The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-26

Poultry as a Source of Income On the Farm.
 | It is no rare thing to come across | a press notice about the number or crates of eggs or of poultry that have
 been shipped from some small station in Alabama during a single month While the total amount of these pro | ducts sold from any one farm may seem small, the aggregate for the whole State Is large. for the reason I that poultry are so universally kept around almost every home in the coun- 1 try, village or town. Large as IS the present poultry production of Alabama, there is opportunity for considerable | incerase in the amount and character of these products. The demand Is not confined to the local market. but great cities of the North afford an outlet for any surplus.
 As Illustrating one of the means of 1 increasing the value of our poultry products, may be cited the recent ex- periments at the Maine. the Utah, and other experiment stations maintaining l poultry departments, where. by select | ing the eggs from the most prolific l layers, bullets have been secured which averaged more than two hundred eggs per year. or nearly double the produc- ! tion of the average nen of tlie safne
 breed. This indicates the necessity Of paying more attention to problems Id | poultry breeding, just as scientific ag- riculturists have everywhere in the last few years devoted increased and enthusiastic attention to the breeding of animals, of corn, of cotton, and of other staple crops.
 A line of improvement practicable is
 to infuse a larger proportion of thor oughbred blood into the flock, making
 sure that at least the cocks are thor oughbreds of some standard breed. Of course it would be better if the hens likewise were purebred. or at least grades
 Increased care should be taken to make annual changes of the cock, in flocks where bullets are added to the
 breeding each year. for we have every reason to believe that the i'll effect of inbreeding Is as disastrous with poul- | try as 1t has been demonstrated to be with cattle or sheep or corn. Those whose flocks are of considerable size | could frequently add to the sum re~ ceived for eggs and poultry by making a study of the best methods of mar keting and packing these articles. A
 most helpful and suggestive pamphlet
 conveying this information Is one re- gently issued by the Connecticut Ex- pertinent Station, Storrs, Conn. Some of the results of experience recorded in this bulletin are here abstracted.
 The market price or eggs in New York. Boston and other large cities
 rises rapidly from August. becoming
 quite high in November and still high
 CT in January. dropping abruptly the latter part of February. March Is inc
 variably a month of very low prices. while the other months of spring and
 summer are but little better. These
 months now beginning represent the | time when eggs are purchased for cold storage or for preservation in the lime and salt solution. in water glass solu-
 tion, or otherwise.
 It is stated that the fancy trade of different cities has it's pecuIiarities,
 even in the color of eggs, New York preferirng. those with white shells, l such as those laid by White Leghorns,
 while the New England markets pre-
 fer brown shelled eggs, such as the | Barred Plymouth Rock affords.
 It is recommended that eggs for
 fancy trade be not washed but merely
 wiped with damp cloth. notewor- | thy statement is made that in the large city markets. the best prices prevail for l live poultry at the time of the Jewish
 holidays, the dates of which vary from year to year and information about
 which may be obtained from commits
 sion merchants. Dressed poultry sell
 better when picked dry and not scald-
 ed. Fowls intended to be killed should
 be kept without food until the crop
 is entirely emptied, but should be fre-
 quently supplied with water Fowl
 that have not been drawn are preferred
 to birds from which the intestines have
 been drawn, the incision admitting
 germs of Fermentation.