. 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 .. . 42—WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCK PULLETS 03-ster shells, clean, sharp grit and fresh water were before the birds all the time. In winter two large mangel beets were put in each pen daily, and in summer green food in plenty was fed. This last consisted of winter rye, which is the earliest accessible green food, then clover and grasses, then rape, the leaves of which are pulled while young and which yie
. 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 .. . 42—WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCK PULLETS 03-ster shells, clean, sharp grit and fresh water were before the birds all the time. In winter two large mangel beets were put in each pen daily, and in summer green food in plenty was fed. This last consisted of winter rye, which is the earliest accessible green food, then clover and grasses, then rape, the leaves of which are pulled while young and which yields four or five crops (or pullings). These were all run through the cutter and cut to one-fourth inch lengths. Prof. Gowell did not feed cabbage at all, having a poor opinion of it as a green food. The foods named are better, and there was an abund- ance of them. It was a great pleasure to visit the Maine Station and see the breeding-laying stock there, especially the about 700 head of pullets raised this year. The visit was on the last day of October, the end of the laying year, and the old birds were being removed preparatory to bringing in the next year's layers. We personally handled the birds shown in the frontis- piece of this book, and were surprised to find the hen that had laid but eight eggs in the j-ear was one of the finest looking birds there. We carried her out to the pen of birds which were being sold to market, and confidently assert that the forty to fifty birds being put out there because they were indifferent layers were a better looking average lot of hens than the pen in which Nos. 617, 318 and 1003 (see frontispiece) were put. Any poultry man would have said the same, and a man going there to buy a pen of birds and buying "on their looks" would be certain to take that pen of culls. The inestimable value of trap nest selection of laying-breeding stock is clearly shown in such a lesson as we had that day! Note—The dry-feeding method is now bei
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