Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-23
THE POULTRY YARD
POULTRY ON THE FARM.
BY Ed webe.

BY caring for flock of chickens
the farmers wife, unless she be very
extravagant, may not only provide her
self with pin money but bank ac-
| count. With poultry selling on the
market at % cents per pound and eggs
at 30 cents q, dozen, and with pros :
pect of better prices as soon as the
cold storage men are willing to handle
them in large lots, the farmers wife
laughs at the idea Of pin money and
sometimes refuses to tell the size OF
the bank account.
Most up-to-d date farmers wives use
incubators for Matching, in this way
having early chickens and enough of
them to bother with. She may or may
not have breeders, depending upon the
kind Of fowls she raises, some being
such good mothers that a brooder
seems unnecessary.
Carelessness IL the cause Of most Of
the failures in poultry raising. We so
easily weary in well doing. We lack
the perseverance necessary to carry us
through a successful season of poultry
raising. The farmers wife oftentimes
attempts to raise more poultry than
she did last year. ALL well and good
If she has the ability,to care for more.
but eggs and food are too high priced
to be wasted. and unless one is sure
ono will not tire of caring for them.
do not increase the number. but the
Equality of the flock.
Raise Some Pure Breed.
Raise some breed Of poultry that will
be all one color. You have no idea
how much more OF both pleasure and
profit there is in raising pure breeds
than mongrels. Too few farmers
wives care for pure bred fowls. What
| looks more beautiful than to pass one
of our Iowa farm houses in the spring
or summer season and see the lawn
covered with beautiful birds of uni
form color size and shape, no matter
what the breed may be? On the other
hand, contrast the appearance of a lot
Of runty scrubs upon this same lawn,
all shapes, all sizes and all colors.
Even II one raises eggs and fowls only
for market, 1t pays to have them pure
/ bred.
| Your neighbor who raises scrubs may
tell you that her hens lay better be-
4 cause they are mixed There is no
logic in this, and if you ask her how
1 mnch poultry or eggs she has during
the season, she seldom knows, espe-
| cially about the eggs. She kept no
account, so can not be sure that her
hens really do lay more eggs. Keeping
an account is one OF the things neg
lected by farmers wives.
Money in Turkey Raising.
If one is so situated that he can
raise turkeys, there is money in that
branch of poultry culture. To raise
turkeys requires patience, time and iso-
lation Turkeys will cause more neigh
borhood quarres than a tale bearer.
Most farmers would as leave see herd
of cattle. hogs or sheep belonging to
his neighbor ranging over his pasture
or stubble field, and while 1t Is pos
sible to keep cattle, sheep and hogs
confined, to raise turkeys successfully
they must have practically unlimited
range.
| Experience will teach you that they
are not hard to raise. A farmers wife
unless she has help, or less to do than
most women on the farm, can not
raise turkeys. During the laying sea-
son turkey hen must be watched.
Turkeys pick up great deal of their
living and bring such ENORMOUS prices
on the market that there. is a fne
profit in them. Secure eggs for hatch
ing from good strain Of turkeys, and
the demand at Thanksgiving will take
every one raised. a3s
Not more, but. better poultry. no mat
terrwhat variety, must be. our aim II
we are to do the best Of which we
are capable