Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-08-23
Poultry and Eggs a Great
Industry in Georgia
BY MARTIN v. CALVIN
Statistician Georgia Department of Agriculture

the hatch, each is in prime condition
fat and in good humor.
The season has been rather UNI
favorable for Matching eggs. 4 few
days ago, had a White Cornish
come off with a small. number OF
the prettiest chickens. A large rat
disturbed her. | spring-trapped him !.
| | knew she was awfully disappointed
she looked it, so l ordered num-
Der of day olds-White Leghorns--
| from a firm in Knoxville, Tenn. The
| biddies came in fine in fine shape
Wednesday afternoon of last week.
They were given sweet milk and then
ration of yolk of an cgg-hardbou-
| ed cut fine. Just at dark, l put
them under the hen. She seemed
pleased. The next morning, she re-
NAMED in her nest a little longer
than usual, which, you see, was con-
sideration for adopted chicks.
prepared breakfast for the chicks and
took the hen off nest. The chicks
drank milk readily and ate heartily.
The hen was as proud as a motherly
| Cornish hen knows how to be.
Pleasure in poultry-especially in
! CHlChSs GS. 10 a llLnll "a
who is daily very busy, it is genuine
rest, on returning home, to be greet
ed at the back steps by so, 90 or l0O
chickens of different ages-al IN
| high glee and anxious for the eve
ming meal. l wish you could see
my splendid White Cornish as they
rush to greet me, and, after being
fed. as they return to the Bermuda
grass and shrubbery in search of just
few more bugs before retiring for
the night.
But feed is high! So is the price
of eggs and poultry! There can be
no loss to the man or woman, who
is raising poultry, provided he or
she clings to common sense methods.
There is much to be CLEANED from
the experience of persons who have
made success of the business OF
poultry raising and egg production.
Again, solely in your interest, l oil
rect YOUR attention to the fact that
YOU may obtain a vast deal ot eX-
ceedingly useful information from
the descriptive booklet which my
friends, DR.. Thomas E. Quisenberry:
president of the American School OF
Poultry and Husbandry, at Kansas
CITY. Missouri, will send you free on
application. He conducts a home
study or correspondence school
which has contributed not little TO
an ever-increasing interest IN 1ne
poultry industry throughout theI
union. The couse of study is prac;-
teal, and reasonable in price. 1t VIII
prove to be dividend paying in
vestment to you if you have Just be
gun, or propose to embark IN, the
poultry business.
The autumn is at hand; 1t is the
time in which to begin. Do not be-
pin on too large a scale. Keep eX-
tending your field of operations. You
NAV have a few purebred fowls Tor
eggs which command a remuneratlve
nTice the wear. round. You may pick
nm here and there a number of utility
Wvandottes, Leghorns, etc, and use
them to a great advantage.
You do not need to have 100 acres
for 100 hens; not at all. A 80 by
so feet space, fenced ii, with
small annex in the shape of lot or
garden sown in rye or oats, Essex
Rape. etc.,-green stuff on which
the fowls from the four pens may
one-fourth of a day each eat and ex-
ercise-wil answer for four pens OF
IL hens and a cockbird or cockerei
each. That you see is colony OF
sixty fowls. The feed and exercise
lot YOU could make 10 by % teet'
I had a lot of the dimension given,
so by so feet. l had two houses
on teach IL feet front by 10 feet
deep; made each house two by the
use of wire, so had two pens OF
16 birds in each house. The birds
slept in the house; in the rear was
an extension with nests. The two
sets of birds in each case were kept
separate so, in taking up eggs, we
knew just the kind we were handling
and selling.
August 20. 1920.