Show I POULTRY = RAISIN6 IN UTAII During the past year the poultry industry t in-dustry has made more advance In Utah than In any previous two or three years A Colorado poultry paper recently si re-cently said that there Is more Interest In poultry matters In Utah than In any other Western State This is as It I should be The poultry Industry even in Its present neglected state pays the Grocery bills of many L family in Utah I brings 0 largo revenue to the State And yet there is not half enough interest in-terest taken In the business I is a J business that warrants greater attention atten-tion We have an abundant market for surplus production In neighboring S States and as 1 consequence the price States higher in this of eggs has always been State than In Eastern and In middle Western States The price of food Is month and the total for the year The average price per dozen of eggs for each month Is given at the bottom oC the table These were the market prices of eggs in Logan during the year The ebgs of the eggs laid was computed each month on the epjrces Table J No 3J J ZOc t I > I t co 8 01 < = < n n 2c 0 v Q r C rr r 1 3 71 2J 47 10 955 l 5 IWl 2 I 25G53I65 l ilS1101 1 YI GG 3 8 t 3 t i0 l flu II ai T4 1 t t II3 GLs iOlQ2 Sl 9gf9161i5t I 24S 5219610ill0liSj IS PrIcodoi2O12 lSI12MIOl1Ol lot 1OJ21IE1S1 How do these results compare with the previous years experiments Pen 5 of the second year should not betaken be-taken Into account in comparIng the first and second years results because It was of a different strain of Leghorns Taking the two pens 1 and 2 of the pullets of the second year and comparing compar-ing them with the two pens or pullets for the first year we have the followIng LTablo No 1J 1 4 0 0 0 0 U = I 0 Fo 10 O Fo I e 9I 0 0 n f 2 g 11 ri Trdi No Exercise 12 I i4 I 16H t 150 lG l Exorcise G3O WO 1S13 1GO2 18 un j co 000000 NC OJ OJ n j F 0 0 r t 0 D I Z 0 I i lCCsi I I No xarclso I JCE 191 17I l L12 Exercise 1 1JI 501 03 lf IS13 The two pens of pullets were fed the Fame ratio and received the same care each year But one pen each year had exercise and the other had no exor exeres rise The exercise consisted In I making ma-king the fowls scratch their grain out from a litter of straw on the floor The no exercise pens received their grain food in boxes So far ihr rmr Kflnn of nroflt onlv linn been considered i Among other questions ques-tions that of the most profitable age of the hon IH Involved Pen 1 2 and 5 i flee tables 1 and 2 were pullets Pens and 4 1 same tables were oneyearold hens By studying the table It will ho seen that the throe pens of pullota averaged 1ST por cent profit on food and pens 3 and t IIS per cent By a little figuring It will be found that pens 1 2 and S produced an average of 1ST worth of eggs Pens o and 4 1 averaged I about SII Now supposing n man has KiQO pullets like the above they would 1 produce 1830 worth of eggs in the year And If he has 3000 oneyearold hens like the above they would produce 1390 worth of eggs Now If It take 65 cents to feed each hen n year that would I mean G50 for 3000 such hens That would leave S13SO profit on food from I the pullets and 740 from the oneyear 1 I old hens which would be the respective amounts that would go to pay for labor I I 10 bor and Interest on Investment i I But a twoyearold hen still has her teeth She is not yet an old hen I But even when comparing the first two years results i Is seen that If a man can only keep a limited number of hens It would pay him well to renew his flock every year assuming that the money received from the sale of the hen at the end of thp year will pay I i the cost of raising a pullet to talcc her place I however the cost of the labor la-bor which is an uncertain element interest in-terest etc were 710 a high estimate there would be no profit on the years operations from the oneyearold hens There would be however 110 clear I < profit from the pullets I But there Is this objection to the I above comparison we are comparing I different Individuals to prove at what age hens are most profitable for it la I I as known that individual hens vary in egg production Just as individual cows vary In milk and butter production But we overcome this objection hy comparing the records of pens 3 and 4 1 us yearold hens with their records au pullets These two pens were pullets during the first years experiments Tho following table gives the results of their tvo years work I will be seen that this comparison brings practically prac-tically the same results as that given above They made an average of 183 per cent profit on food the first year i and 3 IS the second inc the cost of food from this It Avlll leave only SHO with which to pay for leavc labor and Interest on Investment In other words the firm would be bankrupt bank-rupt and the refrain would be theres no money In hens The above of course is not supposed Ito I-to represent the exact relative valuo The data of hens at the different ages given represents tho results of two years experiments with certain owls conditions and with different Under other conditons ferent fowls the results would vary But thy show at least how there maybe may-be a profit In egg production and how there n may be n loss The practice of unprofitable age keeping l hens to an unprotable r other has done more perhaps than any to give currency to the state one thing curency ment that there Is no money in eg production EXPERIMENT A PRIYATE In corroboration of the above results I add the ta of n private experiment conducted by A E Thorogood of Og cln during the past year ITe shows larger returns than in the experiments at the rturns college This is owing to the better prices obtained for his eggs at Ogden than the station obtained at Logan Lo-gan andjalso to the fact that some t t i VJ I t < l f I I r 701b FIW5HZD PRODUCT 0 WORTH S Based on the Results of Experiments at the Utah Station They Show Graphically Illustrations These are the Relative Weight of the Hen Factory Food Consumed Haw Material and Eggs Finished Product I Pro-duct if They were all Made into One Largo Egg I less In Utah than In almost any other State es in Uth Union An acre of fertile will produce twentyfive bushels land twentylve of wheat worth say CO cents a bushel That will make S12 for the acre If the wl wheat Is sold Now If you take that 12 you can buy back enough wheat 0 and other food to feed twenty hens for a year Those twenty hens will I produce S10 worth of eggs more if well taken care of less if they are neglected neg-lected In other words that is ma Instead of 12 king an acre product 10 labor Is not that a good return for and labor Is I going begging In Utah But the doubting Thomas says that that Is only an estimate on paper Very well what are the facts There there are are It I Is true hen stories as orc fish stories I anything the hen story ic I mnr tomiiliiiir i to the owner of the hen than the fish story to the fisherman that man Every hen owner will swear he has the fastest laying eggmachine In the community Just as the angler with the graveyard countenance will Insist that lie caught a trout that actually ac-tually weiGhed three and a half times heavier than It actually did So I will of the not give a hen story In proof statement 10t that there Is money In hens doubts the reliability or truth Ko one doubt relablt fulness of tho results of experiments conducted at Government experment An station conducted I ntatlons experiment slaton ducted at Government expense would not long exist at any rate Its olllcers would not long hold office If false reports re-ports of experiments were published And po1S while tho experiment stations have not yet broken the spell of the fish tory the Utah experiment station has rounded up and exposed the stale old hen story to the effect that there Is money In hens which has been stalking = abroad in the land since the cock gave warning that the doubting Thomas was about to express his doubt I EXPERIMENTS Tribune tho New Years In Ins years results of the first years experiments lrt TeSIIH Utah station were given In that article a profit of O per cent on food was reported That is to say the cost of feeding < a pen of four pullets wan 62 cent and the t number of eggs 382 each worth 188 at mar laid was 112 eaeh 188 I ket l prices In Logan continuation of the I of a fhe results contnuaton suls experiments during tho following year i I the station i have been published by Htaton confirmatory of the first l They are confrmntory years results on the question of profit C yeU returned a Another pen of fivo pullets I profit on food of 301 per cent Their food cost G0fi cents per fowl They laid t 165 eggs GOf per fowl worth at market efgs Logan S17S Another pen produced prices S191 worth of eggs at a food cost of 67 cents a profit of 3S5 per cent Another consumed H1 1 cents worth of food and produced 16S worth of eggs F making a profit on food of 182 per cent Is maklnS not a pretended that these are phenomenal results There was no selection se-lection of layers Nothing was known ItcUon of their la lnS qualities before being p put In tho experiment They were rosecomb brown Leghorns The records 5 rec-ords were carefully kept Every ounce v of food was weighed and the hens got nothing but what was fed to them St They were confined In small pens Gx7 i feet with an outside run 6x10 feet No artificial heat was used In the winter but the building waa substantially built though H was cold enough to I ie I buit though freeze water several times During the tmes frecze Dtel r 1 time snow was on the ground they wore I iii confined in the pens t FOOD CONSUMPTION The following table gives the food I olowlnr consumptionper fowl and coat of the same for five pCI pens of Brown Leghorns The second experiments of time years weights nre given in pounds per fowl I for the year st Table No LI 1 iw I I 6 0 C I 0 11 tf C i e U 0 C 0 n f T r r o fdf cii I i I I I 1 1 ICts 1 lf 1 91 I flSi liJ flSl 0r 1 7SO C50 870 d ii hl11i1 a7 05 1 7IS ClO MA P 2 IIlrS CO6 i Oi lu llfi os 1 719501821 4 91SI Q ys I Oil 1 7CO 39 1r th rt 01 r t S922C1J02 SS 011 1 702 503 COf OU11 The cost oF the different foods was as a follows Mash 511 cents per pound c qm wluftt 1 cent oati3 cent bones j Ivel i cent corn 1 cent oyster shell 3 cents or un a It will be noticed that wheat constlA teJI tutod the principal Item of the ration I I S Thfl food was all weighed each day except 1 ur WIS which were and oats fn cept wheat boxes In th weighed out weekly into feed boxesjn fIrst tlI fed for the 6ul ouch i > 1 Corn was flc arni Its exlcrlmnent or the e an d 11 two weeks 1cllment continued I aIi contnued ri StTh1ARY OF RESULTS 1 I Ulor BUlUtARY the ilnanclol results A summary dnanetal resuta lo1i 1 lol9 table Thin I to is 1 given In the following Inble iO shows the food cost petS fowl for theIr cotl llwa year the number of eggS laid per owl Ir 4 at market 5 the value of those eggs marltpt to prices ILu Logan the food cost per dozen 1 ahoi of eggs and the per ccntjprofU on food racLC bel j tTabl lu SF l l L5ge i 0 0 b4 o 0 Thcrc = lmer near r g g r en ot 0 r i to S prltlC S EZ = ctorleS S 2 0 0 acilL tIcS aL 1 i or lOl yet wzorcia Ctt 1 La I as 1Vilbt 7Ot1eQiP1 G lS fuctu3 No Exercise I 18 Exercle enougj 1 2Pu1cl I 61161 I 1 t 19 I It all < Y t lxercltt f xrlo 11 1 1 49 I 10 S 1crdt dtoI1 hall 45IIt2I 11 704 Ii S l t hd PUI l6 1 4 l iit 0 T 11 following Uble gives the nlUIWt 3f gg laid by each pen during each i it or S reii cht Table No 51 I o rj Z j 5 i t I t t 1O 40 s fIg g 1a 1r c nQ I I s u 1 = t I PJn 3 Etiuii I f I No oxordI5 iilt I I12Ifli3 i 1i3 16tG PenI t I I I Exercise 21 1 ± al 1 18 11 t omJ1 tiI7Il3 15 32l7813116 S o 0 t Q > S Y g go = I t g Q 9 r r n r i j 1 h r s 1 1 F C i g h 5 o No oxercie S t CtRCt 172 f lTD i oorcse 41 70 AerA ulC ji We said above that n oneyearold lien Is nut a old hen i > ha still hasher has-her teeth During the nrt year we had two pens of old hens In the experiments ex-periments wlxJch were three and four years old ai an ago when to sy the leant the hen WIn need o some dnntal nursery Thoup twq pens produced egg worth nt an average of 7S rent per fowl For a thousand ouch hens tht gross returns iould be 780 Deduct the eggs were hatched and the chickens counted In the prdfils and In that way the eggs would bring more than if they had been sold lie had 33 pullets eighteen of them being Leghorns and fifteen Barred Rocks The Leghorns nfeen laid 161 eggs during the year ending October 1st and the Hocks 160 each The I following statement gives the results I S0ru Eggs sold I Broilers sold 33SO 100 pullets ou hand 1500 I Toal f 15037 ronl food etc 1323 I Profit SllGlt 1 That makes a profit of oer 3 50 per hen And yet the gentleman says he is not satisfied with the results lie thinks I he can do better NOT A SMALL BUSINESS The objection Is made that the poultry poul-try business Is small taters Is it 7 During the past year there were shipped Into the State so I am informed in-formed some 210000 dozen eggs worth say 40000 In the same time there were shipped in 400000 pounds of dressed poultry worth say 10000 more I dresed poulry About the same amount of poultry and eggs was shipped into the State In I Cgs I lS may be small tatorrs but the people of some other States are getting the money Eighty thousand I I dollars a year will buy a good many childrens shoes It would also pay the running expenses of two additional 1 agricultural colleges in the State Not only that there is I an unlimited market for eggs and poultry In outbid States and Utah could easily furnish seeral hundred thousand dollars worth of eggs to those markets This Is not an extravagant estimate When we remember re-member that tho value of the poultry products in time United States amounts to some 3000000 0 a year or just three times the assessed value of all the real and personal property In Utah for the past year we see at once that the estimate esti-mate on tho contrary is very conservative con-servative 1 |