The Eastern poultryman (1905) The Eastern poultryman easternpoultryma66unse Year: 1905 THE EASTERN POULTRYMAN. at the cost of poor growth of the young stock and poor laying of the matured stock. That is false economy! We do not keep fowls to see how cheap we can ieed them and keep them alive. We all keep fowls for the profit that can be made on them, and the best profit is made by making them grow steadily and continuously to maturity, and they are then endowed with the best possible strength and vigor. If we suppose that our friend raised 200 chickens this season, they would be about equally
The Eastern poultryman (1905) The Eastern poultryman easternpoultryma66unse Year: 1905 THE EASTERN POULTRYMAN. at the cost of poor growth of the young stock and poor laying of the matured stock. That is false economy! We do not keep fowls to see how cheap we can ieed them and keep them alive. We all keep fowls for the profit that can be made on them, and the best profit is made by making them grow steadily and continuously to maturity, and they are then endowed with the best possible strength and vigor. If we suppose that our friend raised 200 chickens this season, they would be about equally divided between cockerels and pullets, and it is a fair estimate from what he tells us that the cockerels are a pound and a half, and the pullets a pound each, smaller than they should be. Here is 250 pounds of meat lost, and at ten cents a pound (a low price,) that would be worth Half the sum added to the expense of the foods he has ied would have given them that lost growth. But he has lost more than that, because they have lost the strength and vigor that they had the right to be grown to! That is the greater loss, because the lower strength and vigor will be entailed upon the offspring of these cockerels and pullets, should they be bred from, and there will be a decidedly smaller profit from the eggs they will lay this winter, and the weaker offspring will lay next fall and winter. There is an old proverb to the effect that the evil that men do lives after them, and it applies with especial force to the evil men do to their fowls by improper food, and by the careless methods which stunt their growth. Our chicks 'have the right' to be well hatched, and then to be well grown, and it is only when we have given them 'all that is coming to them' in these things that we have the right to expect them to give us full return of profit!âA. F. Hunter in American â Poultry Advocate. CYPHERS COMPANY'S POULTRY FARM. Cyphers Incubator Company Purchases Fifty Acres of Land in th
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