. The Eastern poultryman. Poultry Periodicals; Fruit Periodicals. THE EASTERN POULTRYMAN. 103. White Wyandotte Pullet Beauty/' Score 93 Ui, C. D. Winters, Kent's Hill, Me. taken and the plates show the great accu- mulation of feathers from the "no food" lot of fowls, and the relatively small amount of feathers which had been shed by the other lot SUMMARY. Mature hens, which are fed very spar- ingly for about two weeks and then re- ceive a rich nitrogenous ration, moult more rapidly and with more uniformity, and enter the cold weather of winter in better condition than similar fowls f
. The Eastern poultryman. Poultry Periodicals; Fruit Periodicals. THE EASTERN POULTRYMAN. 103. White Wyandotte Pullet Beauty/' Score 93 Ui, C. D. Winters, Kent's Hill, Me. taken and the plates show the great accu- mulation of feathers from the "no food" lot of fowls, and the relatively small amount of feathers which had been shed by the other lot SUMMARY. Mature hens, which are fed very spar- ingly for about two weeks and then re- ceive a rich nitrogenous ration, moult more rapidly and with more uniformity, and enter the cold weather of winter in better condition than similar fowls fed continually during tlie moulting period on an egg producing ration.— IVesl Va. E.\ periment Station. One Failure in Poultry Keeping.—The Cause. The poultry press usually teems with sketches of those who have made a suc- cess of poultry keeping; but rarely, if ever, is anything written concerning the failures in the business. I am going to do something out of the ordinary, then, and write briefly concerning a venture in poultry keeping which has been under my own observation for the past two years or a little more. I am not doing this with the intent of discouraging any- one to forego the pleasure of poultry keeping, but for the purpose of showing that the border line between success and failure ofttimes is hardly discernible, and tliat a little more stick-to-it-iveness will often bring us the success we covet. Two years ago there came to an ad- joining town—no matter what it's name is —two brothers, who purchased a farm. Prior to this time their lives had been spent in New York City, and tiring of its ceaseless noise and turmoil, they sought the quiet simplicity of country life, with a view to engaging in poultry raising—a venture wholly new to them, yet one they instinctively felt was to their liking. There were no appliances for poultry raising on the place, so they had to pur- chase incubators and brooders and build hen houses. They engaged in the work \ ery ent
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