Show r A cannibal hen tie latter part of 0 june I 1 act set two bantum bens hens of a mongrel type on pheasant eggs placing them in col ony coops writhe a correspondent ol 01 farm poultry during the incubation of these a eggs the weather was exceed anair warm each day I 1 took the hens off lifting then them kently gently so that no beeer secreted accreted between wing und and body wo lid fall and break placing them to in their cage cages I 1 allowed them all the fresh water and whole corn com aney wanted each saturday I 1 dusted them thom with A good lico killer hiller all went well until the slat let day beasant eesa eggs taking 24 days to batch hatch on or said day wilen I 1 lifted the doof to let off oil tho the hem liens one of them was bitting on her eggs her comb very pale and in appearance a eick sick and dilapidated bird the eggs were chilled bow how long I 1 could not tell the other hon hen seemed quite well and contented excepting her comb which was slightly pale with no other sitting hen on hand and quite a distance to the nearest neighbor I 1 for awhile felt perplexed but not for long I 1 waa was not for giving up the chilled eggs experience ba had taught me not to the well hex hez had seventeen ergs under hen her realizing eho she had only three more days to sit and the weather being warm I 1 coupled tho the eggs into ono one bitting sitting isolated lao the eick sick bird put iron into her drinking oer and fed her nothing but boiled rici ric rolled oats and onion tope tops and for grit erg shella in three daya days that hen ben showed her bar former tigor vigor and her comb became mere normal in color by ny this tame my ray chicks were duo due from tho the other hen bon and there fore examined the eggs that morning finding many ot of them chipped at noon I 1 hotl noticed sted half a shell just outside the root roof upon raising the hen gently I 1 found no chick the cage being before the coop made escape impossible now I 1 was puzzled where was that chick I 1 pondered for awhile then thought best to watch the hen more closely suddenly she shifted back 0 little and deliberately picked at one of tho chicks that had only one wing emerged from the shell to my surprise eho she ate the chick A cannibal thought 1 I but there was no tima to waste that hen would cat eat them as fast as they hatched the convalescent hen was still clucking so I 1 rested my hopes on her placed the eggs under her and bless her batched hatched and reared them is to rearing them to this day she makes a mother in every respect big returns from froni poultry now what about the returns from eesa and poultry meat when produced I 1 am disposed to under rathna than over estimate sil mata in this matter A very moderate estimate is eggs per hen per year for salo sale or use these eggs ft rt one cent zent each are worth all told in addition to this you should have a betting setting of eggs that would give you eight chickens which at 10 cents each would be worth go 80 cents this makes a total return of 1 SO what does it cost to produce these returns this la Is just where one marked advantage of poultry raising comes in A great deal ot of the teed feed used to produce poul poultry on the farm Is made up of what are comparatively speaking Oft king waste products small grain table scraps green bone etc but we have bay made experiments at ottawa with a view of learning leaming just what the viet c jat of production la in where foods hae hare to be purchased aed the cost ot of the rain used being placed at a cent a even on this basis the coat cost ot of feeding a hen aa as known shown by actual experiment was not 1 beyond 75 centa cents per year thia this left a of at least per owl and this waa was allowing only a 91 cent each for exas how much greater bould the profits be if it eggs were wore produced in winter when 25 26 SO 30 and d 35 centa cents ier dozen can be 0 obtained I 1 in toronto or local markets marke taT in th that a t case the net profits would run up to to per year prof A 0 gilbert roe note comb black MIn orcas it la Is worthy ot of note that the latest acquisition to the minorca class 1 la is the roae rose comb black minorca the only objection that has ver ever been raised against the varieties of thy the Hedl class la is their susceptibility tibi lity to frostbite ot of the their comba combs aro are ao so large chrt continued cold or exposure la 13 aure sure to result in this complaint to obviate thia this one defect if it may co be termed in this valuable claa class of birds baa actuated breeders bre edera in making a bird that Vs senses the other qualification but with low rose combs there ve re two varieties ot of rose comb Leg horna the black and the white and the rose comb black minorca the latter Is not a standard variety as yet but in no point to their admi aslon as euch such la in tho the near future many good specimens bave been bred and ex whited at the recent shown and sue suc ceca in making this new now 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