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Better Poultry for 1915
By Q. L. Wood, Poultry Editor. 1
THH poultry industry, from the
man who ratae a baker's dozen
In his back yard to the big egg
plants can look forward to great
things in 1915. The In dustry is go
ing ahead by leaps and bounds and
It roata with the men who are ac
tively engaged In It as to whether
this advance will be permanent and
secure, roultry Is the only meat
consumed aa food that has not had
Its proportion of recent price raises.
(The reason for this has been that
beef and pork are the every-day
meat rations for every nation.
Chickon has always been more or
less of a diah for Sunday dinner and
company. It has not had the exces
sive demands- that other meat has
enjoyed. But the high price of beef
which has now touched and passed
chicken meat in many Instances has
put the poultry industry In a new
light If beef cannot be produced
cheaper; if it is true that the for
merly available grazing lands In'the
United States are being rapidly cut
tip into farms, and displacing the
feeding places for large quantities
of stock, and that everywhere the
production of beef on a large scale
Is being rnpidly and surely curtailed,
then the poultry industry has
reached the stage whore it will soon
come into Us own.
What man is going to pay more
for beef and pork than chicken'
Just what do you suppose will hap
pen to the present supply of mar
keable poultry when chickon be
comes no longer a luxury but nn
every-day meat for the table T The
opportunity for producing poultry on
a large scale is not affeclod by the
causes that are limiting the pro
duction of beef and pork. The
small farm is Just the place for
rioslng It in any quantity desirable
to the breeder. But If this Is to be
done for a profit every farmer and
breeder who would have his proNts
sure must see that his poultry Is
rapidly put on the most vigorous
basis possible.
There is everywhere the complaint
that hens do not pay for their feed,
that fertility runs low, that it la Im
possible to raise even 60 per cent
of the hatched chicles, and that the
quality of the stock la not improv
ing In the least I want every per
son who Is having any or all of
these troubles to find In the follow
ing suggestions something that he
can apply to his own case. It is not
only necessary that you read how
to Improve your chances for suc
coss, but tea times more important'
that you put every one of the sug
gestions possible that would apply to
your case Into action.
Coll your stock and cull It closely.
Small tmdergrown specimens, birds
with pinched tails, fowls out of all
proportion to the standard require
ments of the breed, and .any other
birds which would not be a good,
healthy, vigorous breeding, stock
should be discarded and sent to the
market The best of your female
breeder this past year should be
retained and mated to large, vigor
ous cockerels from heavy egg laying
strains. It does not matter what
breed yon are raising, there Is some
reliable breeder on the coast who Is
developing the egg qualities of this
particular breed. If yon do sot
want exhibition specimens, you can
secure large, vigorous breeders for
five dollars each, that will be worth
many times this amount to yon In
building up a profit-bearing flock.
The main point is do not be too
afraid to cull. Remember, the closer
you cull the better results you will
get Ton will have a fine founda
tion stock for the next year, and
more care exercised as to what birds
are kept for breeders is going to
put the flocks where there will be
vigor enough in them to batch
enough of the eggs sot, and to raise
enough of the hatched chicks to
yield a reasonable profit. The sub
Joct Is too large to more than touch
on U in a general way, but I want
every reader to do better with his
poultry In 1916 than the year past
Make your poultry raising worth
while.
Make that Cake
Lighter, and
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The warehouses are full and overflowing. Shipments of
fruits and grains are going to all parts of the world.
Bank balances are beginning to Increase for the soil has
given up its yield.
And now what?
Are we going to do the way the farmers of New England
did take from the soil without giving to ItT Is tho North
west eventually to be the abode of worn-out farms ?
After harvest time, the Boll Is weakened. If w do not pot
back in our soil the plant food taken oat, what Is us
next crop to feed upon?
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