Rocky Ford enterprise., 1908-12-04
Points About Poultry

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Following are some interesting extracts
from addresses delivered at the recent
meeting Of the Arkansas Valley Poultry
Association. upon the "Proper Feed and
Management Of Poultry"
BYP.K. BLINN.
1t is hard to make a poultry man out OF
an alfalfa Drank, yet believe poultry
raising is a good business. if properly
conducted. Poultry.n order to to do well.
should have plenty of exercise: Use the
scratching shed and have plenty of good
clean straw. in which is scattered the
grain. Make them work for their feed.
remember some years ago Of going to
q neighbors who had nice flock Of hens
and he kept them in a plum thieket.
On the ground to the depth of foot or
more was scattered some unthreshed
grain. and hens were busy all day
scratching in the straw for their feed.
He was getting good number Of eggs.
Some people think that if they feed
corn they will not get any eggs. One of
my nsighbors who was feeding cattle and
was killing them for the butchers had a
few hens running in the feed yard. all
they got was corn and the refuse from
the slaughter house and he was getting
eggs every day.
The number Of eggs secured from hens
depends largely on strains. that Is, they
havo been bred up for egg production.
The Maine experiment station expert
mentsd with = flock Of hens with the
trap nest. They found hens in
the flock that did not lay an egg. others
that only layed a few and some were
laying from rs to 80 per year. BY keep
ing the eggs from the best layers and
Matching chicks from them and then sell
eeting the best layers from these and so
on for = period Of years they have hens
that are now laying from $50 70 200
eggs per year.
BY CHESTER JOHNSON.
J.SiHexs have been interested In poul-
have taken . number o, poultry journals
from year to year. sometimes have taken
~ high as ten journals. know just how
much feed Il takes to keep a hen and
have also sxpsrimsntsd with the trap
nests. find that in the first place the
housing has great deal to do with the
keeping Of poultry. have found that the
open front 10 the best. IL you have not an
open front take the doors of. give them
plenty Of fresh air. have Just built al 30
foot house with large opsninRs in front
and expect TO use only curtains in the
most severe weather.
Does Poultry Pay9
BY MRS. G. |. MILLER
have not had 50 much experience As
would like TO have. for when | was at
home my mother took care Of the poultry
and after was married my mothsr-in-
law looked after the poultry. but last win
ter decided 70 take part in the poul-
try business, 50 I persuaded my husband
to buy an incubator and we bought some
eggs from Mr.. Frantz and We had very
good hatch and succeeded raising
large per cent Of them. This fall ] had
the pullets laying few eggs but I took
trip back east and left the poultry in care
Of the hired girl. but guess did not tell
her everything. for when ! came home
they were not laying. I was somewhat
discouraged but went TO work TO feed
ing again. l feed the first thing in the
morning before they get of the roost. y
gallon Of laying feed for my l6o hens
scatter this in the straw SO they will
have to scratch for it. Then ! have
a pumpkin cooked to which ! mix bran
and shorts with little cayenne pepper
and make the whole mixture erumbly. |
feed this about 8 a. m. At about ] a.
m. | feed | S lbs. equal parts Of wheat.
oats and corn in an irrigating ditch which
is filed with straw. give them two or
three gallons of milk and since last
Thursday have been feeding green cut
bone. Again at 4 p. m. feed Is lbs Of
the same mixture as at ]. in the irrigat-
ing ditch. | keep in the hoppers before
them all the time bran. grit. oyster
shells and charcoal. clean the drop
ping boards every morning.
find It a pleasure to take care Of my
chickens for like the work. | spend
much of my time with my hens. To-day
| gathered 60 eggs.