Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1908-11-20
HEN0L0GY OR POULTRY
RAISING FOR PROFIT
Member OF Fruitdals Grange
Gives Some Good Pointers
on tho Subject.


| profitable adjunct, aud this portion
of Josephine county is keeping
abreast of other parts of the state in
raising good fowls and just at this
time there seems to be determine
tion on all sides to raise the best and
get the best results from them. At
the last session of the Fruitdale
Grange, Mrs. E. II. Wise, one of the
successful poultry rsisers of that
neighborhood read the following
paper:
Henology is a new science. Every
farmer is or should be interested in
it. Heretofore he has left it to the
women folks or the Oldest boy now
he has found that he can make 81
year per hen by few simple rules,
80 he has become interested. Of
course poultry raising is made up of
little things but what can we find
that is worth while that isn't. First
the profitable poultry raiser found
that the old yellow striped -necked
hen that had become too old to do
anything but set was not worth her
feed. so he came to the conclusion
that hens must be young. Another
thing, the old hens grandmother and
grandfather were not up to the stand
ard of full blooded poultry, besides
being respectively a "dominicker"
and brahma, so the old hen and all
the poultry were replaced with
young full blooded stock. We will
not discuss the breed for it might
cause our good neighbors to have
bone of contention. But rest assured
the flock were OF small breed and
light eaters for he didn't care to go
too heavy at first.
The hen house was Hxed up 80 that
plenty of good fresh air was procured
by having one side Of the house open.
The next thing he sprayed the
henhouse thoroughly with good
lice killer. He didn't want his hens
to get to such a state as the young
woman who wrote to the department
of agriculture thus;
EVERY morning when go out to
my hen house / dnd three or four
of the hens turned on their backs, legs
curled up, never to rise again. Please
tell me what Ia the matter with
thsm.'' After thinking long and
earnestly over the matter bright
thought entered the head OF the
man into whose hands the letter had
fallen to answer, and seizing pen
he wrote: Dear Madam, your hens
are dead" Please do not expect
your hens to feed vermin and you too
He procured liberal supply of grit
and kept green bone, which is rich in
animal matter and protein. One can
not always obtain this, but it pays to
buy a cutter if you have, a flock OF
hens. Grains contain so little protein
that your hens will not be supplied.
Skinned milk is very valuable for
laying hens, so iustead Of wetting
the lash with water he used milk.
The Department of Agriculture has
received a report from West Virginia
which says, in the first test OF l2s
days 90 hens fed skinned milk laid
1914 eggs as compared with 996 eggs
laid by 212 hens fed by the mash
mixed with water. The second test
go hens laid S62 eggs in 81 days on the
SKINNED milk ration as compared
with 632 eggs laid by similar lot
fed no SKINNED milk. Tie second
period Of the second test the rations
were reversed and the chickens fed
SKINNED milk laid 1920 eggs in 56
days as compared with 97s in the case
of no SKINNED milk ration.
When lie fed the hens he threw the
grain among some straw and litter
that he had placed on tue floor of the
shed. This gives his hens plenty of
exercise during the winter months.
He selected eggs from his best hens
and Matched iu the incubator. This
he set very early so that his chickens
came off the first of April. The pullets
were fed so they would not be
scrawny, and he was paid for his
trouble by getting eggs the middle Of
October. He did noS use any y.poultry
tonic to weaken the digestive organs
of his chickens. but kept them busy
after their feed SO hey wereo over
fed but alert aud active. Hens, he
decided. should moult esIly so he
tried forcing the mott. He fed ver'
light rstions so hat the hens got
very thin, then he start the first OF
August to fe d al tuey would eat.
They soon lost theIr feothrr', gained
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