Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1915-03-17
FLOODED CHICKENS.
Mr. Plymouth Rock Puts Up Strong Ar
gument in His Own Behalf.

Editor Chronicle: wish, through
the columns of your paper. to say a
few words as regards the poultry situa'
tion OF this county.
notice as l go from farm to farm,
from nelghborhood, that most all farm
ers have a small flock of chickens. l
further notice, in most all the places
keeping poultry, that there is variety
of colors and shape, some black, some
white, some red, some speckled, in
other words, all kinds and blood except
pure blood.
The people seem to have an idea if a
fowl has feathers that is all that is re-
QuiredN to make success in raising
poultry. Again, some of our people,
and by the way, large per cent of our
people, claim that the mongrel or scrub
hen lays more eggs than does a full
blooded hen. Now, person that will
argue such stuff is ignorant of the
difference in pure blood fowls and the
old mongrel. Let us admit, for the
sake of argument, that the old mon
grel hen does lay as many eggs as does
the full bloode1 hen. How long should
a hen be kept, that is, how many years
is she profitable? Those who have had
years of experience and have made a
close study, say that hen does not, as
rule, pay for her keep after she Is
three years old.
Now, that being the case, the old
hen is taken to the market and sold at
whatever the dealer pays for ner. She
is sold at so much per pound. What
does the mongrel hen weigh? Let us
average her at about four pounds. She
will bring, at IA cents per pound. Sc
cents.
Now let US take the pure blood Bar
red Plymouth Rock, Experience has
taught us that the hens of this breed
will lay as many eggs the year round
as the mongrel, or the full blood Leg
horn, and when she is three years old
and is ready for the market, we find
she will weigh from eight to ten pounds
and will bring. at ID cents per pound.
from $1.20 to $1.40, a difference of
about seventy cents apiece.
Then again, the young chickens OF
the Rock blood grow off much quicker,
get to be frying size much sooner than
does the mongrel or the game stock.
At about eight weeks old the Rocks
are ready for frying, weighing from
,wo to three pounds. On the market
he friers will bring at least rs per
cent more than the mongrel or the
game friers, such as the Leghorns.
Minorcas and other birds classed as {
yame chickens. {
Farmers and poultry raisers, would
ike to organize Barred Plymouth
Rock Club in this county. Believing =,
IS 1 do, and knowing what other sec
ions have done, it the farmers and I
poultry ralsers would form this club. 1
ut their attention to it, they would '
ealize more than two hundred per cent
nore than they are getting now for +
he kind Of poultry they are keeping. il
If we had an organization OF this b
ind, put our attention to it, 1T would .
OF be long until we could market our =,
oultry and eggs right here at home
Or more than twice the amount we are I;
citing. AS close to US as Monterey Il
nd Cookeville, they are shipping poul >
~ in ear lots, and if we could organ 5
e we could ship right from Crossvilie.
nd get the highest market price tor !"
ar poultry ana eggs. -
Barred Plymouth Rock. h