The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1896-02-11

ton to the poultry. Every arrange
ment should be first class as to feed,
shelter and hygiene so the eggs will pro,
duce vigorous chicken.
Increase the industry until you can
ship car load in a refrigerator car
every three weeks. The reduction in
freights over shipping by express will
pay big dividends On the investment
Let all these local organizations CO.
operate and sell through their trusted
agents in all the principal cities in the
United States. Let them CO operate
and sell under the name of the South
ern Poultry Company. Adopt stringent
rules so that nothing inferior will go
on to the market, and expel members
who furnish articles that do not come
up to the standard. Let the associa-
tion act as whole. Have a head center
and all poultry from different points
consigned as directed. Do not throw
your poultry on the market and depre,
ciate prices. Hold and sell as there is
demand at fair prices.
Thisis the age of CO operation. Those
who co operate and control prices can
live. Competition means low prices
and financial ruin.
Houses for poultry can be built as
warm as an ordinary cellar. Get the
best breeds of non settlers that will pro-
duce the most flesh in chicks at eight
to ten weeks old.
This industry will be started here.
We will hatch mostly ducklings from
the Imperial Pekin ducks. Several of
our farmers are ready to contract eggs
the year around at 30 cents a dozen
from hens and 25 cents a dozen from
Pekio ducks.
Corn should not be fed to layers ex
cept in winter, and then very sp8ringly
in conjunction with other feed. Young
poultry must not be fed corn or any
grain rich in carbon until the fattening
process begins. Eight weeks should
be devoted to a growth of bone and
muscle, and two weeks to fattening,
which should be on cracked corn.
Chickens raised by the incubator will
put on wonderful amount of fat in
two weeks. Twenty pounds of fat can
| be secured for every busbel of corn fed
and the flesh will be tender, juicy and
nutritious. Each pound will be worth
| twice as much for the table as the
usual poultry furnished. DuckIings
can be sold the year around for 25
cents a pound raised and fattened in
this way. The city oE Chicago will
take millions Of dollars worth every
year.
There is money in this industry il
conducted on business principles. There
is no money in any industry conducted
on the competition plan. 1t is the igno-
rant man who advocates the competi
tion system. Cooperate and fix fair
prices. Why compete for that which
you produce2
The writer would not put a dollar in
any industry where the promoters are
too ignorant to co operate. The farm
ers compete on the marketo Of the world
with capital that hires labor for to 90
cents a day, and this competition is
crushing the life out Of them.
Ducklings can be made to average
nine pounds pair at ten months old,
and will readily sell for 50 to 50 so per
pair to the rich. The rich and well to-
do demand the best, and they will pay
good prices to responsible company
who guarantees all they sell to be first
class. There is a demand for millions
of dollars annually of first class fat
tened poultry. There is always room
on top, but it is wide awake men who
get there, and they do it by co opera
tion. The class that refuses to CO.
operate and protect their interest, to
say the least for them you can, is to
call them stupid fools.
We have a class of theoretical poll
ticians who are the advocates of COM
petition. The farmers have followed
the advice of these theorists until their
industries are on the ragged edge of
despair.
The farmers sell their staple products
on the market of the world in competi
tion with capital hiring labor at one
fourth to one twelfth the price paid the
same class in this country and armed
with improved machinery, they can
produce as much, man for man, as the
best American labor, and this competi
ton is forcing prices down with a rap
idity that is appalling. We want no
competition in ours. Cooperation is