The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1906-12-14
TIME TO MARKET

Like November, December is one OF. 1
the best months for the sale Of poul.
try, but farmers should be in no hurry
to market their fowls. There Is little
demand for turkeys and chickens I'M
mendiately after Thanksgiving and
prices are always low They will rise
again just before Christmas and that
is the time to dispose Of your surplus
fowls. Big birds of all kinds always
find a ready sale during the holiday
season There will probably be a
yreater demand for chickens, geese
and ducks than for turkeys, because
nearly everybody who ate turkey on
Thanksgiving will desire change for
1.-The Christmas diner. Hens that weigh
from six to seven pounds sell readily
and turkeys that tip the scales at 10
to IS pounds will command the top
prices. But they must all be fat 1t
is impossible to get fowls too fat for
market. Those birds that were not
in condition to sell before Thanks
giving can easily be fattened between
now and the middle of December. This
Is practically the last chance to get
rid of surplus stock at profitable pri-
ces. If you decide to keep flock OF
feeders, it would be a good plan TO IN
form several buyers of that fact, eitn-
er by postal card or otherwise, SO that
: when a demand does come you can
market them at good price. The
object at this season is to reduce the
iocks to a profitable basis, as 1t does
not nav to winter useless birds. This
is also the best time of the year for
beginners in the poultry business to
buy their stock. When everybody is
culling his fiocks, birds can be bough'
cheaper and there is larger variety
r. choose from than in the spring. =.
II II is considered advisable to keer
a surplus stock of poultry until spring
such fowls should by all means DC
" kept in separate quarters from the
others. The pullets and hens that are
10 do the winter laying need houses
in which they will have. plenty OF room
|, and shelter from the cold and storms
ICrowded quarters are not conducive
to egg production, and fiocks OF IRON
y tx 70 40 fowls will give better results
according to their number, than lar
? ger focks will. When the HOOKS ar
: divided ass uggested, new males ma!
!, be purchased and brought on TO TN
" premises without endangering thei
lives. In most faciers' yards, Tn
males and females are penned In SCI
arate yards for the greater part OF Tn
year. 1t is not always convenient =
Do this on farms where the fowls hav
y free range. Some farmers pos
N none buying new ctock until sprin
W because there will then be more ROOF
W IN the poultry house. Others ar
* afraid they will lose their new fowl
Mlif purchased during the winter. Whil
~ this may be true to certain exten
" If all che fowls are properly cared 70
e the new birds are no more likely
IS die than the other fowls. But
VI things considered, or which price
u probably the most important, fall ar
q winter purchases OF fowls are prefe
y able TO spring buying. Pullets, in pa
\ ticn,ar can be purchased to the be
Y advantage now. December is go'
W month for farmers and other ponlt
~ raisers to figure up their profits Z
81 the year.-woman's Magazine.
" n YOU haven't done so before, Y
~ teening a record OF your poultry 81
\ mess next year, You Will fAa it
n one of the most profitable Eources
" income you have The department
" Agriculture says the total value
81 all. poultry products in the Unit
N States last year wax over $500, 5000
W1 How, much of thar did you rail-
M Keeping books Is just as essential
tNS poultry raising as In any other 81
W ness, and the farmer who. knows,
~ actly what It costs him and how S'a'
1 81 profit he realizes is the one ~hc
--W ooing IN Hncceed.