Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1900-08-31
MONEY MADE IN HENS.
Energetic Citizen Finds Fortune In
Spring Chickens.

| Spring CnlckenS.
There Is a time in nest men's live
when they are seized by "chlcke
fever" Tnis disease, if such is ma
be called, comes early in life, llk
measles and whooping cough. Iher
are men who get over it, but now an
tnen you will find one who not onl
carries the plague about him, but b
word of mouth and bunch of figure
spreads the fever throughout the land
There is one of these persons in th
Englewood suburbs. Heis a toll, slen
der man, with face burned by the su
and hands that give prima facle evi
dence of ceaseless toll Ever since h
Was boy he has had but one idea il
bis mind, and that was to give tn
millionaire Of the ehOuseyards eggs fresl
from the nest and br0ilers dainty
dressed, no matter whether the montl
was June or December.
He has made success of this ven
ture. With but 5000 of ready none.
be plunged into the business will
commercial malice and unerring fore
thought. He rented sn acre OF groun'
and build ''henery" there according
to bis advanced line of thought. HI
reckoned that men with money want
ed eggs and wanted them fresh.
He figured also that the man on th'
boulevard like spring chickens with
out regard to the month Of the year OF
the coming and going OF the month
So be began business on this acre o1
ground. That was seven Yeas ago.
Within two years the ''farm'' was
caught by coachmen from the boule
wards and the avenues. There wer'
eggs down town that sold for twenty
five cents dozen, but the slender mai
has but one price for his goods an(
that prevails from the end of ont
month to the end of another. 1t ii
the same way with the price of hi
''spring" CHECKERS. You don't have
to buy them, but if you do the figure
is far and beyond market quotations
and when a man wants good thing
he does not reckon few pennies. Thai
is why the slender man has made him
self Independently rich. ~
Sitting in his vine covered Office thu
other day, he said:
''There's money in this business
When you sit down ald think you will
find that chicken is most essential tc
good living and prime digestion than
the fresh or products Of any other fow
or beast. When the stomach cannot
assimilate any other food, fresh egg
is always called to do the business. II
may be served from the stove or il
may be the around floor of drink
At any rate, maintain that chicken I
egg has saved and prolonged more livel
than all the medicines you get from tht
drug-stores.
Then you may wander to the fOo6
question. A conva'escent can eat ten
der chicken when his stomach woult
rebel to the thought or suggestion o
anything else. l fia 1red on az thef
propositions when / went into thu
business. A fresh egg and spring chick
en- are as necessary in life as fres
water and clean bed. You cant ge
away from these facts. Many me
have made failures in the business TO
the res son that they did not stud.
chickens and their habits.
"Cholera. for instance, has swep
away many a fortune, and if you az
painstaking and watchful there nee
be no more fear that this disease vii
attack your cfichens then than 20
have that smallpox 81 appendicitis wi
attack your roosts. Cleanliness is tn
secret of successful hen-ferm. An
1 guess that is true of everything i
life. l will venture to say that yo
would not soil white glove were 20
to wipe every inch of the walls of th
house.
st have but four bl oeds, the slendt
man continued, land these are tt
Wyandottes, Plymouth Rocks, Whit
Leghorns aud black Monarchists. III
Leghorns are the great layers, br
they are follow i very closely by tt
Rocks and their siste- j., the Wya
dottes, The Monarehists are sort of
cross between the Black Spanish al
Black Leghorn. They are great eg
producers, too, but know of no bret
that will lay from March until the la
ter part of September like the Viii
Leghorns.
"But unlike the Ply mouth Rocks al
the Wyrndottes the white bird is
little sale after she is dead. When
comes to the broiler the speckled la
sizes and yellow legs command the prie
That is why I have two breeds for tt
market.
"SalOon-keepe pay the blgge
price for eggs,' the slender man &C
tinued. "They have got have them
guess. A bad egg, l imagine does n
90 very well with dirk. l have o
eustomer in the busir who pays
much as thirty cents dozen the ye
. iround. And one more strange thin
"Six years ago men and WON
bought brown eggs only. Now
white egg is all the rage. This is
product of the Leghorn, and she b
lmade the Cochins and the Shangh
look like torn money in the sell
market.
II want te tell you what l feed l
birds,' the slender man venturcd,
he rubbed st. Bernard pup. II
breakfast 1 give them bran, masl
J, potatoes, middlipgs and cOncentra
I~n- II nfro