Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-09-13

iEr. TEeohi's JEodc OF Keeping Poultry.
Alderman Mechi, the great English farmer,
thinks he can raise poultry as cheap per pound
as beef, and he tells why he thinks so in the
Gardeners Magazine, as follows:
Do poultry pay? That is very proper ques-
ton to ask, for hold as principle that every
thing that does not pay, directly or indirectly,
should be abandoned as commercially and
agriculturally wrong, | test this by the follow
ing propositions and comparisons: It pays in
directly TO produce cattle, shee and pigs; if so,
why not poultry? Il does not cost more 10 pro-
duce pound Of poultry, live weight, than a
pound of meat live weight. Well then, do
poultry sell at more or less per pound live
weight than meat? The answer to this is GA
pound OF poultry, live weight, always sells for
much more than pound of meat, live weight
and So the question is settled in favor of poultry.
The average price Of first quality beef is 5s. per
stone, or I'd a pound, for the whole carcase,
net dead weight The live weight price would
therefore be AID. per pound, because, according
to the best authorities fat beasts lose 40 per
cent. of their live weight in Offal. The average
live weight price of the best poultry is quite 3D.
per pound, or double the price of beef, and not
quite double the price of mutton. AT this time
OF year poultry sells wholesale for much more
than double the price of meat. Those | have
sent to market recently have sold for II Id. 10 Is
per pound live weight, against AID live weight
for beef, which is its present price. That set
ties the question so far, and the verdict is
strongly in favor Of poultry. Poultry are evil
IDENTIFY dear food to the consumer; but does it
cost more food to produce pound of poultry
than pound Of meat, live weight? | answer
decidedly not; but the reverse. For my cattle
and sheep don't eat worms and insects, whereas
fowls consume them abundantly, and economiZe
and apply every scattered seed or kernel that
would otherwise be wasted. In another point
of view, is the cost of attendance aud shelter
greater with poultry than with cattle? reply,
not As to the production of eggs that Deepen Is
upon the quality and quantity of food admins
tered, and the accompaniment of proper
warmth and shelter. There is no fear of over
stocking the market with either eggs or poultry;
we consume daily one million OF foreign eggs!
| generally keep from 300 to 400 fowls They
have free access to every field during the whole
year, and although they help themselves at
harvest time when the corn is in sheaf, | always
get my best crops of corn on fields adjoining
the hen house. | have this year two fields of
wheat drilled, and only one buShel of seed per
acre. They come within ten or twenty yards of
tue fowl house. and are perfect plant, although
the poultry have been scratching and cultivat-
ing the fields ever since they were drilled. We
are apt to forget that fowls, like sheep, manure
where they 20. | must say used at one time
to feel nervous and angry when l saw them
hard at work on the newly-sOwu corn, but
soon learned to feel confident that insects were
their principal gain, and that my well and
deeply-depostedc corn escaped. J.J. MECHI
Dr. c. r. Broadbent, of New York City Electro
clan and Physician, will arrive at the Bay State
house, Worcester Friday morning, Sept 10, 1872.
and will remain only four days. He can tell you
where and what your complaints are by just looking
at you, without your saying word, and whether
he can cure you not, at once. The doctor treats
very successfully by electricity and vegetable reme-
dies, all diseases of whatever name or nature chron-
ic or acute. Advice free to all, daily, from A. NJ
to P. NJ For four days only, at the hotel Patients
should remember that the doctors rooms were
crowded daily with patients the last time he was at
the Bay State house. Call early.
DIR. Broadbent will arrive at the Bay State house
this friday afternoon at three O'Clock.