Carthage courier. (Carthage, Tenn.) 1913-current, 1919-02-13
POULTRY CAMPAIGN.

Mrs. Hattie F. Wendell, Home DEM
onstration Agent, will put on Poul-
try Campaign during the months of
February and March. As it will be
impossible for her to see every body
in the county in this limited time,
she asks that those who are interest
ed in more and better poultry to
drop her a postal card at Carthage,
giving name and address and the
special breed of poultry they are rails
ing or wish to take up.
The following article on Poultry
will be of interest:
The census of 1900 shows 1921, 070,-
695, as compared with 1910 $500, 1885,
237, an increase of 1928, 124, 544.
During 1918 it has been estimated
that the increased number in fowls
and eggs produced is about 25 per
cent more than in 1910 for the en-
tire country. There is also an in
crease in price during the year 1918
over 1910 of between go and 100 per-
cent, which substantiates the fact that
the poultry and eggs business of the
United States for the year 1918 just
closed, was approximately 81 900, O0O,-
900.
Poultry can be kept on any farm
and under almost any condition. 1t
needs only comfortable houses, proper
feeding, and regular attention. Poul-
try will return more profit for the dol
lars invested than any other class of
farm stock.
Old hens and pullets Matched during
May, June and later months do not
lay eggs in the winter or early spring.
Pullets Matched in February, March,
and April lay eggs in the fall and win
ter and early spring. Pullets Matched
in February, March, and April, not
only mature early but grow larger,
and are able to withstand the hot
weather and lice which retard growth
and make improbable late Matched
chickens.
Waste milk, that has been soured,
fed to poultry daily will double the
egg yield. Where milk is not avail
able, coarse meat scraps (ground
cracklings) can be used as a substi-
tute for milk and will give equally
good results.
Green food is necessary in order
that hens be kept healthy and produce
a maximum number of eggs.
Standard poultry has been
line-bred to produce a maximum num-
Der of eggs, and to make the maxi
mum number of pounds of meat on the
smallest possible amount of feed.
Scrub poultry does not have the
vitality that standard bred poultry
has, does not lay but about one-half
as. many eggs; does not weigh but
about half as much when ten or twelve
weeks old; and the meat breeds
plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes, Rhode
Island Reds) will weigh double what
scrub poultry will when matured.
Boys and girls have more time to
devote to breeding and care of poultry
than their parents-hence the need of
their becoming demonstrators (poul-
try club members). The study that
is needed to develop them as profita-
BILE poultry producers is in keeping
with their school studies, and is
splendid education in itself.
Boys enjoy working with a saw
and hammer, and with little induce
ment can, from helps furnished, make
comfortable brood coops for hens and
chickens.
When mother hens are confined to
brood coops, and little chicks given
free range, the chickens are raised
much easier, and with less attention;
less feeding; less danger of loss from
disease or drowning during heavy
rains, than when the hens are allow
ed to run with the chickens.
The purebred male bird will increase
the weight of chickens from scrub
hens one-half; and increase the egg
yield of the pullets from this cross
another half, making it highly pro-
fitable to grade poultry where it is
not possible to get and keep entirely
purebreds.
Early Matching, that is during Feb
ruary, March and April, has more to
do with assuring profit in the poul-
try yard than any other one thing.
Very truly yours,
RICHARD N. CRANE.
C..aasnl IL II, po,altr-.- Hi1Sha 1,d1.u