Show PARAGONAH MAN MAKES phenomenal RECORD WITH POULTRY when mr and mis morgan ed W wards a rals 0 oe paragonah Para gonah both amateurs in the poultry it bru business maess raised 90 ald from an order for baby chicks shipp d to them about the of march alch they established a record never equalled equal led in southern utah and probably not in the state alt t that it at is not all they are still in mailing king records each evening they are re carrying in from their hen house beat about eleven or twelve 4 dozen int fresh white what eggs egg which at the present orf price of per is netting them about alit 5 00 to fa 6 00 daily a record tar egg production in southern utah so 30 far as a we know knew how it all happened is told by mr me edwards substantially as follows while planning le a home last spring inch by the way ut is now completed and ad is I 1 one he of the th most eat beautiful and mit M it under modern I 1 in this section mrs edwards dwards expressed a desire to go 1 into t the poultry business to the extent 4 ot of a small flock of chic chickens kria her husband probably to I 1 nine a whim what of his I 1 good goil 0 wife more than anything else planned and had erected t a modern adern poultry house ot of edra the h w semi monitor ator type sto and large enough to comfortably house alone about or 2 aso SO laying lading hens bens then he be ordered an inexpensive kaleal brooder and the then baby chicka chick of the white leghorn variety fr one due of the california hatcheries as we recall it when the little ones arrived it was found that the hitchery hiti chery hery had bad included twenty extra ones probably to take care of any y I 1 losses iti in transit so se started out with peed feed also 1 had be been ordered which w was specialty especially adopted adapted for baby chicks eine 1 and a nd so with wit h plenty of warm th and proper oper feed they avoided ded the usual heavy losses looses and at the end of nine weeks as of the flock were s still t 11 1 living laying and thriving of the fewa few which inch 11 had d I 1 died most of them a had been killed b by v getting gelling under foot 0 t while being fed or by all shoving g their th our heads into the crack in the tm door when it was being closed mr edwalds continued to aa a port feed for them to make inane certain that they had bad the right kind and in ili t that 1 I I 1 respect showed good judge dg ment meet abom that time the cocker als else eie separated from the pullets fed a fattening feed and within ith shot short t time ll the brought only 3 so rac each h they came neaily paying pacing for the feed for all ah of the lot to t thit hat I 1 time me chere remained after the cockerell cockerels els were sold ahoff 25 polleen which number accounted for about of the original shipment some few of the pullets t ayed away during the summer and a few were culled and sold hold so sm that there now remains a bout boot pullets pullet of just the right age and in the right condition to lay when eggs me aie bringing the highest price before the estle cold weib weather came on they were laying about 1 5 0 eggs egge a day but the cold weather slowed down production I 1 about two dozen dozens a day and they bai so t got back to ill the high mark again go though the ahe number dumber is slowly noi ini creasing earn each day until they are now producing about they continued to Us use imported leed feed until last just recently when the lowder loader milling co began to put per out poultry feed which mr edwards lay a is ic proving superior to and much cheaper than the imported reed feed it it Is costing calling about 1 I 1 25 aday or about line hie present price of two dozen doen eggs to feed the flock so BO that the le ie maming nine dozen I 1 w practically clear profit ilia his investment in the business is approximately for the hen house home about 18 if we r remember ab etly atthe for the ameo brooder the edit of the chicks chaka at ISO each delivered plus their feed since the sale of the cockerels cockerell cocker els though wr kit edwards is one on of the successful of this locality hp he is beginning to appreciate that there are am opportunities for malting making money other than in the sheep busi bus ness arm popular opium opinion in title this Ia locality lIty lathe to the contrary not withstanding notwithstanding after taking into consideration market possibilities and other factors M mr edwards espres the llie brief that hat a man can cleat ax as much in terni in what hen bens be a can keep on as a citi lot as the ordinary shelp sheep roan and with a whole lot lol smaller invest 1 eat and less worry |