Show MONEY IN RAISING POULTRY value of product ID in one town editor reaper having noted with much satisfaction the manifest interest that is being taken in poultry in and around your city 1 I take this opportunity to present to your readers a few facts for their consideration that may be the means of adding more encouragement so I 1 k their zeal in this line during the year 1903 there were shipped from the station here cases of eggs 30 dozen to the case these at per case which is a little below the actual price received last year makes a total of add to this the eggs e s used at home and the poultry s d and consumed and it means that the hens bens of this vicinity earned for their owners last year looks like a big hen story dont it but it is a fact and the records can be produced to prove it now tell us what the fanner farmer raises that he gives as little attention and time to and has as small an amount invested in that gives him as large returns in i i n ready cash every hen on the ranch can be made to earn i dollar a year clear profit wit proper care but you must call out the non producers and breed for utility many of our best breeds of standard bred poultry are being ruined every year by breeding for points for the show pen when size and egg production is what is needed do not be satisfied with a flock of hena hens that averages less than eggs each per year but breed up to to eggs each there are several varieties of standard bred poultry that will do this and the best beat variety is the one that strikes your fancy but by all means do away with your mongrels and breed something good the writer hopes to visit yo your ur city during dun i the time of the poultry show tin and hopes the enthusiasm that is now beina being shown may continue to grow and that the show will be a success i in i n every particular ular the poultry indra try is only fairly begun in this country but do not start into the business on a largo la e scale until you have made it a study st in a small way or you are pretty apt to fail and then think there is nothing in the business if you buy a horse you yon endeavor to get the best use the same method in buy ing poultry or an incubator the best hest is the cheapest and none too good 00 af FANCIER FANCIE R mt aft pleasant fe 1 eb ill 14 |