PRAIRIE FARMER'S POULl^RY BOOK 



A Good Business Woman 



A good deal of Mrs. Coop's success is due to the fact that 

 she is a good business woman as well as a good poultry raiser. 

 She believes in having something to sell when prices are 

 good. That is why she raises so many early broilers. When 

 eggs went down to 18 cents last spring she stopped selling 

 and set her incubator, selling the eggs as baby chicks. A 

 little later she went to Joliet and made a contract with a large 

 restaurant, which netted her a price at times as high as IS 

 cents above the market. 



Her main reliance, however, aside from the early broilers, 

 is winter eggs. She has 150 White Wyandotte pullets about 

 ready to get under way for a heavy winter's work. 



They have a deep poultry house that gives them plenty 

 of room for exercise. The front part is open to let in the fresh 

 air. A small yard will be built on the south side so that they 

 can get outside when the weather is good. 



The dry mash, which is fed in self-feeders, is bought ready 

 made. Everything else is raised on the farm. The hens have 

 plenty of skim milk, and this, by the way, is a standard feed 

 for most of the successful poultry flocks in Grundy county. 

 Instead of giving her hens milk to drink, however, Mrs. Coop 

 waits until it is sour and thick before feeding it. 



The scratch feed consists of wheat and cracked corn. 

 Sprouted oats furnish the green feed that the hens need to 

 keep them in good laying condition. 



Mrs. Coop is an expert poultry culler, and she keeps the 

 loafer hens sorted out of the laying flock. 



"I love my hens and enjoy nothing so much as taking care 

 of them," says Mrs. Coop enthusiastically, and that enthusiasm 

 is one of the secrets of her success. 



But then, who wouldn't be enthusiastic over a flock of hens 

 that is doing so much toward paying for the farm? 



Hens Help Pay the Bills 



VERNE ANDERSON of Grundy county. 111., has eaten 

 three square meals a day all summer. He hasn't had to 

 go in debt, either, thanks to his flock of hens and his two 

 Hampshire sows and his four cows. 



"I didn't know how I was going to make it in October, 

 with the hens molting and the cows dry," he told me one 



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