WINTER EGGS.

Bruce Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 1207, 28 May 1880, Page 5

WINTER EGGS.

AH attempts to presevre eggs in the state they are when dropped by fowls have resulted in failure. The ouly way to have a supply of fresh eggs during the winter is to produce them. Pullels will generally commence to lay when they are about eight months old. With warm quarters and suitable food, chickens hatched in April will commonly commence to lay in December (corespomling mouths in the Southern Hemisphere, October and June). Brahma hens of almost any age will lay during the winter if they are well cared for. Eggs are most likely to be produced, however, by pullets that have just reached maturity. Warm and well-lighted quarters are essential to the production of eggs during the winter. Fowls that are allowed to run out in the open air during pleasant weather are more likely to lay tban those that are kept in close confinement all the time. E^g productiou during the winter depends as much on the quality of food given fowls as on tlie kind of shelter allowed them. Corn (maize) is about the poorest food that can be put to poultry with a view of producing eggs. Wheat and oats are much superior to corn. Haw cabbage, cooked potatoes, beets, carrots, and scraps of meat are all excellent. Chopped meat and vegetables, mixed with meal and fat, and cooked like boarding-house hash, furnishes one of the best varieties of food for stimulating egg production. Fowls derive muoh benefit from highly seasoned food during all weather. — ' Kentucky Live Stock Journal.'