Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-04-23

I every one of us start an cgg-laylns
contest right at home with the pur-
lose of increasing our egg yield ny
spotting the mere bcarder and breed
ing better birds for the filling of the
egg basket? a liberal estimate of the
cost of feed for one hen Tor one year
would be $3.50. Allowing yearly
production of only l20 eggs. there
will still be profit above her feed of
81 so, with eggs at 80 cents dozen.
An increase of 30 eggs "A year to to
the fowl above this would mean an
average of only so eggs for each
layer. But ii would mean an increase
OF $500 Il year profit on plant
carrying 1000 layers. This average
would still be less than half the rec
/ ord the top-notch bird.
Here is where the American people
can cut the high cost of living" by
half billion dollars a year, namely,
by increasing the average egg yield of
the common hen from 20 a year to
$40 Il year,
Poultry Culture u National Industry.
The modern high-record hen should
/ mean this "unquestion recognition .
Poultry culture has come TO stay.
We are forced under the circum-
stances to rank it with dairying,
wheat and corn production, lumber
ing, manufacturing. or any others OF
our great national Industries.
Two decades ago men made merry
with the poultry business, There
was good cause for this in many
cases II was the day of beginnings
in the building up of the modern
/ egg machine. At present there are
/ plenty of plants handling thousands
and even tens of thousands of birds.
/ | visited one farm last summer where
more than 10000 fowls more than
three months old were then be-
ing cared for. The same farm has an
incubator cellar with Il total capacity
Of $4,000 eggs. visited another
farm which had a producing capacity
of $50, 900 baby chicks "A year. such
extensive plants usually handle 10000
or more layers. From 80 to 300. and
sometimes as high as 700. birds are
ltopt in a flock.
Smaller plants for intensive egg
production are numerous and multi
plying rapidly all over the land. a
zone man farm is supposed to handle
from 1000 to 1000 laying hens, the
'onc man" requiring an assistant
during the busy season of incubation
and brooding These intensive and
extensive plants. taken in connection
with the tens of thousands of people
on the farms and in the towns who
keep fowls in smaller flocks. lift poul-
great industries of the country The
S00-egg hen puts her seal of certainty
on the proposition. If one can lay
31A eggs in IL months. there should
he millions in America that lay 200
eggs apiece.
Value of Scientific Methods.
This is not least. In fact. 1t is pri
mary. without scientific methods II
, breeding and care we would neVel
have known of the possibilities of th'
hen. The trap nest. the balanced ra
, tion. the line breeding for high cgl
, production, the most skillful care
taking day and night, winter AM
, summcr--in fact. Scientific manage
l mont' in its purest and most approved
form. must go along with this busi
ness, as with the building of locomo
tives. ocean liners, or 16-inch guns
, If the largest results are to b.
, achieved. Given this scientific man
, agement with all that It means. an,
, Iut behind 1t the right kind of per
, sonality. combining above all things
| heavy business caliber with "A keei
, and forcefu initiative, and every rea
sonabe hope inspired by the high
record bird will he realized.