Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1913-01-23
GET BETTER EGGS
AND MORE OF THEM

"Poultry-ke is a businc IS that
any honest young man or woman may
conduct without losing their self-re-
spect,'' said Prof James Dryden in
a short course lecture at the Ore
gon Agricultural College.
1.-THE first lesson to learn is to get
rid of the moral cowardice which
troubles many in this connection, .
he continued THE hog raiser and
the wheat grower will not look at
la chicken, but there are no real
grounds for such an attitude. The
poultry products of the United States
were estimated at $75O,00O,00O for
1911.
"a special location, special soil,
climate, market conditions and a
special man are necessary to a big
success in specialized poultrying.
But r do not mean to tell the farmer
that the poultry business is for the
specialist On the contrary, it is
question whether specialized poul-
try farming is best anyway.
Il believe it is far better for the
individual farmer to have his, flock
of hens to raise along with his 9th
er farm crops. In Oregon the gen,
eral number is about so hens. They
could be increased to 100 with very
little additional labor. 1t is the
best and quickest way to increase
the poultry products of the state.
The main poultry producing section
of the country is the middle west
where the system of mixed farm
ing is used.
@fThe poultry specialists follow diff
ferent systems, some having small,
intensive farms of but an acre or SO,
and others having the free range
colony system on large acreage, as
near Petaluma, Cal. Probably the
best number of hens is so to the
acre. A great many more can be
Kept on an acre successfully for
'ew years, but not for long. The
ground will become infested with
disease and vermin unless it is cropp-
ID The growing of garden crops
IN the ground alternate years will
,bviate that difficulty. The yards
must be kept pure and clean.
''On some soils one can keep more
lens than on others. On heavy clay
lot SO many can be kept as on light
oils. Buy cheap land to go into the
,oultry business. 1t is not necessary
o have high priced land. Much of
he poultry range of Rhode Island {
8 rocky and not much good for 9th
II agricultural purposes. Light, por-
JUS soil is best, but not sand, or soil I
hat nothing will grow on, for one
must have feed crops to make the
usiness pay.
Here at the college we have 200 ,
ems on one acre, rotating crops
nth the chickens. Last summer
70 had heavy crop of oats, although
yhen we began to keep chickens
here nothing would grow. because :
he land had been cropped out. Near :
etaluma man is keeping 1000 q
ems on three acres of light, rather e
andy SOIL Near Los Angeles a a
ian cleared $500 with 500 hens on Il
} acres in year. a
II visited a Petaluma farm of 100 q
res where two men and a fourteen !,
var old boy took entire care of q
900 hens and 10 cows-the hens r
lid for the cows. which gave the a,
ilk for the hens. 1t took the boy, b,
/ horseback, just half an hour to Vi
ed the 5000 hens. m
THE proportion of feed, rs to 100 70
8. year for each hen, is shown !"
this carload order; 40 sacks each y
heat, corn, barley and middlings, Il,
of bran, z of charcoal, mixed with oc
Tx and meat scraps (2oO lbs. of lol
,at.)" SRI re-