The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-02-04
No. 81

more tender and nutritious are the
fowls.
SECOND EXPERIMENT.
We have concluded our experiments
on the native breeds at Bryson CITY.
We gave the native breeds the same
attention and condition accorded to
the others, and they failed to fatten.
We also fed sixty odd turkeys of the
bronze variety and signally failed to
tatten them. Why were the fret ex-
periments a success and the last fail
ure7 The chickens and turkeys fat
tened IN the winter of 1867 were fed
regular or had access to all the corn
they could eat and they did not roam
around and developed but little nerve
energy. The native breeds were not
fed and never compelled to forage over
a large territory every day to get food
and developed great nerve energy and
expended more nerve force in one day
than the wellfed breeds did in twenty.
The we'll fed fowls did not, when con-
fined, feel the loss of their liberty, and
with warm room and plenty of feed
were quiet, and the expenditure of
nerve force was reduced to a minimum.
The native breeds. compelled to roam
over a large field eech day, developed
immense nerv8 force and the combus-
tion of carbon to supply this was in
| creased to the maximum, and when
housed they felt the loss Of their liberty
ard the expenditure of nerve force con-
tinued, and with this the combustion
| of carbon to supply the nerve energy.
| We have demonstrated the fact that
fowls that are forced to grub for liv-
ing are worthless for fattening pur-
poses. It is folly to buy the improved
breeds and leave them to forage for a
living. When they have developed
sufficient nerve energy to do this they
are worthless fer fattening purposes.
It was the intention of the writer and
others 20 build houses for fattening at
central points in the South and fatten
for the Northern market buying by
the carload ard shipping in refrigera-
tor cases, reducing the carriage one
half to two thirds of that by express.
| Million Of dollars would have been an
nuaIly distributed among the farmers
The experiments made have demon
strated the folly Of such an undertak-
ing. Il is the heighth of business folly
to buy improved breeds and turn them
out to grub for g living, whether they
be fowls or animals. It pays TO have
the best breeds and give them warm
shelter and an abundance of good feed,
reducing combustion to the minimum,
saving feed wasted in keeping up in
ternal heat and suppling nerve force
A dollar saved is dollar made. Good
stock and good farming pays, while
poor stock and poor farming never has
nor never will pay. Good breeds Of
poultry well handled pays The i'm
proved breeds at 81 a dozen will pay
at a cent dozen. From February un-
til June first class poultry is high. Dur
ing this time the South should furnish
the poultry and eggs, and this she
should do because of her salubrious
climate
Fifty million dollars annually could
be put into the farmers pockets from
the sale of poultry and eggs if our
farmers would awaken to their in
terest. Any of the non settlers if we'll
handled, will net two dollars each for
their eggs, and connected with an incu-
bator, will double and treble this
amount. Eggs from the improved
breeds shipped every day will sell to
first class hotels for % cents dozen
the year around. The market for fresh
eggs in first class condition has never
been half supplied. We offer to con-
tract fresh eggs of the farmers from
the improved breeds that are well fed
at 90 cents dozen the year around to
hatch incubators, and % cents a dozen
for the eggs Of Pekin ducks, well hand
led. There is as much difference in the
quality of eggs from well.fed and
housed chickens and those left to forage
for living and receiving no shelter,
as that of the milk of COWS well kept
and those left to shift for themselves.
The quality of the first is twice that OF
the last. The first will live on one-half
the food and furnish three to four
times the net value to the owners.
Fowls fed on nitrogenous food and
well housed will not be subject to at
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