The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-11-30
UNCLE SAM is
HELPING THE HEN
What the National Government is Doing
to Boost Egg and Poultry Production :
A Model lhicken Farm Devoted to
Investigation and Experiment.


eggs of the town and city markets
and yet fail to find the kind of eggs
that mother used to serve? And,
worst Of ALL, do you pay 80 or 80
or 60 Or oven 10 cents a dozen &C.
cording to your place Of residence for |
The precious poultry products and CIV.
On then feel no assurance that you
are getting the egg quality and fresh |
ness that such prices ought 70 war
rant?
Never mind, though. Uncle Sam is
coming TO rescue. The United States |
government is going to spend more |
than $4,000 this next year in boost
ing egg and poultry production-in- !
creasing quantity as well as improv-
ing quality. OF course this Federal
first aid for the hen is not going to
dissipate all our troubles at once, but
it will ultimately 20 far toward that
end.
This is attested by what mas al
ready been accomplished by the
Poultry Investigations of the U. S.
! Department of Agriculture, for this
scheme for encouraging our feather
ed servitors is not n new idea.
J It was begun I'm small way half a
dozen years ago and has since been
/ gathering Roadway until in its
year of a feverish egg market it
bursts forth as one Of the foremost
activities of the Government.
It may seem far cry from the re-
searches Of Uncle Sans poultry eX-
perts 10 the breakfast table of the
/ everyday citizen but the Govern
ment hopes to bring them within
shcuting distance of each other thru
its missionary work in behalf of the
Improvement of the market egg The
Federal sleuths are following the
market egg on its journey from w."
farm, via the country store, the com
mission merchant, and the city mar
ket TO its final destination in the ur-
ban home and they are trying out all
possible means and mediums for the
Improvement of the oft maligned egg.
Where the inventor has a work
shop or the scientist a laboratory IN
which to conduct ais experiments and
work out his ideas, Unc'e Sans poul-
try experts have a model poultry
farm where there is permanent pop
ulation of upward of two thousand
head of poultry and where 1900 to
1900 chicks are Matched every year
At this poultry proving ground, that
Is located at a favorable site near tae
town Of Beltsville, Maryland, close
tab is kept on each individual BIRD
nv means OF an Identification tag at
, tached to the leg and thus the eX
: perts are enabled to compare diner
! emf branches Of the feathered family
for instance to contrast the incu
bator chick with its sister that has
been ushered into tae world in the
= good old fashioned way.
The Federal Poultry Farm
= Without this model poultry farm
the Government could not have car
? ried on the investigation OF poultry
feeding upon which the experts nave
been engaged for some time since
and the outcome of which will b'
Of value to every person that keeps
q chickens and every person who eat
y poultry. The plan followed in max
!, ing n study of the effect Of food up
y on poultry is to seleS' birds and place
: them in colony houses where they ar
4 fed rations that enable comparison
70 be made. Incidentally, the pou'
Il try sharps in the employ of the Gov
n ernmernt are endeavcring to find on
lust what sort of menu is best 10
fattening chickens for market, hoy
;, much it costs to thus plump up
u bird.
II Uncle Sans Chosen Breed
= II may be well TO mention for tn
d benefit of readers who have a per
chant for poultry raising that tn
d breeds kept at Uncle Sans noultr
ward are lllOSe WHICH dle N'ii'''''
p regarded as the most valuable for tn
farm or the suburban lot, namely Fly
mouth Rocks, White Wyandotte'
Rhose Island Reds, Buff Orpington'
etc. There is also a aock OF Whit
Leghorns and Buff Leghorns, IN
7 feathered population OF the poultr
farm at Beltsville gives eloquer
l. proof that It is possible to have nun
hers OF chickens all OF which wi
T. prove good winter layers, A consi'
u cradle number OF Rhode Island Red
y have averaged over $50 eggs for III
n year.
n Nature iakirs and nothing les
n Uncle Sans poultry experts wei
termed by some persons when 1t b