The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-09-23

PROFITABLE
Observation-Disclosures
a Good Business
on Hawaii.
GREAT WORK OF
THE INCUBATORS
Eggs Sell at an Averge OF Fifty
Cents Per Dozen All
the Year.

The following information. which was
published in some poultry or mail order
journal of the mainland, is greatly mis-
leading and inaccurate:
1--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 is
not much money in raising crops for
which there is no good market. The Ha-
waiian Times, Sandwich Islands, U. 5. A,
is the leading paper, we believe, and
letter addressed to its editor would no
doubt be gladly answered and a copy CT
the paper sent to you. The postage of
letters to Honolulu is the same as i'll the
United States
The following letter from Mr.. Kuhns
goes far to refute the assertion of the
author of the communication that the
raising of chickens is not profitable.
Mr.. Kuhns is a 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 a fancy price
for feed. In fact, the demand is far IN
excess of the visible supply.
The place referred to by him is in what
is known as the Kaiwiki tract, above five
miles from Hilo and at an elevation OF
$500 feet.
Kaiwiki, Hawaii, Sept. 8, 1902
c. L. Clement Editor Side Lights Hilo'
Hawaii.
Dear Sir:-In answer to your query re-
garding the poultry business l will say
that l find it both pleasant and profitable.
The climate is favorable as there is no
long winter to check either laying or
Matching.
BY having eggs Matching at all times
have young pullets beginning to lay every
month, thus keeping the egg supply regu-
lar.
The average egg production for the last
seven months is two eggs for each hVe
hens, and the average for year would
show but slight variation.
1 receive fifty cents per dozen for eggs
at all seasons and from seventy-fiye cents
to one dollar for young fry.
From one hundred eggs l get about
eighty full grown fowls, and aSvery small
percentage of the loss is due to disease
or vermin.
Sore head or chicken pox is causing
some trouble at a lower elevation but L
have not been troubled much here.
The greatest objection to poultry rails
ing as business is the high price of feed.
[ feed wheat almost exclusively and pay
2A cents per pound for it, 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 Hilo Tri-
bune (weekly), in speaking of the poultry
interests of Hamakua says:
There is no industry in Hawaii which
interests so many people as the poultry
business From the Jap or native with
hi To ha wit
it's thousands, nearly everybody is inter-
ested in chickens, ducks or turkeys. L
have been in the business for more than
six years, and 1 want to say that the per-
sons who think there is nothing in pure
bred stock, and who imagine because it
is pure bred it will not be as hardy as
the common scrub, are mistaken. Being
interested in poultry and wishing to be
better informed on the subject, last week
visited what is known as Horner's
Ranch.
Mr.. Albert Horner, 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 incubators, vary
ing in capacity from sixty to four hun
dred eggs. At this time four were in
operation with about SIX hundred eggs in
them. They We're due to hatch the day
following, but already hundreds of downy
heads We're peeping through the shells
1t is not unusual to hatch eighty out of
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,
so every three weeks in Matching season
eight to nine hundred chicks are Matched.
Next we visited the brooder depart
ment where the young chicks are cared
for. Here were chicks from one to three
days old to eight weeks. The chicks,
when first Matched, drop into a space be-
low the incubator and are not fed or
watered for twenty-four hours. They are
then put into breeders where the tenn
perature is ninety to ninety-five degrees.
From the breeders they run out into
small yards where they are fed four times
day at first and always have fresh wa
ter where they can get it. The chick soon
learns to which brooder it belongs and
when there are three or four in one yard
they go straight to their own as bee to
its hive.
Next we visited the different pens of
fowls. Mr. lorner 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.. Horner 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. He
would mate up few trios from his Ply
mouth Rock. W mite or Brown Leghorn
pens. for parties who wanted a good thing
and were wing to pay for it, He gets
80 each for roosters and 50 for hens. Eggs
go at g per setting of thirteen."-Hilo
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