Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1912 — POULTRY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

POULTRY

HEAVY CHICKENS IN DEMAND They Are Often Purchased In Preference to Turkeys—Chicks Hatched in Natural Way Best. We had a lot of chicks that were hatched early in May and sold at Thanksgiving for $4.50 per pair. I could have sold a lot more, too, at the same price, for my customers took them in preference to turkeys, that of

late years have been high in price if not in quality, says a writer; in the Baltimore American. The difference between what I received and what cockerels of that age would have brought, was my pay for spending about five minutes each to caponize them in July. Chicks hatched In the natural season are much easier to raise than those coming earlier or later, and in my experience either pay just as well. But I plan the marketing in a somewhat unusual way. I keep Plymouth Rocks of a light pullet mating, because then I can tell the sex when they are only a day old. Then during the months of May and June I sell as baby chicks all the pullets as fast as they are hatched. When you find a fellow who has not hatched quite as many chicks as he had planned, it is right easy to sell him baby chicks by just saying that you will pick out all pullets. That gets them nicely, out of the way.

White Plymouth Rock Cock.