Profitable Poultry

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 12, 24 September 1874, Page 3

Profitable Poultry

Many persons are of opinion that large flocks are not profitable. I have demonstrated to the contrary. My fowls all run together, and last winter I had 300, which laid well irom fnll to spring. For three weeks they laid 79, 86, and 98, and we have 75 hens setting. My method of feeding is to have corn on every hand winter and summer. In cold weather I feed the hens with warm bran and meal pudding; when snow is on the ground, timothy and clover hay chopped fine and boiled The bay thus fed, and the water used to wet the bran and meal supplies the chief requisite of summer laying I have tried this plan two winters, and when my neighbours who fed in tbe old way were getting only two or three dozen eggs per week from I J3O hens, my product was 40 to 60 dozen per week from 175.. Our eggs are picked up every night and sold each week, so that they reach the city perfectly fresh I speak of this to correct the mipchievous practice adopted by some of holding their eggs for a rise — this is bad policy. My hens are of a variety known as the " everhisnng layer." a cross between the Black Spanish and the common ben They are more hardy in this section than the White Leghorn, and as hard to beat.

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