The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1900-07-19
FACTS FOR FARMERS.
Helpful Suggestions For the
Agriculturist.
HINTS THAT ARE INTERESTING.
Some Good Advice for the Ruralists-
Budget of knowledge That May
Prove Benefciai.


Sit down and figure it out, and il
your fowls pay you best, breed more
fowls, and breed the best--the fowl
that is in demand. The feeding oi
cattle for milk for market is OF no
greater importance than the feeding OF
fowls Tor eggs for market. II cattle
are continually fed, large fat-pro-
ducing ration, you are gaining fat at
the expense OF milk. Suppose such
case. Some cows grow fat quickly and
give little milk. Would you continue
feeding the iattening food in the hope
that it would eventually produce more
milk No. Nou would market the
COW when in the best OF condition.
What do you do with your fowls
/ Throw down corn, more corn and more
corn, and kick. if they do not lay con-
tinually. Please use your common
sense; hens get fat as do cows; they
give fewer eggs when in that condition
and further feeding is done at n loss.
DO you feed for mike Yes. Do you
for eggs No. Isn't it time yon did2
How about the breed OF that horse
lie looks fast.
Yes, sir, he is fast. He can beat any
ordinary road horse in the district.
How is he in the plow2 No good.
he's too light; wasn't built for it,
How about that heavily-bnilt fellow
in the field2 All, now he's all right.
What Do you keep two styles Of
horses one for the road, one for the
pillow, and Why, sure we do.
Is that so. and do you keep more
than one kind of fowl, say one for lay
ing eggs, one for market and one for
general purposes? Why, no.
And why not? Do you not know
that as horses are bred for speed, 50
are fowls bred for egg production, and
that while You may get horse that II
/ slow, he cannot get out OF his own way,
so you may get fowl that will not
lay enough eggs in year TO supply
the family breakfast on Easter Sunday
Farmers have great need for better
and more fowls. Not the fowls that
cost $40 to $50 EACH but such as will
improve the stock on the farm -
rooster that will cost & and will nearly
double the size of next years stock,
layers and will increase the egg pro-
duction on the farm in the same
period. They cost no more to feed,
and they look better; they market bet
ter, they lay quicker and oftener. A
81 cock or cockerel will do it quickly,
but 81 setting OF eggs will do it
better. II is not too late To buy eggs.
Get them now, and you will have
good breeding pen ready for next
spring.
Increase the stock OF fowls on the
farm. The grain your fowls eat Is not
missed, but the dollars and cents the
wife gets for eggs and poultry would be
missed. We do not advocate feeding
fowls and keeping no account of the
grain fed Even if it is not missed,
you should keep an account. Do some
figuring, il you would prove for your
self that poultry pays, then il II does
land it does,) increase your stock
fowls. You did it once and bad lot
die and received fewer eggs than when
you kept few. just so, and ii your
horses and cattle were piled one on top
OF the other with no room TO move
around and were covered with lice,
and the stable cleaned only once "A
year, they'd die, too. Now, II fifty
fowls bring you in $50 profit in year.
it stands TO reason that 800 fowls
would bring you in $500 profit in IA
year il kept under identical conditions.
All there's the rub--identieal condi-
tions - proportionate attention, equal
comfort. no more crowding, equal fioor
space and range. Increase your stock
OF fowls. 1t will pay.-The Poultry
Keeper.