The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-09-10
a RANCH ron CHICKENs.
4 New Industry IN Whish xhaesands ol
rlollarz are Invested.

Ooll8F3 are Invested
"The outlook Eor the incubator and
poultry supply business Is iirst-rate,
said e we'll known dealer In response
to inquiries made by reporter for the
New York Nal Sssd EzpTess. There
are many new parties coming IN every
day now looking at machines who in.
tend starting in the chicken-raisin1
business this fall to make Q regular
trade of it. Incnbators increasing In
numberf 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 go to $500 each.
with varying capacity of from fifty to
1900 eggs. As q rule, . frst-class in
cubator matches from 80 to 80 per
cent of the fertile eggs that are put
into It Most Of the machines are su-
tomato in their regulation. so that
they require very little care"
How much capital does is require
to start in the chicken-raising BUSH
ness?" was asked.
al know OF one party whose capital
Is 800. and another who We fitted out
| the capital for whose stock was $40.
coo. Ali the eight machines that 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 three
| hundred chicks. Yes, the chicken
raising business is 8 new industry that
| has sprung up within the last two
1 years. But aside from those who 90
| into the business as q business there
are many wealthy men, owners OF
country seats, who have gone into II
| for the novelty Of the thing. But you
viii be surprised when tell you, and
statistics will prove the truth of the
statement. that the poultry industry
has become one of the largest indus
tries in this country, and amounts to
moro than even the trade in wheat
Even now there is not o sufficient sup
ply 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 sup
pliesp"
Eyes, very largely. Among the ar
ticles in great demand are ground
bone and oyster shells, which are fed
to the chicks. Why, we sell ct least
fifty tons of this material year, and
the demand has made q new way Of
disposing of bones and oyster shells.
Not long ago man started g manu-.
factory 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. It has also
made great demand for wire netting
for fences to poultry-yards. The othei
day we sold and put up for one party
mile of this wire netting"
| "You spoke of q chicken ranch
What is it likeP''
''Ours Ut Franklin covers six acre,
of ground. 1t is enclosed by a fenc,
about six feet high. 1t contains
number of wooden buildings, built es
| pecially for chicken-raising. Ono O.
these measures 60 by 30 feet and q
feet high. 1t was originally built fol
the fattening of poultry. It is divided
into pens for fiocks of chickens of diff
erent breeds. The pen measures abou
10 by 20 feet, and each contains mes
boxes, roosts. and feeding troughs
Another building on the ground Is Ions
and narrow, 100 feet by 10, and is ID
Vided into pens, the Same as the other
Still another is 40 by Is feet, which WI
use principally for ducks. 1t has /
small pond adjoining. On q knoll
back OF these buildings we keep larg'
number of the artificial breeders fol
young chicks taken from the incu
bators at the store. They are kept il
these breeders four weeks, and ar
then old enough to be put in with th'
larger stock.
what is the capacity of such
rancho
| Without crowding, 1t will accom-
MEDIATE nicely one thousand full grown
fowls, five thousand young chicks. ans
one thousand ducks. The cost of sucl
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