PRAIfilE FARMER'S POULTRY BOOK 



As additional green feed the hens get all the mangels 

 they want. Self-feeders are kept full of a dry mash of equal 

 parts of bran, ground oats and ground corn, with 10 per cent 

 by weight- of tankage. The hens also get all the skim milk 

 and water they want to drink, and oyster shell and charcoal 

 are kept before them all the time. 



The laying hens are kept in the house all winter. 



"They won't lay if they have wet or cold feet," says Esgar. 

 "A few hours walking around in the snow, or even on frosty 

 ground, will cut the egg production severely." 



The floor of the house is covered with dry straw, changed 

 once a week or so. The dropping boards under the roosts are 

 cleaned frequently, and roosts, nests and the house itself are 

 disinfected often enough to keep them free from vermin.. 



"I don't know of any branch of farming that beats the 

 poultry business, good years and bad years alike," Esgar says. 



Chester Married the Right Girl 



WHEN Chester Winsor came back from a year's heavy 

 action in France he found that he had, a still harder 

 fight before him. Like many other farmer boys who gave 

 their service to the cause of liberty, he started farming when 

 everything was high, and was pretty thoroughly deflated by 

 the time the bills came due. 



But Chester married a girl who believes that a farmer's 

 wife should be his partner in every sense of the word. While 

 Chester is plowing corn and making hay on his 80-acre rented 

 farm in Grundy county. 111., she is raising chickens and 

 hunting eggs. 



What Do You Think of This? 



While I was eating some of her fried chicken one day not 

 long ago she got out her account book and figured up her 

 poultry income. During the 10 months from Dec. 1, 1920, to 

 Oct. 1, 1921, her cash receipts from poultry and eggs were 

 $801.47. The actual cash expense was $125. This poultry 

 income, which has been a mighty big help during the deflation 

 year, was all from market stuff. Although Mrs. Winsor has 

 a flock of purebred Rhode Island Reds, the poultry and eggs 

 are sold on the market and not to the purebred trade. 



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