New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1917-11-23
RAISE POULTRY
AND HELP TO
WIN THIS WAR
JEWELLERS IN THE CITIES
HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO
HELP IN SAVING MEAT;
MAKING MORE AVAILABLE
FOR ALLIES

Washington, Nov. 2l.-Uncle Sam
now offers to town dwellers an op-
portunity to produce some of the
meat needed by tn enation to win
the war. The production of the
great bulk of the feed and food
stuffs and meat supplies is an OBJ
legation of the farmer and for that
reason town people, although anxious
to serve, have thought that only by
conservation and home gardening
could they be factor in the food
problem But they can do more
than that. They can be meat pro-
thanks to the fact that poul-
try offers possibilities of quicker
form of meat food
Every family, in towns and suburbs
of cities--in every place where back
yard space and general conditions
permit it-should have at least
enough hens to supply the family
with eggs. That means about two
hens for each member of the family
ten hens should be sufficient for a
family of five.
Connects Yards With Battles
To the individual it may seem that
the question of his having. or not
having a few hens in his back yard
is very remotely rem owed from the
outcome Of European battles. But
if each backyard in this country
supplies the family with eggs and
if the farms of the land double their
poultry production, as they are be-
ING asked by the Government to do,
there will have been added, in the
form OF poultry and eggs a vast
amount of meat stuff to the, total
food resources Of our nation-and
that means to the total food re
sources of the nations fighting for
the freedom of the world
More Poultry Less Beef
The families that produce their
own eggs in the backyard will natur-
ally eat less meat. With twice as
much poultry and eggs eaten by the
nation there will be, in the final
analvss, great deal less meat and
pork eaten at home. That can 90
to our armies and to the armies of
the Allies.
The town family may be sure that
by backyard poultry production
practical patriotic service is being
performcd that an important addi-
ton is being made to the war
strength of the nation, 1t is lit
tie thing to the individual But it
will be big thing for Uncle Sam.
And it is the way town people can
help in meat production. The farms
must make the grain and pork and
beef and for that matter, most of the
poultry. The town dwel'crs, by
food, can have the graft
fving consciousness of having render
ed patriotic service-but shat
doesn't give them the pride of be-
ing actual producers. In addition to
food, the family that now
produces poultry as well as vegeta-
bles for shome use will have rem
dered valuable service That family
will know that it is directly respon-
sible for more meat having been sent
~ orr hovs in khahi-ard to the
French Poilus and British Tommies
and to the gallant remnant of the
Re'oian armv-the army that saved
civiliza tion--the army Of a nation
hat the rest of the world can never
-eDay.
Double Up Next Year
The United States Department of
A agriculture asks the farmers to
louble their poultry production next
rear-which can be done if everv
arm will keep an average of 100
lens, instead of an AVERAGE of 40
'ens, as at present. And at the same
inc the town people are asked to
1elp to the extent, at least of get
ing their eggs from their own back
,ard.
This is what the town dweller
how'd do:
Male up his mind now that he
viii keep poultry and produce eggs
or home use next year. Arrange
low to secure some good laying hens
N a basis of two hens for each mem |
yer of the family See that a suit
,hle orthorse will be available. and
f necessary. provide for fencing to
prevent the fowls getting into other
yards. Write to the u. S. DEPART !
nent. or to state agricultural Off
.ers for detailed advice. If needed.
To do this will help win the war
Get some hens 60 they can get !
,usy against the Kaiser.