Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-06-01
POULTRY MAY BE
 SOURCE IF INCOME
 THROUGHOUT YEAR
Every Home Gan Have Profitable Flock of Hens
 i1l Its Back Yard.
(By E. E. Richards, president of the
 American Poultry associatiom

Before another matching season, the great United States will, no doubt, be in the deepest throes of the worlds most cruel war and no one can fore tell the countless thousands that may be crying for bread. It is up to the United States, the worlds greatest, richest, and resourceful nation, to not only look after the welfare of her own citizens, but to give aid and as sistance in supplying food to count less thousands of suffering humanity in the torn and stricken war zone. The great agricultural resources of Amerl- ca must prepare to assume this bur den. Every one of us must do our bit. Every acre, every mock and corner must bear it's share. 1t Is lucky that ill poultry we can produce the cheapest and most quickly pro- duced meat of all the various sources of our meat supply. Here, we have an opportunity of producing an extra one hundred million pounds if the Amerl- can farmers, the fanciers and breeders will give their attention to hatching during the months of May and June.
 It is q we'll known fact that the available supply of meat products is today the low est<in our country, per capita, in the history of the United States. In order to meet the extreme ly dangerous condition, we have with in ourselves a wonderful opportunity of aiding what may prove to be worldwide cry for food. Let us all join enthusiastically in the propa- sanda of helping in the probable time of need, by putting forth now every effort to meet, in measure, the demand that is sure to come for un- told quantities of food stuffs. Never in the history of the world will there be a greater demand than ill the next twenty-four months that are to fol- low
 For the past twenty-four months we have been killing the goose that has. been laying the golden egg, and with the hue and cry of costly feed, poultry and All meat products have been soar ing far above all the usual estimates as to the relative cost of production: and the selling price. The margln ol nrofit on the production of eggs and noultry for meat is far in excess Of the percentage of profit in normal times But aside from the question of profit. we Americans must look at the situation from philanthroplc ana humanitarian standpoint anG each ana every one do his bit to meet an eXl- gcncy that seems inevitable. Let us all trv to be factor in the produc- tion of an extra hundred million mounds of poultry meat which Is lcss than one pound additional for each man woman and child in the United States.
 The United States department of agriculture has just issued an esu- mate that upwards of seven hundrco millions of dollars is the annual IT'D ute paid by Americans to the gafDagc can. Why not convert this into reed 10 produce poultry and eggs?
 Every home can have self-support- ing and profitable flock in the back ward by converting the offal from inc table and kitchen into the very choicest of poultry feed. Why such an astounding waste, an utter extrav- agance that costs us nearly seven aol- lars for every man, woman ana chlla in the United States? Let every nome have a neat poultry house and few well kept, profitable fowls. The editor of this publication will be only too pleased to cooperate with every reader desiring any information.
 It is not unusual for the fanciers to quit matching with April. Let me urge that hatching be continued during the months of May and June and also during July in a large part of our country. Let the old hen do her part fill up the incubators-keep them going through May and June-the re- suits will be worth while. Let us be prepared to consume every bit Of table and kitchen scraps and make them a source Of profit.
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