THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
February 14 
112 
THE HEN MAN, 
Pork Timber. —No use talking, whole 
corn and skim-milk where they can help 
themselves at pleasure, is the feed on 
which to make pig pork. The casual 
reader may have got the impression that 
Billy G. was left far in the rear when 
the returns were all in. It should be re¬ 
membered that he was only entered in 
the race for 75 days, and at the end of 
that time he was withdrawn, and pur¬ 
posely kept on short rations. If he had 
been allowed all he would eat until 225 
days old there is no telling how heavy 
he would have got. The two genuine 
runts, on which I tried the same system 
of feeding, have got to be fine, thrifty- 
looking pigs, and, although not eating 
as much, or growing as fast as Billy did, 
are making good use of their opportuni¬ 
ties. One weighed on January 23 50 
pounds, a gain of 30 pounds since De¬ 
cember 3. The amount of skim-milk 
which they will consume in proportion 
to a given weight of corn is much less 
than Billy ate in the hot weather of May 
and June, They eat about 2l^ pounds 
each of corn a day, and will drink but 
little more than a quart of milk. This 
I account for from the fact that their 
pen is cold, and more fat formers are 
needed to keep the fires of life going. 
Another pen of 13 larger pigs have had 
corn lying before them for the past-two 
weeks, and are allowed to come to the 
long trough three times a day and drink 
' all the warm skim-milk they want They 
drink less than a quart each at once, 
and are putting on that sleek prosperous 
look, which always characterizes a 
thrifty pig. They will soon be market¬ 
ed, and another lot finished off in the 
same way. We have already butchered 
a number of the Fall pigs which dressed 
from 90 to 123 pounds each. 
WiNTPm AND Summer Needs. —I began 
to think our mixture of hominy and 
middlings, half and half, which gave 
good results in Summer, is not just the 
thing for this cold weather. I am ex- 
peiimenting with a mixture containing 
less middlings, and more cornmeal in 
piace of the hominy chop. From the 
above experiences can we not learn some 
useful lesson? It will be recalled that 
Billy G., when balancing his own ration 
in Summer, consumed about four quarts 
of skim-milk to one pound of corn. Other 
pigs which I have fed in the same way 
in Summer, have used about the same 
l)roportions. Here in the dead of Win¬ 
ter, we find instinct prompting them to 
use an entirely different proportion of 
the two feeds, but still making good 
profitable growth. If eastern farmers 
attempt to produce pork from high 
priced grain, in competition with pork 
produced in the West on cheap grain, 
we must conform to all the changing 
conditions of seasons and markets. The 
first business of animal life is to keep 
the blood at a uniform temperature, 
whether in the tropics or in search of 
the north pole. The springs of life gov¬ 
erning this matter work automatically, 
but at the expense of the food supply. 
I would like to start a poultry farm and 
wish some advice. How many eggs does 
Mr. Mapes get per hen in 12 months from 
his 1,200 or 1,500 hens? What does it cost 
to keep that number of fowls at the present 
prices of grain? How many head can one 
man take care of for the best results, pro¬ 
vided he is a good worker, understands 
something about fowls, and gives them all 
his time, 10 or 12 hours per day? What 
average price per dozen does Mr. Mapes 
get? J. H. B. 
Susquehanna Co., Pa. 
Ec.a Figures, —I find by referring to 
our books that we sold from January 1 
to December 31, 1902, a little over 10,000 
dozens of eggs, for which we received 
$2,026.73. These are net prices, by the 
crate of 30 dozen each. We simply de¬ 
liver them at the express office, and 
charges are paid by buyer. A few of 
these were supplied by a neighbor who 
keeps about 60 hens, but not as many 
as we used for hatching purposes. Add 
to this about $175 cash received for hen 
manure sold at tannery, and the cash 
receipts from our flock, averaging about 
1,400 hens, have been just about $2 per 
hen. in addition to fowls and cockerels 
sold. This is not a big average, com¬ 
pared with actual results in some cases 
with small flocks, or possible results in 
large flocks as I believe, but is still fair¬ 
ly satisfactory. 
Expense and Cai® of Flock. —In re¬ 
gard to cost of feed I cannot give actual 
figures, as a separate feed account has 
not been kept with the hens. One dol¬ 
lar per hen is ample, I believe, if all feed 
had been purchased at prevailing market 
rates. It cost between 60 and 70 cents 
per hen a few years ago, when feed was 
cheaper than now. These hens have had 
no extra “fussing,” or great amount of 
care. During most of the year their 
feed troughs were filled morning and 
night with mash made uniformly from 
the same mixture; the eggs were gath¬ 
ered every day; the perches smeared 
with kerosene every two or three weeks, 
and the droppings were removed every 
six or eight weeks. Many of the hens 
are such as are generally considered too 
old for profit, running all the way from 
pullets up to six or seven years old. Here 
is a quotation in substance from an ar¬ 
ticle of mine published in The R. N.-Y. 
in 1892: 
“1 believe that one man can feed and 
care for 2,000 hens, and that they will 
pay a profit of one dollar each above 
cost of feed, if they lay an average of 
100 eggs each in a year.” I may be al¬ 
lowed a little pardonable pride in giv¬ 
ing this quotation of prophesy in 1892, 
in connection with actual results 10 
years later. My purpose in writing this 
is to call attention to the fact that there 
are pasture fields on thousands of dairy 
farms where an equal or greater amount 
of eggs can be produced without im¬ 
pairing the productiveness of the farm 
along present lines one iota. Put on 
your thinking cap, you dairy farmers 
who have sons looking toward the cities 
for a job. Perhaps some of them may 
have the making of successful poultry- 
men in them. Give such a chance to see 
what they can do. o. w. mapes. 
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