Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-02-12
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The County Agriculturist.

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cation was considered very good for the
average farmboy, but today the parents
that do not give their boy high school
education, if he will take it. are looked
upon as delinquent in their filial duty.
The requirements for an education
are becoming greater every day, and
more and more is being added to the
long list of things to be learned, till it
is becoming a grave question, "what
is the best method to follow TO acquire
the greatest amount of knowledge in a
given time?"
1t used to be thought that when one
graduated from high school they had
completed their education, but now a
farmer is up against it if he does not
study continuously. There is no end TO
our education. For every new thing we
learn 10 more are brought to our no.
tiee that we feel we ought to know
It is Just as important for the farm
er to study out the proper methods TO
follow by which to learn as it is to be
come inspired with the incentive to
learn. 1t is just as possible to learn
what you want to know in half the
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uer, as it is for one man to split up
two blocks of wood while another is
I splitting one because he knows the bet
ter how TO 90 about if.
/ One day l went through a poultry
show with a certain farmer. We look
| ed at every coop of birds in the build
/ ing and made casual remarks about a
great many of the birds on exhibit
| There was a caponizing clinic but we
didn't stop for that.
The next day 1 went through the
same show with another farmer At the
very first coops we met the owner.
and the farmer began asking all manner
Of questions. "Were they hatched in
an incubator? What did he feed them
when they were small? What did it
cost to raise them from the time thev
were hatched TOLL they began to Law
Did it nav to breed to two-year-old
roosters9" Etc, etc.
We came upon four coops Of Barred
Rocks that had no cards or ribbons upon
them. The farmer was very curious
to know why. When we had gone all
the wav around the farmer said: "Let
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anything about those four coops of
Barred Rocks. " We found the own
or in front Of them. "What is the reas
on your coops aren't tagged2' inquired
the farmer "Wel, These hens are
bred to lay and will not score high
/ enough to compete with these show
/ birds. replied the owner, Can't p
7 hen lay eggs and be a show bird at
the same time'' cried the farmer. No
/ sir!" replied the owner. "You might
/ iust as well try to raise dairy COWS br
1 breeding them to the standard intended
I for beef show as to try to raise Law
inc hens by breeding to the standard
intended for these fancy show birds ~
Say! ! wish l had that five dollars
back I paid out for a fancy rooster
last spring cried the farmer "How
! do you 90 about It TO nroduce these
/ LAYING hens?' "Well. " the owner be.
can. "I'll tell YOU how I have been
doing it," "Three years ago had one
hundred and twenty-five laving hens
All through January they didn't aver
age me over six eggs a day. I marked
/ the ones that were laying and found
I had nine that were doing the most
Of the winter laviug I put them in a
separate coop the next spring and
raised nv next years chickens from
them Last winter I culled out the
drones again, and this winter I am get.
ting an average of five dozen eggs q
dav from one hundred hens "
The farmer looked at him intently for
q few moments and said, I'm going To
begin culling out my hens, and IN
cut the darn heads off the drones living
off me. Ny hens have free range. |
haven't time to fool with no second
pen. And he looked like he was hank.