The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-02-04
PROFIT In POULTRY
From Page l.

their remarks as We passed through
the poultry department, where there
were huge baskets Of eggs for sale
Some containing all brown or. white
leggs and some mixed kinds: I NOT
4 iced the uniform brown and white
eggs were l5c and 20c higher in
price than the mixed lot. and my
| friends remarked they were surely
were worth the difference in price
for the chances were the others were
stale. which of course may not have
been true but il Is the impression
the average customer gets. and they
are invariably willing to pay more for
the better looking article. Only by
rising purebred fowls can such re-
suits be obtained.
The Utility Class.
If ! We're asked which class I con-
sidered best for the farm or ranch |
would say utility class, for the reason
that not only is the home table well
supplied with meat and eggs, but
there is a goodly lot for market The
eggs of the utility class are of good
size and color. and are always in de
mand on the first class market ana
the fowls grow to good size and
meat of the best quality, SO that the
surplus stock and culls are always
marketable. BY the culling process
we are able TO clean up our fiocas
OF all the undesirables and by care
full selection and breeding can com
bine utility with type and build up
a wonderful dual purpose fowl. AS
you know, there book of standards
for all fowls. this standard having
long been in use in our poultry
shows and Is the result of years OF
careful and scientific breeding and
experimenting. until today it would
seem that the standard were as near
ly perfect as IL is possible to be. and
all breeders have these types in mind
and are striving for their perfection,
but the far sighted breeder has real.
| iZed in the past three or four years
that utility must necessarily be
combined with the type and the up
to.date breeder has introduced this
combination into the largest poultry
shows and gradually these aualifca-
tons have crepr into the judging or
fowls, until at the last meeting of
the American Poultry association a
committee of forty was appointed to
consider these qualifications with
view of Incorporating them into the
book OF standards. This new book
will be published in 1923 and ! i'm
agine 1t will have tendency 10 stir
things up in the poultry world So
in breeding for utility we must mol
lose sight of the type we are breeding
for. The right thing for the begin.
ner to do is to study inheritance in
his flock to discover what good or
bad points are being transmitted or
inhertered. Great care should pc
taken in the selection of cock birds,
for it is through the male that the
NEST pronounced traits are transmit
tied. Ii we select our hens TO maze
with the head of the flock we should
exercise care in their selection and
have them as nearly uniform in
traits of character as possible. but
since the chicks will all be from the
one sire. and any defects in the hens
would affect only their individuai
chicks, you will readily see, the ne
cessity OF selecting very carefully
your cock bird TO retain the type pou
are breeding. Having CAREFUL select
ed our breeding stock. the time will
arrive when we must Gull the infer
Tors from these matings, keeping OH
iIH tIN bN2t iOl oui Ht8I Ntdi StoCh
ICulling is not difficult thing 10 oo
If we exercise little judgment anG
do not 20 10 the extreme one wGy or
the other The culis should include
all fowls not meeting tie require
ments fer type and utility. all sur
plus stock, and all male blrGs not liz
tended for future use, for the infer
tile egg will have greater keeping
l<taa
penned and quickly fattened and
gotten in prime condition and ,tnen
marketed. will have few words
TO say later about the market Our
selected stock m1st now have at.
tention and care. Since the pullets
are an uncertain quantity for &c
long, ! personally prefer the hens for
breeding stock. and while they should
be well hovsed-and kept warm and
clean. their Offspring will be more
vigorous If they are not forced for
legg production during the winter
months. The pullets we expect u
lay during the winter should have
Especial care. and while | heartily Ella
dcrse the wide range until time &c
pen them up fer winter, for they will
grow more husky and Wig orous and
20 into the winter better TIT for the
egg business, yet when cold weather
comes they should be kept indoors
and given a well balanced ration oil
, mixed grains, for eggs cannst b.
produced tr2in one KanG e grain
plenty of green food and vegetables
grit and oyster shell, and in lieu ot
the FISH scrap so mpcn recommended
the skim milk, and do not forget ar
/. abundance of water. 50 they may &C..
a drink al all times. for eggs are
. ,abcIt 151 water.
Fowl Rstioninc.
. The following Is considered good
. ration for farm flock of 100 hens
. to be fed daily: Scratch feed 10 lbs
. shelled corn, lbs. dry threshed
oats. fed in plenty OF straw or ma,
. so the birds will receive plenty o.
. exercise in getting 1t. Dry mash
. Three lbs. Of wheat bran, 3 lbs. o.
. wheat shorts and middlings and u.