The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-09-23
INDUSTRY
PROFITABLE
RaisingofChickens
a Good Business
on Hawaii.

published in some poultry of mail order
journal OF the mainland. Ia greatly mis-
leading and inaccurate:
we could not recommend the Hawaiian
Islands for the raising of chickens and
squads. They could be raised. OF course.
for the climate and the food supply would
be found all that you wished. but there lis
not much money In raising crops for
which there IL no good market. The Ha-
waiian Times. Sandwich Islands. u. =. A..
Is the leading paper, we believe. and q
letter addressed to it's editor would no
doubt be gladly answered and a copy Of
the paper sent to you. The postage NJ
letters to Honolulu Is the same as In the
United States"
The following letter from Mr.. Nuhns
goes far To rofute the assertion Of the
author OF the communication that tae
raising of chickcns liz not profitable.
MIR. Kuhns liz n practical farmer who
prior to coming to Hawaii, was located
in Cooperstown, North Dakota. He finds
no trouble In disposing OF his product
even when compelled to pay fancy price
for feed. In fact, the demand Is far In
excess of the visible supply.
The place referred To by him liz In what
is known as the kaiwiki tract above i've
miles from IIilo and at an elevation OF
2.6O0 feet.
kaiwiki, Hawaii Sept. 3. 1902
{, l.. Clement, Editor Side Lights Hllo,
Hawaii.
Dear Sir:-ln answer to your query re-
gaiding the poultry business ! will say
that l find 1t both pleasant and profitable.
The climate is favorable as there rs no
long winter to check either laying or
Matching.
by having eggs Matching at all times 1
have young pullcts beginning to lay every
month. thus keeping the egg supply reBu-
lar.
The average egg production for the lnst
seven months tx two eggs for each hvo
hens, and the average for year would
show but slight variation.
| receive nifty cents per dozen for eggs
at all seasons and from seventy-iive cents
to one dollar FOR young fry.
From one hundred eggs | get about
eighty fun grown fowls, and very small
percentage of the loss is due to disease
or Vormin.
Sore head or chicken pox is causing
some trouble at n lower elevation but /
have not been troubled much here.
The greatest objection to poultry rails
ing as u business Is the high price of feed.
feed wheat almost exclusively and pay
PA cents per pound for II. delivered at
my place. My chickens have free range
but are not expected to pick up their
living in the woods.
BEN KUHNS.
a subscriber, writing to the lIiio Tri-
bune (weokly). in speaking OF the poultry
interests of Hamakua says
There IL no industry In Hawaii which
interests 80 many people as the poultry
business From the Jap Or native with
his dozen or more hens to the ranch with
it's thousands, nearly everybody Is inter
cstcd in chickens, ducks or turkeys L
have been in the business for more than
six years, and l want to say that the per
sons who think there is nothing in pure
| bred stock, and who imagine because 1t
| is pure bred it viii not be as hardy as
| tho common scrub, are mistaken Being
Interested in poultry and wishing to be
better Informed ON the subject, last week
1 visited what is known as HOrners
Ranch.
"Nlr. Albert Horncr. the manager of the
ranch, offered to show me his method OF
raising chickens, ducks, turkeys pigs and
cattle First we visited the Incubator
room which is about twelve feet square,
Here were six or seven ncubators, vary
ing In capacity from sixty to four nun
drcd eggs. At this time four were In
operation with about six hundred eggs in
them They were due to hatch the day
following. but already hundreds Of downy
heads were peeping through the shells.
1t il not unusual to hatch eighty out of
a hundred eggs, and under favorable cir
cumstances sixty of the eighty can be
raised. The incubator capacity of the
ranch is one thousand to twelve hundred.
30 cvcrv three weeks In Matching season
eight to nine hundred chicks are Matched.
"EtXt We Visited the brooder depart
m,nt whore tho young chicks are cared
for. I4tIc were chicks from one to three
days old 10 eight weeks. The chicks,
when first Matched, drop into space be-
low the incubator and are not fed or
watcred for twcnty-four hours. They are
then put into brooders where the tenn
perature Is ninety to ninety-fvc degrees.
From the breeders they run out into
small yards where they are fed four times
a day at first and always have fresh wa
ter where they can get it. The chick soon
learns to which brooder 1t belongs and
when there are three or four I'm ono yard
they go straight to their own as bee to
its hive
Next we visited the different pens of
fowls. Mr.. 4orner has the following
breeds and is always importing fresh
stock to improve them: Black Minorcas,
White Leghorns, Barred Plymouth Rocks,
Indian Cornish Games Brown Leghorns
and Bantams. The Plymouth Rocks were
very fine fowls The young pullets look
ed remarkably well.
Mr., Horncr said his Brown Leghorns
took the prize as laying machines. He has
above five hundred hens on hand now
but wishes TO keep most of them for next
years crop of eggs and chickens. lie
would mate up a few trlos from his Ply
mouth Rock. W mite or Brown Leghorn
pens, for parties who wanted good thing
and were wang to pay for 1t. He gets
81 each for ROSTERS and SO for hens. Eggs
go at 81 per setting of thrteen."-iIilo
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