Show F A amft 19 PURE BRED HENS ARE profitable cost a little more but pay it all back in eggs april Is a good timeto time tinie to mule muke every effora possible to produce pure pine bred poultry instead of ninfi mongrels mon grels if locks flocks of hens tire are kept in our that possess the lie colors ot it josephs cont cent combined with numerous sizes and sli shapes alles and producing apri dut that would anke tin an expert 0 to o tell lell the lie shades 1110 leture of the hie shell then poultry profits wll will be slim allm with small profits our intel interest esi will lessen and lt it takes interest to make us go after poultry in the lie right way in the ton ion of P R 11 1 I hull fall extension poultry husbandman college south Curil Caro liin litin I 1 allne you ever seen a farmer that was interested in a flock of chickens if you have dove you hine have seen more lhnn I 1 have says mr hull As a rule when lian tile the farm flock are mon grels the fit river hini himself self will 11 always tell you that alio they belong 1 to the lie wife but bin when pure fired poultry comes on the farm then tills this same farmer mind showing the visitors athe poultry and most of tile the time will claim every epry one of tile pure bred poultry will also attract attention to tile the farm I 1 do not care how humble the home amny be or how poor tile former farmer Is himself people will always stop to look at n flock of it pure bred clif chickens ekens when other people are interested intel estad in the things you have there Is usually a sale for them at a good profit I 1 what about tile the cost pure bred chickens may cost a little more but blit they will pay back in eggs eg s and in meat el t more that alian mongrels mon greta grels ever eer can the pure bred poultry producers in ench county should get behind this movement and plan pure bred poultry on each farm right number of males required in hen flock there ts Is no absolute rule in regard to tile the number of males needed tn in a flock but there are some general recommendations that thai will prove helpful in dech mechling ling this question for tile the asiatic breeds one rooster ts Is needed for six sl or elgh liens hens these birds are arc slower moving th wall an the american breeds tile the such as a plymouth rocks rhode reds keds and Wyand ottos need one rooster for every eiery ten fen or twelve hens with willi leg horns and other mediterranean breeds one rooster to fifteen or twenty hens Is satisfactory the activity of tile the biales will nill make some difference in regard to the nuin her needed in anre ti octis fewer feuer finales will be needed than where the rooster and hens tire closely confined it Is better to have ii jew few more mules at tile the beginning of the seison season than Is needed so lint flat there will be sufficient sulli clent even though some of them may become disarmed or lie die it if new mules males are added later inter in the file season they will us usually itally start fighting und and do more harm than rood good A few extra e roosters early in tile the season Is a more method of meeting the situation increasing demand for capons camons of good quality there Is a steadily increasing d demand man for capons camons as the market becomes appreciative of their superior clun quality lity for table purposes the question Is sometimes asked what Is a caphil ca poil jhb ehfe answer Is an unsexed cockerel or a bird from which the reproductive organs time have been rented removed before it has been fully full developed or attains maturity this operation has the effect of causing a more placid temperament to develop in the bird and the fighting Ins instinct t Is lost as the result of the continuance of tile the infantile un indevel devel olied sexual nature after the operation has been performed these aliese birds krow grow rapidly and their flesh relaine the tender condition of young soung chickens up lip to tn the time lime when they are aide fully grown egg hatchability birds which have hae been producing targe large numbers of eggs throughout the winter are usually found to produce eggs late inte in tile the season with a lower fertility and the exien nation of this Is 3 that the of tle ilie birds has gone into egg production tj on the of these eggs can be improved however hy by gi ring tile the lock flock all the direct sunlight they can get during the winter cod livet oil Is also of same value ns as are thi the good glass substitutes mating gee geese the best results with the bleds of f reesa ercse come fron muting mating in trios or using not more than geese with each gander on oil duck farms a mating of seven du duis ducks Is to lo div q drake usually gives good results ganders are arc usually larger and coarser thain geese with larger and thicker necks and they have bare a more shrill call tile the cry of vie the goose eose is 1 rather harsh the only sure way to determine the sex will be an examina cibu of the organs |