Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1892 — A Minnesota Egg Record. [ARTICLE]

A Minnesota Egg Record.

A Stillwater, Minn., subscriber o', the Rural sends in the following record of the eggs produced by forty hens during 1891. Month Dozen Price Amount January U .25 82.75 February 9 .18 1.62 March .16 1.80 April 315 a .15 4.71 May 29% .12% 4.80 June -. 115-0 .15 8.02 July 187-12 .18 8.3 J August 10=q .18 3.94 September 4 % .18 .81 October 8% .90 .70 November 3?j .28 .93 December. 9 .28 i fil V Total. .XCB 7-I*2 $28.80’ I have sold fourteen chickens at 29 cents apiece, $2.80: total for eggs and chickens, $31.46; my expenses were $10; leaving clear, $21.46, and fortyfive head of chickens on hand. They are R. C. W. Leghorns and white Wyandottes. Poultry Pickings, Bulk is a great desideratum in grain fed to poultry. This is obtained by mixing bran with corn-meal, and feeefing oats rather than much corn. Corn-meal alone is far too heavy. The digestive organs cannot extract all the nutriment contained in such solid substances. Mix the same however with light bran and the case is entirely different Thkke Is nothin? like keeping fowls busy. Idle hens as truly as idle boys are sure to “get into mischief,” which in the case of the hens consists very often in the acquisition of that very annoying and troublesome habit “egg eating.? Keep the hens scratching most of the time thereby giving them some|thing to do and promoting their general health and proliflcness. A half dozen small “hen coops” are much more usefu. than one massive structure affordiig an equal erea. We all know that a loop of ten or twelve hens is usbally profitable whereas multiples oi the same are rarely satisfactory. This is the great secret of running i large poultry farm. Divide up so that each individual bird* may iave “as good a show” and as much »om as upon the ordinary farm, when not more than a score or two of furls 'are usually bred.