The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-10-30
THE SOUTH AND POULTRY.

| W ltH tne iHdDy Clltn3Llc dGVan-
tages possessed by you of the
South, We fail to see why poultry
culture would not yield you very
handsome returns; many per cent
greater than we of the North and
West can even hope for. While the
thermometer is anywhere from zero
to twenty below, in the Buckeye
state. you are enjoying delightful
summer weather, and while your
poultry can run out almost every
cay in the whole year we are fore
ed to keep ours tightly housed from
five to seven months out of the IL,
and it is a we'll known fact that
poultry will do much better when
they have their liberty than when
kept in confinement. We, of the
North, can rear poultry at profit,
and why more of our Southern
brethren do not take up poultry cul-
ture has always been mystery to
me. How these birds ofbeauty and
utility, the Leghorns, would revel
in the salubrious climate of our
Southern States. They would i'm
agine themselves back in their old
home and eggs would be the "order
Of the day." Mr.. G. V. Baker of
our State, met all breeds, and some
of the best yards of the country, in
years contest and he scored VIC
tory Of the S. g. B. Leghorns. His
pen Of six Leghorns produced 1885
eggs, or 2223 eggs each, during the
year; being just twenty eggs per
hen in advance of his nearest com
petitor. II in our climate such re
suits can be accomplished, what
might we not expect from them
when transplanted to the Sunny
South. Cotton would no longer be
king; they would be transferred to
the biped Leghorn.
The experience derived from
breeding the Game should convince
all that yours Is the climate of all
climates for poultry. When We want
first class Game where do we 90
to look for him? Why our best
Games come from the South and
many bear the tag, "from Fort
Gaines, Georgia"
Were your farming and their
wives to take up poultry in connec-
ton with other farm crops they
would derive untold pleasure anC
much profit from it. The shipping
facilities of the country will PERM
you to enter our markets in direc
competition to US, and you can hav,
| fine broilere in our New York anC
Boston markets by the time our frs
chicks are leaving the she'll, thus
securing the very best price the
market affords. The Woodworking
sewing women of your cities could
make better living out of poultry
than they are now doing, and at the
same time add several years to their
lives. There is no more healthy
occupation than that of poultry cul-
ture; the outdoor exercise is just
what they require for health.
Your own State, with but little
effort, could be made to yield those
10000, 900 dozen eggs we import
and / know the farmers would re-
Ijoice at.the additional S2,500,000 Of
an income. Do not fear that the
poultry business will be overdone.
We could and would use twice as
many eggs and poultry as we now dc
if we could but get them. Our lit
tie town Of 1900 would use three
times as many as it does could they
be had, and the same is true of ev-
cry manufacturing town in the coun-
try. During four years residence
here have never known eggs to
sell tor less than 125 cents a dozen
but once. For about ten days the
past summer they were only 10 cts.
but during the past week | sold ov.
er 100 dozen Leghorn eggs at 334
cents dozen.-Trizie in Southern
Pancier.