French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-28
MAKE MORE MONEY FROM
YOUR FARM POULTRY.

Practically all farmers raise poul-
try. No other class of live stock is so
widely distributed.
We "take care of our horses, our
COWS, and our pigs, but we keep"
chickens.
It isn't much trouble to keep chick
ems. They can roost most any place
on the fence, In the barn or pig pen, or
even in the trees. They can I've on
most anything-bugs, worms, waste
grain, or table scraps-and if they
chance to wander into the garden
where the eating is good, they are
p. "shOOed' or stoned out. They can
drink water or eat snow.
The average farmer considers pOul-
try raising "side issue"-a job for
women and children-a sort of neces-
sary nuisance in order to provide fresh
eggs and toothsome roast or fry.
Yet this necessary nuisance" this
"side-i issue" branch Of farming, nets an
annual return in the United States of
more than hal "a billion dollars -
enough to build two Panama canals
every year.
| Farm Hens Big Producers.
|
vast sum is produced by the CONNER
cial poultrymen of the country. Ninety
per cent of 1t is earned by the little,
often neglected, focks ranging at lib
erty on the farms Of the country.
Farm poultry Is profitable because
the investment Is small the cost OF
labor low. feed Ia cheap, the chickens
utilize the waste products of the farm,
and thep destroy weeds and insects.
Increase your profit by producing
more eggs. The average farm hen
produces sixty eggs; she should pro-
duceduce one hundred and twenty.
Profit depends on surplus production.
Good housing and proper feeding
will increase your profit.
A hen will not lay eggs unless she
is comfortable and has a variety of
food with plenty of water, grit and
oyster shell.
Handle and market your eggs better.
Market the kind Of eggs you would
want to buy If you were a consumer.
Produce infertile eggs, keep the nests
clean, gather the eggs daily, keep them
in a cool, dry place, and market them
twice week.
Improve your flock Gull out the
poor stuff; begin now to build better
flock and ultimately keep one breed
only.
A hen house Is not always hen
home. Tn former may be cold, dark
and damp; the latter is always light
clean, cherry, and comfortable.
Make Hens Comfortable.
The poultry house should be con
venient 1t should be colse to the 9th
er buildings, and easy to clean. A low
house is hard to work in. high house
is hard to keep warm. Have plenty oil
light in the house-sunlight is a good
germ destroyer. Leave all Or a part
of the south side open to keep the
house dry and we'll ventilated. Allow
no drafts. Keep the house clean and
free from vermin.
A wood house does not necessarily
need to be an expensive house. A
icheap house, built along the right lines
and kept clean. will serve just as wei
as an expensive house.
If you want winter eggs duplicate
spring conditions. Variety is impOr-
tant in the water ration. Eggs can
not be produced unles the feed con.
tains the material from WHICH eggs
are made. An egg is about ten per
per cetn gat, fifteen per cent protein
seventy-four per cent water, and one
per cent ash, chiefly lime.
Grain, especially corn, furnishes the
carbon and starch-the heat and fat
making foods; mile feeds, with milk
or beef scrap, furnish the protein
Some green food sis necessary in win
ter to furnish succulence and bulk.
/ Give the hens all the water they will
drink; warm it, If possible. Furnish
grit to grind the food, oyster shell fol
making the egg shell: and charcoal as
an aid to observation-disclosures P. 6
Holden.