The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1903-02-17
POULTRY 4 DEPARTMENT
BY +" UNCLE SNORT "

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Why is it? 1t is very hard for us
to understand why it is that people
in our towns and cities in Texas
will persist in paying from 10 to Is
cents per pound for beefsteaks and
roasts, bought from butchers, and
then refuse to pay more than %
cents for a nice fat chicken that
will weigh from 5 to pounds. Again,
why is it that people in the northern,
eastern and western states will pay
from 10 to 40 cents per pound for
nice fat poultry when beef and pork
are usually much cheaper than it is
in Texas.
Why is 1t that our people in the
south eat so few eggs where they
can usually be bought from 10 to 20
cents per dozen, while northern
people eat a great many eggs that
cost from 20 TO 60c per dozen? But
all that is just as reasonable aud as
easily explained as the fact that
thousands Of our people will persist
i'm raising little mOngreI scrub chick
ems which when full grown and put
ON the market will only weigh from
to D pounds when it would be Just
as easy to raise some of the larger
breeds Of thoroughbred poultry
which when well matuTed viii weigh
from to 10 pounds.
! have just been reading of a gem
tiemuu ia California who keeps fine
poultry and eggs for market, who
says that his hens lay from 22J to
PAS eggs per year. The ruling price
for these eggs, 80 cents per dozen.
At these figures, which are correct,
his poorest layers yield him a gross
income 81 81 90 per year, allowing
$l.00 for feeding, which leaves him a
net profit of $500 per year on each
hen. Allowing that he only keeps
1000 hens, his net profits are some
where in the neighbOrhOod OF $4,000.
/ don't wonder that he quit his law
practice to devote his time TO poultry
culture.
Any Texas woman not otherwise
encUmbered can begin with 100 hens
and give "A little common sense care
and attention to the business and in
"a few years can Just as easily
manage 1000 hens, from which she
can realize from $1,000 to $1,000
/ year. But TO do this eggs must be
/ properly handled and either carried
or slipped TO the best markets.
/ II those engaged in poultry raising
( for market could be induced TO get
/ rid Of their mOngrel and scrub breeds
/ and raise only the larger and finer
breeds of poultry it would be but a
/ short time until the demand for p0ul-
/ try would be greater and prices
| higher, and il would be but another
short time until poultry would be
/ sold as it should be sold-by the
pound, and not by the bird.
| why is it that consumers will ex-
ercise good common sense in buying
everything else but poultry?
Damphino.
/ am so often asked the question,
"What is the best feed for hens that
are kept In pens or yards 10 get best
results?n
Here is my method Of feeding: /
use good, rich bran; j go to the
| beef market and buy at llsc a pound
cracklings which are cut into fine
scraps; then place on the stove a
large stewpan of water, into which /
| pour the cracklings, also enough
cayenne pepper to make it good and
| hot, and when the water gets to
| boiling this mixture is poured onto
| the bran and well stirred until it is
stiff dough. Feed while hot. This
for morning and noon. Feed whole
corn at night.
| There is a great deal said in poul-
| try journals about ground bone,
ground oyster shell, and especially
prepared poultry foods. But after
many years of practical experience
| / find the above feeds as good as the
best, and much cheaper than any of
| the things advertised TO work won
| ders in the poultry yard. Do not
understand me TO say that the ad-
vertlsed foods are not good; many
of them are excellent.