French Broad hustler and Western Carolina Democrat. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1915-1916, 1916-02-03
MoH4 YALUABM SUGGESTIONS
F0R 6ERING NINRBB EGGS.
Sfaay These and Apply Khem. and,
There WI Always Be SOm0ehtng
IN The Egg Basket

81 am eoing to ask The Progressive
Farmer to print this, IL itFhaa room.
EIt ts method sthat has brought me
satisfactory results.
Study the Business
Get The best magazines, bulletins
and books on poultry, and study
them. You can't raise chickens with
out studying any more than q physi-
elan can practice medicine without
STUDYING. It Is fatal to the patients.
For example. the first rear / raised
chickens / knew nothing about them.
had SO hens That WinterI got an
egg or two e day. Then I studied
some poultry literature, ate the eight
worst layers, and with the remaining
90 hens got u to Is eggs . day during
the second winter.
.u-Feed Right
Feed your hens. Give them enough.
lffeed, and give them the right kinds.
Most hens In the South are half fed
Eggs are made out Of feed. A hen
uses her first feed to build up her
body and keep it in good condition.
She uses the surplus-and the surplus
only-for eggs. II you give enough
only to buitds up her body, what win
make eggs? Most hens in the South
don't get enough ever to build up their
bodies.
The feeds must be the right kind.
A hen stuffed On the wrong sorts will
not lay. There are two chief classes
of foods; those that make heat and
fat (carbohydrates), and those that
make blood and muscle (protein). An
egg is made OF the latter sort. There
fore corn alone will not make eggs.
/ feed wheat and corn, a mash Of
wheat bran, corn meal, beef scrap,
and cotton seed meal, Always have
green feed-wheat, rye. oats, clover,
something growing green all winter.
Have plenty Of it. I consider this the
MOST necessary feed.
UI-GiVe Your Hens Comfortable y
Houses.
IL there are cracks. nail roofing pa
per about three of the sides. Leave
10 cracks. You can leave the south
entirely open. Don's set your DOS
poles up in the sky. Lower them, and
put q false roof close to the poles, 30
the heat viii stay about the hens. II
you are building houses. build them
lew. A hen isn't six feet tall You
waste lumber. I built houses 8 feet at
highest point, 41-2 where hens roasted
Have houses always dry, with plenty
tof scratching litter. Throw reed In the
litter and make the hens .sEEath i
Reepe sem cctd
lay
V-Keep Things CloAA.
Keep your hens eleanS keep the
houses clean. ] mean clean out
houses once q week, use kerosene and
WhitewaSh to get rid OF mites, and
use lice powders and vaseIine (some-
times kerosene cautiously to get rid
Of lice. Mites and lice are totally diff
ferent things. Good poultrymen never
have mites. They are caused by filth.
Lice live on the hens. Always ahape
dry earth or aches for the hens to
waIlow in. That is a hens way OF
taking a bath.
V-Furnish Shells or Grit.
Give your poultry plenty of grit,
oyster shell and charcoal. sharp gray
ell, broken up crockery and glassware
Tor bought grit, may all be used. ]
beat up crockery and glassware, but
bought grit is better as glass some
times cut the hens crop. However, I
never had any trouble. You must give
plenty of grit. Give too much hens
will take what they need. No use t.
give feed and furnish nothing for
grinding it. Feed limestone in some !
form-oyster shell, old plaster, crush
ed lime rock, etc. An egg shell is
made of lime. A hen can't make il
from nothing. Feed charcoal to keep
the system healthy. I usually kept
wood ashes for them to wallow ia, and
enough charcoal was scattered through
the ashes.
VII-Keep Pure-bredS if Possible.
Lots of scrubs lay well, but the
pure-breds are surer. Then eggs of
uniform color and size bring better
prices. I cannot see why anyone pre-
ferE hens of all sizes and shapes Ia
those of uniform appearance. And
the pretty ones are no harder to raise.
fuI-GlVe Your Hens Persistent and
Careful Attention.
IT you do not do this you will get no
eggs. Every one of the above points
must receive attention. Give the hens
warm water on freezing mornings.
Don't let them out of their houses in
snowy weather. Have the litter deem
and clean and put lots of grain in it
for then1tes scratch for. Leaves do
well for litter. Oats and wheat in the
sheaf are nice to throw~to the fowls.
N-Behead the NOn.Layers.
After you have done every one OF the
above things carefully, then if some oS
your hens refuse to lay, cut their
heads off. They are not worth keen.
ing. But be sure you do every one of
the other things first. Give the hens
a fair chance.-Mrs. w. E. Jenkins in
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