Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-01-21
One Dollar Per Year.

miles from the city, WITHIN easy rehcu
of the masket for our produce.
1--WE have been established about two
years and half. Our farm consists OF
81 xtcen acres. Our chicken house is9l0
feet long, and we have smaller build
ing for broodng purposes. We started
with about fifty hens, now we have
hundreds, and we have raised thousands
of ducks
1--WE had both been horn and raised
in town, and never had seen the coun-
try, except on the short vacations city
people take during the summer. We
knew nothing abont the poultry bust
ness when we started.
1--WE did not even have book knowl-
edge on the subject. We made up our
minds to succeed, and we have sue
ceeded AT the same time, though
there is good living in the business.
1--WE never advise women to follow
our example, because where one might
succeed dozen might fail We con-
ing our advice on this subject
school teachers want to abandon
their nerve. wearing vocation. widows
and spinsters with little capital think
they see in the chicken business an easy
road to fortune.
1T is only fair, for the benefit of this
class of inquirers and hundreds of
other women whose thoughts are
turned to this branch of woman's
work, to give them some idea of what
the laLor connected with the business
really is.
First of all no woman should dream
of entering this business unless she is
possessed Of strong constitution.
This is species of work which requires
the most robust health.
1T is preposterous to think that
scm-invalids could ever be successful
in poultry business; mean, Of course,
if they are carrying on the business for
the purpose of making money. Then,
again, You must have enough capital to
make fair start or you will fail
"a young woman wrote to us from
Connecticut the other day, saying that
she had 500, and thought of going into
the business; we advised her not to do
it. She could not carry on the business
alone; it takes two to attend to the
work, and sometimes, literally, we
have to work day and night
40. instance we only pick and pre-
pare our chickens to order. Friday Is
our busiest day, for customers-restau-
rant, boarding-house and hotel keepers
are preparing for Saturday and Sun
day.
ION Friday night, when we have fin
ished big days work, we may receive
l,y telegraph three or four orders to be
filled at once. That means that the
chickens are to be sent by the early
morning express The consequence is
that we are obliged to sit up all night
to pick the chickens, for all the fowl
are sent dry, hand-picked.
Some one asks: Why don't you
employ help?"
Because the help, nine times out of
ten, would not do the work properly; it
is very difficult to get that kind of as
sistance when you are most in need Of
it, and it would eat up too much of the
profits to keep pickers on hand all the
time, because they would not be con-
stantly employed
"Amateurs think it is easy to find
customers for their fine poultry, and
any other kind it certainly would not
pay woman to raise. If you send to
MISUNDERSTANDING take all the
profits
I'm the large hotels the chief pur-
chases all such food from the produce
dealers Those who raise spring broil-
ers or pecan ducks are obliged to charge
a good price for them to cover expenses
and yield fair profit on the labor We
found, at the outset, that butchers
could not afford to pay our prices, and
we soon learned that all the very rich
were the hardest of all to secure as pat
rons.
''The truth is, after you have got the
poultry to SELL it requires a great deal
of hard work and enterprise, No wom-
an must think that simply because she
can raise fine poultry she will find at
once profitable market for the same
OF course she will find demand for
good fowl, but she must receive fair
prices or she can not conduct the bust
ness profitably.
Amateur poultry raisers generally
fail because they go into the business
too extensively and, in their employ
ment of help all the profits are eaten
up. "-Boston Globe.