| Show uJ Neglecting of 01 Details Shown to Be Cause of Many any Failures fir in Central New Jersey Jersey Jer Jer- sey Started Squab Rearing Lost Money Then Turned to Egg Production and Did Well UNNECESSARY EXPENSES RUINED FIRST VENTURE Hotel Keeper in Massachusetts Makes Good Profit From Farm of Fifteen or Twenty Acres AGres by Chickens BY A. A F. F HUNTER Poultry editor lecturer and farm arm manager U or failure full arc In lit the poultry 7 Imminent ilci rr respectively upon th the lie attention or In hick Illek etc of ut attention ii a hi i in 10 titian detail according to evidence evi t dence dene In tn the following following- ar article ar- ar boned upon the actual of poultry One tic poultry raiser Mho ho lint first In urinal now no makes 9 a n In the chicken u bu business A i li I of oC a t bo bo ninke u year car out oot of n n. I plant plout The Thu could be multiplied d Indefinite nit nite h one on of the olde oldest t yarle- yarle rie- rie tle nf or 10 toni foitl art ar back by bT Mr Sr to d JI lie them b here vi I Hi anti noil give cUe Interesting concerning them T TJura Jura arc aro Koth foth failures and sueI sue sue- I I C 3 S In the poultry business Just Justus Justas as us in li every ery other business and a careful study of oC the condition conditions and causes leading to the successes as aswell aswell well as the failures allures tends to the In Inevitable In- In evitable conclusion that It is the man or behind the effort ih that tt mat makes es th the tIu failure allure or scores the success s. s One of oC the most moat notable successes with Ith poultry I N s that of oC the I Corning father rather and son living living- In contra con con- tra New ew Jersey The They bought a small smaIl of ot thirteen acres and embarked Mn jn In squab In this they failed of oC success The They then turned to pro pro strictly laid fresh-laid and sterile eggs gS for th the New ew York morl market et and r rd d. d an nn Immediate success a J The venture of squab growing was r In that th foot long T 1 J house ouse set let the standard for the tho ho j I 4 I t I i- i 4 c I c i f p h i i jj 3 J 1 c. c f O t I of f Z i 1 i 1 7 I 1 t A I b t l 1 s F I c j 1 S I tf i. i S S S S S. S S DARK OR COLO COLORED RED DORKINGS One ar variety et o ot of the tile olde oldest t fowl known to history 1 Investigators have IH traced its on olig in grin to tho who arc are arc supposed to to have introduced the fowl to into nto England where it has been greatly refined It is noted for its size siz breast meat met t the he It is of or breeds d distinguished distinguished distin distin- tin five fi toes good laying laing and an au extra heavy supply of on oil carcass one three b by thc tho pO possession 5 of fhe toes on c each ch foot lat later r poultry houses IncreasIng Ing InS the cost CORt ot or those houses The houses S Sare are all set five tI feet from Cram the tho ground on cedar posts and the five feet reet of or elevation ele cle- cle- cle Is closed in at atthe the back and nd en ends s. s The basement story of these houses was intended for an open open front scratching room for tho biddies but the they set seldom om use It It ana anti th the expense was therefore unnecessary r HOW HO THEY TilEY ARC RC HOUSED The three long laying h houses luses arc 16 feet long b by 1 IS 16 feet Ceet wide each and 1500 Le Leghorn horn hens or o pullets arc are put In each house It is the intention to tohou house c pullets in houses house's Qs 2 and 3 and about 2000 old year year and nd two two- old year car hens In No 1 house and tho the former Cornier squab house house- The hens are kept from fron breeders about husky cockerels being mated mate with 1200 lOO hens hem In No 1 l' l house and a number with those In the former squab house houge The 00 pullets In houses 2 and 3 are kept for COI sterile eggs and have ha no males running with them the best of these pullets b being selected at atthe atthe the close of oC their pull pullet t year oar to be kept over for breeders Ample incubator and brooder capacity to hatch and grow grot chicks each ench season tho the pullets being grown to laying haying In colon colony houses scattered scatter d over the latin farm and a cockerel hou house e and yards ards with a a. capacity of some males mates kept for breeders and for sale complete the equipment of the large lars poultry farm M s Corning clear from to profit anual from their poultry poul paul try tn work The Is duc due to the fact that th the most to up-to-dato bust bust- ness methods are arc lapp applied to all the work cOupled with a low feeding and labor cost and unusually good prices for all lines tines of or products include sterile el eggs s fr from m the pullets c eggs gs for fOI hatching from rom the 2000 hens hens' th they haye cr never been able to fill alt all of f rs offered bre breeding females and surplus pullets pullet sOmo 1000 broiler chicks newt newly hatched chicks etc etc A I ER I TER ESTE G. G CASE An Interesting story Horr or of successful I poultry work orl orlIs is that of 3 a sir Tr Perry living in Middlesex county count Chu sells Mr Perry Petry has b been en for some years car in lU the employ of a large tare hotel durin during the summer months and his wife ie was wa in charge 0 of o one department of the hotel hote Being interested In poultry he bought a farm tarm of fifteen or QI t ent twenty acres twenty miles north of Boston and engaged In poultry raising During During- his three months months' absence Ins in s summer his father Cather and mother oc occupied occupied oc- oc his farm arm to grow the young oum stock which he had got ot hatched out and well started A A. poultry house sixty feet long was t built tho the next season season sea sea- son another section sixty feet e t long was added then another season taw another section sixty fe feet t long added and wh when n nI I last visited tile tIc farm another section or another hou house houe e was was' to be erect erected d Mr Ir Terry Perry hatches all or of his hla chicks under hens hons and has hall In the shape of oC colony houses and coops adequate equipment for for growing grot them the thc chicks s being belm- brooded by the mother hens Tho The laying stock is housed In InI I pens ns Jt fe In 11 size In t th 1119 9 long lonS' females and two house twenty fix o l o males male being kept in each family the malc males being being being- alternated In their thelt at at- About i head hend of oC laying breeding stock is kept and the tho total sales from Crom this stock stack for one seas season n was l the cost o of grain etc wa was leaving a 1 net profit r 43 The Tho following season no birds were put into the pens The total of sales was the cost of grain wa was 81 and tho the net profit was 43 This Is not a great s poultry business busine s. s but it is steadily growing Mr Ir Perry Perno and his wife have hR retired from summer hotel work ork and are giving all of their attention to building up the poultry farm fann Until that was fairly well 1 established es established established es- es es- es the earnings of oC himself and wife furnished capital needed for poultry poul tr try buildings and equipment nt now th thy they Y can make a good living from the farm arm and the poultry department will furnish fur fur- nish tish the toe capital tor br future growth In that line WHAT 1 St V X OI II hAS S S DOM DOll In Lincoln county Maine Ives I a aIrs Irs Mrs Hitchcock vho hl h. h ha has done real reat stunts stunts with t Mrs 1 Hitchcock ck Is tile the wife o of a dalr dairy farmer armer She Pre rp has found time to develop clop a poultry Int Interest e. t that has paid her about 1000 flOO a a. year eat net nt profits and ste thoroughly her work Slit She k keeps cps about h head act of ot stock her favorite ta variety b being ins Barred Plymouth Plymouth Ply Ply- mouth ro flok k Th There Thero rl arc are t two poultry houses one is ts 51 f feet et In lang 1 by 10 feet wide the other Is Ig 41 feet long u uy ny 10 feet fet and birds are arc kept ept In hi S f I one and in the o h I all i being early rt hatched and rull fully malm maimed ed pallets wh when n lh they arc are put pitt Into the houses the thc last hUlt of September oath each year ca The fhe birds in iU each house all run r together In the thc house and quarter aero yard ard rd ad- ad 3 0 iii Tills This house houst room Is b decidedly limited being hut but a It fraction over 01 two x fe feet cot t of of floor sp spLiCe ice per I bird although lh the best bet authorities 3 agree that four feet of floor j pa pac I per Pt I bird I Is Isas isas i is I laC and as little tUlle HS as 4 It to allow that five square feet per Pcr bird is better Notwithstanding this crowded de condition condi cindi- tion of her birds Mrs Hitchcock is very cr successful In setting getting eggs throughout the tho year ear so 50 that her net profits are something over r per bird Tho The sale ale of ot tho the hens to rl m market ct each ach August and S September pt averages her SO 0 cents to 1 51 e each ch Both egg A arid and fowls are arc skipped direct to the Boston Boston Bos Boa ton market mark t. t and tho lie ales siles slip of ot shipments ship ments of hens hene have hl b ben cn ns as s limb h as aH 51 03 per bird after express s charges and commission were WOl deducted A careful study of such decided successes suc S with poultry fund and th the thu story ston could be continued ind tn t lends heads l ds to the conclusion tha faithful conscientious attention to details detail of poultry work brings success w. w |
