| Show HOW TO CARE r R CF tito tho following article la Is taken from thu the provo herald anil and because it concerns tho the activities of at one ot at our former townsmen we gladly print it this paper has consistently main iff z H 4 nith proper cars care not noi enly jih healthful recreation fe but pay good dividends on the time and money invested in ili proof ot at this wo we publia published bed in ili these colu columns vins last summer cummer facts and figures furnished us by J A owens a local poultry man to got get further helpful information alone alon i thia line to pass on hilour 0 o our readers rs our correspondent called on clr bir owens to get some oral first hand liand inform information a and also to his flock mr owena scratch pon pen which is 60 tei fett by 24 feet can trully be called the homo home 0 the happy hen fien it Is really mcall a wonderful sight to toabe and hear chickens scratch scratching I 1 it g industriously industrious y in 8 or 10 inches of fresh clean straw and singing like birds ta in the tra la there are ara about 90 hens hena it a year and a halfeld half hal fold old and tho the b ba lanci are pullets some hatched in march but ut most 0 them in april tito the pullets began laying in septet septem iber and by october idith were paying their way chichin which in and of itself Is re at 16 the present time mr owens Is retting getting from 13 to 25 dozens of eggs per day which because of their quality and size bring brine top prices wo we were informed that mr air owens cannot supply the demand most of the eggs being sold right at the house i to private customers mr owens has been more tul ful than roost most anyone around tho te garden city in proc producing lucin g early laye layra rs when asked what the secret ot of it Is talio he replied care the coops are pod ped with electric lights and running water to very essential sent ial things or high egg proc production luction the lights are ara turned on at 6 every morning fit eit which time tho chickens are fed 12 quarts of grain composed of equal parts ot of corn oats and wheat about 7 they are fed a dry mash consisting of two parts bran ono one part shorts and one part chopped corn to which lias has veen added 1 per cent of fine salt bait 2 per cent cenat charcoal chanco al and a regulation amont of f poultry regulator dry maidt Is kept before them at all times in hoppers t the he theory being that tho tha moro more chickens eat ot at proper feeds tho the moro more eggs they ill lay at 10 a m they receive another 12 quarts of grain at noon they ard givon given a et at mash mixed the samo sam a oa as he I 1 dry mash to which has been added S q i to 8 quarts of alfalfa meal and ona inq quart 0 a butter milk at 4 p m 12 quarts quarta of grain are fed a at t 6 they receive about 15 quarts of mash mixed with 20 pounds p 11 of cooked flah wt 1 15 hnud w raiq |
