The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-04-10

(The above is certainly a very creditable
showing for flock of forty hens.-Ed)
COCHINS AND EGGS.
We take the Poultry Keeper, read it re-
gu.arly, and have gained a great deal OF
information from it. We often hear the
Cochin breed run down. We can speak,from
experience, about them. Ours consists OF
two hens and one cockerel, which we pur-
chased at the Montreal show last February,
which We're prize winners. We have kept
different breeds of poultry for the last
twenty years, and have never found any
as profitable as the Partridge Cochin. One
hen laid eighty-three eggs and then showed
a desire to sit. In June we set her with
thirteen eggs. We also set a hen the day
before with some of her eggs. The Cochin
Matched thirteen chicks, and the other hen
came with twelve. We gave them all to
the Cochin, and she reared twenty-five
chicks, without loss of single one When
the chicks were six weeks old she com
menced to lay again, and laid th1rty-four
eggs. We set hen with her eggs; TWO
DAYS after she began to cluck and we set
her with ten eggs-which were all we had.
She Matched ten chicks and the other
Matched ten. We gave the twenty chicks
to the Cochin, late in October, and she
raised every one of them She has never
been known to step on chicken, and has
been laying five weeks, and attending to
her family, which consists Of twelve fine
bullets and eight cockerels. What would
YOU advice me to do If she wished to sit
again, as the weather is very severe now.
They are fed with the other fowls, Wh1cn
consist of Plymouth Rocks. The Plymouth
Rocks have done as well as the Cochins
The Cochins do not eat any more than
other breeds, and we have found them to
be very hardy, free from disease and bet
ter table fowl than the Plymouth Rocks.
We have now twenty-eight pullets.
our advice is to allow hen to sit-never
"break her up.'-Ed)
LIGHT BRAHMAS AS LAYERS.
have noticed several accounts Of large
Yields of eggs from different breeds, no
tably the Leghorns, but have never, to my
recollection, seen the Light Brahmas dis
tingush themselves in that particular
branch of their business. 1t appears to me,
therefore, all the greater pleasure to tell
YOUR many readers what that breed of birds
is able to do when placed under proper
conditions. In November, 1893, l bought
a rooster and 10 pullets from a dealer
About the middle of January, 1894, they
began to lay. I numbered every egg re-
ceived from them and kept a careful rec
ord of their doings throughout the year.
The grand total of eggs up to Jan. l,
1895, was 1853 In August 1894, one of them
was taken sick with timber neck, and
died early in September, so that, from
about the middle of August, there were
really only nine hens to contribute to the
egg record My original investment for the
birds was $50. l sold $40 worth of
settings, had an abundance of eggs for use
in my family, and raised 40 or 40 chick
ems. did not in any way fuss with the
birds or baby them. I gave them plen-
ty of wheat besides scraps from the ta-
bic and the kitchen, and whatever they
wanted beyond that they had to hustle
for In the summer time they were kept
in the coop so as not to Interfere with the
garden From what l have been able to
Sc 20 No. l. cole
BILE record for Light Brahmas and thought
your readers ought to have the benefit of
| the facts
A RATION FOR 200 HENS.
Despite the fact that in nearly every is
sue we have aimed to impress the point
that such a thing as a fixed ration is i'm
possible, we receive letters like the follow
ing:
u am a green beginner and come to you.
Please give a ration, by pounds, for 200
| hens. I have fed corn, wheat, shipstuff,
bran, bonemeal, oyster shells, and nice
clover hay, and the hens have full range to
| six acre field of blue grass, and l am not
| getting any eggs
In the above case it is not how much,
but how little to give. He has made his
| hens too fat. One pound of grain, or its
| equivalent, is the allowance per day for 1C
| hens, but that is in winter. In summer,
on range, they need nothing at all. One
|
| OF course, for 200 hens, 20 pounds should
| be given, seven pounds in the morning and
| Is pounds at night is the allowance. If a
| variety is given, then the grain must be
reduced proportionately:
| HOW MUCH FEED A DAY.
/ We have tried to show that it is impossi.
BILE to fix upon any quantity of food for q
| daily allowance. If we do not name q
! quantity, our readers get angry and say
tell us about how much So we decided
that quart day for IL hens is about
| correct-that is for some hens, and some
| times.
A. C. Butler, of Brooklyn, N. Y, tried
| quart day for II hens, and here is wha
| he writes:
II find that my hens will not eat a quar-
| of mixed food day, and I conclude tina
| may overfeed them if I give so much
My hens are cross-bred Leghorns and com
mon stock. I find that some days the.
eat more than at other times"
"a Nr Rutlax 6nda that they eat more