American Agriculturist, Octooer 25, 1924 
October Chicken Chatter 
It Pays to Ship Good Poultry—Opinions on Pullets 
T HE live poultry market in New York 
City has been through rather a 
hectic period. The recent Hebrew 
holidays called upon the market for heavy 
supplies of live poultry. It was an 
opportunity for the man who had a lot of 
surplus stock to unload. When anything 
is in real demand, that is the time it is 
usually wise to sell, but everybody didn’t 
get the high prices they expected. Some 
fowls and chickens didn't sell as it was 
hoped they would and the reason is very 
apparent. 
Just because a commodity is in demand, 
it doesn’t mean that anything and every¬ 
thing will be acceptable. Holidays 
usually have something of a psychological 
effect. The holiday spirit induces a little 
more inclination to luxury and conse¬ 
quently folks tend to buy more choice 
commodities. And this is just what 
happened in the poultry trade. During 
the Jewish holidays, prime poultry was 
in demand and it brought real fancy 
prices. Fancy fat fowls sold as high as 
32 cents and there was not what one could 
call an over-supply. 
On the other hand, common and 
ordinary stock was a drug on the market. 
Poor leghorns were so plentiful that 
prices had to be slashed in order to move 
stock; as low as 15 to 19 cents. This 
mediocre stock would have sold fairly 
well a few weeks earlier, but to try to get 
rid of it during the holiday trade is the 
height of folly. Where leghorns had 
been fattened and primed they met a 
fairly good outlet, but common stuff was 
absolutely side-tracked as far as any 
price was concerned. It will be sometime 
before another holiday shows up when so 
much poultry will be consumed, but 
right now is the time for the express 
shipper to study the lesson that has just 
been taught. It pays to feed poultry for 
market at times like those mentioned 
about. Fitting pays. 
Spray Poultry Coops 
XPRESS shippers of live poultry 
who have been sending live poultry 
into New York City, may well take the 
precaution of spraying their shipping 
coops before using them, after they have 
been returned from the city. There 
seems to be quite an epidemic of poultry 
disease which looks like pneumonia and 
at other times has the symptoms of 
chicken cholera. This disease is prevalent 
in freight arrivals from Avestern States, 
such as Illinois and Iowa. However, 
there is the possibility of crates coming 
in via express becoming infected through 
contact with these western arrivals. If 
you are shipping any number of birds, 
it is a good plan to spray your coops with 
an ordinary disinfectant before filling 
for reshipment to the city. 
Favors the Pullet 
HE views of poultrymen are apt to 
change with the seasons. Just now, 
with a goodly proportion of the hens still 
laying and the pullets either not laying at 
all or laying very small eggs, I might at 
first reading agree with the writer of the 
article which claimed that hens were 
better than pullets. But looking back¬ 
ward to winters that have passed I find 
that the years the pullet coop Avas small, 
the winter egg basket was very light 
indeed, and I am never so anxious to find 
eggs in the nests as I am then. 
The older hen may lay nearly as many 
eggs as the pullet but they are apt to be 
mostly 20 cents a dozen eggs. I would 
not go the length of killing all but the 
breeders every year, but I do believe in a 
good weeding out in the summer of all 
hens who are not up to standard. There 
are hens who continue to lay well but 
have some fault we do not like. They 
can be kept till they have finished laying 
and then go into the bean jar, my favorite 
place for cooking hens. 
Pullets have another good point about 
them. They are very easy to sell in the 
fall. I got $30 for 20 a feAv Aveeks ago 
and I am sure they did not eat as much 
as the three pigs my husband sold which 
brought about the same price. I do not 
think I could have sold hens aS easily. 
They are usually looked on with suspicion, 
either they are poor layers, or aged. 
When pullet eggs can be sold for 32 
cents a dozen with hens at 45 cents, does 
it pay to use pullets’ eggs at home? I 
have come to the conclusion that it does 
not. When I started keeping hens I was 
ashamed to sell the small eggs, but with 
the larger flock I have quite a quantity 
and I think iioav it pays to sell them and 
use hens’ eggs for the house.— Mrs. T. 
Thomson. 
Hens in Preference to Pullets 
ADDIE GRAVES hits the nail 
2-"V squarely on the head when she 
writes in favor of the hen. We always 
tried to raise enough pullets to keep our 
flock around 100. Some years we had 
120 and they ranged from pullets to three- 
and four-year-olds and we knew that 
they did full better than the pullets. 
One of the older hens stole her nest. 
We kept her with others at another barn 
and did not want her to mix with those 
at the house. But we had to take her 
and her thirteen chicks home and care 
for them. Long before she weaned those 
chicks, she began laying in the loft of 
the granary, but still roosted in her coop 
with the chicks. We thought that when 
she was “laid out,” we would take her 
back where she belonged. But she kept 
on laying until she laid forty-two eggs 
and then a severe snow-storm came and 
we had to remove her home, so Ave never 
kneAV Iioav many more she did lay. Hens 
require care and lots of it and we kept 
our hen-houses clean and had no mites or 
lice. FoavIs with lice cannot lay as the lice 
and mites sap their very life and strength. 
We used kerosene on the roosts and on 
the sides of the hen-houses Avhere the 
fowls touch when on the roosts, also 
saturated the nests with it. We did this 
once each month, the year around. We 
also used freshh slaked lime under the 
roosts and fine coal ashes all o\ r er the 
floors. Since we began using these 
things regularly each month, and cleaning 
out all the refuse, we have neA r er been 
troubled with the mites or lice. I used 
an old sock draAvn over my hand and wrist 
to sop on the kerosene.— Mrs. Dana 
Burchard, Tioga County, N. Y. 
The Farmers’ Interest in Government 
(Continued from 'page 283) 
the State that may favor other classes or 
groups as opposed to agriculture. 
As citizens, we have but one duty with 
respect to our government, and that is to 
ser\ T e it unselfishly. There is relatively 
little that the State can do for us, but Ave 
can do everything for the State. This is 
the course that must be pursued if we are 
to maintain the freedom of action and 
thought and purpose that has animated 
our finest eras of progress in the past. 
Other governments ha\ r e resorted to 
paternalism, and the rights of the sov¬ 
ereign citizen have been greatly impaired. 
Our purpose has been in the other direc¬ 
tion, and we must keep it so. 
The Trouble Maker 
{Continued from page 293) 
His leadership, ability and personality 
had sold the farm bureau and the college 
extension movement to the doubting 
farmers, and even those Avho had little 
respect for science in agriculture, for 
which young Bradley stood, were never¬ 
theless ahvays glad to see him coming. - 
In a plain, matter-of-fact voice he be¬ 
gan to talk. 
0 Continued next week ) j 
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