Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1917-04-22
EXPERTS TELL HOW To UTILIZE
POULTRY RESOURCES Of STATE

Proceeding then on the basis of the
maximum production of eggs with the
minimum of grain. we are simply
adopting the best methods of sue
ceSSful poultrymen. We will consider
first the hen. as she is the machine
/ by which is manufactured the eggs.
| We should proceed to weed outthe
drones, the hens that are not any
never will produce Personally | rath-
er believe that the Hogan system of
selecting the layers if carefully fol-
| lowed out will help in a very large
| measure to select the most profitable
and that of course means the best lay
efs. l believe that any one may learn
a great deal about selecting the best
layers by studying this system, though
do not by any means claim to be
Hogan expert. I believe also as one of
our Maricopa county poultrymen SAYS
that it is possible to select some hens
| from almost any flock that do not Law.
1t is little less than criminal now
| when there is such a need for grain
| and especially wheat to feed it to fowls
| that Will make no returns from it. Re
gardiess of profits then we should con-
slder 1t our patriotic duty to Gull the
| flock at once and conserve the. feed
which the non producers are consum-
ing. In many flocks may be found
hens that are too old to lay. and these
may usually be selected without diff
flcuity The lazy hen too has no
| right to be fed now when feed is
scarce and quite often there are hens
that are not as healthy as they ought
to be for either useful egg production
Or for the good of the rest of the
md = 4 an
rid of at once. | rather like the slogan
of Judge Nasterson of California,
Never let chicken die on the place"
and he says further, lit doesn't matter
what you to do to it always beat him
to it, There is a great deal in the
thought, and the more ! think of it
the more am convinced that we should
! never let chicken die natural death
L sualiy it doesn't pay to doctor sick
chicken and the sooner that the axe
Is used the more feed is saved and the
less danger of spreading disease.
In the matter of feed, while we must
for patriotic reasons, if not for the
good of our own pocketbooks make as
efficient use as possible of all feeds
we must first realize that a hen half
fed and half starved will not lay in
the same proportion, she will use the
feed first for body maintenance and
the surplus goes to the production of
eggs, if there is no surplus there is
| no egg production.
| A hen should consume according to
the figures Of an eastern experiment
station, about Z pounds of grain to
| produce $50 eggs in a year, She should
produce in weight OF eggs e-quarter
of the weight of the feed she consumes
no no
proximately so pounds of grain either
whole or ground to maintain her body
| If she gets only enough for mainten-
| ance she can lay no eggs at all
| AS to what to feed that will depend
| somewhat upon what feeds are avail
able. Wheat is badly needed now for
human food, and we should feed more
| milo and balance this with bran, ana
| a very little cotton seed meal. and a
ration may be made up which will give
good results without feeding much
Wheat. Probably best results may be
had by feeding at least one fourth of
the ration in ground feed, and a larger
proportion is probably better. This
enables us to use considerable bran
| and small amount of cotton seed meal.
| Some poultrymen believe that it takes
| less feed if the grain is boiled A con-
! Sluci dDiC vi SIccll lScu Will We
consumed by fowls if it is finely chop
ped and this adds to the efficiency of
the ration and cheapens it materially.
, Eggs produced on a too large proper
! ton of green feed make the eggs
I watery. and with less food value. dark
colored yolks and eggs which will not
stand cold storage, to good advantage.
/ Some more than ordinary effort
should be made this season to utilize
by some means the cleaning from the
grain fields. Some years ago | read
| CT some one who built big chicken
coop on wheels and took a good sized
flock of hens to the fields where grass
hoppers were most plentiful and moved
this into a different location each day.
| think that a wagon with a roof over
it and large enough to furnish a roost-
! ing place for 100 to $50 hens would not
be expensive to fix and with few
minutes at night after the fowls had
gone to roost be moved and in this way
there would be no expense at all for
feed and the best of it would be that
grain that would otherwise be wasted
would be made use Of / am not sure
that such a method will show much
profit, but it will at least break even
for the time and bother and will be
one means of saving
If it is almost criminal TO feed hens
that do not produce, it is equally as bad
to feed hens that in turn are feeding
msriads of lice, ticks and mites. 1t