Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1912 — POULTRY NOTES [ARTICLE]

POULTRY NOTES

Keep something ip the grit box. Poultry keeping is business of quick profits. Suggestions of fall weather are reviving egg prices. Plowing up runs and yards is a seasonable job any time. All the milk they will consume is a help to the molting hens. Corn makes fat. and heat. Oats, wheat, bran and middlings make eggs. Not a bit of decayed food of any kind ever ought to be given a hen or chick. Too many birds in a house simply can not do so well as they would otherwise. Before the ropds get frozen, scrape up some dust for winter use. Put it in a dry place. Ten hens that have room according to their strength will bring in more money than fifteen crowded. When we get a good many chicks on hand there is a temptation to crowd them during the winter season.