Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1918 — EGGS FIVE CENTS APIECETIME TO START HENNERY [ARTICLE]

EGGS FIVE CENTS APIECE—TIME TO START HENNERY

Eggs at 60 to 70 cents a dozen I More than that in some places I Isn’t it about time for you, Mr. Town Man, to “do something” about the egg supply? Be a producer. Put that backyard to work—six or eight hens should furnish eggs enough, when used economically, or five persons. Table waste helps to pay the feed bilk With eggs at present prices you scarcely can lose. Don’t take a flier In hens. Get reliable advice and then gp ahead. “Backyard Poultry Keeping,” Farmers’ Bulletin 889, recently published by the United States department of agriculture, points out safe paths with poultry. Send for it.