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Show TIIE YMVA AND HOME. PHOFTTS OF POULTRY TO THE AVERAGE FARMER. ..urgent Mi-turn, i-'or the Money liiv-Mt-tl -l:it lo Ii-,troy the iVMt.fen.ut - (111 Mral For Dulry Cow - Ilotinf Itoltl Note. i Poultry on the l-'itriil. I There L- no source of profit av.-til-j ;.'o i: ij the fanner which is capable of I TA.ng so large returns for the money invested us poultry. For oxuinpl. a il : cjgs can be produced at less cost I 'hau ii pound of pork. It is a well-I well-I :nown fact that the farmer revives I thirty celts per doon for absolutely ! fre-h laid eggs us often as the ehoi est bit of pork reaches fifteen cents er jiound. While the price for h docu of i g 's seldom falls below UneeuM. yet the price of po.k ofle.i declines to live cents per poud. Ono do, on eggs nlso ost tho farmer less; to produce than n pound of butter. A houso room ini.de c- iinfortnb'.e. and fully equipped for one lo.en hens costs no more than a shelter lor a single horse or cow. Hy comparing com-paring tho cost of feeding and care, it is easy to decide which is the most remunerative. At the present time there is more prolit in eggs than in raising poultry Mr market, and yet u pound of poultry l!esh can be raised us cheaply as the same amount of any other kind of me-.it, while it averages double tho price of beef or pork lo the producer. Crops that drain our land of its va'nablo I propoi-ties sometimes fail to give sntis- factory returns. Now a Hock of well-I well-I niatiiigeil poultry, besides giving ti I direct prolit. ade pinto to place the in-! in-! viustry loni.eeted with them above ol hers of its clrss furnishes a fertilizer which is almost invaluable in restoring our hinds to their original fertility. Fowls are ihe best economizers on Iho fariii. since they pick up every stray crr.iub mid many kernels of scattered scat-tered grain, t'.nd unavoidably fall to 1lio ground and would othenvi-e be lost. '"They devour myriads of insect pests, and while, thus protecting o.ir crops fro til (le.-.ti-ucthm, they utilize the destroyer. Tho products of the poultry yard ri-o among the luxuries which arc within tho farmer's reach, not, however, without with-out some effort and expense. Whatever What-ever is really worth having costs an effort to secure. Too much has often been oxpouted from hens, considering consider-ing the euro given to them. Many a poor biddy has been compelled to face the cold winds of Winter nights, roosting on fences or in tho treo tops, while others have only tho shelter ol an open shed, and lire obliged to subsist sub-sist most of tho year tin such scattering scatter-ing h'iU of food as they can Had for themselves. Many a man. because ho is obliged to feud his hens through the winter only enough to prevent starvation, starva-tion, is that the fowls are unprofitable, un-profitable, sauj'ly beeauso they do not lay f.'j v.he i vices are high. Now, if thoso sa;uo hens hud boeti properly housed, n.i l ive.i a little extra enro and feed, they would become a paying: lnves'ment 1.m.sJ c f a iiclos expense. Mue.'.i of the f.xid hiui was consumed in keeping t'.i?r.iv-f.. -i could have been utilized for egg yi -iiiet'on. So delicate ana nn.ii-.hing r.n article of food as an ep-g is wcl wo-th all it cost. It is just us easy to have lur.-.s I laying at any season of the year as to j have cows give milk. There is no j luck or chance about it. It is nat'.uv.l I for hens to produce eggs, and under favorable cireunutuneos they will lay j freely. It is reasonable to s.ippo.sc j that all who ko-p hen: vfiii.t them iu : lay well. How to et tho moid egjts ! with the least trouble ind exponso is j the question pressing for answer. I |
