Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-18
Poultry, Pet and Live Stock
Concerning Range
Fowls Should Have
Free Range Has Its Advantages and
Disadvantages. Read the Fol-
lowing Article Carefully

JUDGE MARSHALI-I hear many
conflicting opinions about range tor
fowl Some contend that they will do
but little good without it while 9th
ers say that they are better confined
to yards where one can have better
control Of them and manage them
al will ] am a. loss TO know what
to do IN the matter Whether to
arrange TO have 81 OF to depend upon
the yards. would like to have your
opinion about it 81 YOU please, sir.
Thanking you. am, your truly.
H j. $, Covington. Ga
ANSWER Range Is good and II is
not good. Free range has its ad-
vantages and It's disadvantage For
the quick growing Of Young stock
free range is the very thing They
need ell kinds Of exercise for The ex-
erciss Of their rapidly developing
muscles
In order to get the very best there
is in these little but rapidly ex-
panGtng bodies n 10 necessary that
they shall be on the go from morn
ing 10 night There IL no other way
So get such exercise out Of them but
flOm the free range where they are
jumping from one thing 10 another;
first a bug on the spring and then
tho scratching out OF the worm? and
so ~ goes form morning TO might.
In addition 10 what they get in the
shape Of grain that is furnished them
by the keeper they are filled up with
bugs worms, seeds and every con
BILE thing that = intended by
Nature 10 make them grow. They
come in at night filled to the neck
and are soon snugly asleep in thor
coops Is it'Buy wonder that they
are on tip toe and ready 10 get out
long before the old hens think Of
getting Off the rOOst. They grow
Ike weeds How different they will
be from the little fellows that are
closely yarded, unless the yBrded ones
have had unusual attention. BY uu-
usual attention we mean that they
have had all their little wants sup
pliad from start to finish in a way
that few persons attend to them. We
have seen Brshm and Cochins
Matched I'm June and July large
enough and good enough looking 10
take prizes at our best mid winter
poultry shows. 1t was no boy work.
however.
II was accomplished by the best
chicken TatseTs In this country. And
the secret wss free range Of the very
finest kind, apple orchards flowing
with blue grass meadows fun Of
grasshoppers, grain fields Of various
kinds where they could ind the stuff
that stuck to the ribs at any time
from dawn TO dark Nothing short
OF such conditions could have produc-
ed this phenomenal growth. For II
really was a phenomenal growth when
YOU thtnk what il meant 10 grow an
eight or nine pound BrahmR from
June 20 the first Of February Aside
from the great growth In avoiT1upois
they had the finest plumage that one
could ever dream OF seeing Almost
like silk velvet 10 me touch, and
every feather I'm It's place For CON
ditlOning old hens or cocks for the
coming breeding season the wide and
good range is the very ideal place.
nothing can take Its place. They win
not lay Sc many eggs while doing this
kind OF summer outing business But
next years results In better and more
fertile eggs. stronger chicks from
those eggs all down the line viii well
repay for any lapse in the egg laying.
Laying that is tho con side OF the
question. II il IL eggs you are after
day In and day out avoid the unhm-
tied range. Hens win not Law so