Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-05-28
CBy ]. HOWARD sLEDD).

The demand for eggs is steadily
increasing, owing to the shortage IN
beef and stock production and It's
concurrent high prices, and live
poultry raisers are continually striv-
ing to meet this opportunity and
demand.
Despite the scientific suggestions
for poultry raising set forth by writ
ers and students of this interesting
subject, the path of the novice
chicken man is strewn with failures'
and the method that l desire to I'M
part is not how to care for or raise
fowls. but how commercially to get
tho best from them.
How often one hears the cry OF
discouragement of the farmer or
fancier regarding the lack of eggs
owing to moulting. disease, cold
weather or setting, and that the feed
bill is eating up the profit, besides
the loss of ones labor time and IN
vestment.
II seems to me that the following
plans as given by one who had tried
them will offset some of the diffi-
culties and the conditions will be re-
verscd if one using care and pru-
dence will follow the method. Says
this gentleman:
First the equipment so vital in
most climates for poultry plants
with great expense for building ma
terial and labor. is almost elm
mated A simple shed OF tar paper
affair over two by fours. large
enough to accommodate the flock, Is
all that is necessary, as the system
is only used during the moderate
part of the year. The common hen.
ieghorns preferred, will be the basis
Of my system. as they do not nave
the tendency to set so much and are
more prolific.
The point is, how to get the most
money out Of hens at the least ex-
pensc and in a way that does not
need previous training or scientific
treatment. The ordinary hen lays
about 125 eggs during the entire
wear, the majority of them in the
early spring months, after which
they stop and set and then moult
until late fall with only small per-
centage of yield during the winter
unless expensive methods are en-
ploved for forcing.
BY the end of the winter the
farmer or poultryman becomes dis
couraged and is ready to sell out as
his hens have generally cancelled by
profits of the year. Now is the very
time to buy and save your hens, but
keep them only during the laying
period. At the end of their useful
ness as producers, sell them, thus
doing away with the feed bill for the
Improbable months.
Natural Condition.
Starting in the spring when every
natural condition for laying is at its
best weather, food, lack of disease,
activity and briskness in the hens
instincts to multiply her species
through the agency of the egg.
For example, let us assume we
have five hundred hens as a basis,
and figuring on the conservative al
lowance of sixty per cent as our egg
Yield during the four spring months,
we would collect three hundred eggs
per day. or nine thousand eggs per
month. In four months this equals
$4,000 eggs or 5000 dozen, which, If
during the fall and winter season.
would easily bring thirty cents per
dozen, very often forty cents or even
fifty cents in the cities.
The benefit of these better prices
over those of the season of abund-
ance can be realized by the very
simple expediency of preserving eggs
until such time and conditions again
come.
This is the second important step
of the system as given to me.
Place the eggs each day as laid
in watts or barrels filled with n ten
per cent solution of sodium silicate,
commonly known as water glass, be-
ing sure to always have the liquid
cover the eggs for about six inches.