| Show KEEPING KEE PING SMALL FLOCK GOOD REVENUE FROM POULTRY ON VILLAGE LOT safe to say that any one with erdl nary sense and M make a k 43 I 1 money by ay raising railing chicken feed only the best by KATE ST MAUM copyright 1914 with square feet of ground suitable for poultry and ana devoting halt an hour every night ind and morning with an extra two or three hours on an saturday you should be able to add two or three hundred dollars to your income my authority for this Is my knowledge of a bank clerk whose home Is beyond the city limits who made last year from a flock of luna hns and of a postmistress who made though neither of them gave more than a few hours a week to poultry so BO it seems safe to say that any one with ordinary common sense and industry can make three or tour four hundred dollars any sort of old hens and coops wont do A person who starts with very little capital will find it advisable to buy three good r birdo bird rather than twenty poor ones and make a clean new house even if its only 3 by 6 feet rather than patch up some vermin infested shanty this Is the time to lay tho the of eggs next years profits ts so it if you have a flock of any of the popular breeds batch every one but it if your flock consists of mongrels mon grels feed well kl and get all the eggs you can sell thorn them tor for table use and with the proceeds ds buy eggstrom eggs from some reliable dealer or what la Is better ct sell bell a few old birds and buy a small email incubator there Is a good little metal machine costing six dollars which holds 60 eggs fireless brood breed ers era from the tha same firm cost coat the same feed only the best beat chicks should have nothing to eat for 48 hours after leaving the shell the reason Is the yolk Is absorbed immediately before a chick breaks through the shell and must be allowed time to digest and pass through tho tha bowels before any foreign substance Is introduced or indigestion and diarrhea will result commercial chick feed la Is the best teed feed being a mixture of seeds and finely broken corn specially put pitt up for chicks once a day give a little pot cheese or stale breed soaked in milk and squeezed dry when coe con fined to brooders broaders bro oders vegetable vege tabla material must be added such euch na as lettuce leaves or tops of green onions chopped fine keep clean water ground char charcoal coil and fine grit always before them and remember with really good birds birdo your profits come in the spring from selling belling eggs for hatching or for day old chicks indeed you should not begrudge tho the utmost thought and caro care to your poultry in the ho growing stage for it la is then you are arc building the oun foundation dation for a profIt profitably ablo poultry plant |
