Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-15
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condition. To save at the feed bin now
is to waste in the nest box. Push your
pullets now II you would have them
push your profits for the next ten
months. Search the land and the
books for. the best possible condition
ing food. Buy it at any price II you
want money to pay for it with. Your
profitable output hangs in the balance.
Give every hen the best chance. Study
the hens by day and by night. Get
them at perfect ease. Never be salts
fed till they sing like robins in June.
Eggs come not without this. The
spirit Of reproduction is jealous and
elusive. Have the home Of your hens
successfully solving this vital problem
insist upon Just such high ideals. The
rotten muck and the unspeakable
stencil OF the stone age in poultry cul-
ture have absolutely no recognition in
the best parts of the poultry world to-
day. You attend to these things or you
fail financially and you forfeit the re-
spectful Fellowship Of the really worth
While poultry fraternity.
Testing che Eco v;sld.
There are three ways Of testing the
egg yield. These are the trap nest.
the flock average and the physical test.
The profitable output demands the
combination OF the three. You must
get down to the individual. There are
hens and hens. There is an bir a dr.
ference in the laying capacity Of fowls
as in the thinking capacitv Of humans
This principle sends one man into the
ditch to dig, and another into the chair
Of the chief Justice. It doesn't tahe the
public long to find a mans level. He
rises and sinks with the certainty Of
the power OF gravity. In every flock OF
fifty laying hens there are dozen or
so which are worth all the rest jumped
together. These birds OF destiny must
be sifted out. Distinction must be
branded on them. The poultrysnan
who negiects this il like the nnhl,c
which sees no difference between the
idiot and the statesman.
It Is matter of fact that some hens
DO not lay eggs. Just as certainly.
others lay only q dozen or twenty eggs
from mott to mott. With equal certain
" SAW SAAsAS SVSAlSI6 lay
zoo to $50 eggs in twelve months.
What! Pass with indifference this in
finite distance between the profit pro-
ducing powers Of laying hens? The
biggest business Of business man ID
to discover ability. The biggest busi-
ness Of a poultryman is to discover
laying capacity. The trap nest can't
be used with thousand laying fowls.
Time Is too precious. SIT the best out
BY the Hogan test, and by careful and
daily observation and inspection. Study
the average yield each day Of each
mock. The home of the drones win DO
discovered. Eliminate them. why
feed them? Every individual which
has proved . record Of $50 eggs or more
should DO kept till age has spoiled her
usefulness. Never exchange . 2-year-
old hen with . 100 egg record for an
untested pullet.
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