Show farm poultry keeper has many advantages the farm poultry keeper has every advantage over the commercial cial egg farmer fanner because he gets his feed at tile the lowest prices by raising it himself ile he can care for hs hens at the lowest cost for time on many farms the labor of caring earing for flocks of from to I 1 WO rm liens hens need not be counted at all as feeding them Is incidental to the regular feeding that must be done on every farm farm flocks can feed themselves from hoppers that are filled once a week or once in two weeks with mash throwing in grain tor for the hens is a matter of minutes the advent of the hatchery was the beginning of a new era in form farm poultry keeping because it gave farmers an opportunity to buy at a low rate enough chicks to ack stock their farms to capacity during the first years of the hatchery hittel iery business buying baby chicks was uncertain but since hatchery men have organized and insisted on cei certification of the liens hens from froin which they get eggs it is quite safe to buy baby chicks from any member of tie lie association and feel assured that the pullets will be good layers |