Show o 0 ral feeding fowls chas S greene in an address at a minnesota farmers institute bald said when you have selected the breed you want and have them properly housed the next question Is how to keap them healthy and get the most profit with the least expenditure tor for feed and labor as few of us can find pleasure enough in the business to pay its run ning expenses there are probably no two men who adopt precisely the same methods of feeding and yet each may have equally good success so that there can be no set rules laid down to be followed under all circum stances and conditions A person must study the composition of feeds know what their nutritive value Is and the effects they produce when fed to stock under varying conditions again the large breeds require quite different treatment from that given the smaller ones feed that is right tor for Leg leghorns horng would be liable to make plymouth rocks too tat fat it if fed in the same way the manner and time 0 of f feeding Is of nearly as much im importance as the teed feed itself we always adopt a regu lar system of feeding and only change with the seasons of the year or when conditions absolutely require it we have known a change of teed feed and the time of feeding it to make a differ ence with our own flock of leghorns Leg horns of over tour four hundred eggs a day la 14 side of two weeks too much stress cannot hot be laid on regularity in teed feed ing and the adherence to a steady system alo only changing when there la Is a good reason for so ao doing all soft teed feed should be fed on oil wide boards or in n troughs which are kept clean and the fowls should never be allowed to hud die together any more than Is necessary exercise Is of prime importance when trying to produce eggs during the winter months by keeping the floor of the house littered with dry straw chaff or leaves and scattering the whole feed into it the fowls get all the exercise they need excessive profits in egg handling As yet the handling of eggs for con com purposes has not been reduced to a science the great storage houses in the big cities have plants that are properly equipped for the bandling Land ling of large quantities of eggs but they are few la in comparison with the numerous small plants scattered here and there throughout the country now and then we hear of small plants being started in small places for the storing of eggs to the time ot of big prices and we are informed t that hat the men behind the enterprise expect to make 75 per cent profit on their operations ope actions this of itself shows the chaotic state in which the egg handling industry Is at ane present time when the general handling of eggs is reduced to a proper system it will not be possible tor for the scorers to make any such profits profits like those come out of the pockets of the farmers or out of the pockets of the consumers of eggs it Is a method of oppression that we have not yet been able to abolish but the time Is coming when farmers and the con sumers of farm products will be wise enough to make sure that the men that play the part of middlemen get only a fair profit for their part of the work we will then have storage plants in which the invested will earn but five or six per cent and the men that take care ot of those plants get only fair and reasonable salaries the farmer will then get a little more for his eftis than he does now and the consumer will pay a little less for them Markt marketing ting eggs from farmers review in answer to the question what method ot of pack ing Is best when eggs are to be carried to market in the farm wagon would say when only a few eggs are to be marketed at a time we have found the small pasteboard box holding two dozen and fitted with sections to be tie most convenient especially so in supplying a private trade two dozen eggs per week being the usual order tor for a private lailly amily A great many grocers are using them tor for their retail trade and find them economical tor for breakage is reduced to a minimum ask your grocer to order a halt hall dozen tor for you they are not expensive and a few eggs saved this winter pay tor for them the farmer who has a nice flock of laying hens this winter will be strictly in the swim A prominent neighbor ot of ours remarked the other day that he would rather have bens liens this winter than two carloads ot of feeding steers john coolidge knox county profit in large flocks from farmers review it if a man can make a reasonable profit out ot of ten hens and there can be no question but what he can there Is no reason why he can not make one hundred times as much out of a thousand hems hens provided be he gives them the same care and attention few however are pro pared to do this and it Is for this reason that so many failures occur with a greater number with large range a few hens will take care of themselves and make up for a good deal ot of neglect that would prove to success with a large number there Is money in poultry no one can doubt but to get the most out of it one must have experience and learning sufficient to enable him to use feed labor and all to advantage 0 P bennett when a man Is just to his enemies his friends can rely on him L lk i h |