Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-02-02
WOMEN AND POULTRY.
RAISING CHICKENS DOES NOT NEAR
RICHES EASILY WON.

some Ter.s Advice Hcrnrding the Con-
duet ~ Poultry Farm-r The succ's,
Of I've Ysaug womoa fraa the city.
They Have to worL Hard 81 Times.
one Of the largest poultry farms in the
vicinity 90 Sew York Guy ~ managed 10y
two young women, VINO, only three ycan
nro. we're pupils in De Vests seminary
Tor yuuua women, ou IAe Heights iu Brook
lyn. The farm is situated near Baldwln's
Long Island.
"Onr business venture, said one ofthess
young women. "wn- brought about IN %
purely accidental manner An acquaini
Rnce NJ our. ha- bern rrtdinH IN som,
newspapers about poultry rfIsing ne busi.
mess Tor women. aud luughngly told ~
that We ought 60 go lnto the business Hn1
make some money
"The remark Wus ouly made Va q iestlng
spirit. but We beran 10 talk iho matter
over between ourselves, AMI finally decided
TO make venture A relative Of my
friend. bought farm Tor us on Long
Island about twenty miles from tho city,
within clsy reach of the market Tor our
produce,
I'VE have boon established about two
year. and hllC our farm consists of siX.
tecn aor,s Our chicken house IS go f,ct
long, and Wc have smaller building Tor
bruDdIug purposes. Wcsiartcd with about
fifty hens, now We have hundreds, and we
have raised thousands Of ducks
1--WE had both been born and reared In
town. and never had seen the country, eV
cgpt on The short vacations city peopl-
take durlngthe summer We knew moth
INK about the poultry business when We
started
1--WE did not even have book knowledge
on the subject We made up our minds 20
succeed, and we have succcclcd AZ the
came time. though there b a good living In
the business
40 WOMAN WILL FiNp 4 ToHTrEE
ave mover advise women to follow our
example, hocausu whore one might succeed
dozen might fail. We constantly rc.
ocive letters from women asking our nj.
vice on this subject
"schuol teachers want TO abandon their
nerve wearing vocation. widows anl spin.
ster, with q little capital think they soc In
the chicken business an easy road 10 for.
tuuo.
1T Is only fair, Tor the benefit Of this
c,ass Of iuquircrs aud hundreds of other
women whose thoughts are turned to thi,
branch Ut wOmeu'- work, to give them
some idea of what the labor connected
with the business rally L.
"firat Of all. no woman should dream Of
entering this business unless she h. pos.
Ne ed Of "a stroug constitution. This Il q
species " work which requires the most
toAu.t hcil,.
at j. prcnosteroul 20 think that scmi.in.
vsliis could Uytt b. successful In poultry
businrss. ! mean " course. VI they are
carrying on tho business Tor the purpose VI
mixing money. Then, agniu, you must
have enough capital 10 make a fair start OF
you will ful.
RIAL HARD WORK ToH wOuEN
a young woman wrote Ia us from Con.
nectirut the other day, saying that she
had eco. aud thought ot going into tho
.huslnc.s, We advised her not To do IT,.
She could not curry ON the bushes. alone;
II uikes two TO attend to the work, and
sometimes, literally, We have to work day
aud night
FOR Instance, we only pick and prepare
our chickens 20 order. Friday Is our busi.
est day, Tor Customer rcstaumnt, board.
ing house aud hotel keupers-are prcpar.
ing f1g SATURDAY and sunday
"On Friday night when we have IN.
ishcd a biz day. work, we may receive by
telegraph three or four orders TO h. filled
Rt once That means that the chickens
are 10 he sent hy the early morning cN.
press The consequence Is that we arc
obliged 10 VIZ up all uiPht TO pick tie
chickens, for all our fowls nre sent dry
hRud picked.
"some one asks why don't you en-.
ploy holpp
because the help. nine times out Of ten,
would not do the work properly. IL 4. very
dlnicult to yet that kind Of assistance
when yuu are most In need Of Il, and Il
would eat up too much of the profits to
Keep pirkcn on baud all the time, be.
cnrse they would not be constantly en-.
pioyed.
why AMATEURS FAiL
Amateurs think II b. easy 10 find Gus.
toners for their tine poultry, aud any
other Kind IL certainly would not pay a
woman % raise. II You send 10 middle
mel lobb'r,-thcy take all the profits.
"ln The large hhtels tho chef purchases
an such food from the produce dealers
Those who raise spring hroilers or pekin
ducks are obliged ~ charge good price
for them to cover expenses aud Yield ~ fair
profit on the labor We found at the out
sct the butchers could not afford to pay
our prices, aud We soou learned that all
the very rich were the hardest OF all to ~.
cure rs patrons
"fhc truth Is. after you have gotIhe
poultry 10 sell, il requires great deal oi
hard work aud enterprise. No woman
must think that simply because she can
raise ilne poultry shu will lind NJ once u
profitable market Tor the same or course,
the wall find demand for good fowl. but
thc must receive fair prices or she cannot
conduct the business probably.
Amateur poultry rascfs generally fail
because they 20 Into the business too cx.
tenslvsly, aud Ia their employment Of help
all the profits are eaton up."--Boston Her.
aid.
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