The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-04-21

let's, alternating the tields so that the
land would not become contaminated
The corn gives the necessary amount
of shade besides furnishing animal
and green food during the spring and
summer and hard feed for the winter.
Other parts of the farm have
planted with apple and cherry trees,
bacause the soil appears to suit these
fruits and because both can stand the
enrichment. When these trees bear l
am sure the fruit will be readily dis
posed of in the local market at fair
price.
Our chickens and eggs we ship to
the New York market and though the
express charges are higher than if
city, both feed and labor are cheaper.
My flock comprises 1900 fowls.
My reason for buying day-old chicks
is that they save time when you be-
gin late in the spring and that first
season we had spent so much money
that we did not feel that we were able
to buy incubators. The second spring
l bought three incubators with a Ca
pacity of 400 eggs each.
AS we were not then able to build
| an incubator cellar we cleared out
one of the back rooms in our dwell
| ing house, closed the east windows
and put in the incubators. This proved
a successful and convenient arrange
ment The following year we built
the cellar after plans used at college.
The brooder houses are all on run
nerS and as soon as the young chicks
no longer need heat the covers are re-
moved and the roosts put in. So long
as the chicks are young enough to
need heat the brooders are kept near
the house and have planted hedge
as windbreak that will be an addi-
tional protection for them.
In the spring as soon as the corn
is large enough the brooder houses
with the first Matching of chicks are
rolled into the field and the chicks
have free range all the summer. When
later matches come on the first hatch
is transferred to cheaply built shack
- and the brooder house moved back
into the yard for the young chicks. OF
course this can be done with the other
matches as often as it is necessary.
One of the many good things
learned at college was that cleaenli
ness is as necessary for the health
and happiness of poultry as it is fol
| oriHy I
poultry pens a general cleaning eV
cry month l give them a thorough
overhauling and fumigation twice 6
year, spring and fall.
My chickens are the white rose
comb Leghorns. These birds are no
so large as other breeds and for thai
reason do not bring as much in the
market, but they more than make III
the difference in the number of eggs
] | they lay. Their meat is sweet, closC
grained and unsurpassed for table
use. They are good foragers and a!
for laying l don't believe they have
} ever been surpassed.
! In buying country home our oh
ject was to cheaper the cost of living
: and get an out-ofdoor life for me. ]
; has cut our grocery and meat bill
down more than two-thirds.
We have owned the farm five year
. and while our returns haven't wipeC
out the first cost they have lesseneC
it so much that the interest on tn,
balance would not pay one-sixth of thu
yearly rental we were paying in New
York. My friends are always asking
if do not die of loneliness. In repl!
| tell them have saddle horse ant
, a tennis court and am a member o
; golf club. should be very sorry tt
be forced to return to live in the cit.
, and would only do it from force O
: circumstances.