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Show ' mm t RAISE CHICKENS IN WINTER Broiler Raising Is a Specialty In Poultry Poul-try Work and Returns Good Profit to Worker. (By PllOF. A. S. ALEXANDER.) Chicks can endure cold weather better bet-ter than extreme heat. Disease, lice and mites always come with the summer sum-mer months, and the expense of feeding feed-ing is no greater in winter. Profits can he realized from broods hatched in November, December and January. The winter hatches do not grow as fast as the spring ones, but a heavier coat of feathers is grown. They feather fast in the winter months and are more solid and compact and are just the right size to sell in April Dark Brahma Hen. and May when prices are at the highest high-est point. Broiler raising is a specialty In poultry work and returns good profit to those who are successful. The one who has his own fowls can make sure of the fertility of the eggs used. I raise three and four thousand chickens every year, and find the percentage per-centage of mortality small in the win ter and early spring. The cost of rais ing broiler chicks in January and February is no greater than in May and June. The latter are marketable In July and August when the market is glutted. The April and May returns are from 35 to 50 cents per pound, 60 to 80 cents per chicken, which costs aboul 25 cents to raise a very good profit. On the other hand the August price shows but a small margin of profit with a lower per cent, of hatches and larger per cent of mortality. The secret of profit from broiler raising is to produce high class broilers broil-ers that will bring top prices at the smallest cost with rapid growth. Egga averaging high in fertility, produced by stock that is strong and vigorous, make the battle half won at the start. The business is not only good now: it will be even better in the future, vwild game disappears. Much of the "P P 'V8 chicken and quail served at fas5X-nable hotels are nothing more or lc- ' than common guinea hens and pigeoiisV W'hen a knowledge of this fact bepoirfes rnre common the domestic do-mestic hen wirStecome more popular popu-lar and her proucESSSSq"6111 higher in price. ' - |