Show HICKEN CHICKEN FLOCK ON EVERY FARM not experts expensive ve because of excellent food produced the farm poultry flock la Is not expensive and because of the excellent food it produces should be found on all every farm during a part of the year a flock of from 50 to hens will forage for much of their food says saya dr B F K kaupp aupp ahe head ad orath of f t tie li e P poultry 0 ul tr y d department e pa r t men t at the N north C carolina n ro 1 lu a S state ta t e college e 0 t the chickens consume bugs find and worms W which bleb are injurious to crops and clean up waste grain about the cow find and horse barns the flock needs need to have a comfortable house which can be kept clean and plenty of mash and grain feed cori cord oats wheat and barley to feed the flock may be grown at home and made into a ration that Is just as aa satisfactory as any corn cora mercial mixture formulas tor for pro preparing these rations may be had from the poultry department doctor kaupp says that every per eon should eat at least two eggs every day tills this means that two cases of 30 dozen eggs each 1 Is 19 9 needed for each person in the state each year twenty to twenty five pounds of poultry should also be consumed by each person on the farm in a year to find out the potential markl t for poultry and eggs in a county one should ascertain how many hens there are within its borders these hens should average at least eggs each lf if each 1 lien i en lays S 1 0 0 e eggs g gs and each erea och ofle nad p person c consumes 0 n su m s GOO 1 0 0 e eggs g g it would mean that there should he be five hens for each person to supply only tile the home needs more hens than this should be kept however so that a surplus of eggs may be available tor for sal sale eien T then too says doctor kaupp pullets must be raised each year to replace about one half of th the e mature hens five eggs to set will be needed for each pullet in ohp breeding pens it if the farm flock Is to be kept at hens this means that 2 30 eggs must be set act to do this without an aa incubator requires 15 setting liens hens if the family consumes pounds of poultry on the table 25 23 hens and 50 fryers will supply this amount |