Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-17
Poultry, Pet and Live Stock
Concerning Range
Fowls Should Have
Free Range Has Its Advantages and
Disadvantages. Read the Fol-
lowing Article Carefully

JUDGE MARSHALL hear many
conflicting opinions about range for
fowl Some contend that they will do
but little good without f. while 9TH
ers say that they are better confine5
20 yards where one can have better
control Of them and manage them
at viii. ! am at a loss to know what
to do IN the matter Whether TO
arrange 10 have fl or 10 depend upon
the yards. ! would like to have your
opinion about il II you please. sir
Thanking you, am, your truly
X. J. S, Covington, Ca
ANSW ER-Range is good and It is
not good Free range has its ad-
vantages and its Disadvantages. For
the quick growing Of young stock
free range is the very thing They
need all kinds OF exercise for the eK-
ercise Of their rapidly developing
muscles.
In order 10 get the very best there
is in these little but rapidly ex-
paueing bodies II is necessary that
they shall be on the go from morn
ing 20 night. There is no other way
10 get such exercise out OF them but
from the free range where they are
jumping from one thing to another.
first "A bug on the spring and then
the scratching out OF the worm? and
so II goes form morning to night.
In addition to 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-
ceivable thing that is intended by
Nature to make them grow They
come in at night filled to the neck
and are soon snugly asleep in their
coops Is II any wonder that they
are on tip toe and ready TO 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 yarded ones
have had unusual attention BY I'M
usual attention we mean that they
have had all their little wants sup
piled from start to finish in a way
that few persons attend to them. We
have seen Brahmas and Cochins
Matched in June and July large
enough and good enough looking to
take prizes at our best mid winter
ppuAtl9 1AAONo' - was nv IVY WI ~
however.
II was accomplished by the best
chicken raisers in this country. And
the secret was free range Of the very
finest kind; apple orchards flowing
with blue grass, meadows full of
grasshoppers, grain fields Of various
kinds where they could find 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 It
really was a phenomenal growth when
you thiak what II meant TO grow an
eight or nine pound Brahma from
June to the first of February. Aside
from the great growth in avoirdupois
they had the finest plumage that one
could ever dream OF seeing Almost
like silk velvet 10 the touch, and
every feather In its place For con-
ditiOning 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 will
not lay e, 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 the con side Of the
question, II it is eggs you are after
day in and day out avoid the unIim-
tied range. Hens will not lay so