The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., January 29, 1910, Page 68, Image 16

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SOUTHERN BREEDERS GIVE
MOST FOR THE MONEY.
The Great Growth of the Industry in
the South—How to Start With
Pure-Breds.
Messrs. Editors: Do not spend
the early and best season deciding
to start with pure bred poultry, but
decide at the earliest possible mo
ment upon the breed best suited to
your purpose. Get the best winter
laying breed obtainable. Secure
enough stock or eggs so the mongrels
may all be disposed of after the first
season, so the new breed may have
free range much or all of the year.
I have found nice profits in raising
early market chicks, and I believe
that every farmer’s wife could do the
same if she had good winter layers
and mothers, so chicks could be ready
to market in March and April when
worth 30 to 40 cents per pound.
Many women may find time in the
early spring to raise some market
chicks who do not have the capital
to invest, nor the time to devote
which is required to secure and to
sell “fancy” poultry. So I would
urge every one who reads this to de
decide at once that no breed which
does not lay eggs when they are
worth 35 cents per dozen, and raise
chicks when they are worth the same
per pound, will serve his purpose any
longer.
Grain costs too much to be fed in
to a flock of fowls which do not even
pay for their own feed at the season
when their products are in most de
mand, and I think it is high time
that more farmers all over the South
realized this fact. I am glad to
note what rapid strides have been
made by the South in the past few
years in quality and quantity of poul
try will be raised.
Readers of this paper remember
that only a very few years ago per
sons advertising pure bred poultry
in the South were very scarce, but a
glance at the paper now shows that
at least some realize that there is a
profit in better poultry.
I have also found in the past
fewr years that I could find bettor
values from Southern advertisers
than I had found in the North and
West before that time. So let the
prospective buyers remember that
quality* may be found near home, aud
that it is patriotic to patronize home
enterprise.
MRS. J. C. DEATON.
Rowan Co., N. C.
WHY HENS FAIL TO LAY.
Wrong Feeding the < hum*—Hon to
Ciet Winter Eggs.
A correspondent at New Edinburg.
Arkansas, wants to know how she
can induce her hens to lay in winter.
She says: “They seem healthy and
are fat, but I don't get any eggs. I
feed them corn.” She also states
that a neighbor man feeds "corn
alone and gets more eggs and raises
—-- j
more chickens than anybody else
around here.”
It is very probable that one of the
causes why our correspendent does
not get eggs in winter is because her
hens are fat and are fed on corn.
The neighbor who gets eggs from
hens fed ‘‘corn alone” is in luck, but
possibly there is some good explana
tlon, if all the facts were known.
Possibly the hens are able to get
some other feed for themselves and
are managed so that exercise is also
taken. To produce winter eggs the
hens should have some other feed
than corn. Green feed of some sort
will be found of great value. A patch
of rape, rye or some other winter
growing plant Is m<»st desirable. The
absence of this green feed makes
some sort of animal feed, ground or
cut bone, meat scraps or something of
that sort a necessity.
Comfortable winter sheltering is
also necessary for the hens expected
to lay eggs in winter. The house
should he comfortable, but the hens
should not be confined to It too much.
In fact, exercise Is essential. Hens
that are fat are not In laying condi
tion. They have either been fed Im
properly or are not getting sufficient
exercise.
Some corn may be fed, and if
enough animal feed and grazing Is
supplied, possibly corn alone might
do for the grain feed, but some other
grain feed, like wheat, or perhaps
cottonseed meal, should be used to
give proper variety and balance to
the ration.
Pullets or young hens are more apt
to lay during the winter than old
hens, and this may bo one of the
causes for our correspondent getting
no eggs during winter.
Value of Chicken Manure.
Fowl manure Is richer than that of
any of the other farm animal*. Farm
ers* Bulletin No. 192. give* the fol
lowing values to the manure of dif
ferent animals:
Hens.$7.07 per ton
Sheep $3.30 per ton.
Hogs $3 29 per ton
Horses — $2 21 per ton
Cows—$2 02 per ton.
This Is for unleached and well
rared-for manure, and while about
the average value for these animals
from the standpoint of actual plant
foods, on most Southern soils that
are so deficient In humus, stable ma
nure has a higher value than here
stated.
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Breeds Cocks Cockerels Hens Pullets
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Bronze Turkey*------ 36 25 20 16
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Embden Geese.-... 20 18 18 16
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