Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 225, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1916 — Poultry Scratchings [ARTICLE]

Poultry Scratchings

By C. S. Anderson of the Colorado Agricultural College. If you take pride in marketing good eggs at a good price, consider the following : Do not keep mongrel stock. They are not high producers, and their eggs are not uniform as to size and color. Keep laying hens separated from sitting hens. Gather eggs twice daily in warm weather. The sale of Infertile Incubator eggs never will help you to establish a higher market price for your product. Separate the male birds from the flock except during the breeding season. Fertile -eggs are poor keepers. Market eggs in a standard egg case. Never haul to town over rough roads or in an open basket or pan exposed to the hot sun. ■ You will have a larger number of “firsts” if you market at least twice a week. In keeping eggs, provide a dry, cool, well ventilated place. Fertile eggs must be kept below 68 degrees to check germination. Eggs are affected easily by bad odors. Do not keep In a musty grain bin, or in the vegetable cellar, or where they can absorb the odors of kerosene and gasoline.