The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-01-07

ueatn 10 mites ana lice. lniS Is
the time of year to Gull out and
sell OFF your old hens. In some
places we find people keeping hens
of all ages. some not being able to
tell you to what historical age GER
tain biddies have attained. In fact
| have known some places where
the old hens are never sold or kill
ed OFF; they are left to die off.
l find from experience that it does
not pay to keep more chickens than
one can care for. Thirtyfive and
| forty hens are all any one needs
on a farm. There are invariably
too many fowls on all farms. Some
complain of not getting any eggs.
can't tell or recall the time | didn't
get plenty of eggs twelve months in
the year. 1t does not matter so
much what it costs to feed hens,
so long as we are feeding them at
a profit. True, we want all the
profit there is in the business, and
the way to get it is to feed liberal
| ly. We can't starve eggs out, of
hens. They must be well fed and
| well nourished to do their best
and every additional egg the hens
| lay adds to the profit. Ii hens are
not producing we should know the
reason why and how to remedy it,
Hens should lay nine months in the
year and lay we'll. They will do
this if we will do our part. | have
only one breed and that the Barred
| Plymouth Rocks | think the Bar
| red Rocks one among the best all
purpose chickens on the farm. They
| lay plenty of eggs, and are just
good size, not too small, not too
| large; they are gentle and make
good mothers and they are splendid
rustlers-earliest out at dawn and
| the last to go to roost at night.
| Plymouth Rocks are an American
production, have never been beaten
| for uniform growth and quick de-
velopment. They are great as COM
bined mothers and egg producers,
are superior as table fowl, and
have as much weight as is conserva-
tive with proper action and rustling
qualities So far as breed is con-
cerned any stock that justifies the
| = ha nf /
have my favorite, but that doesn't
give me sufficient reason to dictate
the breed other people shall keep.
| 1t is merely a matter of choice. so
choose the breed you like best and
| profit thereby Far more depends
on the strain than the breed any
way So If the strain is egg-pro-
ducing forget the breed in the pres
ence of full egg-basket.
| In the face of facts garnered from
past experience. | am of the opin-
ion that if the proper care essential
to each season be given regularly
and with detail a reasonable
amount of eggs can be secured any
| time of the year. | measure my
success by my profits. | have kept
a careful record of receipts from
my eggs and chickens for the year
ll915 as follows: | sold from forty
eight (4S) hens five thousand nine
hundred and sixty one t59b1)
eggs which netted me S2l4.4o.
Chickens sold for breeding pur-
poses s197.60 In addition 10 this
II sold $3.50 worth of butter. Ny
expense, including advertising, let
ter-heads. stamps, envelopes, egg
cartons for shipping. feed for
chickens was $3.50. This is not
much, but shows what a small far
mer's wife can do if she will only
half try This is a practical age,
however. when everything and ey-
erybody moves at rapid rate II
behooves US 10 be up and doing. IL
means a ready supply of cash To
meet the expense OF the home.
Poultry raising is superior TO any
other feature where little time and
lexpense may be necessary. IL al
ifords recreation TO the housewife
land contributes 10 the family lar
der. | hope the day will soon come
when YOU will see floeks OF pure
hred poultrv on all farms. as veil
as fne hogs aud cattle IN the pas
Iture. Let Us try to raise more aud