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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Q. My point is, that it does not pay to keep a large number of fowls 

 together and feed them. The best way is to have a certain number? 



A. Yes, sir. 



A Member: I want to say for Mr. Johnson's information ihat four 

 years ago I lived in Chicago and I had 35 brown Leghorn hens. I kept 

 them in the yard and never let them out. I charged them with every- 

 thing that went into the yard' except the care. I cannot give you the 

 figures of the production. I fed about five pecks of wheat in a year. I 

 have kept poultry for 20 years, fancy poultry, and it is possible, without 

 going to any particular trouble, to make money and make it easy off 

 chickens. The kind of food which will produce the most milk will pro- 

 duce the most eggs. They are largely albumen and the food for use for 

 your cattle is the kind that makes vour hens lay best — oats, corn, wheat 

 and bran, and skim milk takes the place of a whole lot of other things. I 

 met a man in, Springfield the other day and he was telling me his ex- 

 periences. He keeps a dairy farm and gives his chickens skim milk, all 

 they will take. He goes to market twice a week and gets two dollars for 

 every one of the hens, and he's got 300 on his farm, and he takes care of 

 them all and feeds them. That i^ a clear profit of $1.00 each on the 300 

 with their productions. 



Mr. Wyman: I have here a piece I would like you to hear. 



AN AVERAGE OF 247 EGGS PER HEN. 



"The average of 235 eggs per hen was made in our money-in-poultry 

 contest by L. E. Dimock of Tolland County, Conn., with 100 hens of five 

 breeds. There were 20 of each breed and an average egg record as fol- 

 lows: Rose Comb White Leghorns, 247; Single Comb Brown Leghorns, 

 241; Single Comb White Leghorns, 240; Buff Wyandcttes, 226; Barred 

 Plymouth Rocks, 221. Mr. Dimock obtained the highest record of the 500 

 contestants. 



It is also the best average from a large flock we have ever seen pub- 

 lished. The 100 hens entered were hatched in March, 1899, and marketed 



