Identifier: livestockfarming00flor (find matches)
Title: Livestock farming in Florida along the lines of the Florida east coast railway..
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Florida east coast railway company
Subjects: Livestock
Publisher: Saint Augustine, Fla., Land and industrial dept. of the Florida east coast railway (Flagler system)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Plymouth Rock variety. Ihad never raised any chickens, as we had always lived in town.The first year I raised one hundred and seventy chickens from thoseDid not lose any from disease, but a few died from accidents. nine. For three years I kept an account of chickens and eggs sold andamount of feed bought. At the end of that time we had a balanceof $268.20 in our favor. We had what chickens and eggs we wanted touse and had one hundred and ninety chickens to begin our fourth year.Since then we have not kept an account. At present we have onehundred and thirty hens and ninety-five little chickens. We aregetting from seventy-five to ninety-five eggs each day. ; Page fifty-threes jlE™^mu^i iiiiiiiiiiiiilllllll Illllllllliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ii ii mi iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii mi iiiuiinl IIIIIIIIIIIIHHH! HUT I TTTTTTTT 111 f 111111 i 111111 ITTTm LIVE STOCK FARMING I N ^llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIimni i t iiTTTTm L O R I D IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIllllll
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Mrs. Theo. Ivens Chickens at Miami, Dade County We get an average of forty cents per dozen for eggs. J. H. Wendler, of Lakeland, Florida, secretary and manager of theFlorida Poultry mens Association and an authority on raisingpoultry in this state, says: That we can raise chickens in Florida is evidenced by the fact thata certain breeder of this state has exhibited his fowls all over theSoutheast and central states and has never failed to take off themajority of the blue ribbons at each and every show and at somehas been hog enough to take all the blues in all the varieties thathe breeds, and at one show won sweepstake cockerel with a birdabout five months old. All this is not said for the benefit of that breeder but simply toshow that we can raise chickens in Florida, and that a five monthsold bird is sufficiently developed to win over older birds raised inother states that should have been more mature for their age.Now let us see why we can raise chickens here that are mature atan e

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