Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-05-18
POULTRY TO REPLENISH
OUR MEAT SUPPLIES
Million Bac kyard Chicken
Houses Must Come to the
Rescue.
One Hen Can Turn Out 400
Pounds of Meat i'm Year.
By G.. K. Smith
Author and Practical Poultryman


We have mobiIzed our men, our
ammunition our money and our
ships. The results have amazed the
world and sent the Prusalan murder
band shaking In it's shoes. We nave
assembled our meat supplies; but
we find that the demands are flr
exceeding our largest present out
puts. what can We do about II
America If infinite ~ lts product
We pnashuItica Shame on ils y
We confess 10 lack of ability to
feed our hundred millions with ahun-
dance uf the choicest food ot every
kind The hottomless PIT INTO whieh the
arganikcd aesassins ~ Potsdam have
pli,nged the whole world must be the
. Necessity that ahall mother the meth.
ods for tho feeding of or people, ~ vel
as for the crushing of the lnspeakahie
Hun
uFAr rhNtSE Ftcr
What IS a fanne2 The dction
ar, teIle rs # is n widespread and
distressing Rcarcify of food hat y
inst what | mean The nan who has
| not fot the widespread and distressing
| scarcity nf ncai during the last two
| wears must To W III tstit
Ninety-hvc II every nne hundred ni
or neople havc t,ocnnc painfully con
/ arfo,ls ~ tins serious shoriage Meat
vee hg factor n our hufne ratl"ns
| from our earliest boyhood We miss y
now ne full grown tigers would mss
!, Il suddenly put on ninety per cent
! revot ahIe fare Twenty months ago
So ra,dc,I and rofed because - sky
tocEetlng meat prices and the ahprtness
.,f The SUNNY IN these daye i IS Tnrsr
th.n ctor ir we aro hardened sofno-
what ~ Il md therefore b"v nlr hacks
70 the burden - want as pat1ent cofin-
trY-iovtng Americans
W have discovered that conditions
are alarming. Charlos ] Prand, chirf
of the Bureau of Markets saFs
that thr most careful and cpnsfrVa
t,z.a estIfneto i that there hae he@n =
eleerraar SINCE August lhtf. q n"r"
than III m0 600 head of cattle. hog7
and sheep Tins la serious when Fe
rernauber that there are upf that many
,oen women and children IN this conn-
~ Elray,o ltas hoen killing pH her
teef parI ard mutton almost 20 the
Mount III annhilatlon We nave fu'
Iagn nltr iuoal consumption TWENTY-FIVE
pcr cent In response 20 appeals from
Washington Rlt this saving has seer
t,rf,rnt,fis. transferred to the starvlng
,ntIIians II tprqrc lpr ne filing q
ar nUn stonachs thr gam hes horr
nothing thai We can vet appreciate
Prit xe nast fhnk of more than or
1vn horne needs \lrrady we have 1T
teen hundred thousand men = ~
framing f4u,pe and On the French '.at
fic lines II cooks qlfr likely ina
fherr plf he pccd of fmrfy yfiVe hundred
thousand moro hcfore thls l'nn f"is'
ne@sa i finished he soldiers If ou
Aihes have the same kind % appetlte
a. our awn khakl-clad millions. Mea
! must Eo supplied II can he supplied
lis ~ to tnpr,ca
POULTRY ruR boGIcAt SUBSTITUTE.
Tho ehickcn dinner cant =
beaten the world over The man Wh'
Will complain Of \ lack 81 meat whil
hrs plate Ia veil filled With tender Whit
la.era from the breast II uley roaste
shouid 4c branded an Ingrateiu
alarkrr Poultry meat 8 not q sunstl
ute II the real thing Heretofore y
: have thought ~ this flcilcols dish rs
luxlfr, because of It's slperio quality As q
article ii food and the impossibilltT 8
g VeftInV 9s much ol II rs the prepple nav
desired Il Is now oar privilege and on
dtltv 10 produce 80 many fowls that IA
chicken dinner will he the commo
< EVERYDAY fare of the average American
y The egg has long been neceasity {
$ right cookery We have usually ma
4 a plenty ol this invaluable factor !
G every wcIl-ordered kitchen. heretor
: when prices became prohIbiiive Oecalf
Il of recent scarcity our housewives b'
e came straghtway not only confused
+ but hot with anger Condltions nav
g become much worse during the la
twelve months High prices 81 chlcke
feed have driven from fifty 70 siXt
per cent of American poultry producer
out Of the business.
l. This has been the case from the A
lantlc TO the Pacific and lrom Mort
II to south The farmers held their stoc
IS better because they could raIse the
< own feed and permit their birds TO 10
d age for nearly half their living
p large proportion of the great comme
cial poultry plants threw up the spoons
and many Of the backyarders sold the
little hocks or ate them up TO exc OF
their meat supply
Il Poultry and eggs must come nac
> They can come back. We must brr
them back The trick is being turnt
all over the land The flesh Of ol
domestic Hucks can easily be mat
available in thousands OF tons 70 tai
't the place Of beef and pork and Tnu
ton. The American hen will this We
!, come splendidly 10 the rescue OF Il
l. American public and do her hero
\. share in making the world safe for d.
% ccncv and democracy
= IMMEDIATE KErLkNIsnHENT POSSIBLE.
r. The man who has two hens to eve
/ member Of his family viii have sm.
D: sorrow IN solving his meat problem
t The fresh eggs that are 50 desirable
every home will tc his the year rouu
1. Tie can renew his flock annually Al
). the surplus stock will give the rig
n, kind Of a supplement and in right pi
re- portion To his scant ration Of 9th
q meats
nj The quickest way IN the world o G
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