The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1912-05-30


among hens, which they had INDUCED
in every night at roosting time, be.
cause some perches were higher than
others, and each hen wanted the high
est place. Serenity and harmony in
the flock are essential - i big egg
yield.
There was another thing the most
heroic of all, that he had to do to get
on scientific basis SO far as housing
was concerned. The building was ~
feet wide and 80 feet long, and there.
fore, had a floor area of $50 feet, or
just enough for 80 hens, allowing four
square feet to each, the space allot
ment that the experimenters had
found to be the best. But Bill had
1876 hens. SO he had to decide be-
tween getting rid of IS fowls or adding
10 feet to the length of his house. AS
lumber was high and as the birds had
not yielded him cent in all their
eggless life, he decided to reduce the
flock and sold the 80 superfluous hens
to the village butcher at a dollar a
head.
That transaction gave him what Is
u most unusual thing for an amateur
commuter poultry man to have, the
combination Of hens in the hen house
and real money in the bank. II gave
him a chance to get square with the
grain dealer and buy several hundred
pounds In advance. Then came his
lucky discovery. He wandered around
to the city poultry show again, the
same exhibit which year before had
given him a wrong start with hens by
causing him to buy eggs from blue.
ribbon winners at $50 dozen in the
hope Of Matching out 5000 prize
re sters.
But this year the awards OF the
judges didn't appeal to him. He had
learned that birds that were all good
TWINS "ViS opt " NC poOI pIouuCcTe,
SO he left. the noisy pens OF show
stock and wandered into an obscure
side room where he found the most
valuable part Of the whole exhibit, re-
ceiving very little attention and no
advertising. 1t was the educational
exhibit of the Cornell university and
New York State Poultry School at
Ithaca. This neglected part of the
show had nothing to sell. no cure-alls
for hen diseases. no patent foods
with ridiculous claims as to their re-
suits, no expensive and needless &C.
cessories. 1t demonstrated and ex.
planned how to house, how to breed
how to feed, and how to do everything
in the hen business, scientifically ana
succ essfully, according to the results
of many experiments with many
flocks under all sorts of conditions.
Il was this breeding formula for
laying hens that particularly attracted
Bills attention. 1t called for scratch
feed mixture in the following proper
tons: 200 pounds Of wheat, 200 of
corn, and 100 of oats, one handful for
efery three hens in the morning and
two handfulls at night to be fed In
straw or other litter, to make the
fowls scratch for it and get exercise
For noon feeding the formula called
:cr dry mash in this proportion: sy
pounds of cOrnmeal, six of wheat
middlings, three OF bran, one of al.
falfa, one of oil meal, and five pounds
OF meat s':;p. The oil meal cnly IN
the roltl season. II maab 10 =.
ture to be ed in hopp,'I ur boxes
and XII afCre the hens ~ the aft. y.
noon for them to eat or 'eave as much
as they liked.
Pill bought those whole and
ground g.; lns, mixed them himself,
according L, the Cornell rule, and
began TO feed. For his 80 hens the
daily cost OF the rations was about As
cents. Within a week the hens began
t. lay. by Christmas the Weld aver
aged 20 Ter cent. that Is 40 eggs a
day from the 80 hens. That kept up
all through January and improved =
trifle in February, months of top
prices. Bill, the commuter, sold his
nearly four dozen a day at So cents a
dozen. The feed cost remained the
same, so the net profit in the winter
was more than a dollar and half
a day. 1t required 20 minutes of Bits
time to feed and water in the morning
and as much more at night to feed
and collect eggs. 1t took his five.
year-old boy about four minutes at
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