The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-09-12
p0uITRY EAISING FOR PROFIT.

Atlanta. Ga. August 81, 1S93-Editor Con
+;tu+ion. Some time since l noticed several
articles from you in your Vaihaple paper oi
The subject of poultry. l have capltat OF
s25o I am thinking of renting a place Oh
fo,r or five acres of land within few miles
20 Atlanta buving four or five hundred hens
md selling eggs | am thinking of starting
ahout November LIST Please give me your
views fully Have / sufficient capital to en-
gaze in the business, and can make 1t PROF
table? About how much will my monthly
expenses be and how much my pfohts
please inform me fully what Is necessary to
commence the business and give me all in
formation necessary for u beginner to have.
h' J. n. r.
yvo susnect that our correspondent is
,ov;ce or has but little, If any experience
In the breeding and management or 1oWls'
and the following Suggestions are pased upon
that assumption. We would first say, how
oror chat this editor has personally
engaged in the business, except as an in
cident TO ordinary diversified farming. we
have mated fowls, set hens, TED the cnlch-
ems" and in many ways assisted the better
half in the management of few dozen mems
and their progeny. The articles attributed
r. ns were not original, but simply carefully
colected We have long been of the opinion
that noultry raising on an extended scale
could be made very profitable business,
and have sometimes seriously thought OF en-
gaging in it.
we would advise an inexperienced per-
son TO commence on Il small scale, and go
slow until a knowledge of the business is
acquired by experience as well as by reading.
II may be made of the features of a
more diversified business at first. 1t would
be an easy matter to enlarge by doubling
or even TRIPPING the investment every year,
as may be justified by the experience and
profits gained
g 1t is not necessary to be very near to
a large city. Chickens and eggs bear long
carriage very well. Land near Atlanta COM
mands a high rent, and would be a considera-
bic item of expense. The money paid for
rent per acre, might buy the same area
farther away.
or desirable in the south. Ranges of low
Sheds with good roof, and protected aSa1hsg
cold winds, may be cheaply constructed ana
fowls to roost IN the open air from April LIST.
to October LIST. These sheds should be large
enough to afford four square feet of ground
space to each fowl, six feet high at the back
hens would require a shed-say ten by twenty
feet, and this number is as many as should
be permitted to occupy one structure Or
course, runs must be provided, the larger the
better. The above comprise the ch1ef nXtures
required, and you can make your own estl-
mate of their cost, building them aA cheaply
as possible.
will cost YOU from 30 to 40 cents each. If
bought in market. About 81 worth OF grain
per annum will be required The hens will
average about twelve dozen eggs per annum.
4. But would certainly not rely solely
on egg production. but by all means strike
the early market with spring chickens, when
they command 30 to so cents each, OF the
size of partridges. You will also lind 1T ne,
cessary to sell off all the over-two-y ear-old
hens every fall. You will also probably find
it profitable to artificial methods OF
Matching and brooding, learn, the art OF