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Saturday, February 14,1920 , k Tpjxe -'Poultry Yard Push Egg Prp4nclio When prices Are High My EXPERIENCE in the chicken business may be worth something v to those persons who are able to sell eggs only when gg?re bringing the lowest price, . The first year I kept nly"a dozenfitis, which I .permitted " to loaf through' .the'iall and winter, in the meantime reading about every thing I could 4ind pn-the subject of chickens.. ' The next season 'I devoted much spare time to the :birds, raised abftut 100 and saved the "best pullets in the flock. All tjiejsewere hatched in early March and were ready to lay in No vember, The floor of the chicken house, which was used .for a scratch pen, was .kept covered with clean straw, and mall grain v.-as thrown into it twice daily. Dry mash, iresh water and py&ter shells, with .occasional bone meal, were accessible at aU jtymes. Thpse pullets worked iroro mornings till night. They were .turned .on rye wjien the weather permitted. From a flock of 35 birds, Srne of which .did not begin laying as early as others, I got from 14 to 20 eggs a day during the latter part oi jNovemtjer, an or ue rpmber and January, and when the price of eggs dropped from 65 to 40 cents in the course of the spring sold off mv choicest hens and ate most of the others. Those hens paid good dividends. -From mv experience. I am con vinced that there is as much money in raising .cicjcens, pspciitij yu . uw farm, as there is in any .other live stock. The principal consideration is to have a dry, warm house for ihe chickens to sleeo in. a good place where they may scratch all day and to prevent them from ca-tcning coia and dying .of .disease. In a more limited way I am in the chicken business ,this winter and for a month allowed the hens to do about as they pleased. The result was no eggs. Early in January I began pay ing attention to the birds and they have started to pay me for my trou ble and expense. : "J S. H. FARABEE. has not yet passed the experimental Jtftge. In some cases the ""burner has overflowed and set fire to the building. However, to those who desire to brood several hundred chicks in one flock he mammoth hover heated by a coal stove is rec ommended. This is absolutely safe and there is no danger .qf .the chick-" ens,.being chilled even in .extremely cold weather. A house 12 to 14 feet deep and 16 feet wide should comfortably house 15 to 20 fowls. By making it 24 feet wide and dividing into two compart mentseach 12 by 14 or 16 feet one-half can be used as scratching shed, the other half for roosts, nests, etc. ' The rear wall jcan.be 4 feet high, front 8 feet. Rear and side walls should be made iight,-. either with A Good Poultry House A READER is interested in poultry raising and wants information concerning building a chicken house, location, 'ventilation, etc! Not Jcnowing the number pf fowls he wishes to keep, I. can answer only in a general way, A poultry house, to be sanitary, should stand' on elevated ground so that there can be good drainage from the house in .every .direction. If it must be on a slope, ditches should be dug .on the high sides to keep rain water from floor .of house. The house should, face south or southeast, so that the interior can get sun most of the day. good battens over ioints. or with tarred building paper lining inside. Roof of sound boards, covered with good roofing paper. Front can ,nave one width of hoard at top 8 to 10 inches, and at toottam 2 to 3 ieet from floor boarded. Abo.ve this the space should be covered with strong H-inch mesh wire, making full open front. Roosts should-re stjin cross-pieces supported on posts, not coming nearer the walls than 8 or 10 inches, to keep mites away. Roosts made of 2x3 or 2x4, rounded at top, should drop into sockets cut for this in cross pieces, and tar or crude kero sene well painted on post and bottom of cross bar. Nests should be movable to allow taking cput for cleaning. There should be a low platform on which ito place water fount and hop pers for mash, etc, go arranged that i .(45) 385 iowls either in roosting compartment or scratching shed can reach it. Six inches above the floor will answer. A muslin curtain may be hung in side just large enough to cut off rains from beating through the open, front during heavy storms. Doors "should be in the end, not front, of building. You can get very full, detailed information on all sizes of Vppultry buildings-by writing your" Member of Congress or to Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C, asking for Farmers' Bulletin No. 574. Itis on poultry house construction. F. J. R. .DEPORTS from county agents re 1X garding the value of terracing show that broad terraces are saving many thousands of acres of land and reclaiming many more thousands of acres. Conservative estimates of the value of terracing in many counties put the saving at $25,000 in actual cash. Terracing is being done .in many .counties and should be done in every county in the Cotton Belt. Land is becoming very valuable and we should prevent washing by con structing broad terraces with a slight fall to carry the surplus water out of the -field. .Plan now to save the big 'Reference num ber of The Progressive Farmer to be issued February 21. Early Hatching fays Best THICKS hatched between the mid- die of February and the end of March have the greatest natural op portunity to develop into heavy layers, good breeding; birds, or win ners at the poultry shows -held jn connection with the state and -county fairs, says Prof. ,F. : C. Hare, South Carolina Poultry Husbandman. The well developed cockerel is always salable in the fall, while the well de veloped pullet will .commence laying before the cold weather .sets in and will continue to lay all through the winter. . :'.., --'v. ; There are two efficient incubators illustrated and described in .the 1uM letin "Poultry Culture for South Car olina" which has recently -been is sued and can -be obtained from the' Extension Service of Clemson Col Jege. One style is heated by hot water and ithe, other by hot air. Both are successful hatchers and they have been fully tested by the Poul- hot air machine lasts indefinitely and lt has an improvement in allowing the chicks to escape under the eggs and give room to those just ihreak mg the shell. It is . exceedingly simple to hatch chicks successfully in an- Jncubator, hut it is more difficult to raise them successfully in a brooder. An ex cellent style of hot-air brooder to nold 50 chicks is shown in the bulle tin. The large oil -burning hover , , V - . .... WowkingFmYou Day-and night,feed manufacturers are grinding out chick feed for spring chicks. Without it, early chicks would perish and ggs would he like hothouse grapes for the ricn oniy. Did you ever stop to think that the feed manufacturer gets ready to serve you months "before you find you are "all out" and need feed immediately? fie brings materials thousand6 of miles, tying up his nA oA Vft Inwpctc in Iflrfcre elevators, ware- houses, and mills in order to serve you; so Jeisabanker,wareiiQUseman i a. r fiMftrtue ndVc nnrsp tinw than ana purcnasing agent iur yuu. iicuuuumiuuB A fall no ma rkets vet.ilue to his courage, . gii . ... ever uuc tu oiiai ui x.oiiA V .. . - - f ' - A" -,1 ." i. l. nrnnf fhom . faith and energy, you are able to get me jeecjs you want wucu yy Commodities do not distribute themselves and land at theoor of the public without S, money and a fair reward for the effort and risk. Every bag of feed for horsey cows, steers, hogs and poultry that is produced by our members is honestly labeled with its correct analysis and jtrue ingredients. , ' You are protected by this compliance with !the lawspf every state and the Federal statutes. XJfnr frr, lnt an Feeds and Feed Manuhcturinr-Ctrntains facts never befori published AicanFdManufactur.'o 1 1 2, S3 W. JackonBlvd. ChicagojlL .1
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