The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-05-02
How to Begin Poultry Keeping.

The location of amarket poultry farm
is ma, ter of no little importance. A
near market is necessity. but a
"near market IS not ne essarily one
that is within n few miles of the farm.
A market NAV be FIVE hundred miles
distant and vet be NEAR" because it
can be reached quickly and cheaply BY
direct line of railroad. Befo .e buy
ing land for poultry farm, or deciding
to go into the poultry busin sss on your
present farm. find out all about the
.raaTket;ng -ac lit es, and take all things
kzato consideration. Manufacturing and
= mining villages are o ten better mar
kets than the larger cities. The poultry
raiser who lives within teaming dis
tance of one of these villages. and is
also upon a direct line of railroad lead
ing to q CITY, is about as well off for
market facilities as one need be. Nearly
all parts of New England, New York.
Pennsylvania and New Jersey offer
superior advantages to those who d sire
to engage in market poultry raising.
The soil of the poultry farm should be
such as can be profit lbly cultivated, for
il is not good economy for the poultry
raiser to buy anyth Nc that can be more
cheaply raised on the farm. (which
branch of poultry raising paws best is
one of the problems that these beginners
expect me to solve. The question can
only be answered in a general way.
Near the crowded cities and manufact-
uring villages of the East it pays to
keep owls for-eggs alone. In many OF
these places the average price of fresh
eggs is fully twenty-five cents 8 doz u
the year round, aad when hens can be
made to produce from ten to twelve
dozen . piece IN a twelvemonth. any,
body can see that there is big profit
to De made. If YOU know the average
price of eggs in your locality, and the
cost of keeping a hen for q year, You
can soon tell whether it viii pay You to
keep fowls or eggs alone. For farmers
yves others who can not deyo E
their whole time to busine S, it seems t.
me that the egg business is Just the
thing provided they live where it wis.
pay; and when it comes to that there
are but few places where it W II not pay,
for where eggs are cheap gran iSgen-
orally cheap.
Raising early chickens for market
pays remarkably well when the p ultry
Ia ser is so located that the o,t of
transportation and marketing does not
eat up nearly all he profits. 1t requires
more skill to succeed in this branch OF
poultry farming than any other. and it
should not be attempted unit after con-
siderable knowledge OF poultry keeping
has been acquired Rails ng chickens
out of doors with hen mothers, in
spring and summer, is one thi 9, and
raising chickens indoors in winter and
early spring. wholly by artificial means.
is another thing altogether, rs those
who have tried iEknow. Raising chick
ems to sell alive or dressed in the faL
and winter is profitable in most ioca-
ities-very profitable in some, especial
IL where the poultry is IA sed of extra
size and quality; and you shoald al re-
member that there is but little d fer
ence between the cost of rails ng poul
that viii sell for the highess market
price and that which Will sell for bare
" enough to cover the cost Of IA NJ.
Raising capons is q very proftabi'
branch of the poultry business, bu
there Is at D esent no market for them
except in the largest cities
From nay own experience l say IT,
saes who expect to devote their whole
time to poultry, that IT pays best to run
the business for all that it is worth
Take up one at branch time. and as soor
as you have that on a paying POUNDS
ton go on to the next Right herr
seeais to be a good place to remark tina
II viii surely pay to have all your pou
try products OF the best If you deal il
eggs. sell only ezn, fresh eggs, if yoi
raise spring chickens get them out ead
and see that they are plump and wei
feathered when sent to market; if yo'
sell dressed fowls sell those that
large. fat and dressed in the style tina
goar market demands. Al n to has
everything the best of its kind the e
is the. secret of the high pr.ces tbs
some poultry raisers always obtain to
their products. Farnse-