Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-06-03
POULTRY CULTURE
ARTICLE XXXIV.
(From an address by the late T. E.
Orr of Beaver, PAD

Orr of Beaver, PAD
THE first &C. stands for. the grains
that may be grown on every farm,
though we don't want much corn-it
goes too much to fat. 1t does not
make muscle; it does not contain the
elements necessary to best muscle or
egg making.
| THE second &C. is for the greens,
clover or alfalfa hay. Don't feed it in
dried up condition. Don't expect
| hens to eat sticks. 1t must be cut
while green and carefully cured, avoid
! ing all weeds. Pack it in sacks before
shutdown the same day it is cut and
for the next few days throw the
sacks out in the sun; then hang them
up in the barn and put the hay through
the cutting machine as needed by the
chicks. Sugar beets, ilrnips, cab
bage and potatoes are other greens
that are fine for poultry.
1.-The third C. is the grit that is
necessary Hens that are producing
winter eggs can not go out in the
snow and slush for grit. Given grains
and greens, they must have the grind
ers. If you have never gotten down
close enough to a hen on her perch
at night to hear the grinding going on
in her craw, you have never been
close enough to the poultry business to
make a success of it.
1.-The fourth &C. is gravy. We ask
the hen to give us something rich, so
we must furnish her some rich ma
terial to make il with. We must give
her meat in some form and 1 like the /,
granulatd beef scrap we buy at the
packing houses better than anything |
else.
The fifth &C. is gumption. We must |
have gumption or we will never have |
success in poultry keeping. The aver
age farmer must be more careful what
he feeds and how he feeds it if he is
to have profitable egg production. This
is the reason eggs have been so high
in price. Many people get few if any
eggs in winter. With right breeding,
followed by right feeding there should
exist no scarcity in egg production. If
were given the contract to double the
egg production of Illinois l would not
double the number of hens, but /
would start away back in the mat
ter of breeding. Breed the hen for
a special purpose and push her to
the limit along that line
Mr.. Orr said that many people think
hat just any one can raise poultry
hat is false idea. 1t requires care
'ul study and preparation and a love
IF nature to make a successful poultry
-aiser. He said that after a man had
reached middle age it was no time for
linn to take up the culture of poultry
The man who goes into the poultry
should profit by all that has
been learned by those who were in the
business ahead of him and not try to
light it out along the same lines that !
we're adopted by his predecessors
ears ago. Eggs like plants and ami.
mails are not made out of nothing. The
len is a machine for making eggs. If T.;
he machine is a good one, is cared {
or and fed properly. eggs may be pro,
luced in abundance at all seasons OF
he year. 6
Successful poultrymen as a rule ,
that good supply of clean
cratching litter in the yards. and :
where possible, also in the houses. is :
he key note to success Busy birds ,
re generally healthy, contented and :
productive. birds must have exer. ,
Use, and they get more under these ,
onditions in small yards than they do
'here the range is unlimited but with
% scratching litter.