Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-06-08

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:. ,sarly every paper has an article
sonltry raising, thought that a
g. - "a nv experience, perhaps, would
s = suficient interest to have place
4 ,our columns. ga.
s,, deyoted to farming, and like
49, Ia the same profession ! have
.;cdioaIly been attacked with the
:sSsr feyer. All my endeavors TO
-. them BY setting hens have ended
= .hcrouoh disgust, and that the ex-
1900 of others has proved the same
.s;dsuced in the high price OF poultry
.sssr Having been from boyhood
- n fovIs, I have read With interest
s,srythiag I saw on poultry raising,
sssine by for future use that which my
~ sxpsrience told me would be prac
SssbIs' Everybody knows that hens, If
~ allowed TO set, will produce great
unity Of eggs. The question TO be
sc,,sd 70 make poultry raising profita-
- q n turn these eggs into chicks
- ,siss them. That this can be done
!. s,4i6oid Matching and br0oding
- nov demonstrated TO . certainty,
s.d any eus wishing to - for them
49, ~ - ecms and examine my unede
q operating. More than a year ago l
- a advertisement proposing to give
;rstruetious how to make an incubator
so, ARTIFICIAL Matching, and brooders for
h,sedino the chicks. Expecting to be
"a. answered the advertisement,
thsn sent for instructions how to use
oue. then for an egg tester, when my
ocf6s was complete. The incubator
vorks well, bat the brooder was fail
M. and the egg tester that cost me 80
eauts vas worth at cost about one cent.
sou msnoed hatching, and had no
irouble after getting started, though l
enoiled the first batch Of over two hun
~ ooQs by the incubator catching
a.. This happened through fault in
ouustyuotion. I think my Informant
~ not q practical person. as l have
&oooyeYed several things that it Is very
snnsutlnl a beginner should know; my
hroo(ler proving failure was at n loss
. know what to do with so many chick
= until fortunately planned one that
vorks we'll. The chicks require arti-
noiai heat until about six weeks old,
duyipg cold, vet or windy days and all
niehts. This heat Is impaired by the
beooder. I uss coal oil for fuel, and the
eost IN Matching and brooding will not
exceed one cent to the chick, my Oldest
chickens being but two months old, i
= moi prepared to state what the cost
q Yaidng will be, though think one
dollar and half per dozen will cover
sll sxpsnss for fnel and feed. While
Il The farm attend to il, and when
sway my wife takes charge Of IL. There
b no hard work or anything that is
dimcult about IL; attention is all that is
necessary. Let one or two persons in
each county get to raising chickens This
vey, and II will Be but a few years when
I'll viii do the same. Capt. j. II. Swift
ays hs wants one, Il. Is. Holbrook says
u viii pay every farmer to haye one, II
ouly 70 raise poultry for his own table.
p. W. @. Dennison, keeper of Smiths
hand light, was at my place three days,
eosing Il work, and says that II will
make one for him and give him instruc-
hons how to run IL, can charge my
own price and he will pay the bill. Now,
b conclusion, II you or any Of your re-
porteFs happen this way give me call
Tho material for nay incubator costs
about ak dollars. and any one that can
drive nail and saw board square can
make u. A. w. ARNOLD.
CouPxvrLLE, w. r., June 3.