Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-12-03
Don't Market Laying Hens

4 WIZ AiOPSAh "Nt
is some danger of the farmer
and poultry raisers selling q
their laying hens and pullets s
closely that their profits froI
this branch of agriculture wi
be seriously affected during tn
next year. Upon a recent visi
to Eldorado Springs, Mo-, W
were told by the bankers of tina
city that the poultry and egg
shipped from that place amount
ed TO more than all the receipts
from the sale of horses, cattle
hogs and sheep combined. Ant
still this Is a splendid stock rails
Ing section. At other places wt
are told that poultry product.
amount to more than the receipts
from the sale of either wheat OF
corn, and in some places as much
as both combined. More dry
goods, grocery, clothing and
shoe bills are paid by the pro.
duct from the poultry yard than
by most any other one thing
Our State Labor Bureau states
that the surplus poultry products
of the State amount to about $5O,-
600, 10000 each year. By actual
test at our Missouri Poultry Elk.
pertinent Station, it has been
shown that a hen which has been
allowed to have range will make
over half of her living by eating
bugs, worms, grass, tender
weeds, and such waste products
from which the farmer would
not receive anything if it was
not for the hens. Such an i'm.
pOrtant branch of agriculture as
this should not be sacrificed By
Missouri farmers because of the
little advance in the price Of feed
Because of this situation there
is great danger of many fine
aocks, which, it has taken years
to breed1and perfect, being sac
rihced this faii andSwinteE. This
war is causing feed to advance
in price, but it will also cause
eggs, poultry and practically all
other food products, to advance
in proportion. The price of eggs
is going to be high beyond al
Doubt. The question with you
ought to be, How. to get the
egg" There will be a grert de-
mand next season for eggs and
stock for breeding purposes.
Dur advice is not to decrease
yonr flock in size so that your
business will be crippled this |
winter or next season.
On the whole we have harvest. |
I'D normal grain crops this year. |
Beef. mutton and pork are scarce
md high, and are rapidly advan.
ling In price and continually get.
ling scarcer. The world must
depend upon the United States
argely for it's food stuffs. One
II our own Missouri packing |
plants has received an order
rom Canada within the last few
lays for million pounds of
lressed poultry. Some of this
We understand is for export to
Take courage, my
friends, for il we are not mistak.
IN the greatest opportunity that
,ver offered itself to American
'armers lies before them within
The next few years. 1t will take |
'hese warning nations several
1ears to recover from the effects
'f.the war, even if 1t should close
low.
We don't advise OVERRIDING the
hing. We would not keep a lot
# surplus males not fit for sale
'r for use as breeders. Don't1
teep a lot of drones or dead beats
n a lot of old hens which have
'utlived their usefulness. Get
id of all dead weight, but do not1
,ecome unnecessarily alarmed
md sacrifice a valuable flock
yhioh is almost certain to make
'ou good money before the next
eason has closed,
Poultry Committee of the Mis-.
ouri Federation of Comme rcial
,lubs.
A. L. Harty, Bloomfield. Mo-,
chairman.
A. A. Coult, st. Louis.
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