Eggs and egg farms : Trustworthy information regarding the successful production of eggs--the construction plans of poultry buildings and the methods of feeding that make egg farming most profitable .. eggseggfarmstrus00reli Year: 1907 10—WHITE LEGHORN HENS always brings good prices, and sells at a premium. While there is no over-production in poultry and eggs, there is a decided difference in price. Quality governs. Mr. C. H. Wyckoff tells of a case which illustrates the point. 'Two years ago the plum trees in his poultry yards were fairly matted with young fruit. There was more fruit by fa
Eggs and egg farms : Trustworthy information regarding the successful production of eggs--the construction plans of poultry buildings and the methods of feeding that make egg farming most profitable .. eggseggfarmstrus00reli Year: 1907 10—WHITE LEGHORN HENS always brings good prices, and sells at a premium. While there is no over-production in poultry and eggs, there is a decided difference in price. Quality governs. Mr. C. H. Wyckoff tells of a case which illustrates the point. 'Two years ago the plum trees in his poultry yards were fairly matted with young fruit. There was more fruit by far than the trees could ripen into large, showy plums of good flavor, or, in other words, into salable fruit.' Mr. Wyckoff knew that the wise thing to do was to thin out the crop. This he did, assisted by his wife and hired man. They did the work at odd times, keeping account of the number of hours each worked at this task. The three put in what was equivalent to thirteen days of one per- son's time. They simply used scissors, thinning out from one-third to one-half of the crop. Said Mr. Wyckoff: 'The result was this: while my neighbors and others hereabouts were peddling their plums in Groton at'30 and 40 cents per bushel, I sold mine without any effort at $ per bushel, and 'they were well worth the difference in price. They were uniformly large and of good flavor, while those that had been permitted to grow wild were half size and hardly fit to eat!' Along this line another writer sa>s. 'Experience shows that quality must be the watchword if we are to do a profit- able business in fruit, in poultry, in almost anything. It costs extra effort, it calls for hard work, but it is still the short and pleasant road to success. Referring to the quality of dressed poultry, we some time ago had a talk with a Mr. Allen, a celebrated dressed-poultry dealer. He said to us that he was then getting twenty-eight cents a pound for chickens. We looked up the market quotations and found
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