The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-11-18
A LIVING IN THE POULTRY YARD


Raising poultry for meat or eggs is
a trade which requires apprenticeship
and experience to make profit from
not taking into account a living for
ones self and family. To be sure,
there are thousands of small floclxs in
the yards of mocha mics, clerks, bankers
and clergymen, from which, if no
money profit is realized, a large profit
in pleasure and recreation is secured
AS a rule, writes B. Holmes, Jr, in
the American Agriculturist, a small
flock will pay a better profit than a
large one, proportionately for the rea-
son that the waste from the Kitchen
bread, meat and vegetables-from an
ordinary-sized family will nearly feed
a flock of a dozen, while it would be
no small item, in a flock large enough
to make a living from, that its benefit
would be hardly felt. The small flock
will also have better care in various
ways. The house can be kept in the
best sanitary condition, and the roof
end sides proof against wind: if a fowl
is ailing it is quickly discovered, the
cause found, and the remedy applied.
If the number of eggs suddenly falls
off, the reason for it is sought for. and
change made in feed or management
" IlSII l4lt WONG. II Is tnlS personal
care and oversight acquaintance with
each bird of the flock, that makes the
small flock pay better than the large
one.
If it were possible to give f1ocks of
one hundred or one thousand the same
care that is given to one, there is no
reason why equal returns should not
be realized. Peculiar qualities are
needed by those who go into the poul-
try raising with view to make it a
life business. One, and the most impor-
tant, is love for the work, willingness
to work day and night, a thorough sys-
tenn that no detail may be neglected
that every part of every days duties
shall be attended to promptly and at
the proper time. A little neglect in one
part today, another in some other part
tomorrow, will turn certain success to
as certain failure. The location is not
the most important factor, though if
one can choose it, it will add material
ly to the chances for success as we'll
as to the amount of profit. To be near
a good market is very desira Bile but in
these days of quick transportation one
place, specially suitable, is better. even
if one hundred miles away from mar
ket, than one unsuitable and only ten
miles away. Some of the largest and
send poultry and eggs more than two
miles, and the birds killed one
afternoon are in the market early the
next morning.
To be successful one must be some
thing of a merchant as we'll as a poul-
tryman, and must keep posted on the
markets for what be buys as well as
for what he sells. Any turn that en-
ables him to save on his feed bill is
so much profit made at the start 1t
is often possible to get better prices
in one market than in another. and
he should know it and take advantage
Of it. In the mana cement of the flock,
the feeding, a sharp eye
should be kept: a little waste in each
feed trough will amount to many dol
lars in the course CT a year. 4 good
crop Of lice in any house will end the
egg crop and all hope of profit from
that house. A hen with the roup, not
taken care of, will spread the disease
to the others and the profit and the
fowls vanish together. Invalids and
lazy people should never attempt to
go into the poultry business with the
expectation. Of making il q means of
livelihood