The border vidette. (Nogales, Ariz.) 1894-1934, 1897-07-31
A TUCSON EGG FARM.
Cooper Brothers to Supply Eggs
and Broilers TO the Market.

/ Mr. William f. Cooper, the attorney,
and Mr.. Harry o. Cooper, late of ST.
Louis, Mo-, an expert poultry breeder
of some fifteenth years experience,
secured the Julius Film ranch, about
four miles from the city of Tucson, and
have begun to convert the place. into a
broiler and egg plant. There is not an
establishment of the kind in this terri
tory, and the gentlemen who have en-
barked in the industry should meet with
all the success they anticipate.
All the dressed poultry which comes
/ into our markets is shipped from the
east, and is of rather poor quality.
This is not to be wondered at when the
facts are considered. OF course the first
choice of all the poultry marketed in
the east goes to the buyers who are on
( the ground. After they have selected
the choice specimens the culls are
shipped to the western markets. and
/ there disposed of at prices which would
amply pay home breeders. Cooper
Brothers intend to place on the market
only the choicest dressed fowls, and will
see to it that the home markets are
/ supplied with the very best that can be
raised.
At present very little in the way of
breeding is being attempted at the San
Xavier Ranch, as it is necessary before
any extensive work can be performed in
that direction. to ft the place especially
for the object in view. Their present
stock consists of ninety seven well bred
youngsters, most of which will begin
/ laying in November. They now have
an incubator capacity of 600 eggs, with
brooders for like number of young
chicks. This capacity will be increased
on the first of January to about I.500,
and as rapidly as the demand is suffi-
cient, a corresponding increase will be
made.
80, The chickens which have. been
Matched so far this season in the incu-
bators are as lively. healthy and large
as any bunch of young chickens ever
seen, and seem to prove the error of the
conclusion reached by many that young
chicks cannot be successfully Matched
and raised IN this climate in the warm
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the coming mouth there will be about
900 young chicks on the ranch, and
they will be ready for market about the
first of November. After that date
Cooper Bros. hope to be able to supply
quite demand for their poultry.
Another feature of the business which
will be introduced on the San Xavier
ranch will be caponizing on a large
scale. There is such demand in the
eastern markets for capons, that the
prices are way up. The climate and
conditions here make it the very best
possible field for the production of first
class capOns, and none are ever seen in
Arizona markets. There is no ques-
tion about the delicious qualities of the
meat of fine capon. and everyone who
has ever tasted this fine delicious bit of
food anxiously longs for more, and the
prices paid are evidence that people
know good thing when they see it.
The specialties of this ranch will be
pure bred White Wyandottcs for
market purposes: pure bred White Leg
horns for eggs; and Pit Games for
strain originated by the younger Mr..
Cooper in the east, and which have
long since established Il reputation for
gameness and fighting qualities unex-
celled by any in existence.
Later on there will be pens of Pekin
duclls. and hOcks of Mammoth Bronze
turkeys. This stock will also be pure,
the eggs coming from the best selected
p OF ~ nf
these birds.
A great many people have conceived
the idea that the poultry business is
nothing but pastime for old women
and feeble minded children, but when
statistics are examined it is shown that
the amount expended each year for
poultry of different kinds is in advanced
of many businesses in which q very
much greater capital is invested. A
poultry plant which markets 30, 600
eggs in a year IS quite an institution in
ITSELF and yet there are a number
which do that and even more. In ad
dition they furnish thousands of pounds
of fat broilers and roasters. The posi-
bilities are almost unlimited, and the
demand will always be greater than the
supply, for the reason that not one
man in one thousand who embarks in
thebusiness ever makes it a success. Too
little heed is paid to the details, and
most people who attempt the raising of
poultry on large scale underestimate
the amount of labor required to do
what is absolutely necessary for the at
tainment of satisfactory results. 1t is a
business requiring constant attention.