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THE RURAI» NEW-YORKER 
637 
THE CASE OF THE HEN. 
Natural Incubation Favored. 
Part II. 
Every farmer ought to keep one hun¬ 
dred purebred chickens, not fancy stock, 
but good, strong, utility stock bred for 
meat and eggs, such as R. I. Reds, 
Barred and White Rocks, Wyandottes, 
etc. Get rid of those old mongrels that 
stand around in the fence corners'. They 
are a nuisance indeed. Get some good 
purebreds and make a good house for 
them, and feed and water them just as 
often as you do the cow and the horse, 
and they will pay double the profit the 
cow does. Purebred poultry pays. No 
matter how fine stock a man has it will 
soon look as common as dirt unless 
given intelligent care. Take a pride in 
your chickens as much so as anything 
else, and you will soon wake up to the 
fact that you have been allowing gold 
dollars to slip between your fingers by 
neglecting them. Every farm within 10 
miles of good markets ought to keep 
100 hens at least, and clean up from 
$250 to $300 easily from them, and by 
being pushed for all they are worth 
$500 net profit can be made. My flock 
last year netted me $5.62 per hen, and 
I did not half try for a record. I don’t 
mean that I could have made double that 
amount, but that I made no great effort 
to get all I could from them. In other 
words, they were not forced, nor did 
I try to hatch as many as was possible. 
All of them were given decent, intelli¬ 
gent care and nothing more. In fact the 
care could have been improved upon, 
and I am sure they would have shown 
better results than they did. For one 
thing, they were crowded a good portion 
of the time, for I built all the houses 
without help and was often behind on 
the job. January, 1909, I had 43 S. C. 
R. I. Red pullets and 42 mongrel hens. 
The mongrels I bought from neighbors 
just for setting purposes. The Reds 
were my own raising, but were late 
hatched, and the oldest began laying 
about Christmas, 1908, and some only 
attained laying age by February 1, 1909. 
It can be seen from my egg record how 
handicapped I was at the beginning of 
the year by such young stock. January 
1 my record shows only six eggs from 
the whole flock of 43 pullets and 42 
hens. The month’s record ran: 6, 9, 
14, 13, 12, 15, 16, 23, 17, 18, 19, 23, 
28, 17, 31, 25, 23, 20, 28, 28, 22, 24, 
26, 24, 24, 26, 29, 26, 23, 26, 29. I don’t 
cite that as a heavy laying record, for 
all the pullets were not of laying age 
before February 1. During February 
I got 816 eggs which as a record counts 
for nothing, as I began setting hens Feb¬ 
ruary 2, and set 12 during the month. 
In March I set 22, April 25, May 20 and 
June 8, making a total of 87 hens and 
pullets set. The breeding was all done 
from the matured pullets. All the 
brooding as well as the hatching was 
done by hens, so that, of course, in¬ 
terfered materially with the egg-record 
and sales of eggs. Yet, my total sale 
of eggs for the entire year, including 
eggs laid by early hatched pullets (those 
hatched February 24 began laying 
August 5) was $190.69. The laying 
during the Fall from early-hatched pul¬ 
lets was not very great, there' being 
only a dozen or so of quite early 
broods, others coming on at the rate 
of about six to eight broods hatched 
each week up to July 1. I began selling 
off the old mongrel hens and undesirable 
yearling pullets in August, retaining 25 
of the Reds best for breeders this year. 
My total hatch from the 87 set was 777 
strong chicks, the weak ones being al¬ 
lowed to die. Of these 650 were raised 
to broiler, roaster and adult age. 
The broods when hatched were 
doubled up somewhat, and given to the 
best mothers and the undesirable reset. 
About 15 chicks on an average were 
given each hen to brood. They were 
placed in A-shaped coops, the hens were 
kept in and the chicks allowed free 
range. The coops had a floor area of 
about 20x30 inches. After the chicks 
were an average of 10 weeks old the 
hens were taken away and put in laying 
pens. They were put on good ration, 
and, of course, after having had a long 
rest setting and brooding, soon began 
laying again. As they began brooding 
in August and September they were 
taken to market before they entered the 
moult. When the hens were taken from 
the chicks the chicks were allowed to 
remain in the A-shaped coops until 
sold for broilers as they attained the 
desired weight. As the pullets grew to 
the weight of 2*4 to three pounds they 
were put in colony houses, in which they 
are wintered, but still were allowed 
free range. As I was behind with 
work, these pullets were somewhat 
crowded and retarded in development, 
I think. Yet there were never over 45 
in a house five feet by 7%, and, of 
course, they only roosted in it. Yet, I 
consider that crowding young stock, or 
old stock for that matter. Thirty grow¬ 
ing pullets is- enough for a house 5x7(4- 
During the Winter I use these colony 
houses for laying houses, reducing the 
number kept in each to 15. I will later 
describe this house, which is sectional 
and built on original ideas, and also ex¬ 
plain my method of handling setting 
hens so as to use large numbers of them 
for hatching. I think the average farm¬ 
er will do better and will be surer of 
attaining success if he use hens instead 
of incubators and brooders. I can set 
and manage 100 hens with greater ease 
than I can two 200-egg incubators, and 
can get from 25 to 50 per cent better 
hatches, and chicks that will be worth 
about twice as much each as incubator 
hatched. The following statement shows 
results obtained from my small flock of 
43 Red pullets and 42 mongrel hens 
during the year 1909: 
ACCOUNTING. 
Sales : 
Total sale of eggs .$190.69 
Total sale of broilers and roasters. 228.40 
Total sain of 60 old hens (some 
yearlings). (The 60 sold were 
repladed with 60- thoroughbred 
It. I. Red pullets at laying age. 
No account made). 40.25 
$459.34 
Inventory: 
By-products, 5 tons hen manure 
(treated with land plaster to fix 
its properties, making as valuable 
as commercial fertilizers, for 
which we pay $35 to $40 per 
ton), at $20 . 100.00 
168 thoroughbred Red pullets, $1.50 
each (all laying age) . 252.00 
17 thoroughbred Red cockerels, 
$1.50 each . 25.50 
Value total product .$836.84 
Expenses: 
Total cost of all feed and eggs 
bought for new blood .$358.81 
Net amount made off 85 pullets and 
hens during year .$478.03 
Net per bird . $5.62 
All feed was bought at rather stiff 
prices (delivered), else my showing 
would be even better than it appears. 
Without question, a great many farmers 
could raise three-fourths of the food 
necessary for such a flock. With me, 
however, it is somewhat different, as I 
should have had to keep a hired man 
and in addition run the risk of a crop 
failure. Under such circumstances, I 
consider it wiser to buy all, or a large 
portion, of the grain. A ton or two of 
mangels can easily be grown at little 
expense, which will keep the birds 
healthy, and add many dollars to the 
profit side of the accounts. 
Connecticut. w. h. tomlinson. 
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RAILROAD 
RATES FOR LIVE 
EXHIBITORS. 
STOCK 
C. M. Fleischer, Secretary of National 
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