Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-26

GfoIy WOIldH WHO mas u llLlc plOI VI
land should look over her resources. /
do not mean that she should become a
poultry farmer, but / do urge that
every woman keep flock of hens and
thereby make enough money to make
them well worth while. The money in
vested need not be large.
There are two methods of poultry
keeping-the intensive, keeping the
fowls closely confined and with a run
way of wires and feeding for egg pro-
duction, and the extensive system,
where the fowls are at large on the
farm and small houses for shelter are
required. Fowls must have exercise,
and in the intensive method this Is pro-
vided for not only by the runway but
by scattering grain in the litter of
straw on the floor, that scratching be-
comes necessary part of the days
work. An idle fat hen will not lay
eggs, but workers will. The dangers on
the average farm OF with the inexperi-
enced worker In poultry are: Lack of
cleanliness, lack of system, no thought
given Of in-breeding, no record of feed
or of eggs, and where there is only a
small chicken yard, great danger of soil
contamination.
A poultry run must be moved from
year to year, and where this cannot be
done there is almost sure to be great
mortality in the flock from disease af-
ter year or So Where there can be
two runs, have one plowed up one year,
lime scattered freely and some crop
sown. BY the following year this run.
way should be used again and the other
yard treated in a similar way. This
one fact Is more often overlooked by
the poultry keeper than any other.
The intensive system, feeding for egg
production, is the system for the wom-
an with a small chicken house who
wishes to make some money
One may start on a small scale by
buying three hens and three settings of
good eggs, and when the chicks are
Matched and old enough to care for
themselves the hens can be killed for
the table. When forcing for egg pro-
duction 1t does not pay to keep a chick
en- over two years. Pullets lay best the
first winter, not quite so we'll the Sec
ond winter and after that become a
loss.
Another method is to buy the "one-
day chicks" which are sold by many
reliable poultry farms and bring them
up in a brooder. There are two recog-
nized systems of feeding-the hopper or
dry feeding, and the mash system, and
both have their strong supporters The
latter, or a combination of both, is
more profitable for the housewife, as
the chickens morning meal can consist
OF a maSn mace or tne IaDle scraps
from the day before, into which is
stirred enough feed to make it merely
moist, not a wet mash. A variety of
grains should be fed through the sum-
mer increasing the proportion of corn
as winter approaches, while green food
and meat scraps should also form part
of the diet. Charcoal, grit and lime in
the form of oyster shells, and fresh
clean water, should also be before the
fowls at all times. The morning mash
should not be satisfying; there should
be grain in the litter and green food
fed at noon. More exercise in the litter
and a hearty meal of grain at night
form one good system of feeding that
will produce winter eggs. AS soon as
the cockerels are grown they should
be fattened and either sold or used on
the home table. The second spring