| Show GIVE THE HEN A CHANCE By Joel The poultry next to is the most import- tant industry in Cache The most important because revenues from it are the most widely distributed among the and because it is susceptible of the greatest Hens in Cache It is estimated that there are in the valley from to laying probably would not be far from the correct With ordinary care a hen will ply for her feed and yield a revenue of one dollar a year That is twice or three times her cost Add to this receipts from the sale of live and dressed poultry and you will have approximately which this industry contributes to our And this is only a tithe of what might be obtained if better methods were even to a limited by those interested in the Every Old Notwithstanding we have in the valley an institution where instruction is given on the most up-to-date methods of poultry the large majority of the people still true to old If you will visit the average farm you will find every variety of fowl from the bantam to the Orpington mingling and mixing Mongrels Don't Pay Sp The result is a flock of mongrels that pay for little more than their feed the greater part of the In most cases poultry is an auxiliary to the like hogs and with this difference we usually exercise a little care in breeding our swine and cattle but we allow the poultry to run itself No Thought or we will buy a cockerel breed from a of an unknown or send away for a setting of but usually we give the poultry no thought beyond gathering the few eggs and the hert house at Thanksgiving or Christmas Results serious obstacles There are no here to an extension of the The trouble is not with the nor the but with the In other sections of the country the industry has been developed to a wonderful extent and made to be One county in California claims over a million hens and a yearly income of a million and a half dollars from More farmers ride in automobiles there than in any other county in the The Hen in Way up in Maine where it is cold enough to freeze the fingers off the they have made raising These results were accomplished by a desire on the part of the farmers to improve their To do this they agreed to a few simple They were to keep but one breed of All of the eggs were to be of one Nests were to be kept The J eggs were to be gathered every jj day kept in a cool place until they could be sent to the this way the reached the market clean fresh and brought the very high-H est The result was that industry Farmers quit rais-H ing wheat and went into the poul-H try and got I The Slovenly 01 What was done there can done in this valley by a little concerted action on the part of farmers At present most farmers' wives gather the little and dirty and and dump them into a basket and after several take them to Slovenly merchant dumps them into a tub keeps them in his back room several days before placing them in cases to be sent to the In making the transfer from the tub he finds a lot of small some duck eggs and a good many cracked and broken and sends them Bad and Placed side by side with a case of uniform white or brown eggs from a district where they do things how would that mer chant's case et that very thing is seen in the Salt Lake market every No one wonders that the Salt Lake dealers prefer eastern eggs to the local It is All Now all this is Every person who sends a bantam or duck egg or a broken egg to market hurts the reputation of the We are developing the cold storage business in the but no cold storage can take old shrunken eggs and turn them out after six months as fresh v Fresh eggs must go if superior stock is to come Replace Mongrel With Good Let every farmer or poultry dispose of his mongrel flock and replace them with one breed of any good and then see that eggs reach the market fresh and and you will be surprised at the Under similar conditions we can crowd out the eastern as nearer the market and our stock can reach it fresher and Good Market at High There is always a good market for good If we would all aim to send to market only the in five years our receipts from poultry could exceed by far what is now received from dairy products or sugar or |
