PRAIRIE FARMER'S POULTRY BOOK 



Mrs. Winsor says there is no reason why any other 

 tenant farmer's wife cannot do as well with poultry as she 

 has done. All it takes is the knowledge of a few fundamental 

 facts about care and feeding, plus a willingness to put that 

 knowledge into practice, plus a hubby willing to spend a little 

 spare time fixing up a poultry house. And if the farm woman 

 can show a cash income from her flock like that secured by 

 Mrs. Winsor, what husband wouldn't be willing to help her 

 now and then? 



Hens Helping to Pay for Farm 



PAYING for a 240-acre Illinois farm is something of an 

 undertaking. Ray Coop of Kendall county, 111., realized 

 that when he moved to his new farm the first of March, 1921. 

 But he is cheered by the thought that he won't have to do 

 the job alone. Mrs. Coop is one of the best poultry raisers 

 in all Northern Illinois, and she and her chickens are doing 

 effective work in helping pay for the farm. 



The hens seem to realize their responsibility, too, for 

 they celebrated their first day on the new farm last spring 

 by laying 56 eggs. When you stop to consider that there 

 were only 99 of them, and that they had been moved several 

 miles over rough roads, you will have to admit that they 

 started out the new season with a pretty fair day's work. 



Celebrating New Year's 



The year's work really started on New Year's day, how- 

 ever, when Mrs. Coop, put into effect her resolution to make 

 1921 a record-breaking poultry year by setting her incubator. 

 The cockerels from that hatch sold as broilers in April at 

 72 cents a pound. They paid over $2 a bushel for the corn 

 they ate, according to Mrs. Coop. 



When I visited Mrs. Coop Oct. 26, 1921, she had already 

 sold over $600 worth of poultry that year and had 50 more 

 cockerels shut up ready for market. And that is saying 

 nothing about the eggs. The egg checks for January and 

 February alone came to $150. So it looks as if Mrs. Coop 

 would make good her resolution and exceed her 1920 record 

 of $1,000 from her poultry flock. 



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