The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-04-18
POULTRY EXPERIMENTS.
SeasOnable Suggestions and Notes
About Leghorns and Plymouth
Rocks.

SeaSOnaDle Suggestions dHu MUGS
About Leghorns and Plymouth
Rocks.
Haven't you noticed that hens don't
like to stay in their roosting places
during the day? I have, and don't
blame 'em, says Fannie Field III farm
Poultry. l should not like to stay
cooped up in bedroom all day. l am
inclined to think that the chief reason
WHY so many late molting hens either
keel up and die or else lnger along and
oct their new suit on so slowly that
thew are not good as layers until we'll
on toward spring is because they have
no sheltered loafing place. For
| week past I have been watching 1ew
old LeohOru hens that are so nearly
naked they are not fit to appear before
folks. and although l don't particularly
admire the Leghorns as tribe must
say that | respect these Leghorns Tor
the good they have done and for the
good sense they now display. They
kept right on laying while their old
feathers were dropping off, but now
that their old suits are gone to almost
the last feather and they have only the
newest of pinfeathers to cover their
hides they have quit laying and appear
ing in company and spend their waking
hours under that shed, which is open
only to the South. They loaf, but
they do not droop. Their eyes are
brioht. and barring their lack of cover
ing they look we'll. And how they eat!
1t always seemed TO me that Leg
horn could hold more food in propor-
ton to her size than anything else on
earth except hearty, growing boy,
but these Leghorns out do all the
eastronomic feats of all the other Leg
horns that l ever had any acquaintance
with. But they put their food to gooo
use, for 1 can fairly see the new feathers
grow.
Now. know that some who read
this will laugh at the idea of my own
ing Leshorn and say: "Ah, ha! 1
thought you would come around TO a
liking of the great egg producers, II
YOU would only get rid of your predlu-
dices and give them fair trial." Not
, quite so fast. 1 didn't buy these
Leehorns and don't like them over and
above we'll. They ''fell'' to me along
with much run down farm, and as
thew were laying concluded to keep
them while they paid. Now l am 60
inc to keep them still longer to expert
ment with. In dollars and cents many
of the experiments that l propose &c
f make not only with Leghorns, ou'
t with other breeds and with fowls OF nc
e breed. with foods, houses, brooders
ETC.. will not pay me, but they vii
he of benefit to other poultry ralsers
, who may not have either time OF
money to conduct experiments them
selves. Much of the ground L have
cone over before and have gwen th'
results to the poultry world, but tht
h work was conducted under other ant
v more favorable conditions. Now,
e recognize the fact that poultry experl
. meuts to be of practical benefit to tar
;, mers and farmers wives and daugh
ters who are trying to find out how T.
- make the farm hens pay must be con
II ducted under something like the condl
l. tions that prevail on the majority 9
's farms. j.,
| There are not many who have tn
IT time or opportunity to do this, but t
W me has come the chance, and l sha
IS do nv level best to make the most
ID it, and if the people who may profit .
10 the work that l shall do IN this line q
~. not rise up and call me blessed the
- will be an ungratetul set.
g But to get back to the breeds W
$, have some of our old favor'tes-th
IS Barred Plymouth Rocks-that are
e. old as the Leghorus already mentioned
ID and they. too, are molting, but non
of them get so nearly naked as th
4 Lechorus and most of them are layin:
- They don't drop their feathers all
y, once. but a few at time, aud the ne
- ones come in the same way. SO l dou
H. much if they really know that anythln
ru unusual is going on. They snow
sc though, for the new feathers, 50 dal
-e, and glossy, scattered around amor
no the faded and dull old ones, give the
er plumage the appearance of a pat
s;- work quilt. We have but one OF II
Rocks that is really ragged, and IN
our experience with Rocks we ha
III seen but few that were very ragged
moltiug time, and they seemed
lsh mind molting much less than Leghorr
be
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