Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1894-11-21
TO TILLERS OF SOIL.
Hints That May Prove of Benefit
to Our Neighbors.
GOOD ADVICE FOR THE FARMERS.
Articles of Undoubted Worth to the Hor-
ticulturist, Collected From
Reliable Sources.
GOOD ADVICE FOR THE FARMERS
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 flocks in the
yards of mechanics, clerks, bankers.
and clergymen from which, if no
money profit is realized, large profit
in pleasure and recreation is secured.
AS rule small flock will pay better
profit than large one, proportionate-
ly, for the reason that the waste from
the kitchen-bread meat and vegetables
from an ordinary sized family will
nearly feed flock of a dozen, while it
would be SO small an item, in flock
large enough to make 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 and sides proof against
rain and wind; if a fowl is ailing it is
quickly discovered the cause found,
and the remedy applied. If the num-
Der of eggs suddenly falls off the resaon
for it is sought for, and change made
in feed or management to right the
wrong. 1t is this 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 locks of
one hundred or one thousand the same
care and attention that is given to one,
there is no reason why equal returns
should not be realized Peculiar quail
tiles are needed by those who go into
poultry raising with view to make it
life business. One, and the most i'm
portant, is love for the work, willing
ness to work day and night thorough
system 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 to-day, another in some other
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 materially
to the chances for success as well as to
the amount OF profit. To be near
good market is very desirable, but in
these days of quick transportation, one
place, specially suitable is better, even
if one hundred miles from market, than
one unsuitable and only ten miles
away. Some of the largest and most
successful market poultrymen send
poultry and eggs more than two hun
dred miles, and the birds killed one
afternoon are in the market early next
morning
To be successful one must be some
thing of merchant as we'll as poul-
tryman, and must keep posted Oh. the
markets for what he 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 management of the flock, especially
the feeding sharp eye should be kept;
a little waste in each feed trough will
amount to many dollars in the course
of year. A 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 it a
means of livelihood.