Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-04-19
POULTRY RAISERS TO
GO TO LEXINGTON
County Agent Spence Organizing
Delegations From Madison
and Rockcastle

County Agent RObt. f. Spence
is planning to take a big delega-
ton of Madison and Rockcastle
county poultry raisers to Poultry
Day at the State Experiment Sta
ton at Lexington April 10th. He
wants to meet them at Richmond
and go from here in a body. They
will meet here at Sis a. m, and
go straight through to Lexington.
Mr.. Spence is sending out letters
to. 50 of the leading poultry fan
ciers OF this county explaining the
occasion. What he says will be
read with interest;
It's getting along about the
time of year now when eggs be
gin to hatch and the poultry bus
mess starts out on a new year.
| For some time we have been
wondering how you are getti.g
along with your hens and think
ing about some of the things
that may be giving you trouble.
Most of us, whether we have
half dozen hens or hundreds
of. them, have learned what we
know about the chicken business
either by experience, by doing
what somebody told us to do, or
by practicing something that we
read in a poultry or newspaper.
Sometimes that's an expensive
/ way to do business.
Up at Lexington the College
OF Agriculture and the Kentucky
I Agricultural Experiment Station
for years have been working out
some Of these problems that are
bothering you. They've got a
mint full OF information that's
waiting to be passed out to help
you get more. money for the
time and feed you put into your
flock.
They have decided that the
best way to get some OF this in
formation to the people in this
county is to have us come and
spend a day with them, Wednes-
day, April 20, has been set as
Poultry Day" This is one OF
the few chances we get to see
some OF the things that make
poultry profitable.
In the morning they're going
to take us around the poultry
farm to show us 80 pens Of
brooding hens and explain the
mating OF six different breeds
to us. We also will see 1,500
chicks OF different ages under
coal and oil burning breeders, u
large laying house where 800
hens lay more eggs because cleo
trio lights get them up in the ]
morning, and several different.
kinds OF incubators including L.
together with several
ones. ::
Experiments showing the best
kind of milk to feed to laying
hens and the value of limestone I
Tor layers also, will be explain !
ed. They are planning to tell Us
about the results they have OBJ /
tanned as to the best kind of
poultry houses for different uses.
At noon lunch is going to
be served at a reasonable price
to those who wish to buy theirs,
while tables will be provided for
those of us who take our lunch
along.
In the afternoon Dean Thomas
T. Cooper, OF the college, ]. r.
one Of the Doultrymen,
and ]. II. Martin, i'll charge Oft
the college poultry work, are go
ing to give talks and discussions
in which they will explain a
number of problems that poulzI
trymen want to know about. |
We are arranging a delegation
to go from this county because
we believe this is going. to be a
day full OF good things for the
farmer who wants to make
more money out of his hens. 1t
will be money in your pocket to
Join the crowd. You can get all
the details of the trip. by calling
ne on the phone or dropping me
| note. All who go from Madi-
son county are asked to meet III
Richmond not later than Sis
md get badges from: the County
Agent, Rockcastle will join
Madison at Richmond. Oil up
he car and come along-be a
'ooster for your county.
ROBT. f. SPENCE
County Agent t