Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1894-01-05
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they can furnish rich men, swell clubs
and high class hotels with 'spring chick
ens' at times when they could be obtain
tainable from no other source.
Near New York, for instance, there are
three or four establishments where the
chicks are Matched out by the gross, SO
to speak, ''mothered'' with arrangements
of cotton wool, fed by machine and
brought to table condition systematically
and at a given time after the first faint
picking of the imprisoned infant fowl at
its shell. One of these places is run by
a company, with a capital of $25, 900,
and its Matching and feeding houses are
large and conducted according to an ex-
net system. These concerns raise chick
ems and pigeons mainly, but have not
been very successful with turkeys, as
the Thanksgiving bird does not take kind
ly to mechanical propagation.
The prices charged by these growers
are higher than those that obtain in the
regular markets. and the product is
mostly taken up by the big hotels, the
clubs and rich private families. Very
few machine raised birds are to be seen
hung up by the feet in the regular mar
kets of any Of the big cities. It is the
opinion of the dealers generally that this
state of affairs will continue for many
years, and they express the opinion, also
considered heretical in many quarters,
that the flavor of the farm grown birds
would not suffer by comparison with
that OF those produced by the wholesale
method. --~sa ~.
It is not likely that the advocates of
either faith as to the future of the poul
try business are wholly right. So long
rs the farmers can raise poultry in small
aocks largely On what would go to waste
if not employed in that manner, the con-
Germs that are obliged to provide extern
sive and expensive plants will not find it
easy to compete with them for the gen
erM market, but they will undoubtedly
be able to cater successfully to the spe-
cial city trade.
AS regarding many other businesses,
there are many ronances told Of phe-
nomenal successes made in poultry grow
| ing by men who had no special skill OF
training for success in that line before
they took up the enterprise. One Of the
most alluring of these, and undoubtedly
| true one, is related of New Yorker
who found himself in bad health, out of
| business and with very little capital.
He borrowed few hundreds and added
this to his own cash. set up an incubat-
| ing and forcing establishment on Long
Island, near New York, and started out.
His net income is now stated to be near
ly $10,00lsa year. He is living on easy
street" but know Of man who
sunk $15,uO0 trying to make a similar
scheme work. who is now looking for a
lob. '5e5 ALBEIT HORTON.
Competition Amoae Farmers.
The cost of farm labor in Great Bri-
tain, estimated by the statistician of the
agricultural department., is $3.50 per
! annum; in France, $l25; in Holland
and Austria, $780,, in Germany, $50;
/ in Russia, $50; in Italy, $50, and in
India, $50, while the same labor costs
J in this country 1920. The farmers Of
the United States have heretofore come
to appreciate that with the wonderful
wheat Development In India and Rus
sia, with the vast sums Of money which
have been expended for Irrigation and
IN railroads for transporting this wheat,
taken in connection with their cheap
labor, the time is already here when
the American farmer must sell his pro-
duct in the markets Of the world in
competition with the wheat produced
BY the lowest priced labor of other
countries, and that his care and concern
must, IN the future, be to preserve his
home market, for he must of necessity
be driven from the foreign one, unless
by diminishing the cost OF his produc-
ton ne can successfully compete with
the unequal conditions have described.
William Mckinley.