The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-07
s 465 90


puts him in working order. Now for
the year to come. his plant is in full
sway. His reputation has begun to grow.
His neighbors have heard of him and his
| courage is settled-and, from his 260 Brah-
mas, Black Langshans, Plymouth Rocks
and Legborns, he selects the 100 best he
has and Ills long house and runS-eight
pens, ten females and one male in each
and places advertisements in the leading
poultry papers to. the amount of s1O0 in
advertising at yearly rates, saying that he
will sell eggs for Matching at So per set
ting, S. for two settings and Sc for thirty
nine eggs. In September he changes his
ne will sell at from So to S25 per trio He
knows and feels that his stock is good,
for his nine hours labor has seconded the
blood, and the result has been clean LOT
of stock.
And winter sets in again, with him.
with the following results:
fo First ne saves over sixty Of the best old
200 ,yearling hens Weighing 100 lbs,
nj, II cents per Live weight. .s121 90
The 2eO hens laid 1900 dozen eggs at
He has sold 8 old a91 hens at $50 each ss 60
He has sold 30 chickens at 50 each. 80 90
He has sold so settings of eggs for
Matching ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 125 90
sl,217 90
To keeping so chickens sold for
breeding purposes .......s 20 co
To keeping the 260 fowls, at SLID. a12 90
10 advertislng............ 100 90
$40 90
For new stock to replace the 20 sold,-
reducing the number, and for new
blood, 20 birds at So each. $780,. 500 90
Balance Observation-Disclosures. .s715 90
Gentlemen, are the number of 26U hens and
the 400 young chicks worth $35? They are
worth that and more in New England.
Then adding. this amount and the total.is
$3.50. But all know that the first years
advertising never brings one half the in
come it will afterwards. This is no fancy
sketch. have been simply writing his
tory.
L have reckoned but 10 dozen eggs to a
hen. l can name those who got u dozen
eggs per capita, and who have not sold
their eggs for less than SO cents average
for the past ten years.
said they could, with nine hours labor
and $1,000, cause that labor to pay $3.50 to-
$1,000. can name one man who, from
eight pullets and one cock, sold S14S5 in a
single year; FL, But the men who are willing
happiest when at work for the best good
of their fiocks do not stop at $3.50.
have by y these hes three houses occupied ed
to 800 chickens on the other two acres Of
land-you take one acre of it, and with
the II l ploy turn straight burrows. four
eh @ 50 The to Drive h your saR Rs
along the burrows and string six-inch
wide boards. through them, and turn the
sods back into the burrows, then run
three feet wide wire netting, one-inch
mesh, for partition fences. When you set
batch of hens, you set enough to hatch
fifty-tive. chickens, and place them, with
ments.. So on till you fill your eight fields,
one-third of an acre each. These chicks
being of one age, all will do well. If
males for broilers; if Langshans kill at
ten weeks; if Plymouth Rocks, at twelve
weeks; if Leghorns, at fourteen weeks
turn the .pullets into. a. square acre. to
roam, giving open sheds for roosting
and shelter from rains. When the egg
pens Wch are IS
and from the four pens thus vacated you
select from time to time such hens as
sufficient to refill your breeding pens. The
balance will go into your overflow houses |
as soon as the old, worn out hens at their |
moult have been disposed of to the but |
cher.
AS years roll on, each will bring better !
results from your advertisement in the |
papers, and it will not be long before an
ar will sell at least one-half he raises to |
the purchasing public. which will raise |
The average far above that have claimed
FOR those willing to work.
If 1 have, in the utterance referred to-
which has called for. this exclamation |
oeen too sanguine all 1 have to say. is,
loo chickens. : Winter 26O If you work |
lard enough you can winter 100 in each of |
he overflow houses, which will give you |
/ plant of 500 chicks, when you can safely |
BET on the result of s750, or better.
We are glad the article set some one to |
asking questions, and now the ball is set I
n motion, let the interest not lag. AS
he males marketed raise themselves and /
'emales to a productive age. stop your /
supply when your houses are full, and the
lumber is as great as you can care for
veil. Remember poultry well cared for
Jays profit. Poultry neglected runs you
n debt. The poultry yard is g factory
hat never shuts down or discharges its
lelp, and pays all the help earns.-I. *. /
Telch, in Poultry Herald.