KEEPING FOWLS FOR PROFIT.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume I, Issue 14, 19 March 1892, Page 7

KEEPING FOWLS FOR PROFIT.

I know a v?ry successful poultryraiser (writes Waldo F. .Brown) who has enclosed two acres' and built a house in the centre, and he .uses light' portable fences to divide it into four equal lots or runs. The whole of it is planted in fruit trees and yields a good income from the fruit alone, and by setting early fruit.in one part of the lot, and late in another, by the use of the portable fences he can keep the fowls out of any section where* they Would' injure the iruit. Every fall the division fences are removed, and the entire lot is worked with the disc 'harrow untii a good.seed bed is made, and two bushels of tye ,per acre is sown, 'i'he fowls , eat much of this rye, but enough comes up to furnish good fall and winter .pasture for them, and as soon as the land will work in fbe spring the disc harrow is -put, on again and as good a seed bed as possible made and the land seeded heavily with oats. By this plan the fowls have green succulent food during ■most of the year, and the balance of the'time' the green' food can be 1 furnished: them. ,1 think the bane of poultry as ordinarily kept on a farm •is that they are icd on -ma>ze too 'much. Maize is so plentiful and bandy •to feed and:the fowls .like it so -well that from fall to spring they hare no other grain. I did this myself for =tnany years and got few winter -egres, -and sincel began feeding 6calded bran and wheat screening, the winter egg product has more than quadrupled. I -sixty 'hens the past winter and the sale of the eggs had brought more cash in three months than the hens would have sold"for in the fall, and the eggs used in the family would 'nearly pay for the feed.