Show KEEPING HENS IN ORDINARY FARM FLOCK A 40 ordinary mixed farm flock experience exposi mm has bus convinced it P paa 1 in many that in the ordinary is farm f flock 1 I 1 to keep it hens for r three been years bafo before turning them off th alie greatest egg yield vara can he be expected P d during reng the pullet pallet you year and many fall I 1 ad bih ot the them 1 only I f for tu that but length of keeping it time they pay beef about as an good old enter returns for for the work and dpn expense gi gaea them d dar ing 9 the be ances succeeding fialli fill a two years beare I 1 in the average emen farm flock li one of the big outlays of 0 b both tb time I 1 and nd CP C capital P 11 tat in the poultry business is the raising 0 of f chicks if the hens drop off laying in september or october ocolor 1 and I get busy once more early in th the year they can be earned carried through th the p period of ret rest much anch cheaper cheap th than an pullets to of I 1 ets can be raised so since in P poultry itra Is only a very profitable to side line with us as many Y believe the keeping of hens red reduces the fee mark ork of chicken raising without t materially m ate rl ally reducing the income save a writer wrater in im an exchange me mot t hens generally consider tair year 3 work cout completed to in th september pt r or early october they are ns C care ful fully and g generously fed during t the e ma na an when thel are I 1 lay ing 19 A an occasional bird begins hii laying 1 la 1 vember b few more or during I 1 the next month and ad by the lofv of feb marl man von ten con can depend upon a genero iii basketful baske but N ith the leghorns Leg Lg lahrs horns hrS there s leeida me to be no tendency toward over fatness the few that become as n ador advances are broken up tip 1 in a humane human clum manner and ad are on buik back on in ill the nest with a red face I 1 in a Is ten do davs they are am given a free range and ad nil all the car cire the last year car our or hens h co made T an a average of ten d dozen co per head MI miny M iny of 1 theno were re laid during the months of cheap egg but not nil all by any means mean dur due 1 lug 19 9 august they laid as 1 heavily haly aa lu in apoll api 11 and august prima prices are not net to b be scorned at that torn time they picked an much ch ot of their living about the file fields and grain stocks stacks it we was very da arv so ve me supplied them with all ail the he I 1 green food in the we way yo of f eally eaily cobb cabbage age sod and sprouted oats that they would mould con sume some abundance of food postponed the molt malt and kept there them on the their j job b at the end of their q third rd abu laying vear lose they are sold at once after that age hens seem more susceptible to disease and ad w we C consider cider ider it a risk rik to keep them the longer the secret of getting old he hens to lay am seems to rest t I 1 in keeping them busy giving them f free ce range plenty of good gold food an abar III dince ot of green grace taff |