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Show POULTRY RAISING. A much neglected, yet good paying industry in the state of Utah, is that of rrising poultry. An average of more than 5000 pounds of chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese is shipped to this city from Kansas and Nebraska Nebras-ka every week in the year, to say nothing of thousands of cases of cpgs. From November 1, 1906, to March 1, 1907, the average weekly receipts of Eastern poultry in this city was more than 10,000 pounds a week; at times the local wholesale dealers re ceived as high as 20,000 or 25,000 pounds in a single week. The ll raisers in the states mentioned made a good profit on the business, busi-ness, so did the shippers, hue the express and other costs had to be paid. If with these costs added it is profitable pro-fitable why cannot the business be made to pay in this state? This question ques-tion was put to one of the largest dealers in the city. "The raising of poultry could be made one of the best pay'ng industries in the state," was his answer. "At M no time in the year, with the possible exception of perhaps one or two weeks in the fall, arc we able to get enough to meet our demands. Other large dealers arc in the same fix as we arc. We would much rather handle han-dle Utah poultry; they arc fresher and then we would be keeping the money at home. We would never send outside out-side of the state for a single pound of poultry if it is possible to get enough in this state." With but one or two exceptions there is no one in the state who devotes his time and attention atten-tion to the business. Nearly every farmer has a few lien perhaps a few turkeys, ducks, and gecsc. Usually hc care of them "as well as the sale is left to the wife. Men go from farmhouse to farmhouse and buy the chickens or eggs, usually usual-ly paying about what they please; or else the wife takes or sends a chicken or two or a dozen eggs to the store in exchange for some little thing 'hat she needs. "There is absolutely no system about the business," said the wholesale whole-sale dealer." "If someone will go in. to the business right of course it would need some capital to start with it will pay big interest in two or three years. Then let him give his attention to the business, take rare of it and in a few years he will be independent." Ono man who lives a short distance south of the city, Phillip Fincgan, has solved the secret of successful poultry poul-try raising. He started in the business busi-ness a few years ago on a modest A I scale. Today the profits run close to $3000 a year. This man gives his time and attention to the business. He makes a specialty of supplying his customers with young ducks, spring chickens and fresh eggs. Everything about the place) from the well-kept lawn in front of his handsome residence resi-dence to the last comer in the rear of the lot, is kept in a strictly sanitary sani-tary condition. Pens and houses arc cleaned every day or every other day. , When he has an order for a duck ' ' or chicken it is delivered as clean as fy any housewife in the land could clean it. These are some of the secrets of his success. Mr. Finegan frankly admits ad-mits that what he has done others can c'o. But he says they must uivc to the business the same care as" he has given tn his business |