Baxter Springs news., 1913-03-20


-HE HEN that lays 200 eggs
year will have a 2OO-egg ap'
petite. The big egg producer
in your pen Is the one that scratches
on after the rest OF the hens have
gone 10 roost. The hens that SIT
around all day-or most = the day
ON the roost are the ones that are
keeping Kansas average egg produc'
ticn so low. No hen has any business
on. the roost during working hours
1t should be considered a sign that
that hen Is ready for market.
When hen lays an egg she repro
duces herself. A hen will reproduce
herself most when she Is happy ana
contented. When she is happy she
will sing. There's more truth than
poetry in saying that the singing hen
is the laying hen. It's just common
everyday hen sense.
The reason at the bottom OF Kan
sas being SO low in average egg pro-
duction is not that she has so Few
good layers. She has lots OF them.
The trouble Is that she has lot OF
crow.headed, dull-eyed, shrunken, pale'
combed, short, shallow-bodied, long
clawed individuals sitting around DO
ing nothing but eating when food Is
thrown to them. There is no easier
wav to increase egg profits OF Kansas
than to dispose of all such birds at
once.
When one has Matched their breed
ing stock under hens from eggs laio
NV we'll matured hens, has fitted them
carefully for the breeding pen, has
mated them with a pure bred male
bird whose mother laid more tnan TWO
hundred eggs and whose paternal
grandmother laid the same NUMBER
has eliminated all but the vigorous
hens. he has simply put his factory
In running order. II he is to secure
the manufactured product, eggs' ne
must bring to the factory not only
enough raw material but the right kih1
of materials as we'll. On the average
farm of Kansas the hens have plenty
IN eat. Many have too much. the
reason why more eggs are not laid IN
MANY cases, is because the right KIND
Of materials are not furnished the men
out OF which to make eggs. 1t y just
as sensible to feed the hen nothing
hut corn and expect to get large
number of eggs as 1t would De 10
haul nothing but cotton to the door
Of n factory out OF which to make
cloth that was half silk. The egg
which is the product we expect the
hen to manufacture, is made up OF
three classes of materials. There are
fat. found largely in the yolk; pro
tein. most of which is in the -white
of egg. and ash, which goes to make
the shell. The hen cannot make pro
tein out OF fat nor shell out OF pro
tein any more than loom can seaVe
,ilk cloth out of cotton. The same
three classes are necessary for main
tanning the body Of the hen. The asf
goes to make bone. The protein !;
used in making lean meat, feathers
toe nails, etc. The fat is used II
keeping the body warm, furnishing
energy and storing up body tat Il
we are: to get eggs we must frst O
all furnish the hen with the materials
she needs for her body, and then sec
that she has what she needs Tor max
ing eggs.
There is no grain that we can OF
fer the hen that will be eaten viii
more relish than corn. There is NJ
grain that is more plentiful IN th'
corn belt. These two facts lead to
condition that is all too common. o
Sens loaded down with fat and lay
ing ss~. If any. eggs. Corn is lat
tening food than which there is
no bettsr But when corn alone u
fed only the material for the yolk II
furnished. II the hen lays at all. th'
eggs are likely to be soft shelled be