Millard County Chronicle | 1911-09-28 | Page 7 | Excellent Ration for Eggs

EXCELLENT CATION FOR EGGS Prof. Chambers Ascribes Hit Success to Intelligent Feeding, Good Care and Trap Netting. At a poultry Institute, held by the Colorado agricultural college- last summer, i'rof. W. O. Chambers exhlb Ited a Hbode Island Red hen thut ba laid ZOO eggs in one year. Prof. Chambers keeps from forty to fifty hens 'on a town lot and has to buy all bla feed. He keeps an accurate ac-curate account of all expenses, and last year for feed, louse killer, straw and all Incidentals, the cost was on dollar per hen. He uses trap nests and keeps no hen that lays less than 120 eggs In twelve months. The av erage for his entire flock Is a little over twelve dozen eggs a hen pet annum. ' The average price In the open market mar-ket for the year for eggs has been 25 rents a dozen. This makes at market price an Income of three dollars a hen for the year two dollars a ben more than the coat of feed where all feed has to be purchased. i'rof. Chambers has made more than this amount because he has sold some Df bis eggs for hatching He ascribes hla success to Intelligent feeding, (ood care anil trap-nesting. Ills hens ire given dry feed entirely. He gives l light feed of whole wheat and corn Ihree times a day, scattering tin: grain ,ti the litter. He keeps before bis bens all the time In self feeding hoppers a dry stash made of the following mixture: rounds. 3ran 200 Alfalfa meal 200 I'orn meal , 100 Shorts ' 100 Unseed meal 100 Meat, bono end blood 100 With this Is mixed a little salt and :ayenne pepper.