The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-09-01
4 COMMON TROUBLE.
Poor Matches In the EARLY Part OF
the Year Cause DificulWtes.

A correspondent IN C0nMectlcu
writes US a letter asking question
which will be asked by good naan,
this summer and fall, and 1t is a quAs
ton not easy to answer. He is ju4
starting In the poultry business iIb
tending to make broilers and eggs, I'D
market his chief reliance, and says:
Owing to my starting SO late l wal
not able to get out the number d
chicks needed, and owing to the vert
poor place had to run my incubator4
and very poor eggs, | had bad hatcheA
and the chicks would not live, SO thas
now have only about 400 chicks OF
my farm when l wanted 1900, or al
least 1000. Please tell me what 1t II
best for me to do. Shall l keep OF
Matching, or shall buy year old hena
or pullets In order to fill my house?
would need about 200, but do MOI
feel as If could stand the expense'
Still, IL / bought them now, l would
have something coming in, and 1t is
outgo at present. l have got to havH
an income this winter from my poultry
IL 4 DOuSht SOO w AlLC w ydAQOLJC Pu#
let's or yearling hens from breeder
what would be the cheapest could e.
pect to get them for? l only war
them for eggs for market"
There are many In the same unfortls
nate condition, and just how to me-
the difficulty is a puzzling problen3
If he buys yearling hens that are 4
good condition. he should have faz
income from eggs for three or foS
months; but then he has got to carr
them through the mott, with only
few eggs to pay for the food. True,
he fed high, being liberal with I'll
meat meal, he would carry the
through the mott promptly and hav
greater number of eggs during til
period; but there would be the dang|
Of throwing them out of condition
too high feeding, congesting the bowe
and overstimulating the liver, inducil
disease. Then, too, in buying year d
hens there Is danger of getting a go&
deal that one does not pay for a
does not want There has been mu
sickness in the flocks this past whit
and spring, and poultrymaD who
we visited the other day still has RI
Ting birds In the fiocks that he is p
posing to sell as year olds. Probal
there are seeds of roup in such bir
and our friend runs the risk of buyi
what he does not want in that dir
ton. He would most certainly b
lice in any year old birds, and the
would be new difficulty to be M
but firmness in applying the remed
would get over that trouble, and If
rigidly prevented the broughten bir|
coming in contact with his own chic
ems he would avoid contamination.
Undoubtedly he could buy year
hens much cheaper than pullets, pre-
ably at about half the price, but wor
1t be cheapest in the end? Concedi
that the eggs for Matching which
would get from the year old he
would be larger and hatch larger a
better chicks, although fewer Of the
would he be better off to put the mon
into year old hens and carry tho
through the mott, or buy early hate
ed and well matured pullets in Octob
with the practical certainty of getti
good egg yield through the period
high prices? We would incline to
latter If there was a probability ~
getting the early Matched and well n
tured pullets, but here again is anotl
difficulty. The chicken crop is LID
hofnhnc hnnn
where, and the early Matched and v
matured pullets are not so abundant
some years. This undoubtedly met
that those having them wiH-w;
higher prices for them, and rightly,
because they are worth dollars cit
to keep or to SELL
Our friend asks about buy
cheapest" and there Is a rock
which many bark has been s
wrecked. The cheapest are very
from being the best, and 1t Is gene
ly the case that the best are the che
est in the end. We know the story
the wrecking Of ex-Vice Presi
Morton's plant, and the writer il
the opinion that a disposition to
Cheap" was at the bottom of that
ure. The superintendent set low
ure at which he would buy his bi
and he got cheap birds, sand got
them great deal that he did not W
The first stock was found afte]
time to be hopelessly diseased, and
birds were killed and cremated.
other stock was bought, the supe3
tendent going into the New York 4
ket and buying the best he could
there, the result being that he got
other poor lot, the outcome of it all
ing that the poultry department
continually running behind and NJ
finally shut up.
We hope our Connecticut friend
not make any such mistake. NTher
such a thing as buying too cheap,
we urge him to buy of reputable .ssc0
ers who will ''stand behind" the bird
they sell and who will see to 1t tina
the birds they send out arc good, ar
sound in constitution and reasonabl,
sure to do good service next winter
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