The Greeley tribune., 1912-04-11
PAPER ON WHITE LEGAORNS
(Continusd from rage ons)

(CO0tluu0O IIOIu F280 O06)
sey commercial egg farm. About
six years ago they started in,
bought IL acres OIL ground. built an
office and all necessary buildings.
kept books on all expenses and in
three years time, by careful ac-
counts with 300 pullets, kept from
Matching time until through their
first laying period; found they can
feed a White Leghorn hen at
cost of less than 3 cents per day in
winter, a pullet can be Matched and
brought to the laying period for
cost OF 40 cents each, can be fed,
including labor during the ten
months laying period, for about
s1.11. making It cost for Leghorn
through her first laying period
about $50. 1t costs about is cents
each to raise a Leghorn cockerel to
broiler age when they are worth
about 80 cents each alive. These
1900 pullets averaged about ia
eggs each during the first ten
months laying season. and these IL
dozen eggs sold at an average OF
nearly so cents per dozen in New
York. Figuring out all expenses
Cornings cleared over $500 per
pullet on the 1900 pullets. Their
system is to keep about 1900 pull
lets in a house 16 by 100 feet. The
house is curtain front,shed roof,
open to the south. 1t Is butt four
feet above the ground to keep the
floors dry, and on nice days the
pullets are allowed to run in the
space underneath the house, which
ia enclosed with wire netting. This
is all the run the pullets have. AT
ter being put into these houses
they are never let out until sold or
put in other houses to keep over for
breeders the next year. At eight
weeks OF age the cockerels are sep
arated from the pullets. and placed
in fattening pens for market and
field from colony houses until about
laying age, or the first of Septem-
Der.
Another example OF large COM
mercial egg farm is the Rancocas
farm at Mills in the Pines, n. j.,
with Joel NJ. Foster as manager,
This farm is also the experimental
farm for the International Cores
pondence Schools of Pennsylvania.
They keep 500 pullets or hens in
one house. IA by 100 feet. giving
them an outside run of four or
fve acres for each house. The
houses have half glass and half cur
tain windows. At present they have
over 10000 layers and by their sys-
tenn OF keeping 500 in a house or
unit there IL no limit to the number
OF layers that can be kept, just keep
on adding more units or houses.
New Jersey 10 not alone in the
White Leghorn industry. the de-
mand for fresh white shelled eggs
is becoming general in all parts OF
the country. John F. Pitz. poultry
Judge of Pennsylvania, says 1t is
F, safe to say that 76 per cent OF the
poultry in California are Leghorns.
Petaluma alone supporting 5000
Inhabitants by the chicken industry,
and 80 per cent of all the birds here
are Leghorns (mostly White Leg
horns). There are around 3,OO0,-
900 chickens In a radius of 20
miles around Petaluma. Also the
Leghorns arc fast becoming popular
in the south.
In Farmers Bulletin, No. 81, is
sued by the United States depart
ment of agriculture, Washington,
D. c.. the Leghorns are classed as
follows:
"Leghorns are the best known Of
the egg producing varieties of the
Mediterranean class. They are the
premiers in laying and the stand
ard by which DrOliflcueSe Of other