Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1918 — When Chickens Are Best. [ARTICLE]

When Chickens Are Best.

Chickens, in any general scheme of poultry production, of course, must take first place. They are best adapted to general conditions, take a wider range of feeds and convert them, perhaps, with the greatest margin of profit. Chickens, better than any other class of poultry, utilize table scraps and the general run of waste from the kitchen door, all the way froip apple and potato parings to sour milk. Chickens far surpass all other kinds of poultry in salvaging waste grain from the stables, from the shed or lot where the cattle are fed, and from hog pens. During the winter months, on farms where any considerable number of live stock are kept, the hens would take their living from these sources with only slight additional feeding from time to jtlme. Chickens are great destroyers <fi y 4nsects.