Show I I I ays Pou Lesson r By Henry Trafford I Editor Poultry Success KEEP A FEW HENS AND PLANT A GARDEN lr 1 EOPLE who lIve In town PEOPLE and have to bu buy ever every L tIling thins thoy eat cat a at present prices which in most cases are arc more than double what the they used to be before beCore the war are certainly confronted with u a proposition proposition not pleasant to contemplate and and- exceedingly hard 10 so Q meet nice and rand some game means of or reducing me tue cost of or living is 11 irly sought for tor forro To ro our mind It t. t hl nb short shore of oC n a crime erimo and nUll disloyal 10 0 O ones one's own country to allow tics ties to go unheeded willen wilt will hel help to conserve the commodities of lIfo life an and tend to reduce time the cost of oC living anti and no man or woman soman possessing a fair Caa degree of judgment having a SPirL of oC loyalty coura coursing ll through their veins and arc afe solicitous about the welfare of oC their own family wi allow such auch opportunities to pasa unnoticed Those who are arc fortunate enough to own or r rent nt a place to live in which has a n back yard should u utilize eve every ana iJ e eInch Inch of space in growing something some sonic thing to cat eat It is y surprising surprising sur sur- how many can be raised on a space fifty feet square if the ground is property prepared planted and taken care of oc And too lao the back yard ard can cun be turned to profit b by keeping a afew alow arow row low h hens hOns thereon The space available for this purpose should not be overcrowded Overcrowding Overcrowd ing is is a bad mi mistake take but hut no back backyard backyard backyard yard Is too small but what at least a half dozen hens lions can cm lie profitably kept thereon I A half dozen hens of some well established standard varlet variety wilt will lay at the least leant calculation soy sev two enty-two dozen eggs a year and these are equal to pounds of or beefsteak in nutritive value costing costing cost cost- ing figuring thin tha at 10 cents per pound while the tho eggs would not cost over 0 9 9 figuring the tho cost t of oC production even on at the present cost of or poultry feeds foods and ancl if It table scraps are arc gi given ll the li h liens ns ns which in a majority of at ca ra with most families are sufficient to keep at af 1 least ast a half bait haH I cn hens l I well fed ted the coat cost of or producing tie tte two seventy dozen eggs would be reduced practically to o nothing Itis it itis itis is entirely safe to figure mat ta tn table ta- ta ble hlo scraps and other wo waste which might be otherwise lost Jost entirely except it Is la red rea to the tho hens would reduce the cost ot or the eggs at the tho yer very lowest loest calculation calculation lation third one and In most cases very ery much more than tins this Suppose the tho cost of maintenance nance mince and feed for a hair cozen hens liens were double the figures gIven given en above or at the rate of 52 per hen Even en at this there titers would be a food value of at represented in the net profit on a half hair dozen hens over and above all ex ex- ex pensos It has hns been said that a fair far ce ce- gree of at Judgment and most treely tree ly Iy based upon lIpon the actual chemi chemical cal analysis of the nutritive value of or eggs as compared with that of i beefsteak that eggs egg even at nt 7 75 cents per doz dozen 11 are arc cheaper luau I beefsteak at 30 cents per pound It Is conservative however to sa say that eggs at CO GO cents p per r dozen are cheaper than beefsteak Every Ever family who has hus room in III Its back yard ard to set a coop 6 siby si t by eight feet in size which is iR large enough to keep a half dozen hens liens in in should foci feel It not only onh a n duty to their Immediate family to do so but hut a duty to their thel- own nation now In war var and amI through its iti officials at Washington Washing Washing- ton tOil is trying to urge every man woman and child to conserve livIng living liv liv- fn ing commodities ann and thus help to I win the war Now is the time to I act and do not riot forgot that it C no more to keep keen good standard bred stock than it does poor and andI the results will ivill be he far more picas picas- I Ing InS In the tho end |