Show RUNTY KENS HENS NOT DESIRABLE S show h at least on fowl in fill fifteen is umi undersized zed and H anc 0 0 gnp unprofitable rp Td br 1 in 1 nono af Rem lole Is 1 out do bo ID 1 alft th poultry 1 flock as it to li among other fann fam animals yet it Is a factor to be considered and it I 1 la possible that in borne me cases it 1 Is of if great afta certain art it to Is that fuld fowls lire am not at dl d desirable l Is and it has bill been the experience of many farmers and ad that they can be almost IT it if not entirety entirely elf 1 I tills this I 1 la the to conclusion causion that way may be arrived at oft after a t oly of the figure rod nod co comments onto faed obtained by a prel preliminary ladra mewl 1 19 1 I 1 4 v it ta aall v UIT good df feeding and caro W will i 11 P practically r lly eliminate to borer ft uon of runta at and their win BAY con tr due by the united 8 states alt D debirt I 1 jaent emt of agriculture the information so wag obtained train from nearly 1000 farmers to whom ques tionna ires were sent alt although these farmers we were comil considered derad to on be better than the average they reported that 7 per cent ot of their animals were ow under ruder sized sited to sueh such a 9 degree an a to I 1 be I 1 called ud not this means a it the percentage perlene per leme holds true free fol or all farms farm of the country that more mom than 14 OUO 00 at animals ervid not at including feathered stock ore am buuts at to in addition 6 per cout of the die poultry on an these far farma was undersized which in roeania OR that there them is perhaps even i 1 high percentage tor for the total farrat or athe the united amt states inbreeding and ad poor rati 1 as l I ft 7 re cause a an the 0 principal factors dis db dran bif tOi arih 1 I in I 1 feathered black from roni that in other farm sai animals reals it 1 is the com consensus almod cf f opinion pim ot of p aali owners in 1 all parts of country that the following 9 causes B sea arp ze responsible for far the runts net mind found I 1 in feathered floth flocks per for cent 1 poor f edling mg 11 1 ll inbreeding and poor late matin KB interior dam block 1 1 para enea especially 1 mcw iti halt 11 f poor fow housing ft 71 late hatching CE 0 6 S r roup etc J S 3 low oa vitality ot at au chick 34 selecting poor 1 ess 14 I 1 tat total E earl r 13 hatching t lerg la 1 of more am importance import according to the commenia emmar com menta I 1 of poultry P md men I 1 fine the figure in 1 the roble in I 1 11 te it appear that at rela liely few flock owners ord are familiar with old the ad n of early angeld Bat ana eld but bloode sho ho do theli theft botching emir early find it a distinct benefit for 1116 instance ed OR one farmer anys last t year all of my chic chickens keas hatched of after the first of june ad were runts it those before that were 0 borm normal 0 j and ad w ere ial ing in october the mime ru a eleand anre f nod feed wele give ghen to all 11 of 1 the them lit another ther observes when I 1 pet get my chicks hitched in april and amov I 1 I 1 do not mr le hale runts MIU I 1 in my flock i the estimates add at that one third of lot hutches ath are a rarity of hatch no a thick chicks later let than may 1 3 he be 1 caiti i aings of equal mil interest are the warnings r against g art inbreeding AA e how have DO betra am I 1 in our poultry 1 Is the statement of a virginia farm fanner r who arma adds ane ate bay kiy purebred cocks cock arm from a dif different ferem strain rate every at ear at keep purebred fowls and chanze chain the sire every ear r Is 1 the file 1 10 junction of another poultry poll man bud and bir hl perl R in ti pica 1 many 1 othera 1711 F FI bannera Fan nera I expert encia with earla hatching tal hillh the did results of ex as pertinent by the bare an of numal animal of the united states state depart mem of of agriculture in these expert nientai men the earl hatched chicks hord a marked marfe frd over mier pup pat PI hatched late there them was ams a steady degradation in si sire and tipe ope 0 of the lute late chicks compared hatched with I 1 thase hatched code from the thee side ids ifsits it ft 1 Is easily ity seen that the question of rod bad rood ad I tk or art related and ure tied up with economic it fact factors of great Import M nnie |