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American Agriculturist, September 6, 1924 
Go After Winter Eggs 
They Are the Ones That Pay—Other Seasonable Poultry Notes 
“I I THAT’S the use in keeping on with 
VV raising chickens?” asked a farmer 
of me, disgustedly, a few days ago. “As 
soon as my hens begin laying good the 
price of eggs goes down, and the faster 
they shell out the eggs the lower goes the 
price.” He was right, but the egg market 
simply follows the age-old law of supply 
and demand. When eggs become a glut 
on the market it cannot be expected that 
the price of eggs will stay up. 
As is usual in such cases, there is a way 
around; a way by which the farmer can 
cash in on a high-egg market. Here is a 
plan that has been followed by some 
farmers, with excellent success, I know. 
In the spring a thousand or more chicks, 
depending upon the size of the hen house 
on the farm, are purchased from a reliable 
breeder who is known to have heavy¬ 
laying stock. The chicks are fed the best 
possible growing ration to produce vigor 
and rapid growth. 
As soon as the cockerels and pullets 
can be told apart, they are separated, 
the cockerels put on the market and the 
pullets quartered in the laying house. 
They are gradually put on a laying ration 
so that by the time they begin laying they 
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Purebred Barron Pullets and Cockerels at $10.00 each 
and up. Also breeding hens at moderate prices. Descrip¬ 
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S’ M. LQNGENECKER, Bos 40 Ellnbothtown, P* 
are on full laying rations. The important 
thing is to keep them eating. Sometimes 
when it appears that their appetites are 
jaded, they are tempted along with moist 
mashes—-anything to keep them eating. 
Lights are used either morning or 
evening to lengthen the short days of 
winter and the pullet’s period of activity. 
The greater success has been obtained 
with the morning lights. Where elec¬ 
tricity is not available, lanterns are used. 
Lights to lengthen the working day have 
proved to be an unqualified success in 
securing a higher egg production. 
Then, in the spring when eggs begin to 
flow in on the market in large quantities 
and the price slumps, the pullets that 
have been forced along begin to slow up, 
stop for a rest and are disposed of. An¬ 
other batch of chicks is purchased and the 
round begins once more. 
Of course, culling the flock is not over¬ 
looked. Every pullet that proves a non¬ 
producer or poor layer is put on the 
market, so that those pullets which 
consume the feed are paying a nice profit 
above the feed cost. The flock must have 
comfortable quarters. There must be 
plenty of ventilation, but no drafts. A 
fowl can stand a great deal of cold, but 
she cannot endure a draft. And it is well 
to remember that most of an egg is 
composed of water, and that without all 
the water she can drink, a pullet cannot 
produce eggs, no matter how much feed 
she consumes. 
Chicks purchased from a heavy-laying 
strain will cost more than common chicks, 
but they are worth every cent of their 
additional cost because they’ll shell out 
more eggs. By following the above plan, 
one farmer made a net profit per pullet of 
four dollars. Granted that such a profit 
is above the average, cut that in half and 
you’ll have a profit that is larger than the 
average farmer is getting from his 
chickens— W. C. Muilenburg. 
Big Chicken House or Little 
ROM necessity we have used small, 
cheap old [chicken houses for many 
years. There were several small build¬ 
ings on the place and as funds were not 
plentiful we used them and found we had 
just as good results as our friends with 
up to date lodgings for their chickens. 
I know the objection to the old house is 
that it is harder to keep warm in winter 
and harder to keep free from vermin in 
summer, but some of the snug and tight 
coops have shown no better results than 
ours. I’m not advocating the shack if a 
better one can be afforded, but a coop 
banked with corn fodder in winter, though 
it be of the shack order, will get results. 
One of the best women with chickens I 
have ever known started with two piano 
boxes backed together, and it was years 
before she had what the neighbors called 
a decent house, but she always made hens 
pay- 
The Advantage of Small Groups 
But there is one thing and that is the 
small house does better than the big one, 
in our humble estimation. Chickens are 
more like pets if kept in the small group, 
and there isn’t so much chance of disease. 
In one small coop we went almost a year 
without a single loss and then the two 
that died lost their lives through spoiled 
meat. Chickens like sheep do well in 
little bunches. Of course the big coop 
with its glass and its large run looks 
fine on a farm and the little coops shift¬ 
less, but just the same we’ll take the small 
house every time. If I were a beginner I 
would start with a small unit and keep 
nothing but pure breds, unless as a few 
scrub hens for mothering purposes, and 
then I’d build up to several units, but 
not one big house. Even a corner of an 
old barn is a good place for twenty-five 
or thirty hens. We used such a place 
more than a year and had good results. 
The men folks say it is more pottering 
and m©r@ tr©«felii©®« to dean g@v@ra! 
small houses rather than one big one, and 
that is true, but where money enters into 
the consideration a little more trouble 
can be taken. Without trap nests it is 
easy to spot the boarder hen in the small 
flock and little chicks do better if kept 
a few on a grass plot rather than a large 
number. Our coops for little chicks are 
home made of store boxes and they are 
moved frequently to keep clean. Often 
when it is cool thick layers of newspapers 
are used under the coops and burned 
when soiled. Where there is no brooder 
the little bunch will not crowd and 
smother like the big flock.— Mrs. W. C. 
K., Ohio 
More Early Laying Pullets 
Reported 
T HE announcement that H. F. Warner 
of Belmore, L. I., had a pullet that 
laid its first egg at the age of 4 months 
and 3 days, has evidently created some 
interest. Mr. T. E. Halbert of Ithaca 
writes that The Patch Poultry Farm of 
Ithaca, N. Y., has a pullet that laid her 
first egg at the age of 3 months and 17 
days. She was hatched on April 21 and 
laid her first egg on August 7. She laid 
again on the 9th and 10th. “Beat that,” 
writes Mr. Halbert. 
This record was almost broken by Fritz 
Kunz of Broadalbin, Fulton County, New 
York. He writes “The first pullet egg 
was laid August 13. Pullet is a cross of 
Rhode Island Red hen and Brown Leg¬ 
horn rooster. The pullet was hatched on 
April 25, making her 3 months and 19 
days old, which I think breaks the record.” 
1 W. J. Winans of Belmar, N. J., writes, 
“I have a pullet that was hatched the 
4th day of April and she laid her first egg 
the 5th day of August, laid her second 
egg on August 8th and the third on the 
10th. She is a nicely developed White 
Leghorn and was 4 months and 1 day 
old when she laid her first egg.” 
Fred Hurlbert of Mineral Springs 
writes: “I have a Rhode Island Red 
pullet laying at the age of 4 months and 
9 days, which I think is pretty good for 
a heavy breed.” We agree with Mr. 
Hurlbert. 
A. P. Newton of Greenfield, Mass., 
congratulates Mr. Warner on his success, 
saying that Mr. Warner beat him by only 
one day. The peculiar thing is that Mr. 
Newton and Mr. Warner’s pullets were 
hatched on the same day, March 19. 
Editor’s Note: —There is an advantage 
in getting early pullets, hut the man who 
follows this practice must know his busi¬ 
ness, lest he get into difficulty. Early 
hatched pullets are apt to go into an early 
molt and they tvill not lay eggs at a time 
the price makes them desirable. 
Young Ducks Getting Wrong 
Ration 
Do ducks ever have white diarrhea? I hatched a nice 
flock of ducks and they were doing fine until a week ago 
when they began to die off. At first they just seemed to 
droop and then I would find them dead. But the last day 
or so their heads seemed to draw back and their necks 
twist around. I have fed them mostly corn meal, just 
moistened enough to be crumbly with sand mixed in. 
This morning I started to put a few drops of carbolic acid 
in their mash. If you can give me any information it will 
be appreciated. 
D UCKLINGS are subject to diarrhea. 
Undoubtedly your expereience with 
ducklings, especially the loss of them, has 
been due to an improperly balanced 
ration. The ration about this time should 
consist of three parts of bran, one part 
each of corn meal and low grade wheat 
flour, with about 5% of beef scrap added. 
What you are feeding now is purely a 
fattening ration and your ducks are un¬ 
doubtedly suffering from that. There is a 
disease or a malady among ducks known 
as fits. With this disease they simply 
keel over and die. This is especially true 
if they are young ducks. It is thought to 
be due to digestive troubles. We would 
■suggest that you give your birds a dose 
of oil or Epsom salts and modify the 
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