The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-08-31
A BOSS POULTRY RANCH.
How Sol. Hirsch Tells What He Saw
Down at the Coast.

"If you want first-class item about
chicken ranch on a large scale,
said a person just up from the sea
side to reporter yesterday, lust
hunt up Mr.. Sol. Hirsch. He is
loaded to the muzzle with lnforma-
tion on the subject"
Now, since we have been importing
so many eggs from Iowa, and are
about to import chickens by the car
load from Illinois, the chicken and
egg question is one of great interest
to the people of Oregon, especially
any information as to how hens can
be kept in large numbers successfully.
So the reporter hied away to Mr..
Hirsch's office and requested him
to tell all he knew about chicken
ranches.
"The problem of running chicken
ranch on large scale is solved" he
said. 81 have seen a successful one.
While at the seaside few days since
1 met an old friend, Mr.. S. X. Stan
ley, who used to keep the Seaside
house. He informed me that he was
engaged in the business of raising
eggs for the Astoria market. He told
me such fish stories about his ranch,
as I thought, that I determined to 60
and see it.
His place is on Ohanna creek,
about two and half miles from the
Seaside hotel, where he and his wife
own and attend to 1000 laying hens,
which produce 1000 dozen eggs per
month on an average. 1t is a cold
day when they do not gather from
600 to 800 eggs, and keep this up ev-
cry day in the year. They warrant
all the eggs they sell to be fresh, and
have never had one sent back to them
yet.
."Near the place is a creek and a
lake where the tide rises and falls
every day and along the shores of
these the fowls find plenty of insects.
The soil is sandy and the hens have
plenty of room to roam around. They
are fed sack of wheat a. day, and
when necessary fresh meat is fur
nished.
There has never been any sickness
among the fowls, such as is so COM
mon where large numbers of fowls are
kept together. Many chickens are
raised, but none are marketed except
young roosters. Mr.. Stanley keeps
increasing the number of his hens,
and expects to be able to successfully
manage 1000.
Mrs. Stanley stated that she had
found that keeping a large number OF
hens on a piece of ground was the
best plan to kill out fern, this pest
being entirely destroyed from the
chicken yards.
Mr.. Hirsch could not say what va
rieties of hens Mr.. Stanley kept, but
he knew that they imported some
fine cocks and hens which cost large
sums. He was very enthusiastic
about this chicken ranch and said he
would sooner have it than a dry
goods store. why" said he, ian in
dustrious couple can get a hundred
acres of land and make $4,000 in ten
years." -.
Here is a pointer for poultry rails
ers. If they cannot make a success
inland let them fly to the shore where
the chickens can roll'ln the sand and
catch CLANS aud oysters and inhale
ozone, and keep their lungs and di-
gestive apparatus in good order, and
furnish a plentiful supply of eggs the
year round, and redeem our state
from the disgrace of importing eggs,
to say nothing OF chickens. Perhaps
somc poultry raiser can give some in
formation in regard to the desifabil-
ity of seaside property for chicken
raising.-OregOnidn, 30