Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-02-09
Poultry Production

Poultry production on a larg-
er scale than heretofore is max
ing a splendid Roadway in Sum-
ter county.
There are already a number
of large flocks of layers and
preparations are being made for
others.
Perhaps at no time in Geor-
gia's history has poultry receiv-
ed so much thought and atten-
ton as now. This is true of
every section of the state, and
it means greater prosperity.
We had the opportunity of
talking chickens" with a Schley
county farmer the other day. He
has 1000 laying hens on his
place and while he said they
wefe kept just for my amuse-
ment," he admitted that they
paid, that the flock was making
spendid profit for him
Get good hens, pure-bred,
and feed them" he said. Some
folks lose money in chickens, of
course, and there are two rea-
sons for that. First, they jump
In without learning the game.
1t takes time and experience to
handle profitably a flock of ! :
600 hens. Oilers fail because
they don't feed enough or the
right food There's money in
chickens and eggs, provided you
know the game"
The little hen is making a
place for herself in Georgia. Be-
low NE quote from three differ
ent Georgia papers relating the
work Of the little hen and how
she i helping along in the fight
toward prosperity:
The man who has a flock of
hens laying for him this winter
won't have the tax collector lay
ing for him next year.-Tifton
Gazette.
A flock of one hundred good
hens will bring in as much cash
as a cotton crop. It will come
In every week in the year and
enable the owner of the farm to
operate on a cash basis. The
treuble here in Georgia is that
we have not been giving enough
attention to poultry. Good dairy
cows and laying hens will prove
real life savers.-Jackson Prog
ress-Argus.
There is no better section in
the South to make money out of
chickens than DeKalb county.
The time to start in the chicken
business is right now.-DeKalb
New Era.
Georgia is IMPORTING
millions Of dollars worth of
poultry and eggs every year -
millions of dollars going out of
the state that should go into the
pockets Of Georgia farmers.
however, we believe that in the
next FIVE or six years Georgia
will be EXPORTING poultry
products instead of importing
as now. Splendid progress is
being made.
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun
lays stress on the LAYING
hen. Too often the farmer has
few layers and a number of
STRIKERS, hens that lay but
few eggs in a year. Kin the
shitker, her place is on the ta-
bic, fried or otherwise. Saws the
Enquircr-Sun:
me laying hen--we mean the
hen that actually produces-is .
great asset to the farmer; the
other kind isn't worth anything
except for table use, and the
farmers cannot afford to 90 to
the expense of RAISING hens
merely for the purpose of eating
laying" hens than it does those
that are more or less barren, and
if once in a while, he wants a
baked hen, he has one in the yard
that has already paid her upkeep
many times over, and he can af-
ford to have hgr for Sunday din
ner or any other day.
With tremendously large ship
ments of eggs from other states
into Georgia, when this state is
able TO and should furnish all the
eggs the people want it is not
surprising that the farmers of
tie state are paying greater at
tontion to poultry now than they
have ever done before. The surs.
prise is that they did not long
ago realize the situation and be-
IL - araaas