The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-03-06
A WORD TO FARMERS.


Its our earnest desire to endeayor
to educate the wide.awake farmer up
to the fact that poultry pays il pro.
perry managed, and pays larger
for the capital and labor invested,
than any other crop or stock on the
farm. The ''tarnel old hem cannot
be ignored any longer; she seeks
eminence, ard is going to have it.
She wants good, warm, plain house
to perch in at nights as she is tired
of roosting on the dashboard and
wheelbarrow under the wagon house.
She speaks out and says emphatical-
ly: Il pay my board and want de-
cent food and nice snoozing places. y
Did it ever strike you, my farmer
friend, that the old hen is correct in
her measurements? Well, she is.
The time has arrived when the
mixed-up fecks, so commonly seen
about the farm of most farmers.
must go, and go to stay Thorough
breds are fast displacing them, as
they should. The idea that it costs
a small fortune to stock up farm
with thoroughbred fowls is an idea
only, and very thin one at that.
Procure a few sittings of eggs from
your neighbor fancier, raise all the
chicks you can from those eggs, and
the next spring construct a good,
large breeding pen or two, and put
your pullets in there; get two
cockerels, commonly called 'roost-
ers, from another tancier and put in
with the pullets. Get all the eggs
you can and set them under your
mongrels, and raise all you can. In
tall and winter you can market lot
of your mcngrel hens to make room
for your thoroughbred stock and by
another season you can have all the
old common stock cleared off. You
will find that you have made an out
lay of IS to $40 for eggs and proba-
bly, S. to S10more for two cockerels.
and you will also find that the thor
oughbreds will eat no more than the
old mongrels did; you will find that
they will lay as many, if not more
eggs, and you will find many extra
dollars in your pocket for stock solo
for breeders to some one else start.
ing in the business. You will be.
come a ''fancier" just as naturally
as rolling off log, go to the fairs
with your birds, receive some pre-.
NUNS, be encouraged, send an ad.
vertisement to the paper sell some
stock and ship it, make the older
breeders hustle and take your place,
by and by, in the front ranks of
chickendom.
This is no fairy tale, my farmer
friends, but hard, cold, solid facts, as
the editor has been there and saw
others around him do the same; and
what we have done, it is possible for
others to accomplish.
You will probably say hen eats
her head off. Not so; she pays for
her feed, and leaves you a profit Of
fifty per cent. at the end of the year.
But the trouble lies in the fact that
you do not take time to figure her
business out. Everything connect
ed with the old hen goes for granted
that she don't pay.
Start out this year with an ac-
count Of feed fed, of chicks raised,
of those ate or marketed, of all eggs
ate and marketed; allow fair value
for those raised, strike your balance
and you will find that you have
made more clear cash off of your
hens, for cash invested, than you
did, in same proportion, of your
cows, or field crops. We want you
to try it and we will help you to do
1t all we can.