Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1918 — BACK YARD POULTRY [ARTICLE]

BACK YARD POULTRY

Uncle Sam expects you to keep hens and raise chickens, even though you do reside in a town or city. Two hens in the back yard for each person in the house will keep a family in fresh eggs. The smallest back yard has room for a flock large enough to supply the house with eggs. The cost of maintaining such a flock is small. Table and kitchen waste provides much of the feed for the hens and they require but little attention. An interested child, old enough to take a little responsibility, fan care for a few fowls as well as a grown person. Every back yard should contribute its share to a “bumper crop” of poultry and eggs in 1918. Perhaps not all will fitfcUMt profitable to raise chicks town, but nearly everyone can well keep a few hens. The objection to the “crowing of the cock” can be‘overcome by keeping no cock. This will not affect egg production in the least. The house for the back-yard flock, should be inexpensive. A piano box or other large box may readily be converted into a sultable*tesidence for the hens, and the runs may be very small. , I Good hens, well cared for, will produce from ten to fifteen dozen eggs annually. In time of peace the back-yard flock may be regarded as a profitable recreation; in time of war, a patriotic duty. Buy a few. bens and start in at once. All hens are laying now or will be soon.