Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-01-14

Experience with This irrCucious and Prof
liable Breed.
havo ut this writing, says q Now
Jersey correspondent Of Farm Poultry
o pan Of 20 pullots, matched March e.,
laying Ave or fix eggs daily, first Gag
gathered Aug Do.
ThcsopuliCs havomadomril growth
Weighing now from q. to2l pounds 90
o months and o wock5 old. sold june
10, % broilcr (cockcrcll from this
hatch, weighing ~ 20 j % pounds. and
ton days lat1r closed out eight moro 90
~ pounds Thus many weighed / ll
pounds at II weeks Of age
These tirdswCro hatch.l In q Prairio
State incubator and raised in Mt
Rankiu's hroolor Meat meal nnd ShDr.
tdan's powder formed their chief slime
ulnting dict with usual grain food of
baked johnny cake, cracked corn. barley,
wheat and buckwholt feed us ] aw &C.
with q littlo cut green bono far relish
now and then. hud this brood ur.r0'
cious, having continually taken pains Co.
mato only largest and most vigorous
stock for breeding. and by constant
wntchfulnoss in this direction We may
IN umo roach the desired point of fair
weight great cgR production and tho
greatly priced DIN our maflUu whifl.
ness Of eggs Give us woll bred stock
Tor business and not for fancy purp0
Ny 100 hens hayo laid 1000 eggs Ia
nine months ending Sept /. and in 90.
tobor woro laying 20 20 30 eggs daily
Only ] s. out Of entire Dot hhyo noe cast
thoir feathers, many having finished tho
mott and laying again.
My hons weigh from three 90 four
pounds apiece tlnttor being weight Of "a
score or vol. and thrCo pounds, some %
littlo less aud above, for tho rest.
II farmers would only watch thCir
1ocks little and got 90 know them 30
aB 20 DO able 10 Fay, "Thoro. 200 that
honi Well, sho has laid right along since
last fall, never offered 20 Eit good size,
good eater, ETC., ho would nud % score
and ovor out of ovcry 100 como up or
nearly NO TO those poiIra Now put thCm
in pom by themselves, tako good caro-
OF thom, and whom breeding limo comes
no will know Just WHORE hois.
find Il Is unwiHc 10 kill on all year
old stock. for nearly 20 per cent Of Thorn,
n handled well, will lay very soon after
molting
II you eco hen in the midst Of tho
molt with nic0 rod comb and lively
gait good appetite, and cheerful sho b.
tho ono that with o little stimulnnt and
plenty Of heterogeneous food IN hCr ration
win hardly stop laying and will begin
inside Of thfco weeks 10 lay steadily.
On tho other hand, N you SEQ % hon
with comb very palo and ahriyclCd, dull
look, doesn't cat, stands around, etc,
even n sho has completed her mott, tho
market pen Is tho place for hor-nnd do
not think you will gut her laying soon,
because Il will not DO until January or
later boforo she picks up.
OF course OH breeds have some draw.
back and mono perfect, and 1 find this
one 30 My pullots began laying at %
littlo less than muntha but thOir
eggs arc small, Weighing only 0 ounces
20 tho dozen, whilo hens eggs woigh 20
ounces aud over.
anus g0u hNNt ~ ~ NNttNl nov 10 lNiNN
your pulloti to laying undor @ month.
or so, as such small eggs arc not mar.
kotablo. Lot Us hear from some II our
Loghorn breeders what they think Of
changing pullOta from pom 20 pen until
q or months old think this will
check their laying until eggs arc bcttcr
size. Or Is IL best 20 start thcm carly
and dispose Of eggs at low price until
they become matkotnbl0g