The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-06-06
Women and Cats.

Soaahern Fancier, is by 9 lady o
Hampton County, S. c.. who has mad
q success Of poultry raising as q bust
ness. The proprietor Of the ". d S
had the pleasure Of meeting her a
Glenn Springs a few years ago, and wa
much interested in listening to be-
practical ..ehicken talks" The article
gives come ides Of how she begun in tn
business, and may encourage some o
orr lady r~eadersvho are looking around
for some ssy to help themselves:
MI. Jacobs seems strongly, inclined
to the opinion that women and cats art
ont Of place in the poultry yard. VIII
you rive me space 70 prove that they
oan 10th be very useful there in tbei,
separate waysf When / commenced
Rising poultry a~rsifcially. l had neve'
seen 40 incubator except on exhibition.
/ purchased little home made affair
bearing that name ; Of course it was
family 10. construction, and with nc
experience my method Of running it was
equally faulty. I did hatch out : fen
chickens, however, seventeen out Of
thirty eggs my FIRST hatch. The eggs
we're never tested, as | had never heard
Of such 5 thing IS q sester. These
chicks we're fne broilers at nine weeks
old, aud I raised them all. l then
purchased = s.Thermostatic." 200 eggs
capacity, aud after running it success
fnlly tuo years, I took q trip North and
visited MI. Raakins' Duck farm. He
encouraged me so that / purchased one
Of his large Monarchs. came home aud
commenoed TO work 10 earnest. It was
np bill work ; my husband opposed my
venture on account of the hard work
involved. My friends aud neighbors
commented and criticised. rs friends
aud Deigbbors are prone to do the world
over. I told my husband that / would
promise not to work myself quite to
death. and I let my friends comment to
their hearts content, thinking l had q
perfect right to ride my hobby in my
own way, so long as / kicked no dust
in anybody's eyes. lam now running
txo machines, one carrying 200, one
$50. I have put q since the middle
Of September last, 600 pure bred chicks,
many Of them are now grown. and a
iner, thsiftier lot of growing chicks
can't be found in any mans yard. |
nse brooders Of my own invention, IS
chicks in each; / have two brooder
houses, one so feet Z 80, one 80 < 90:
On the Sontb side Of the smsllest house
there are four small yards, 8 BY 10 f..
IL these the small fry FIRST learn to
scratch for their living. and there are
few days during the winter that they
cannot 20 ont for an hour or so in the
fresh air. The Two houses are con-
nected BY narrow yards 75x20 feet.
These are set with Bermuda grass. and
furnish an unlimited supply Of green
food. The large bouse has seven rooms
and 4 #. passage with o window in
each room aud in the passage. At the
back and at each end Of the large house
are large runs sowed in rye. The small
house has four rooms and a vide pass
age, one large window in the South side
Of each room. Slide doors are under
each door. AID one opposite in the
passage. The chicks are carried from
the incubator to the small house. where
warm brooders are waiting for them.
here they remain unsil the next hatch
comes of when We play move house"
The sides ere opened, and out they
scanper into the green yards. and
through other slides into larger brooders
prepared for them in the larger house.
Three rooms in this are fled with low
perches. From these ebey run into the
large rye yasds. Ishufo of my machines
the FIRST Of April, having previously
Set every hen that could be induced to
take her nest. l do not think that
chicks do we'll in breeders in this eli
mate late in the spring, or in small
yards. SO I try and get them out on the
large yard before it grows SO warm and
dry. My seven varieties of fowls have
neat comfortable houses, and a quarter
here yard sowed in rye aud planted in
liberia peach trees. All fenced with
ware netting. l have planned and paid
for ell this, boaght all Of my stock and
provisions. and owe no man anything
good will.
Now 4 word for my cats. l keep ten,
and they are fed in my sight three
times . day on all the milk and bread
they san eat. but no meat. Not loog
since | noticed they could scarcely be
kept from my small brooder house.
as my chicks we're disappearing very
rapidly and mysterously at the same
time. I began to fear that Mr.. jacobs
might be right. One rainy evening I
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