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POULTRY SPECIAL : j !j jl I jj pJ EASTERN EDITION A Farm and Home Weekly for p'lotit The Carolines, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida Vol. XXXIII. No. 1. SATURDAY, JANU&M5, 1918 .. m $1 a Year; 5c a Copy 100 HENS PER FARM 100 EGGS PER HEN TTTITH poultry and poultry products at record yy prices, too many Southern farmers are miss ing an opportunity for easy profits. Eggs are bringing 40 cents or more at practically every cross-roads store and 50 to 60 cents in the larger j towns, yet we are not supplying the demand. We don't advise the average farmer going into .the poultry business exclusively; but we are cer j tain that any farm without sufficient poultry to j convert its wastes into meat, and eggs is not properly I equipped for making maximum profits. In the North ! and West, a flock of 150 hens per farm is not con- I sidered too many, and here in the South we should j certainly aim at a minimum of not less than 100. Not .... .... f only this, but we must, by better breeding and bet j ter feeding, make each ben average at least 100 eggs 1 1 a year, instead of the present average of 75 or less. j One hundred hens each producing 100 eggs a year j, let's see what this will mean. It will" mean 10,000 j eggs a year, or 833 dozen, worth, at 25 cents a ! dozen, $208.32. This is an average of $17.36 a month , ! a sum sufficient to buy all the flour, coffee and I ; sugar needed, with a goodly sum over for other ex !' penses. Of course all this will not be clear profit, N but where the flock is rightly managed, much the i larger part of it should be. Another thing, we be ! lieve this production can be attained without impair j ing or hindering the production of other crops, i 1918 is a year when farm production must be j pushed to the utmost. Every acre, every man, woman and child, every cow, pig and chicken, all j must do their part. In doing this, let us aim at not I less than 100 hens per farm 100 eggs per hen. DON'T FAIL TO READ- Pae How the City Man May Become a Farmer 4 Feeding for Egg Production 7 Diseases of Poultry Prevention and Cure . i. 8 Plows: Construction, Use and Care . . 10 Hogs: Their Place in Southern Agricul ture . 12 Livestock Suggestions for January . . 14 A Duty Which Rests Upon Our Sub scribers as Leaders of Progress . .16 Simple and Practicable Food Conserva tion Plans 16 The Ten Commandments of War-time ; Agriculture ........... 17 January Suggestions for the Housewife 18 Li y ,.oi.-x it -ir R v. v x .V, . " ff s. V i 1 Li s r v its -1T"i 1 Nil j'. VI :. !&"b- B ; ' 1 $m 'Ml w f - fhf A . "HELPERS OF HOOVEH" 4 55193
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