Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1903-07-16
How Get Winter Eggs.

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How / Get Winter Eggs.
From Farmers Review Our eN
perience in getting winter eggs has
only been with Bluffs and Barred
Rocks. The first thing is to have
pure-bred stock, as no definite result
can be expected from miscellaneous
crosses. For Barred Rocks the chicks
should be Matched the last two weeks
Of March, or the first half of April,
but the Buff Rocks may be Matched as
late as the middle of May. Then care
should be taken to keep them grow
ing from the time they leave the shell.
Above all, keep them free from lice.
When the time arrives for placing
the stock in winterquarters, Gull out
all the drones, and those inclined to
take on fat too readily, for lazy hen
like a lazy poultryman Is not sue
cess. Do not crowd the stock. Fiji
teen to twenty hens are enough in
one pen. See that the house is warm.
Keep the floor covered about six inch.
es deep with straw or some other lit
ter. This should be renewed about
once a week or often enough to keep
the house clearly For our morning
feed we use the Andrews prepared
food, made by a company at Ma
con, H. The foundation of this feed
is ground oats and corn, with some
secret ingredients. This is a great
egg producer. We mix this feed with
milk, boiled vegetables, meat scraps,
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give what will be eaten up in fifteen
to twenty minutes. We then scatter
wheat in the litter, just enough to
keep them busy till supper time. We
then give them good feed of corn.
In real, cold weather this should be
warmed Give plenty of milk and
fresh water, For an appetizer feed
any kind of vegetables. Last but
not least, do not forget the grit and
the busting place.-A. A. Anderson,
Macon County, III.
Feeding Young and Old Hens.
On the ordinary farm it is not con.
venient to separate the hens into two
! floeks of old and young. and the
/ farmer will find it necessary to feed
some general purpose ration. This
| should consist of not too large a
quantity of carbohydrates. combined
with considerable quantity of pro
TEN. But the farmer that keeps sew
eral hundred hens can well afford to
separate his flock into two yards Of
old and young The young and grow
ing birds can use great deal of corn
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they also burn up in their lungs more
fat than will older birds. There is
little danger Of getting them too fat
the first winter, especially If they
have an opportunity to exercise by
scratching The old hens must be
fed more carefully, and care be taken
to restrict their ration of corn. We
have seen many a flock of hens rem.
dered Improbable in winter by a toe
heavy feeding of corn. 1t must be
understood that the feeding of any
ration excessively rich in carbohy
drates would have the same result
but there are few rations on the farm
so rich in Carbohydrates as corn an6
there Is little likelihood that these
rations would be fed. For both ole
and young hens a feed of soft foot
daily in winter is very good; it will
keep their digestive organs in gooC
condition and lessen the losses from
indigestion in the spring.
The Egg and Poultry Trade OF 1902
Since April when storage eggs sol;
as low as 14h cents per dozen. price
have been good and we'll sustained
Sixteen cents was freely paid in Ma,
and the early part of June The
there was a drop of half a cent, bu
later a revival and steady advanc
until now, at the close of the year
fresh eggs are bringing 26 cents an
storage eggs 1914 cents. Fewer egg
have been placed in cold storage thaI
in 1901.
The feature of the poultry seaso
has been the scarcity of fowls an
high prices realized, in some cases a
most double those of 1901 A col
vet summer interfered with the real
ing of young turkeys and not NOR
D than 60 per cent of the usual GRO
y was grown. At the close of the yea
dressed turkeys at wholesale wer
bringing 17h to is cents. against
to 10 cents in 1901, and dressed chicl
I ems 10 to II cents, against 7IA to
t cent one year ago. Tire holiday trad
: made such heavy drafts on countr
: reserves that light supplies are al
ticipated, for the balance of the viii
ter.