Show II H- H HH H J. I H r I MAKING MAKIl G GOOD II INMA IN INA A AReal SMALL MA TOWN Real Stories About Real Girls By MRS HARLAND H. H ALLEN r I r H i H I 1 M l t r BROILERS BRING BIG REWARDS REV REWARDS RE RE- V WARDS ARDS D P pICK ICE ICK up the menu In a city hotel or restaurant nn any time from February to June and you ou will sec opposite the w words olds spring broiler broller such figures as us or And that means says a smalltown smalltown small smalltown town girl who helps heps to make hake possible this table taule luxury that the girl who raises spring chickens or broilers will have good returns for her work In fact the Industry is so lucrative lucra tive tine that I know of many people who are arc carrying out the venture on a large scale with WI huge capital Invested Invest est ed ed she declares But nut almost any girl has room on the premises where she can start in a small email way war Her profits will grow to delightful proportions proportions pro pro- proportions portions from year to year An Interesting side line of yet et a distinctly different undertaking from the ordinary poultry industry is this business of raising spring broilers The idea is to raise young chicks in the winter and sell them In the early spring The girl who v decides to undertake IThe the work at home must have for tor equipment an Incubator which can cnn be berun berun run rUl In the cellar of the house or inan In Inan ian an unused room where there is no Iother other heat and a brooder brooder or or nursery nursery nurs nurs- ery cry house house for for the baby chicks One brooder will take care of or fifty chicks until they reach the broiler age Ifor Wyandotte eggs are arc a good variety for broilers The chicks weigh when hatched two ounces and If all does well they should weigh two pounds poun s by the end of the eighth week weck Few of the rules for raising ordinary ordinary nary chickens apply when it comes to broilers The caretaker er must push them along as rapidly as she can Corthe for Cor forthe forthe the broiler that has developed quickly and that has plump Juicy meat brings the best price Many growers never nc give g ve their broilers water to drink substituting substituting substituting sub sub- scalded milk since milk Isa Isa is isa a strong factor fact r In making the flesh juicy and tender Marketing problems are arc not serious If It the town Is is' large enough to support a n good hotel or country club her herspring lJ herspring r spring broilers are almost as good as ns sold Bold She is still luckier If her town happens to be a summer resort resort for for forthe the hungry for home grown meats will be flocking out at about the time her chicks are ready reedy to sell At all events tho the girl who raises spring broilers will m make mcke ke the best fi financial fi- fi returns by b selling direct to consumer or in less elegant terms peddling her bel own O. O 1124 Western Newspaper Union I 1 i I I I I i I I I i I |