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Show EXPERIENCES OF A BEGINNER AT POULTRY RAISING In tho Poultry Raising department of tho current Issilo 'of Farm -nnd-Flrc side, the national farm paper pub llshed at Sprlngflold, Ohio', a contributor contrib-utor tells In part ns follows his experiences ex-periences ns a boglnnor'Os poultry raising: "Tho first of November, 1913, I bought 24 White Leghorn hens .and 22 of the larger nWds for mothers. "The first eggs 'were sold Decern ber 6 1 AsI write,' 8eptembor 20, 1914, I have sold 176 1-2 dozen eggs and received "therefore Ml - "I set 35 dozen Leghorn eggs from which were 'hatched 300 chicks. No record was kept of the eggs catenv -but a. close estimate shows that not far frpm 20 dozen 'were t;hu: used making a total .of 231 dozen eggsV' duced. The large hens had but llttlo (lmo to Iny, as ,we JwDUthem bus "At 'the end til JU "i ka 200 cnlcka started In.gQod. thriving condl"1 'tlon.4 Then three tramp cats and a .skunk gotjbugy and when I got them exterminated 1 had only 65 chicks left. I then began setting hens again and hatched 70 chicks and' 9 dozen Runner'ducks. ' j'u, "My Income from eggs and broilers' sold and j young stock on hand up to September 20, 1614, -was- $111. The cash outlay to that date for feed wa $35, leaving a balance of $76 for labor la-bor and Interest on the Investment in the hens at the start. , "Wheat was. purchased at 90 cents and oatB, nt.50 cents per. bushel. A good many ..carrots were ted for green feed., These cost $5 per ton. The yards were never empty of green, chopped grass or some other green stuff, for,.L have learned that grain is not(tho only feedrnecessaryj to produce pro-duce results" with laying hens. I keep all our chickens young nnd old, in parks or yards of GO by loo feet, well Htterpd with straw, and sow thr, grain fed In this straw In fair veaih or. Ono pint of oats is fed In the morning' and a pint of wheat at night to each 12 hens. "CrusTied quurtzSock I8 kept be. foro tho phlckensjiU thoj time, also plenty, Ptslarconf and lime. The hens JiadjncT oyster shell and no meat except now nnd"then aJack rabbit which I had kllJedV I shali feed both oysterfihell and'meat scrap next sea- son. I 'shall also try an Incubator next gpring, nnd, dispose, of. tho large hens, keeplng.only Leghorn hens and Runner ducks." i-. .... |