Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-03-16
ARISTOCRATIC FOWLS.
Description Of Or. slOnn's Ideal Poul-
try Ranch-Meth0ds Adopted for
Raising Thoroughbred Hens
with Proud Records.

A NEW MEXICAN scribe visited DIR. J. H.
Sloan's poultry ranch, formerly known as
the Glorieta orchard, out on the peniten-
tlary road, yesterday morning, and can.
dor constrains him to confess that he
soon became deeply interested in the
study of henology.
About two years ago DR.. Sloan bought
the eleven acres of land comprising what
was known as the Glorieta orchard and
solemnly dedicated it to the exclusive
culture of thoroughbred poultry. He i'm
mediately built upon the land warm one
story adobe buildings according to the
most approved plans for the comfortable
accommodation of several thousand
chickens, ducks and turkeys; erected
convenient lodge for his keeper with
rooms attached for incubators, brooders
ana feed; formed connection with the
city water system; plowed up and seeded
part of his gently sloping grounds, and
laid off the central part into spacious,
wlre-fenced feeding and fresh air yards
for his prospective pets.
Then he began to stock up his place
with the finest purchasable thoroughbred
poultry in pairs, trios and quintsttes
with view to breeding the best possible
egg producers. He now has about 600
chickens, besides fine hocks of Pekin
ducks, turkeys and pigeons. Among the
chickens are some common ones from
Kansas, but these will all be killed of this
season and replaced by the thoroughbred
output of his numerous settlers and two
inoubators.
He has three large general assembly
houses for those of his chickens that are
exclusively engaging their talents In pro-
ducing eggs for the market, each of these
houses opening into an extensive outing
yard, and he has four more houses, each
wired into four apartments and opening
| into four separate wired yards, for bis
choice groups of birds that are formulate
| ing eggs for further stocking the place
with their arlstecratio or real blue-blood-
ed progeny. Only the product from these
houses is used for breeding purposes.
All the houses are warm and we'll venti-
lated, are swept and garnished every
morning and hence are always clean and
wholesome. Every lot IS provided with
fresh running water and the ducks grace
fully disport in pond in their preserve
that their Noah-like taste for aquatic
pursuits may be cultivated.
| Among the choice chickens on the
place may be mentioned groups of Buff
Cochins, Black Hamburgs, Black Lang
shangs, Barred Plymouth Rocks, Partridge
Cochins, Houdans, White Plymouth Rocks,
Silver Laced Wyandottes, Brown Leg
horns, Silver Grey Dorkings, Black
Javas and White Crested Black Polish,
all pure blood. A careful daily record is
kept of the eggs laid by the several hens
of these different breeds I'D the doctor lie
confident that, by keeping and breeding
best records, he will steadily improve his
layers. And it is from the production OF
eggs that he expects chiefly to realize his
profits.
Among his hens that have already come
to the front with extraordinary records
are Black Java and a Dorking, each
less than q year old, which have thie
spring INCLUDING part of February laid
respectively twenty Ave and twenty-four
eggs out of possible twenty-eight, pre-
summing that hens are only capable Of
producing one egg day. The Black
Java is Missouri bred bird whose firs'
parents were the Dominicker and Barred
Plymoth Rock. Hens of this breed hav,
records as high as 225 eggs in year.
Mr.. W. Il. Keller, who gives his undi
vided attention to looking after the place
reports about fifty spring chickens OF
haLd, that all the hens that can be per
suaded to Get are thus employed and tina
his incubators are full Of eggs. Abou
200 eggs in one of the incubators are du
to hatch in day or 80.
DR.. Sloan naturally takes good dea
of mingled pride and pleasure in hi
ideally located and faultlessly conduote'
poultry ranch and is sanguine that i
will this year more than pay expenses ant
that thereafter it will yield handsom
profit. He finds ready sale at goo
prices for his eggs and could readily dis
pose of many more.