The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-08
A RANCH FOR CHICKENS.
Matching BrOilers on Long Island and in New
Jersey-Incubators and Chicken Raising.

Matching BrOilers on Long Island and in New
Jersey-Incubators and Chicken-Raising.
New York Mail and Express.
1.-THE outlook for the incubator and poultry
supply business is first rate" said well known
dealer in response to inquiries made by a reporter
yesterday. There are many new par ties coming
in every day now, looking at machines, who
intend starting in the chicken raising business
this fall to make regular trade of it. Incu-
bators increasing III number! Yes, sir. There
are in the market from twelve to fifteen machines
of different patents. We have here in our store
eight of the leading ones in constant operation,
night and day. The prices range from $40 to
$500 each. with a varying capacity from fifty to
2. 600 eggs. AS a rule, a first class incubator
matches from so to 80 per cent of the fertile eggs
that are put into it. Most of the machines are
automatic in their regulation, SO that they re-
qulre very little care"
How much capital does it REQUIRE to start in
the chicken raising busineSsg' was asked
81 know of one party whose capital is $780, and
of another who we fitted out, the capital for
whose stock was $40, 600. All the eight machines
we keep are Matching chickens every day. These
we send TO our chicken ranch at Franklin, n. J.
Some DAYS our machines hatch out as MANY as
300 chicks Yes. the chicken raising business is
a new industry that has sprung up within the
last two years. But aside from those who 60
into the business as business there are many
wealthy men, owners of country seats, who have
gone into it far the novelty of the thing. But
YOU will he surprised when tell You, and sta
tistics will prove the truth of the assertion that
the poultry industry has now become one of the
largest industries in this country, and amounts
to more than even the trade in wheat Even
now there is not a sufficient supply of eggs in the
market, and it is necessary to import them in
large quantities"
HAS not this growth of the business increased
the demand for poultry suppliesp
Yes, very largely. Among the articles in
great demand is ground bone and oyster shells,
which is fed to the chicks Why, we sell at least
fifty tons Of this material year. and the de-
mand has made new way of disposing of bones
and oyster shells Not long ago man started a
mandatory at Yonkers, for the especial pur
pose of grinding bones and oyster shells for the
chicken trade, and he has big trade in it
already. 1t has also made great demand for
wire netting for fences to poultry yards. The
other day we sold and put up for one party a
mile of this wire netting"
You spoke of chicken ranch What is it
| hkel"
Ours at Franklin covers six acres of ground.
| It is enclosed by fence about six feet high 1t
| contains a number of wooden buildings, built
| especially for chicken raising One of these
| measures 60 by so feet and is 20 feet high 1t
was originally built for the fattening of poultry
| 1t is divided into pens for 1ocks of chickens of
different breeds. The pens measure about 10 by
20 feet and each contains nest boxes, roosts and
| feeding troughs. Another building on the ground
is long and narrow, 100 feet by 10, and is divided
into pens. the same the other Still another is
40 by Is feet which we use principally for ducks.
It has a small pond adjoining. On knoll back