The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-12-29
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SEM 3 Dssol suzses ions About Raising
Thtrc fJr harkse.

Ih:pc tor harkst.
N2w tA2t lae eg2r:z season IS q
aand &4d - dem .1i far eggs is 20
p."ach;ns food i;de-priceS IN lhe
ci:;es ranging from % 10 80 cents .
iezc Ii: is not q bad time to empha
81, for ta2 heat fl OF our own people
2 su gestion which appears IN the
Geeenyii.e News, as follows:
Tie markets are never giutted with
chickens ard eggs There is alwsys g
;cady sele for them some where and in
these davsof quick transportation they
can &c shipped from South Carolina to
sly point ia the Unit q States or Eu-
rope Net On the slooa is there any
b-t:er climate for the production OF
p :uitry than South Carolina's There
are thousand reasons why South
C&roliaa should prcduce for export
millions CT domestic !o.ls. and one OF
them is that there is good money in it.
Ii a hall dczsn South Carolina far.
mers, tired OF raising cent cotton,
would turn themselves entirely to the
prcductisn Of chickens aud eggs, de.
voting ali their energies and intelli
gence to the work, we believe tha.
they would earn good profits and SET
valusbie example to their fellcW
citizens
Commenting On the above the Au.
cu-;a Chronicle says.
There are ust two things in the way
# success in chicken raising, for mar
KIT, among our people. First they
'ake i up as 3 fad. ard buy some
faacy breed of chickens at fancy
orice. They build all sorts Of fancy
calculations on the profits from chick
ers aud eggs, ct fancy prices, and
@hen their hatch turns out badly, or
tie little chicks are eaten by cats and
rats, CT disease gets among their pro-
is'ng focS, and death taxes eff the
prof.s Cf whole seasons work they
become discouraged, cuss out and
quit
Or, on the other hand, they 60 into
the business on tco large scale to
begin With, without proper prepara
ton, without experience, without any
knowledge whatever of the habits,
anatomy or diseases of chickens. They
60 into the business without any cor
iect idea Of hs.expense attached to it,
or without any intention Of giving to
the business the study, tine and labor
that would be required in any other
field Of en6eayor. The result is fnan-
cial loss and disappointment, but in
neither OF these cases is loss due to the
business itself. There are many men
and women making their livelihood
on the products Of chicken raising.
Ths trouble arises from want OF
knowledge OF tie business.
Rising fancy birds for chicken
sEo rs is one line of the business, sad
raising chickens and eggs for market
is quite another. The man who goes
IN the business should fully deter
mine which branch he intends to fol.
low. Then be should start into the
business modestly, and build it up as
his knowledge increases with expert
ence II he could spend some time on
The chicken ranges OF an experienced
poultry man it would prove great
benefit. L it is to be followed for
profit, it must be treated in a business
!ike way, and digni6ed as business,
and not treated as q side issus or g
fXd
Commenting on the paragraph
which nave quoted from the Green
Vile News, the Charleston News and
Courier quotes some OF the govern
men, statistics on the chicken and
egg product OF the couatry as fol.
lows:
lit is estimated by competent au-
thcrity en- tee basis Of the reports in
the last census, that We now hsve
$50 Geo 900 chickens, which produce
25ou! l3,75O,000,OOO eggs annually,
At the average price the eggs are
worth to the poultry men and farm
ers $l65. 100000, while the sale of
pculsry brings them sl25. eco, 900 more
making q total OF 1920, 100000 to be
placed to the credit of the small but
truly great American hen.
"As compared with these figures it
oay be noted that the value OF the
woal clip of the country is S3s, 147- :
459; of all the sheep, is S65. 167, 725; Of
eli the hogs, SlS6 9,945, and OF all
Tie mules sl03,2C4 457. The total
value of the potato crop again is $685.
9S4 901 of the tobacco crop, S35 574,-
22O; Of The wheat crop s23S 9lS, ,998,
and cf the cotton crop $3.50, 164 GAO.
The total schools expenditures for the
country is sl7S 2l5, $50 TIE net
earnings Of railroads is 1928. .016, 454,
and the whole cost OF the pos!ofice de-
partmeDt is $50, 626, 1856"
that ";ilvsr Crs 81"