uhy all
expunHeA up 90 layiHg maturity; but %
would not cost tue farmer thai muJh;
hO would not have 10 use such heavy
teams 10 carry HE eggs Hnd poultry %
market 90 he would 10 haul bus gtglu,
ami the manure rom his fowls would
be- worth uH much ~ guauJ b kept Iry
and pulyUr zud,
i often hear the remark, 1--WE have
tOmu fowls IN our dock ~ go1l HH any
thIrJughureds / have seeup uui .ley
should have, Tor Oltunlimus they have
enc 10 Two hundred tut only very
few laying. IL these few uF selected
each year anu bred as / have laid
down, it VIII be- only "a low yelr be-,
fore very near all OF them Will boo good
lnyUu; but you must select nuI glAl
clutt. The fact that parties hayI
hlU0uod fowls does not give them
layers, have seen thoroughbred
that were the vgriOat tcrub- gul Gu,
bsrnyafd hen was worth 100 Ie
cent more for practical purposes.
The Third year no the Hamu as b0ioT
sell tile CUCkurgls Auu that lpuNuU