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Vol. XXXI. No. 5.
PatCftlce
SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1916.
FIFTY HENS FOR EVERY
IN THE Corn Belt states
it is reliably stated that
the average farm flock
of poultry numbers nearly
L 150, while in the Cotton
Belt the average is not
more than 20 or 25 to the
farm. In the Corn Belt the
average annual income per
farm worker is double
that of the average in the
Cotton Belt. :
Now there may not be
any necessary connection
between these two facts,
but to us it looks very
much like there is, and a
very important connection,
at that. The truth, we be
lieve, is that the greater
earning power o f t h e
Northern and Western
farmer is due to the fact
he makes every edge cut;
he cashes in on every op
portunity. He uses labor-
saving machinery; he uses
more horse power and less
human labor; and he uses
cattle, hogs and chickens,
all his farm will carry,
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to clean up the waste products and put them in marketable
form. - '-; ;. . :
TfA MrkriVif nnA WActarn farm&r Inner flfrn learned that a ffoodty
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flock of hens is the best kind of insurance against store accounts at
credit prices, and he accordingly makes
Biddy pay the grocery bill, with some
to spare. Judging from the few nonde
script hens found on a great many Cot
ton Belt farms, we have yet to learn ,
this lesson, and right now, at the begin
ning of 1916, is a splendid time to be
about it. V" ; !'''. "v
In the first place, let's understand that the
Iowa or the Missouri farmer doesn't keep
a big flock of hens because he has a better
climate than we for chicken-raising. If any
thing, the reverse should be true. Our win
ters are mild, and there is not a farm in 'the
South that cannot have something green
growing every day in the year. t '
Nor do we believe it . to be due to a lack
f a market in the South for chickens and
eSgs. We don't know of a community any
where in which these products are not sal
able practically every day in 'the year. They
are almost as staple as cotton. True, better
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results would come from marketing cooperatively and in large lots,
but chickens and eggs in any quantity can practically. always be sold,
and generally at prices that will afford a profit. ,
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DON'T FAIL TO READ
Hats Off to the Humble Hen! .
Developing a Farm Flock . . .
How to Organize and Operate an Egg-sel-
ling Association
$226 From Fifty Hens
Feeding Cottonseed Meal to Poultry . .
How to Get Winter Eggs . ...
The Poultry-marketing Problem .....
Hens or Incubators . ,
Look Out for Ox Warbler in Cattle
Uncle John Says Friday Is Unlucky for
Manv Folks . . .... . '
Legislation Needed by Our Rural Interests 1 7
February Suggestions for the Housewife .19
Poultry Items for Women . . 19
Thinks Better Defeat Rural Credits Bill. . 22
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year add -many millions of dollars, to
our wealth. A really good hen should
lay 150 eggs a year; but if we make
each farm flock of 50 hens average 100
eggs a year for each hen, we have z
total of 5.000 eggs, or 416 dozen, worth,
at an average of 20 cents a dozen, $83.20,'
an -amount amply sufficient to buy
all the4f lourr coffee, sugar, salt, etc.,
needed, with some to spare. Of course
with ffood management there is no reason
why this amount might not bematerially
increased.
Why not let's make this one of our
1916 slogans: Fifty Hens for Every
Southern Farm?'' Such a flock, well
cared for, will convert waste products
'into marketable meat and eggs, and will
be a big step forward toward a live-at-home
policy and emancipation from
"time-prices. .
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