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Show iGOMM&RGUrt POULTRY C. S. Gorlinc. I In packing eggs in egg cases for the general market, care should! be exercised to sec that no discolored or dirty eggs arc included. The dirt, of course may be washed off, but a discolored dis-colored egg should be laid aside, and when a sufficient number have accumulated, accu-mulated, these may be disposed of to bakers, generally at a slightly reduced reduc-ed prioc. If one is trying to build a reputation for first class market eggs, too great care can not be taken to eliminate any possibility of creating a prejudice against one's brand, and it is very important that some brand be adopted aaid stamped on each egg with a rubber stamp. Some egg ranchers claim that it is an advantage to add the date the egg was laid. It is some trouble to ibrand a great number num-ber of eggs, butvin the icnd it will pay I well for the time and! trouble requir ed to do the work neatly. Where one is entering to a fancy private trade with the realization of top price, this great care is extremely necessary in order to hold the trade. Not only Should the eggs be perfectly clean and wholesome in appearance, but the eggs should be graded as to uniform size, and the stamp put on lightly, making a neat clean job. The eggs should be delivered in cartoons little lit-tle paipcr boxes, holding a dozen each which may be purchased) for about isJ cents a dozen in quantities. ! These little boxes may be tied with a narrow strip of blue ribbon, which t will add much to the neat and tasty I appearance of the package, and where one is realizing from .jo to 50 cents a dozen for the eggs, they can well afford to take this extra trouble. 1 Now, as to getting our early chicks I for layers. On an egg ranch, this is of vital importance, and to this end, I it r necessary to mate up the breed ing . ns in October or November ! The breeders should be fed on thl sanuc rations as the layers with this exception. We prefer to feed grech oyster shell instead of dry, as it makes J a tougher shell andl one that opens ' very easily at hatching time. For the I noon mash, we prefer two parts cacjj ' of bran shorts to one each of oat mea'l and alfalfa meal with a sprinkling of corn meal, slightly salted and a touch of red .pepper, all mixed into a thick crumbly dough, wet up with soup poured out of a kettle in which lean meat has been boiled. We usually feed this mash in little troughs, about one quart to each twelve hens, and after they have oaitcn their fill of the mash, give each breeder a piece of lean meat the size of two fingers. The meat heart or liver will do for occasional feeds should be well cooked cook-ed until it is quite soft, and wc feed this (dlaily. Experience ihas shown that eggs from comfortably housed birds fed on such diet arc remarkably remark-ably fertile and will hatch vigorous bouncy chicks. The incubators should Ijc set to work in January and all the pullets needed for next winter's layers lay-ers should be hatched in February and early March. The breeding stock should be selected with great care, selecting hens of the true wedge shape a prominent narrow breast bulging backward to a broad wedge shape, at the fluff, with medium sized combs and very red eyes the noizy, scratching scratch-ing kind. No birds over three years of age or under one, should be used for this purpose. The best layers are from six months old to eighteen months old, and after that age, should be disposed of providing there arc plenty of early hatched pullets to replace re-place them in the laying runs. Pullets Pul-lets hatched in September and October Oct-ober arc valued very highly in California Cali-fornia as fall and winter layers the succeeding fall. Not over twelve females fe-males to one male should be used in the heeding pens. This applies of course only to Leghorns or other nonsitUrs used on the egg ranches. The object in taking such good care of the breeders on an egg ranch is to enable one to hatch icarly strong and vigorous chicks that will live and do business when eggs arc high, and the breeders should be of hc very best selected) bird-to-lay strains, for unless the egg laying habit is bred in them, they will never prove so profitable and often pullets will not lay until eight or ten months old, while pullets of the brcd-to-lay kind will rarely go over five months of age before beginning be-ginning to lay, and we have had them begin laying at four months of age. t THi65,?cliPff?rP?n?fer , broiler 1 should 4tfo treats exactly like. -those j ' for layers, except that " usually the breeders for laying arc of smaller and more active breeds than those used r& breed broilers. For broilers, one 'will make no mistake in breeding any Jftf the Orpingtons, the Wyandotlcs or ihc Plymouth Rocks. In mating up mic breeding peris of these heavier breeds, it will "be necessary to liimt the number of females to eight and often to six to get the best results from fertility breeding. The best time to begin hatching broilers is September md many breeders hatch .right along each fall and winter month gind along in January and February when the first ibroilcrs reach the market, mar-ket, it is very easy to rcliaze 75 cents the pair for good sized plump broilers broil-ers eleven to twelve weeks old and many arc sold at the gc of from nine to ten weeks old. fri conclusion, wc wish to suggest that each individual engaged in tin poultry industry should keep a simple-set simple-set of books just a few accounts about as follows: ' .Stoek account; Feed account; Egg account; Building account; Loss and Gam account t U you buy stock, charge to Stock account. If any is sold credit Stock account. Charge all focd to Feed account', ac-count', iiiul credit all eggs sold to Egg accdlmt. The cost of all building, runs, fences, etc., should be charged to Building accdunt. If you find a dead chicken, 01 break a dozen eggs, charge the value of them to Loss and Gain, and at the end of the year carry the balances of the other four accounts to the Loss and Gain account. Then crc dit that account with an inventory of stock and eggs on hand and the credit cre-dit balance of this account, less the stock and eggs on hand at the beginning begin-ning of the year, will be gain, if on credit side, and loss if on debit side ofthckaccount.,,, You. can'f- affoHhJfb H guess at what you arc doing; no one can, and you should be able to tell at H any hour of the day just whether you H arc gaining or losing, just what your H feed has cost, how many eggs you H have sold and what you received for V bS them. It's a very simple little thiffg to do, to keep these books, butyou H wont have to guess whether you arc M gaining anything, and it may save you M serious losses. . f t M (Concluded.) 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