The Rich Hill tribune. (Rich Hill, Mo.) 1903-1911, 1906-07-19
TINE 70 USE TIE RATCHET
Necessity Of Calling Out the Old ana
Unproatabls r-embsrn q
E0eL

n Is abort the ume o. the rear
when TIE hatchet should b. doing.
business IN tie poultry gaFd A great
many hens saoaid ngw b. golng 70.
market Sooner % later they must
90 % market or BE- buried under the.
sod. and better sooner before thsir.
owner has lOa On t6eir keep al the.
profit they made bin in ths first tao.
years q their aCt The y0ung stock.
Is coming On nov and fhey uiu need.
the room and the care that ne old.
hens are taking
There can be no question nov thst
the value % the hen deerezsa with
age. That has been pretty thoroughly
settled by experiments made a. the
Utah station bY james DTyden One
paragraph o. his reports reads IS fol
lows.
Our experiments 60 previous ysz1
on the most profitable age o. the ben
showed average pen results a. fol
lows for Legborn hens. FIRST year.
average per hen. 16f eggs Second
year 1zs eggs These wers pen av-
O. 1877 ~ va ANaAA aN AE-NAaA ALE.~
nest records Of indivi6ual bens. thar
IN a few cases individual hens laid
more eggs the second year than the
first This was no doubt due % the
conditions for good ~eEz-yieid being
better the second than the frst year.
To quote again from the report
Averaging the results Of all indi-
/. wfannun hr~u To- wEH-h 80 Earn 800
years records, we have the following:
Thirteen Brown Leghorns laid an aT-
erage Of 1873 eggs the first year per
hen and Isl the second. four White
Leghorns averaged is3 the first year
and s. the second Eve Barred
Plymouth Rocks averaged l54 eggs
the first year and 40 the second; six
teen White Wyandottes averaged lie
the first year and III Tire ssoond-
three White Plymouth Rocks averaged
1872 the first year and l2e the second
There were 81 hens Of the diEer-
ent breeds for which records are CON
pIete for Two years. and we md that
they averaged i eggs per fowl the
first year and I25 the second. CT e
per cent more the first year than
the second"
It is explained that this IS not a
breed test and no conclusion should
be drawn from these records rs re-
CARDS laying merits OF the dITeren,
breeds. These records covered the
laying year. The following paragraph
o. the report is Of interest as show
ing whether the hens or the pgllets
are the better winter layers. T. Is
possible that the poorer layer by lay
ing mnre egE IN winter Is the more
profitable. but the experiments did
O bear cut this --.z.gasioa
The Al Individual hens whose rec.
orls are given laid s16 eggs as pal.
lets before February J. and as year.
old hens they laid only f57 70 th'
samN date. This would show that ~
puIlets not only lay more eggs durin.
the last year than the hens. but they
lay a larger proportion Of them n
winter than the hens
These records, comments the Obi,
Farmer. show a remarkable fallinl
on in the second years laying. Othei
tests made showed thAt the faIliu.
CT IN the third and fourth years wa
even greater than IN the second year
The results on the whole showed tina.
there may be q profit Ia keeping hen.
two years. but after that there wa.
almost a certain loss in keeping them
Il Is no use in farmers saying Their
IS no money In hens 50 long as thel
do not know how 20 use the hatche
properly iu the poultry yard.