Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-02-23
FROM THE GROUND UP
Some Experiences Encountered by the Farm Woman
in Building Up Pure Bred Flock of Hens =

and there is greater profit made
from the farm poultry, considering
the amount Of money invested than
from any Other line OF live stock.
believe moro failures have been made
by the average farmer wire ana less
profit realized with Il greater amount
Of work expended by trying to keep
too large flocks IN amount or avail
able space at command, than for any
other reason and TO illustrate this ]
am going to give you some Of my
own experiences along this line.
When i first started in the chicken
business ! did not know very much
about chicken raising, but | started
out with twelve good old Light Brah-
ma hens and half dozen scrubs OF
course, did not expect to do much
that first year and was not dlsap.
pointed, / didn't do very much. And
] will say right here that We must ex-
pcct results or we seldom get them.
We must also work, We only had
twenty-eight hens and pullets to be-
gin with the next year We kept
these In a chicken house SIl2. Well,
we had pretty good luck. We expect
ed more and worked more and as q
result we had seventy-five good hens
and pul,ets for another winter. We
didn't enlarge the house any for they
could ALL GET IN and as result
fed the birds and cared for them well
but we only got about half as many
A i,,t l.f urifh l.
ty- eight hens and pullets. We decld-
ed we needed "A little more room, go
built on sixteen more feet to the
twelve feet we already had, making
our house twenty-eight feet long. we
had a little better results that winter
but we had about one hundred hens
and things weren't paying us yet. We
had read about scratching sheds 80
we built one in front of our house
lust half way and made 1t nine feet
wide. The rest Of the house had q
glass 'front.' We cut down our flock
to scventy-five hens and we lost tive
accidentally. which left us seventy
three hens and pullets. This shed
was bodded well with straw, as was q
portion Of the other side, and you
should have seen results. They simp-
ly shel'ed out the eggs and in Febru-
airy we got fifty eight dozen from the
seVenty-thrce hens-something We
had never approached before. By this
time we had all Black .Langshans and
my advice is to keep all one kind OF
your favorte variety and not try tc
keep too many together and GROVE
them up too much.
We attribute our success to healthy
stock, not overcrowded, with plenty
of exercise and feed TO bring abou
the profitable results we have expert
enced. Any one can have goo'
flock Of pure bred poultry with les'
trouble and expense than we expert
enced FOR there are now more breed
ers who arc breeding for results than
for simple pleasure alone.
Profitable poultry keeping canno
/ be estimated by dollars and cent
alone as there is so much pleasure II
owning and caring for fine flock o
poultry to say nothing Of the fresl
: meat and eggs we have on our tables
and of the profits made from sellin'
our stock, either for breeding pur
poses or for the market. Ways ar
much simplfied in Matching and rear
ing the young stock since we hav
our incubators and brooders, espe
cially the fireless brooders witt
which we have been very successful
We are now prepared to care Tor sev
eral hundred profitably.