Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1911 — WINTER EGGS FROM HENS [ARTICLE]

WINTER EGGS FROM HENS

\ Farmer Wile’s Method of Getting Plenty of Them in the Season of Cold Weather. F. G. Wile, a Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, poultryman, lecturing on the timely subject of how to keep hens laying from the first of October until the last of February, said: “I am obtaining eggs from hens at this season of the year at a cost of only one cent per egg. For many persons the cost is five cents to produce an egg in December. “Now the secret lies in how to produce the greatest number of eggs from the same number of hens. To obtain that end proper breeding, feeding, housing and care are essential. The ration 1 feed my -laying hens which costs me only five cents daily for 12 chickens, is chosen because of its ready assimilation, and consists of sprouted oats, beef scraps, cross-cut bones and a variety of wheat,'barley, corn and a little buckwheat. "I am very careful to keep the chicken house well ventilated and the floors littered with clean straw or leases. I believe any careful and observing person can also get five eggs daily from 12 hens at a cost of a Cent ah egg at this season, if they follow the method I employ.” t *